[FOX] Two suspects accused of killing two Mississippi police officers Saturday night were reportedly arrested early Sunday morning.
The Hattiesburg American reports that Curtis Banks was brought to the Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop J headquarters at around 3 a.m. local time. His brother Marvin Banks was arrested about two hours earlier.
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that as reporters were asking Curtis Banks if he had shot two of the Hattiesburg patrolmen he blurted out "no sir, I didn't do it."
The killings prompted a statewide manhunt for the two suspects late Saturday.
Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said one Hattiesburg officer had initially stopped a 2000 Gold Cadillac Escalade in an industrial part of the city at around 8:30 p.m. local time Saturday. A second officer arrived afterward to assist him and that is when shots were fired. Those were reported to be the first deaths on the Hattiesburg police force in three decades.
"Obviously these suspects are armed and dangerous. There is a danger, a threat for sure," Strain told The Associated Press by telephone early Sunday from the scene, an industrial corridor fronting a housing area. He said officers had told people in the immediate area to "take shelter."
Strain said both officers died of their injuries at a hospital. He said law enforcement agencies across the state were searching for two men identified as 26-year-old Curtis Banks and his 29-year-old brother Marvin Banks.
A Hattiesburg Police Department spokesman, Lt. Jon Traxler told The Associated Press the officers who died were 34-year-old Benjamin Deen and 25-year-old Liquori Tate.
"All I know right now is that there was a traffic stop and someone started shooting at them and both of the officers were struck," Traxler said. He said he didn't know how many shots were fired, or exactly by whom, adding that was now part of the investigation.
He said the state's chief law enforcement agency, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, had taken up the probe of the shooting.
"That's still under investigation. The crime scene unit is processing the scene," said Strain. .
Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree told the Clarion-Ledger he lamented the deaths.
"The men and women who go out every day to protect us, the men and woman who go out every day to make sure that we're safe, they were turned on (Saturday) night," DuPree said outside Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, where the officers were taken.
The Clarion-Ledger reports these are the first Hattiesburg officers to die in the line of duty in 30 years. It said Tate was a recent police academy graduate while Deen was a K-9 officer who had been honored as the department's "Officer of the Year" in 2012.
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Is Loretta Lynch going to investigate that these two cops' civil rights have were violated or that there was a hate crime by the perps? I didn't think so! DOJ ought to be investigated for a whole host of things.
One black guy and two (?) black accomplices have just killed a white cop and a black cop. Explain why this is the white cop's fault. Alternatively, explain why the black cop is really white. Emphasize that this occurred in the Deep South, and that the white people of the town are bitter-clinging rednecks who sleep with their sisters. Justify the conduct of the shooter, who once helped an old lady cross a street, and was deprived of free will by the fact that his great-plus grandaddy may have been a slave. Ignore the fact that the white-black cop was also possibly descended from slaves, but seems to have had a bucketful of free will that he made the most of.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Jennifer Grayson, an environmental journalist, is writing “Unlatched,” a book about the breastfeeding controversy.
How’s this as a gesture of love for the woman who bore you? Chop off the reproductive organ of a plant and send it to her in a box tied up with a pretty bow.
No, it’s not a weird botanical twist on the van Gogh woo-a-girl-with-a-severed-ear legend. It is what millions of us (67 percent of those celebrating the holiday) will compulsorily do to mark Mother’s Day.
This year, we will spend a collective $2.4 billion to buy Mom flowers. I understand the appeal. I’m a mom of two little girls, and my heart melts anytime they surprise me with a handful of dirt-clumped dandelions from our back yard. But while giving flowers may seem like a good way to show how much you love your mom, it’s a terrible idea if you care about Mother Earth.
I can practically hear my mother-in-law sighing as I write this, and I can guess what you (no doubt on hold with 1-800-NOSEGAY right now) are about to ask: Wait, aren’t flowers natural? Why is this eco-zealot trying to take down the holiday? Because when you're a dyed in the wool Lib there's always some reason why the things the rest of us do are yucky, even something as simple as sending flowers to your Mom, or putting flowers on her grave. So bite me, Jennifer Grayson.
Happy Mother's Day, ladies.
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I can practically hear her giggle as she writes this epic tome.
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Amateur. If she really wanted to show off her ice, she would have gone after National Library Workers' Day (4/21) and how in this age of internet books are simply an archaic throwback whilst destroying the envirionment by cutting down trees and all the chemicals used to make paper yadda yadda yadda start burning books before they decompose and create methane.
See, didn't even spend any money on a physical Washington Post to find out.
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Watermelons who go off half-cocked
Leave practical nurserymen shocked --
The self-righteous glommings,
Not fencing the commons,
And leaving the Garden un-Locked.
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A Liberian preacher I was talking to last night emphasized that his church was going to keep using bleach dips and restricting contact until both Sierra Leone and Guinea were also "free" of ebola. Yes, the virus can still hang around as a sexually transmitted disease, but at least they know what to look for and take it seriously. Memories are too fresh.
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[AA.TR] Burundi's opposition parties and activists on Saturday overlooked a request by the government to suspend for 48 hours their protests against the reelection for a third term of incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza.
"Approving a suspension of our protests equals approving our death," Charles Nditije, the head of the Union for National Progress Party, told Anadolu Agency.
"We will resume our protests as of Sunday because our constitutional rights are threatened," he added.
Earlier on Saturday, Defense Minister Pontien Gaciyubwenge called on the opposition to suspend its street protests.
"The National Security Council calls on protest organizers in Bujumbura to quickly put an end to their rebellious actions," Gaciyubwenge said in an interview with Anadolu Agency.
"Civil servants and school students have to go back to their work and classrooms as of Monday," he added.
He said security forces had 48 hours after which they would use what he described as "all legal methods" to free roads and streets of the people who blocked them.
The head of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy Pascal Nyabenda called on the government to open investigation to know the people standing behind offering the necessary funding for the protests.
He said some people must have been behind offering the funds necessary for the organization of protests.
Burundi has been rocked by protest since late April, when the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy named Nkurunziza -- in power since 2005 -- its candidate for June presidential polls.
At least 20 people, including two coppers, have been killed -- and more than 100 injured -- since the protests first erupted.
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[Reason] Damon Root: Earlier this week my colleague J.D. Tuccille commented on the work of two left-wing British political philosophers who believe that strict limits should be placed on the rights of parents in order to create "a more level playing field" for all children. For example, according to one of the philosophers, "private schooling cannot be justified.... It's just not the case that in order for a family to realise these intimate, loving, authoritative, affectionate, love-based relationships you need to be able to send your child to an elite private school." Because we can't successfully indoctrinate children if they are not all in the Government indoctrination centers. I mean Schools.
I wonder if these progressive British philosophers are aware that the idea of banning private education has already been tried and rejected here in the United States. Back in 1922, the Ku Klux Klan and other anti-Catholic groups spearheaded an Oregon initiative that resulted in the prohibition of all private schooling within that state. Known as the Compulsory Education Act, this law required all children between the ages of eight and 16 to attend "a public school for the period of time a public school shall be held during the current year." The Society of Sisters, a corporate entity organized in 1880 to provide for the care and education of orphans, challenged this prohibition in federal court, arguing that it violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which forbids the states from depriving "any person [including corporate persons] of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Not only do we need equality of income regardless of our job, but we all need to be equally un-educated.
Unfortunately for both yesterday's Ku Klux Klan and today's progressive British political philosophers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the Society of Sisters and struck down the private school ban. According to the majority opinion of Justice James McReynolds, "the child is not the mere creature of the state."
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...to create "a more level playing field" for all children.
These are the people who profess the science of Darwin over knuckle dragging religious fundamentalists. Some adapt, some don't adapt. "No child left behind" means all children are left behind under the bureaucracy of the state, except the apparatchiks' kids.
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There is always some leftwingnut organization trying to ban something. So far, their efforts have done much to damage education. Progressives are not progressive (or tolerant, or accepting, or sane, or peaceful, or logical folks, or fill in the blank).
On Saturday throughout Russia and rebel occupied regions on southeastern Ukraine, the 70th anniversary of "The Great Victory" over Nazi Germany was marked with parades and gatherings of veterans of WWII and other conflicts since then.
But the expressions of patriotic pride in loud, public displays could not mask the deep divisions between the political leaderships of both Lugansk and Donetsk, their Russian benefactors and several formation commanders, mainly Cossacks, but including a few Russian commanders.
One of the most popular rebel formation commanders in either republic announced to some Russian language press outlets his view of the Lugansk political leadership, mainly in the form of Lugansk president Igor Plotnitsky as "thieves", "more bloodthirsty" than the oligarchs whose rule were ended by the civil war.
The remarks were published after Alexei Mozgovoy, commander of the Ghost Brigade, was warned to cancel Victory Day celebrations or face arrest or death at the hands of Plotnitsky. The reason for the cancellation were not made clear, but it is likely that the antagonistic relationship between Mozgovoy and Plotnitsky played a large part in this latest confrontation.
The celebrations in Alchevsk were held despite the warning from Lugansk, but it is unclear what will happen next.
Mozgovoy's remarks are unusually candid, especially in comparison with several other top military commanders who have gone to some length of toe the political line.
This, despite a low intensity war being waged by the political leadership of both republics against commanders who have apparently had the wrong idea about their roles in the civil war in southeastern Ukraine.
Mozgovoy was the first top rebel formation commander to reveal the bloody losses suffered by the rebels in the Debaltsevo operation last February, which he characterized as "colossal". Mozgovoy failed to mention the prominent role actual Russian troops inside of Ukraine had played in the operations that turned the Debaltsevo salient into a pocket at Logvinovo.
But Cossack commander Colonel Pavel Dremov, quoted in Latvian news outlet Spektor, late last month confirmed that indeed Russian troops had played a role in at least the initial operation at Debaltsevo.
In his remarks, Dremov said that the Russians maintained a united command structure for the operation, and despite being outnumbered by at least a factor of two toward the end of the operation, and despite repeated objections by rebel commanders against pressing objectives, rebel forces managed to finally liquidate the pocket.
Mozgovoy said in his remarks just after the conclusion of the Debaltsevo operation that losses suffered by rebel forces were huge, but Dremov said his losses were less than five percent of his forces. It should be noted that Dremov and another Cossack military commander, Ataman Kozitsyn had joined the liquidation operations late, and were apparently not part of the bloody pinning operations that took place just before the battle of Logvinovo.
Like Mozgovoy, Dremov had words about Plotnitsky.
The interviewers asked Dremov if he had forgotten about the conflict with the Lugansk authorities.
His reply was: "I do not see them as people. Now, if I had seen in them the desire to change people's lives for the better, I would have reasoned differently."
Dremov went on: " Every morning I ask myself the question - Why are you doing this? Just turn around and go away .... "
"... But I just know that if you leave, then it would be even worse. Many of those who now stand next to me, too, turn around and leave. And the future has to hold on to such as these - that is not for himself but for them."
Dremov's countryman, Ataman Kozitsyn is said to either be in Russia under arrest or dead, detained and possibly executed by the "Green Men", as Russian special forces are colloquially known in southeastern Ukraine.
Kozitsyn himself had disappeared, during last fall, but events intervened which apparently caused Cossack leaders to become openly critical, especially after the assassination of Aleksandr Bednov last December 31st at the hands of Plotinitsly's interior ministry troops in Grigorievka, just south of Lugansk city.
Several more assassination attempts and killings took place since that time, five in all including one attempt on Mozgovoy, incidents which have been carefully hidden from the official narrative rebel commanders want to maintain.
News in mid April was that Dremov himself appeared to have been bought off with a regimental battle flag and an honorific: 6th Cossack Motorized Cavalry Regiment "Matvei Platov" , named after a noted Cossack commander who fought during the Napoleonic wars in the 19th century.
With the new regimental battle flag came inclusion into a unified logistical structure with the Lugansk ministry of defense. Mozgovoy's Ghost Brigade has not been as lucky, being forced to rely on non official channels for some classes of supplies.
The latest indications in the Russian language press are that the civil war continues, becoming quiet in Lugansk but loud in Donetsk.
On April 28th, elements of the Donetsk "Vostok" Battalion surrounded and attacked an unidentified Cossack unit in Donetsk. The fate of that unit is unknown. The report said that intense gunfire was heard for about 30 minutes, then silence.
On May 6th in Donetsk an unidentified rebel unit attacked a Cossack unit which had barricaded itself in the Hotel Prague. Several rebel armored vehicles, including tanks and self-propelled guns, rebel snipers and other forces deployed against those forces. The report said that Cossack units had booby trapped the positions.
As with the April 28th incident, the fate and identity of the Cossack unit remain a mystery. The issue that started the battle was an attempt to disarm the Cossack unit.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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...Took a look at the pics and the FoxNews video, and I'm calling shenanigans:
1. That sucker is way, way smaller than a Polaris/Poseidon (Trident is honestly a sea-launched ICBM, so there's really no comparison between that and anything else).
2. SLBMs exit the water vertically, then gradually heel over to follow a ballistic path. This thing came out of the water at an angle.
3. Look at how close Fat Boy is to that beast when it leaves the water - not even the Norks are insane enough to risk His Enormousness that close to a true SLBM if it goes wonky. That in turn suggests that this is something they've run on the test stand and range lots and lots of times...a mod of an existing, well-proven design.
So, IMHO - we're looking at something more like a cut-down version of this.
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Actually, that's not a missile, but a raised middle finger. Weakness invites such a display of primitive primate behaviors.
[08 January 2015] Recent commercial satellite imagery provides additional details on North Korea’s new submarine and test stand at the Sinpo South Shipyard located on its east coast. [T]he origins of the new submarine design are unclear although it bears a close resemblance in size and shape to the former Yugoslavian SAVA and HEROJ-class boats. [I]magery now indicates that the conning tower houses 1-2 small possible vertical launch tubes for either ballistic or cruise missiles. The boat could serve as an experimental test bed for missile technology, which if successful, could be integrated into a new class of submarines.
Exactly what missile system would be used in a ballistic missile submarine (SSB) is purely speculative at this point. Several possibilities are a shorter naval version of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile, a Nodong medium-range ballistic missile, naval versions of the solid-fuelled KN-02 short-range ballistic missile or an entirely new system.
While it appears that North Korea’s current efforts are focused on developing a ballistic missile submarine, a less likely alternative would be a guided cruise missile submarine (SSG). This, however, would only be possible if North Korea could access foreign vertical-launched cruise missile technology. Such a route might present an easier, faster route to a submarine-launched missile system.
[Bloomberg] Charlie Kirk was just about to leave the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa when he spotted the multimillionaire investor Foster Friess in a stairwell. Kirk, who was 18 and fresh out of high school, had spent weeks memorizing the names and faces of the top 25 Republican political donors in case he found himself in just such a situation. He grabbed Friess into a handshake, took a nervous breath, and began his elevator pitch. Instead of going to college, he wanted to start a grass-roots organization to rival liberal groups such as MoveOn.org, which offer Democratic candidates a standing army of volunteer activists. All he needed, Kirk told Friess, was cash. Friess, who’d just blown $2.1 million on a failed quest to help Rick Santorum win the GOP presidential nomination, handed over his business card. Three weeks later, Kirk had a five-figure check. “He impressed me with his capacity to lead, intelligence, and love for America,” Friess says. “I instantly knew I wanted to support him.”
In the three years since, Kirk—who still sleeps in his childhood bedroom in Wheeling, Ill.—has built his organization, Turning Point USA, into the go-to group for reaching young conservatives. It has a presence on 800 college campuses, where fieldworkers hand out posters and collect e-mail addresses. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February, the group hosted an event featuring Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, who have each since announced they’re running for president. On May 8, Paul was scheduled to speak at a Turning Point rally at Arizona State University, and Carly Fiorina is on deck to speak in June at a Turning Point conference for women in Chicago. Kirk says he’s met candidate Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is considering a presidential run.
[IJReview] Students at Bangor Area High School in Pennsylvania were encouraged by the school's Gay-Straight Alliance to wear rainbow-colored T-shirts on Friday of last week in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
Instead, two students wore Chick-fil-A T-shirts. Suspensions followed on Monday. But those who were suspended may surprise you:
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The mother of the that suspended student weighed in with her opinion as well:
“You want to encourage everyone to be their own person, and for someone to decide it’s OK for those two students to go on a morning show and wear a shirt like that with no repercussions, what is the school saying? That it’s OK?”
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Its called Free Speech you idiot fascista. You have the right to wear the rainbow shirt, that's your opinion, they have a right to wear the ones that they like. If you dont like that, then its just too fucking bad - grow up.
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Heh.
I remember my senior week, one day was 60s Day. Berkley-on-Kaw, just about everyone was hippied out - but me. I wore the closest thing I could come up with to jungle camo. Some were like camo day is xday. I said no, I'm right.
While liberals' whining over a Hispanic-owned business instituting its "White Appreciation Day" is rather funny, they thought they'd show their famous "tolerance" by calling in bomb threats that shut down the BBQ restaurant for a few hours.
From 9 News Colorado:
The restaurant in Milliken that gained national attention after a 9NEWS story about it's idea for a "White Appreciation Day" was evacuated Friday due to a bomb threat.
The Hispanic owner of Rubbin Buttz BBQ, Edgar Antillion, says they received numerous threats Friday.
The restaurant hung a sign reading "White Appreciation Day! June 11th. Because all Americans should be celebrated!!" It plans on giving white customers a 10 percent discount.
Antillon, who was born to Mexican parents, pointed to Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month.
This is especially heinous:
Ricardo Romero, a civil rights activist in northern Colorado, called the plan "a perpetuation of racism." Jennifer McPherson with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies says people who believe they are discriminated against can file a complaint with the civil rights division.
Well they're screwed.
The BBQ shop owner mentioned the bomb threats on Facebook:
Waiting for the all clear. Pulling out the prime rib that people missed out on due to the bomb threat. (Investigation still going on).Prime rib sandwiches tomorrow though, as well as smoked filet mignon.
Let's hope these degenerate liberals stop showing their "tolerance" to those who disagree with them.
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Hey do these guys deliver ? Prime Rib, Filet Mignon Sandwiches ? Could you guys air express a few of these bound to be delightful sandwiches to the WDC Area ? Hey I'll even pretend to be White even though I'm really Pink ( a bit too much Spring Sun) melatonin deficiency you know.
Warning: racis' reasoning follows, not for the squeamish
Of course, the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore last week prompted the usual cries for "an honest conversation about race," and countless appeals to fix the "broken" public school system. So, in the spirit of those pleas, I will advance a very plain and straightforward idea: above all, teach young black kids how to speak English correctly.
Nothing is more important than acculturating ghetto kids out of their pidgin patois and into real English with all of its tenses, verb forms, and cases. It's more important initially than learning arithmetic, history, and science. I would argue that it is hardly possible to learn these other things without first being grounded in real grammatical English.
When these kids grow up, their manner of speech will identify them and their prospects for success at least as much as the color of their skin -- and probably more, in my opinion. Their ability to speak English correctly will be the salient feature in how others assess the content of their character.
I'm sure by now that the racial justice hand-wringers are squirming over this proposal. All dialects are equally okay in this rainbow society, they might argue. No they're not
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English spoken here only for a short time, catch it if you can, Ebonics next up for the official language of any major American city, followed by Western Hemisphere Spanish, Pigeon English will rank 3rd. Give it a few more years, if you all doubt me, well, have you ridden on public transportation recently, if not you are in for a real surprise.
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Take a black from the Caribbean or Africa with an articulation of the language that mirrors the mother tongue, 'Prince Charles' English. With a resume matching anyone else's, and they have the edge well beyond color or other 'characteristics' in a job competition. It has nothing to do with color but the culture one chooses to follow. If you elect to follow the 'thug', 'pimp' or 'rap' culture, you make a choice, reinforced by parental toleration of it. Self inflicted wound.
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.
[FOX] Two suspects accused of killing two Mississippi police officers Saturday night were reportedly arrested early Sunday morning.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Jennifer Grayson, an environmental journalist, is writing “Unlatched,” a book about the breastfeeding controversy.
[AA.TR] World Health Organization says last new case reported more than 42 days ago
[AA.TR] Burundi's opposition parties and activists on Saturday overlooked a request by the government to suspend for 48 hours their protests against the reelection for a third term of incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza.
[IJReview] Students at Bangor Area High School in Pennsylvania were encouraged by the school's Gay-Straight Alliance to wear rainbow-colored T-shirts on Friday of last week in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
How English dies, and how the new, multicultural naming conventions will manifest themselves. It begins with street and airport names by the way. 
