[Breitbart] The title given to Michael Isikoff's piece is "Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails," but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs: Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private mail server.
On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal -- Clinton's longtime friend and political adviser -- sent the then secretary of state an email to her private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with whom Blumenthal at the time had a business relationship.
"Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA, who told him the agency had been dependent for intelligence from [redacted due to sources and methods]," the email states, according to Gowdy's letter.
The redacted information was "the name of a human source," Gowdy wrote to his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) of Maryland, and was therefore "some of the most protected information in our intelligence community."
"Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton forwarded the email to a colleague -- debunking her claim that she never sent any classified information from her private email address," wrote Gowdy in a letter to Cummings.
[KHOU] HOUSTON -- A group of suspects targeted the wrong person to ambush after one of them was shot by a Houston police officer they were following on the way home late Thursday.
According to the Houston Police Department, it started at 11:30 p.m. when the 34-year veteran officer was heading home in his personal vehicle from a second job and noticed he was being followed as he drove down Woodhead Street in the Montrose area.
The officer turned onto Indiana Street to see if the car would keep going, but it didn't. The suspect vehicle stopped and one male got out with a gun in hand. The suspect started toward the officer, who happened to still be in uniform.
The officer got out of his car and repeatedly identified himself as a police officer and ordered the suspect to stop. The suspect ignored the command and pointed his gun at the officer.
"At that point in time, a rear passenger got out and began running toward the sergeant as he went under street light he had arm extended and was shooting pistol directly at the sergeant," Kese Smith, with HPD, said.
The 15-year-old suspect was shot in the ass buttocks.
The suspect ran back to the car where three other suspects were waiting, and the car expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
About 10 minutes later, HPD got a call about a maimed male on the ground at Cushing and Webster. HPD responded and spotted the suspect vehicle that was part of the officer-involved shooting and was able to take three suspects, ages 16, 17 and 18, into custody.
The fourth suspect was taken to a local hospital at death's door.
People in this neighborhood say he is a hero who has gone above and beyond to protect this community, and they feel his actions send a strong message to criminals to not come back.
"He is the type that would stand up and turn the tables on everything," one concerned neighbor said.
"Hopefully this will keep a few people out that shouldn't be here," Mindy Billon, neighbor, said.
Neighbors say this area of Montrose has recently seen a surge break-ins and people being followed home at random.
They say the sergeant who stood up for himself has been standing up for this neighborhood for years.
"He is not just a neighborhood, he has personally taken control of the neighborhood," a concerned neighbor said. "On many occasions when he has come home at night he has helped us by stopping car break-ins, house break-ins."
The suspect who was shot in the ass buttocks is being treated at the hospital, but is expected to be OK.
The three others have been booked into jail police say they're still not sure if these would-be-robbers wanted to rob the sergeant, steal his car or both.
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You can get in a lot of trouble in the Montrose. It's available. Or so I've heard.
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Seems like there should have been two DRTs and three booked with premeditation to attempted murder as felony-following accomplices.
[BBC] Two people have died after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours apart.
One person was killed and three injured in the first shooting at Northern Arizona University early on Friday, which involved fraternity members.
Later that morning a shooting at a student complex near Texas Southern University left one person dead.
Police in Arizona have named the gunman as Steven Jones, an 18-year-old first year student at Northern Arizona University.
Mr Jones has been charged with first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault.
The four victims are members of Delta Chi fraternity but Mr Jones is not. The university has identified the student who died as Colin Brough and said the three students wounded are being treated in hospital.
The second shooting in Texas happened later on Friday morning at the University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Houston campus. One student was killed, a freshman at the school, the university confirmed, and another person was wounded. Two people have been detained as suspects and a third may be questioned, said Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva.
In Arizona, the university president expressed shock at the tragedy. "This is not going to be a normal day at NAU," said Rita Cheng. "Our hearts are heavy."
Representatives from the Delta Chi fraternity's national organisation said its members were involved in the confrontation.
Maria Gonzalez, a student at Northern Arizona University, said that she initially thought that she was hearing fireworks. "I was studying for an exam so I looked out the window and see two people running, and that's when I realised they weren't fireworks they were actually gunshots," she said. "How am I supposed to feel safe where I'm learning?"
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And two gun friendly states.
Wonder why Chicago didn't make the BBC?
Motl is a Czech physicist who has had enough of communist nonsense. I follow his blog because I like physics and he is very smart but also because I like his instincts.
Sierra Club is an environmental organization founded in 1892. The organization supports the climate alarmism in the maximum way. Normally, you would expect the president of an organization that says to care about the Earth and the environment - and the climate - to know at least something. You would normally expect he knows more than a conservative Republican politician.
But you would be totally wrong. The video above shows that the president of the Sierra Club doesn't have the slightest clue about the basic facts concerning the climate change issue. He's much more ignorant than an average schoolkid who has spent 30 minutes by reading sources about this stuff. Aaron Mair's knowledge of the science is clearly much closer to the knowledge of an average gorilla.
After a short nonconstructive conversation about the Sierra Club's desire to make any debate about the climate science impossible, Cruz asked Mair about the basically vanishing trend in the global mean temperature in the recent 18 years, according to the satellite (UAH or RSS) measurements.
Mair didn't know what the temperature or the satellites meant. So he consulted his staff all the time - like the stupidest kid in the classroom who always has to cheat and be helped by his classmates. The staff didn't know much more. When Cruz asked about the meaning of "the pause", Mair said he knew what it was but he clearly didn't have a clue about it, either. After he talked to his staff, they decided that it was a pause in the warming in the 1940s. Well, that's not what is referred to as "the pause". Even with some basic intelligence, they could have guessed that it was referring to the recent 18 years but Mair and his staff clearly don't have the basic intelligence, either.
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The moral of this particular story is: don't send somebody up against a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, chaired by the likes of Ted Cruz (or Trey Gowdy), unless your spokesperson is prepared to respond to direct questioning with something more specific than canned pre-rehearsed answers
In his written testimony, Aaron Mair, president of the Sierra Club, asserted that: "Foes of EPA live in an alternative universe in which corporate polluters use propaganda to persuade vulnerable low-income Americans to oppose anti-pollution efforts. That people of color and low-income communities are disproportionately impacted by pollution and climate disruption should not be up for debate any more so than the science behind climate change itself."
"Over-regulation is stifling opportunity for people who want to achieve the American dream," Mr. Cruz said.
But Cruz then adamantly took issue with Mair's contention that climate change is not up for debate.
When given the proper time, in an open forum, Sen. Cruz's debate performances are nothing short of masterful. Cruz knows how to frame each argument in a way that focuses on hard information currently at hand, and is adept at bringing a "deflected off the rails argument" back on track when necessary.
Mr. Mair's entire repeated response boiled down to "We concur with 97 percent of the scientists that believe the anthropogenic impact of mankind with regards to global warming are true." --- Which otherwise would have been considered a suitable response had Sen. Cruz not been far more familiar with the origin of that particular talking point, and indeed more knowledgeable in every other aspect concerning the entire topic of global warming.
Cruz's point about satellite data is based on science.
Mr. Mair's answer is based on what many would contend to be faulty and distorted statistical analysis.
Seriously, it looks very bad for your cause, when the president of your organization (Aaron Mair) has to constantly be fed pre-rehearsed lines by his staff.
Indeed, it could be said that Aaron Mair was proven to be the "science denier," and Ted Cruz the champion of science, if all available data and scientific evidence is properly acknowledged, well understood, and left unmanipulated.
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Not only is the 97% claim an anti-scientific argument and an inaccurate conclusion from the referenced studies, but the studies are old information from before all the recent discoveries of additional factors impacting climate. Not that it matters, but it would be interesting to see how a poll of scientists or a survey of publications would look now that the Pause is a thing and the large cooling impact of volatile organic compounds has been discovered.
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I suspect that poll would be less dependent on available facts and data, and more dependent on the availability of the grant $ they are addicted to.
Science is NEVERsettled for real scientists
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When the zombie apocalypse strikes, I'm hoping only lefties will be effected. I'll feel so safe because they have no need for brains.
In Dallas, where people are free to walk into fast-food restaurants and down neighborhood streets toting rifles, it's against the law to carry a fake gun. It has been since the spring of 2007.
Yet the two men seen carrying "toy rifles" along the Katy Trail earlier this week were not cited or fined. Dallas police said that after a brief manhunt involving around a dozen officers, the result of several calls to 911, the two men were spotted, talked to and released once it was determined they were not actual guns.
Turns out that's not unusual.
During the first 16 months of its existence, zero citations were issued. The number has picked up only slightly in recent years: According to the Dallas City Attorney's Office, 15 citations have been written for violations of the replica-firearm ordinance in the last five years. Mrs. Bobby sez it's so cops don't shoot more kids with toy guns. Bobby asks, Even if they point them at the cops, dear? Well, that's just stoopid, she sez.
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Dallas Comic Con hit hardest.
Master Chief, Commander Shepard/Femshep, Solid Snake, et al report to the courtesy booth.
Housekeeping note: The quarterly ammunition summaries are posted, albeit a week late.
It has been some week in the wake of the Umpqua Community College massacre. It seemed that at least three anti-2nd Amendment opinion pieces per day were being published in nationwide publications, and I would bet ten times that many in local news outlets. I tried my best to fisk as many as humanly possible.
A lot of poor thinking was expressed by leftists who want to seize firearms, very poor recitation of Constitutional intent written by people who are supposed to be the top people.
I am not immune to that problem as well. In one opinion piece the author cited the "successful" Australian gun confiscation effort, specifically in this article. The author wrote:
After a 28-year-old man killed 35 people at the Port Arthur historic prison colony in Tasmania, Australia, a popular tourist destination, Prime Minister John Howard and his right-wing Liberal Party banned the importation of all semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns, instituted a mandatory national buyback program for such guns, and convinced state governments to ban the weapons outright. In total, about 650,000 weapons — 20 percent of the country's total arsenal by some estimates — were seized and destroyed.
My remark was this:
Every Australian who believes in liberty and freedom should be ashamed by what happened in 1996.
Do you see the problem? Reading it for the first time you may not. Took me a coupla days to find it. The Australians defied the mandatory gun buyback in spectacular fashion. Their act of defiance was only marginally worse than Connecticut when their AR registration law went into effect. I said at the time their compliance rate was about 18 percent based on Connecticut's own data. 80 percent of the firearms extant in Australia were not turned in for destruction, an incredible statement on human freedom.
Lesson learned: the next time a leftist/fascist writer writes glowingly about the Australian mandatory gun buyback program, you can say the program was a massive failure. My assumption at the time I wrote my response was to believe that the program was a success. It was no such thing. The Australian people defied the government edict to turn in their firearms. Now if they can only get their government to admit it and repeal the law.
A recent data compilation at Weapons Man blog presented a summary of every gun massacre since the spring of 2009. The facts are that 124 individuals were killed in 14 incidents. What stands out is that the laws intended to keeps guns out of the hands of criminals were observed in all but two of those incidents, and in those two, the guns were stolen.
The two most popular calibers used were the 9mm Parabellum and the .40 Smith & Wesson. Semiautomatic rifles in the AR-15 pattern were used in just two of the incidents.
If you take the number of incidents and divide by the number killed, you find that almost nine people were killed per incident, which in my mind means that magazine limits do not work. Some of the shooters brought extra ammunition with them to limited or no effect.
Listening to Mark Steyn on Rush earlier in the week, Steyn recounted the incident in Canada which led to their failed gun registry law. The way he described it was incredible:
In 1989 in École Polytechnique in Montreal, a gunman entered a classroom, separated the men from the women and ordered the men into the hall, which they obediently did. The shooter, Marc Lépine then shot and killed 19 women, then, according to Steyn, then went into the hallway where the men were, and walked right past them. The description was of men who were so cowed that they could do nothing the the face of abject evil.
I have discussed such an incident with meat space company. In the event of being held at gunpoint, you are going to get shot. Or someone is going to get shot. As Steyn said, in such an incident you have only a few seconds to decide whether you are going to get shot on your knees or get shot trying to stop evil.
Not trying to trivialize it, but as the character Dillon in Alien 3 said:
You're all gonna die. The only question is how you check out. Do you want it on your feet? Or on your fuckin' knees... begging? I ain't much for begging!
No word yet on the protest in Roseburg against President Barak Obama's visit to push gun confiscation.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly unchanged while rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed and prices for used rifles were mixed.
The AR-10 pattern .308 NATO rifle again hit a new low in average price nationwide. It is hard to see how much lower the price can go.
New Lows:
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Florida: DPMS Oracle RFLR: $500
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks) (From Q2, 2015: .27 per round, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, RNL, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, RNL, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q2, 2015: .24 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store brand, FMJ, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (From Q2, 2015: .17 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Clearance, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2015) (From Q2, 2015: .28 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .27 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each (From Q2, 2015: .23 per round, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Midsouth Shooters Supply, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q2, 2015: .45 per round, -.06 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .39 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q2, 2015: .24 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q2, 2015: .09 per round, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds (10 Box Limit): Natchez Shooters Supplies, Federal Champon, RNL .06 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: MunireUSA, CI Raptor, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
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Wrt Australia: a gun's a clumsy club if you can't find ammo. Leftists don't seem to be very good at long term thinking, but in this case if they hold control long enough they do succeed in disarming the citizens who don't have special connections. Maybe you're OK, but if you want to train your kids to shoot you burn up some of your stockpile.
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No word yet on the protest in Roseburg against President Barak Obama's visit to push gun confiscation.
you know it was a success when his visit to pimp himself and use the victims as props didn't make the headlines. FB had pictures, stories showing the "Obama go home" and "Go GOLF" signs protesters held
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IOs there ANY gunpowder still made in the USA? Available to private purchasers?
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I should have said smokeless powder - indeed there are black powder makers still here. Hodgdon AFAIK re-markets powders from other countries. There is still one US powder plant - in Florida, I think - but I don't know who markets their product.
To the best of my information, there are only two plants in the United States that manufacture smokeless propellant to load ammunition for our firearms. All else is imported, from Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Israel, and Australia primarily.
These two plants are both owned by giant defense and government contractors for whom sales of powder for civilian ammunition consumption is but a tiny fraction of their business.
One is the General Dynamics plant in St. Marks, Florida, which produces for Hodgden, Winchester and others, and the Alliant plant in Connecticut which produces for the Alliant family of companies and for the Lake City Arsenal (currently under Alliant management).
That's why the Montana Shooting Sports Association has crafted a bill for the 2011 Montana legislative session to encourage the production of smokeless powder, primers and brass on a small scale, a scale that should be reproduced on a state-by-state basis.
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It seems like consumer powders under the Alliant name come out of the St. Mark's plant (is the CT factory even still running?), which is the last factory in the US; everything else is from overseas. If 'they' can't take away our guns, they are very well-positioned to take away our ammo, including our ability to reload.
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Were ammo to get banned nationwide, Mexican and Russian organized crime would sniff out a new market for ammunition the same way Barky sniffs out a new gold course.
Imagine, though illegal and "unpatriotic", organized crime providing a better product at a lower price.
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If you have not lived in a small rural town, things are close and personal.
So there was a drug deal gone bad, and community didn't know if criminal was:
A)going around shooting debtors/snitches
B) going to fight his way out of being intercepted
C) totally methed out and sooting people who had spiders under their skin or something.
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon, so people are gathered, kids at the playgrounds. From what I heard though is the tavern looked like Paul Revere had rode through town.
Little AAR - all the prep work paid off. Not just range time, but physically going through the motions. These low frequency high risk hard to accurately train for events do get the blood going. Not having to look for things was very reassuring and when the plan went wrong I could handle the problems more efficiently.
What went wrong - don't take equipment for granted. Was manning the Bailey herding geese towards the Motte when I found the holster that was supposed to fit, didn't. Foolish. Embarrassing.
Second, the medical kit is repositioned from the walls to the keep. Figured if the walls can't be held, then help would be difficult and dangerous.
Know reliable sources of information. Be a reliable sources of information. Many people OMGeleventy when they find out when the most dangerous part of the storm has already passed. Make an honest appraisal of the situation.
[BBC] India's foreign ministry has complained to the Saudi Arabian authorities following an alleged "brutal" attack on a 58-year-old Indian woman in Riyadh.
Kasturi Munirathinam's right arm was chopped off, allegedly by her employer, when she tried to escape from their house last week, reports say.
Ms Munirathinam was working as a domestic help. She is recovering in hospital. Her family has alleged that she was being tortured by her Saudi employers.
'Disturbed'
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj wrote on Twitter: "This is unacceptable. We have taken this up with Saudi authorities. Our embassy is in touch with the victim."
"Chopping of [arm] of Indian lady - we are very much disturbed over the brutal manner in which Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia," Ms Swaraj added.
The family of Ms Munirathinam in the southern Indian city of Chennai said that her employers had been "angered" after she complained about the "harassment" she was facing at her employer's home, where she had begun working three months ago.
They are asking the government to secure them compensation from the family, and also help pay Ms Munirathinam's medical expenses.
Serious condition
"Ever since she went to work with this family in July, things were not alright. My mother was not even allowed to speak to us over the phone, she was not given proper food and was forced to work long hours," her son S Kumar told BBC Hindi.
"When she tried to escape the harassment and torture, her right arm was chopped off by the woman employer. Now my sister can't even sit and do simple things on her own, as her spinal cord has also been injured," her sister S Vijayakumari added.
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[StrategyPage] Russians are frequently reminded that its armed forces are not nearly as effective as the government would like them to be. The most embarrassing cases tend to show up on the Internet, often in spite of government censorship efforts. But some problems are openly discussed in the state run media. Such is the case with the sorry state of Russian railroads. Before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the railroads, and not a large road network, was the primary means of cross country travel. The rails and the rivers (plus canals as needed) where what held the country together. Starting in the 1990s more roads were built. People wanted cars and the government found it could not build new roads and maintain the rail system at the same time. For over a century well maintained railroads had been a Russian government priority.
Since the late 19th century the railroad system was seen as an essential component of the Russian military. In 1991 there were several hundred thousand troops whose primary job was ensuring that the railroads were ready to handle wartime needs. The railroad troops, and nearly a million other support personnel (military and civilian) were available to keep the railroads going despite any wartime attacks or peacetime natural disasters. All that was very expensive and by the late 1990s most of it was gone. The railroad troops no longer belong to the military and most (about 90 percent) are no longer available at all. Military logistics experts do not believe this is a major problem in peacetime. For one thing the railroads no longer have to be able to move over 200 combat divisions in wartime. There are only a few dozen combat brigades available now. What is a problem is repairing railroad system damage. There are barely enough maintenance personnel available to keep the system operational in peacetime. In wartime a few well-placed bombs, or terrorist attacks, would halt rail traffic in some areas for weeks, or longer.
Military logistics experts are calling for some action, even if it is only planning on how to quickly shift military personnel and gear normally moved by rail to boats (via rivers and canals) or trucks. There is some urgency to these public discussions because the Russian government has been accusing NATO and the United States of secretly attacking Russia and planning all sorts of bad things meant to harm Russia. This makes no sense in the West, but it is widely accepted as fact inside Russia. So pundits getting on the mass media there are insisting that efforts to deal with wartime damage to the railroads is something that must be taken seriously inside Russia.
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The chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has warned that North Korea now has sufficient nuclear capacity to attack the US mainland, but claims American air defenses would shoot down any incoming warhead.
"We assess that they have the capability to reach the homeland with a nuclear weapon from a rocket," Admiral Bill Gortney, the head of NORAD, told an audience during a public event organized by Atlantic Council, a pro-NATO think-tank.
Last month, North Korea's state news outlets carried a statement saying the country could attack the US "at any time" with a nuclear arsenal that is "improving in quantity and quality."
Gortney noted that the opacity of North Korea's regime makes it difficult to sort genuine claims from posturing. Pyongyang is ramping up for the 70th anniversary of its ruling party on Saturday, and in the past such occasions have been marked by displays of military might from the leadership.
But the 60 year-old admiral said that regardless of whether the threats were credible or not, they were not likely to endanger ordinary Americans.
"We're ready for him [Kim Jong-un], and we're ready 24 hours a day if he should be dumb enough to shoot something at us," said Gortney. "I'm pretty confident that we're going to knock down the numbers that are going to be shot."
He said NORAD was upgrading its nuclear capacity with improved radar and sensors and has recently argued that, in the future, hostile warheads should be destroyed before they have left their silos, rather than once they have been launched.
Gortney, who cut his teeth as a fighter pilot, also called on Congress to approve next year's military expenditure budget or risk jeopardizing the country's missile defense.
The speech came the same day as the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security released a report claiming that Pyongyang has sufficient fissile material for 22 nuclear weapons, namely 34 kilograms of plutonium and 240 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium.
Previous worries about Korea's nuclear capacity have been allayed by its inability to miniaturize and deliver a nuclear payload. However, the US Missile Defense Agency claimed in March that Kim would be able to launch ballistic rockets powerful enough to reach the US by the end of this year.
Yukiya Amano, the Director-General IAEA, the UN's nuclear watchdog, said this week that the organization had noticed increased activity at North Korea's primary nuclear site in Yongbyon, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. He also urged the authoritarian country to comply with restrictions imposed by the international community.
North Korea, whose belligerence has waxed and waned over the past decade, has simultaneously claimed its nuclear program is peaceful in nature while engaging in bellicose rhetoric, such as that published this week in an essay signed by Kim, in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which stated that the country "should produce more powerful cutting-edge arms of our kind and tirelessly strengthen self-defense nuclear deterrence while rigorously making war-fighting preparations involving the entire population." RT, but, imho, still more reliable than the NYT.
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Also said at same Confab that NOKOR can miniaturize the Warheads, can hit CONUS wid LR ICBMS + has enough plutonium Nucmats for up to 22 NucBombs.
Lest we fergit, its CHINA + PLA THAT CONTROLS NOKOR'S MILITARY - IFF SHTF WID BEIJING, ANY TLCM STRIKE AGZ A JAPAN-BASED USN CVN WILL BE CHINA-ORDERED, BUT NOKOR-FIRED.
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Unless they've mastered targeting, they're going to be throwing stuff that's not going to be a pin-point delivery. That means their target has got to be big, like city big. The most likely target would be Big Blue West Coast city types. Can you say Karma?
I do support missile defense. I guess they have to do what it takes to maintain funding.
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Well, "they" have been doing disarmament-of-missile-defense by goldbricking for the last twenty-five years, partly by killing any launcher project that looks like it'll reduce costs and/or make us independent of the Russians.
[Daily Caller] The owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal whorehouse in Nevada, has announced that he will pay down student loans for new sex worker underlings.
Like any successful pimp, brothel owner Dennis Hof has attached a few conditions to his generous offer. In a nutshell, though, Hof says he will make matching payments equal to the amount each woman earns prostituting herself.
The offer is good for up to 60 days of hustling at the legendary publicity hound's bordello just outside Carson City. Also, the women must have attended accredited two-year or four-year universities.
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"Like any successful pimp", not to be confused with a Donk politician fishing for votes with other peoples money extracted by force (aka taxes) or a Trunk selling himself for campaign contributions from the members of the Chamber of Commerce.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish court has sentenced a man, who initially faced a total of 150 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing two 14-year-old girls and one 15-year-old girl after faking his ID, to 10 years in jail due to his "respectable attitude" at the hearings.
The southeastern province of Diyarbakir's 6th Court of Serious Crimes first sentenced the 42-year-old man, identified only by the initials U.C., to 12 years in prison for committing the "the sexual harassment of a minor" and "depriving a minor of their freedom with a sexual aim." Even though the 12 years in prison was the lower limit for such crimes, the court reduced the man's punishment to 10 years on the grounds of his respectable behavior at the hearings.
The court acquitted him of charges of "providing drugs" and performing sexual acts with a third girl.
He was also sentenced to a total of 15 months in prison and a four-day punitive fine for "indecency" toward all the three victims, but the punishment was suspended on the grounds that the court ruled that the suspect would not commit the crimes again.
The three girls told their schoolteacher in 2014 that U.C. had taken them to his house to "teach English" before plying them with alcohol and marijuana, forcing them to watch porn and then sexually abusing them. He reportedly told the girls that he was a military officer, also possessing an officer uniform, a gun and bullets, in order to increase his credibility.
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A TURKISH Prison? It's going to seem like 150 years for that guy and his butt will be a bowling Alley.
[NATION.PK] Sargodha: Three women including mother and two daughters were allegedly axed to death, by their uncle over marriage feud today.
Police said that in Lilyani Town in suburbs of Sargodha the women including Zaiba Bibi 45, his two daughters, Ishrat Bibi, 23, and Misbah 22, were axed to death inside their home.
Nikkah ceremony of Ishrat was scheduled on Saturday (tomorrow) and her uncle was not pleased with the marriage proposal. The bodies of the dear departed women were shifted to hospital for medico-legal formalities. The police after registering a case into the incident have started the investigation.
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Interesting that when a Democratic mayor flouts federal immigration law it's okay, but when a Democratic county clerk flouts federal marriage law it's double-minus bad...
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Out of these, 5,947 of the criminal aliens (62 percent) had significant prior criminal histories or other public safety concerns even before the arrest that led to a detainer. Fifty-eight percent of those with a prior history of concern had prior felony charges or convictions; 37 percent had serious prior misdemeanor charges, and 5 percent had multiple prior misdemeanors.
But they vote for those that keep releasing them.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KHOU] HOUSTON -- A group of suspects targeted the wrong person to ambush after one of them was shot by a Houston police officer they were following on the way home late Thursday.
In Dallas, where people are free to walk into fast-food restaurants and down neighborhood streets toting rifles, it's against the law to carry a fake gun. It has been since the spring of 2007.
[BBC] India's foreign ministry has complained to the Saudi Arabian authorities following an alleged "brutal" attack on a 58-year-old Indian woman in Riyadh.
[StrategyPage] Russians are frequently reminded that its armed forces are not nearly as effective as the government would like them to be. The most embarrassing cases tend to show up on the Internet, often in spite of government censorship efforts. But some problems are openly discussed in the state run media. Such is the case with the sorry state of Russian railroads. Before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the railroads, and not a large road network, was the primary means of cross country travel. The rails and the rivers (plus canals as needed) where what held the country together. Starting in the 1990s more roads were built. People wanted cars and the government found it could not build new roads and maintain the rail system at the same time. For over a century well maintained railroads had been a Russian government priority.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish court has sentenced a man, who initially faced a total of 150 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing two 14-year-old girls and one 15-year-old girl after faking his ID, to 10 years in jail due to his "respectable attitude" at the hearings. 
[NATION.PK] Sargodha: Three women including mother and two daughters were allegedly axed to death, by their uncle over marriage feud today.
