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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NFL star Earl Thomas 'held at gunpoint by his wife after she discovers him naked in bed with several women'
[twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 05/07/2020 10:59 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's lucky he wasn't shot.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, at least he wasn't beating anyone.
= an improving trrend for the National Thug League
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Note his brother was in the bed too
Posted by: 3dc || 05/07/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  "These wimmen were distraught over the Covid crisis and we wuz tryin' to comfort them, You should be thanking me"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Baltimore Ravens star Earl Thomas is 'held at gunpoint by his wife after she found him naked in bed with several women after a night out'
Earl Thomas was allegedly confronted by his wife Nina following a night out in Austin, Texas on April 13
Nina had tracked Earl to an Airbnb where she discovered him in bed with his brother and several naked women
Nina is accused of holding a loaded 9mm Beretta to Earl's head; she was arrested for burglary of a residence with intent to commit aggravated assault
The couple have been married since 2016 and share three children together
Earl took to Instagram Wednesday to address the incident, and asked fans to 'pray' for his relationship
Posted by: 3dc || 05/07/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#6  CIA plot using the NRA front, no doubt.
~ Whitlock

Its what happens when one grows up with too much James Arness, Yule Brenner.
~ Costa
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#7  "You want a chance? OK, you can set 'em swingin'!"
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#8  discovered him in bed with his brother and several naked women

"Seth ?! Waddafuq is goin' on here ?!"

"I tried to talk 'im out of it, I swear."

"I din think I could handle 'em all alone, baybee."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 22:31 Comments || Top||


TSA 'hoarded 1.3 MILLION N95 masks' at empty airports
[Daily Mail] after they were told they didn't need them and should be saved for hospitals
  • The Transportation Security Administration stockpiled 1.3 million N95 face masks, according to a review of internal records and interviews by ProPublica

  • It did so as airport traffic dropped 95 percent and thousands of its workers were told to stay home to avoid getting infected with coronavirus

  • In early April the Department of Homeland Security told the TSA N95 masks should be 'reserved' for healthcare workers

  • Two TSA officials raised concerns about the stockpile and suggested sending the masks to hospitals scrambling to find enough for medical workers

  • But the TSA ignored their concerns and DHS guidance as it held onto the masks
The TSA reportedly received more than a million N95s, which block 95 percent of particles that can transmit the virus, from Customs and Border Protection, which found them in an old Indiana warehouse.

The agency also had around 116,000 masks left over from the swine flu pandemic in 2009, a memo shows.

Both of the stockpiles were older than the manufacturer's recommended shelf life, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that expired masks remain effective against spreading COVID-19.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 09:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Harry 'sells his £50,000 shooting rifles and gives up bloodsports to please wife Meghan
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hunter bought pair of handmade Purdey firearms, thought to be worth £50,000

  • Dr Jane Goodall says Harry may give up hunting because 'Meghan doesn't like it'

  • It comes after it was claimed Prince Harry misses the camaraderie of the army
We know what he's whipped with. Going back in the army'd probably be the best thing for him.
Thanks to ME-Again
Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 11:03:14 AM || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cuck Harry.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Dr Jane Goodall's studying the couple?
So the money expert is now researching orangutans and bonobos?
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  *monkey
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Snared by trailer trash looking for the big score. Dumbass!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/07/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Disney already has her ice-breaker voice-over show out; some puff piece cute animal show which has to be led by some other puff animal show monologued by shit if I recognize her name but uplifting music.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#6  *in the commercial, she is introduced as the duchess of suckseggs, can they do that? Didn't they renounce all that noise; that is, fraud?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Duke of Cuck
Duchess of Grift
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#8  As I understand it (corrections welcome!), these "shooting rifles" are custom-made Purdey shotguns. Gawd, I hate journalists.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/07/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  May be one of his lesser regrets.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ marry in haste...
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#11  what a lil bitch
Posted by: Chris || 05/07/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#12  May be one of his lesser regrets.

Something more than raucous party pics?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#13  I'd rather live with regretful 'raucous party pics' than give up a set of custom Purdy's (if I had any, that is).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/07/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#14  and he seemed like the cool royal you wouldn't mind hanging out at the pub with

he probably can't even do that anymore
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 05/07/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#15  Kinda sad, really. Him and Bill Gates.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/07/2020 14:17 Comments || Top||

#16  Knew he was a deadman when I saw that poster of Halle Berry in his bedroom.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#17  *in the commercial, she is introduced as the duchess of suckseggs, can they do that? Yes. She is Mrs. Duke of Sussex.. What she is not, at least for a year — and probably forever — is Her Royal Highness. I suspect he is still Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, but now addressed as milord instead of your royal highness.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#18  [song] the things we do for love the things we do for love
Posted by: Bobby || 05/07/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||

#19  I am really saddened by the fate of Prince Harry. He seemed like a decent sort, for a snotty little upperclass twit. He fought in Afghanistan,he piloted Apache helicopters.
Then he married Meghan.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/07/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#20  Thank you TW.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||

#21  It's an old story. As old as the Bible. Hey, Samson I have this great gal you got to meet.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#22  "She cuts hair, too. Even during a Pandemic shutdown!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 19:41 Comments || Top||

#23  Was listening to a mouse radio station on the way home. DJ was praising up how posh their new accommodations are going to be, especially during 'lock down'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 20:17 Comments || Top||

#24  The only British Prince to be captured and disarmed by a fox.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 05/07/2020 20:45 Comments || Top||

#25  Considering the Disney trajectory, the couple would be the perfect successors to Reba and Swayze's Fox and Hound 2.

Amos Slade is now a museum curator out to prove the river smolt was indigenous to the South. Copper is a vegetarian who is out to prove all creatures can use any outhouse. Tod is now a female, and knows karate and jingo pop. And they are all racist until they meet D'Janya, an inner city pit bull pup played by Chris Rock, who teaches them all canines came from Africa.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 21:26 Comments || Top||

#26  Movie begins with Bub, voiced by John Wayne movie sound clips, who pins the last Chinese river smelt, now jerky, onto a world collection. Amos, voiced by Ellen Degenerous, discovers the smelt holds the cure for disease. The antagonist is looks suspiciously like a bald eagle with a toupee, voiced by Jack Black. The race is on to save Mooglie, leader of the last hidden smelt tribe, voiced by Rodney Grant.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 21:38 Comments || Top||

#27  Well, it answers one question. He definitely IS Prince Charles' son.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/07/2020 22:04 Comments || Top||

#28 
ZFG for Harry Meghan, or anyone marrying for 'white guilt woke syndrome'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 22:36 Comments || Top||


EXCLUSIVE: 'I have no other talent': Gold Coast influencer breaks down in tears as she loses followers on 'porn' website OnlyFans due to the coronavirus pandemic and can no longer pay her rent
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 09:32 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Billie Beever" is the best she could come up with? Bring on the murder hornets!
Posted by: Spot || 05/07/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  get on the corner
Posted by: Chris || 05/07/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  She can still prostitute herself offline. But that means dealing with johns, not simps. More gross for her.
Posted by: Spike Grineng8188 || 05/07/2020 13:48 Comments || Top||

#5  And she still has payments on her lips, tattoos and bQQbs.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2020 16:35 Comments || Top||


San Francisco faces backlash as it delivers alcohol, tobacco and medical marijuana to 43 homeless addicts
who have tested positive for coronavirus and are recovering in city-leased hotels so they do not leave to hunt for a fix and spread the virus
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 11:03:39 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What, no blow? Pikers
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||


US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg out of hospital
[IsraelTimes] Court’s oldest justice has been admitted twice since November because of infections, will have gallstone removed in non-surgical procedure.
and a software/firmware update
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is glad to be home after being discharged Wednesday from a Baltimore hospital, the court said.

Ginsburg, 87, spent one night at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive nonsurgical treatment for an infection caused by a gallstone. She participated in court arguments by telephone from her hospital room Wednesday.

She will return to the hospital for outpatient visits over the next few weeks and will eventually have the gallstone removed, the court said. The procedure does not involve surgery.

The court’s oldest justice has been in the hospital twice since November because of infections. She also received outpatient radiation treatment in New York in August for a tumor on her pancreas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 02:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Changed the batteries?
Posted by: AlanC || 05/07/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  'Lifetime appointments' must be abolished. Is there anyone who thinks one's brain does not work a bit differently at age 70-75 and beyond ?

With a few exceptions 70-75 really isn't prime time. I speak from personal experiece. Why can't we face it and enjoy the simple pleasures? The American people deserve much better.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  If I had my druthers, I would expand the SC and each judge would have an 11 month term (December would be the off month).

Each state appoints one judge for that term and a judge can be appointed multiple times. Vice President is the tie breaker vote.

Good luck stacking that court.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh don't worry, if Creepy Joe Biden wins, the Democrats will stack the Supreme Court up to 15 or more justices.
Posted by: Thurong Whusomp1457 || 05/07/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#5 
"Ohh... it was nothing. They took out the bad parts. I'm good as new."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 22:47 Comments || Top||


Case 'Goes Down the Toilet' as Supreme Court Debate Interrupted by Flushing Sounds
[SPUTNIKNEWS] The Supreme Court of the United States is the country's highest level of judiciary and holds primary authority over both state and federal matters of the law. Oral arguments are held in which two parties file briefs on the merits of a case in question.

A Supreme Court oral argument was interrupted on Wednesday afternoon when the distinctive sound of a toilet flushing could be heard amid an ongoing debate.
Supreme Court Justice Frank Drebbin?
Due to social distancing measures, the public has for the first time been able to remotely listen in to oral arguments held by the Supreme Court.

As key issues regarding the First Amendment are heard being discussed, an audibly flushing toilet is heard.

The culprit behind the flush has so far been unnamed, but the mishap highlights problems faced by justices, lawyers, and the world as many adjust to working from home amid the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.
Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not Bee ... again?? Ima run outta mask-money at this rate
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  "Your honor, I'd like to move the motion..."

P-dunk

"Objection !"

Floosh !

"The witness may take the stand.."

"Really ? I think I'll pass..."

K-Plunk !

"That's it ! Get out ! All of you ! And turn off that bloody thing. This court is closed !"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  That is why you mute your freakin' mic if you aren't in the discussion!
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Meeting etiquette is for commoners, not elites.
Posted by: Spike Grineng8188 || 05/07/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||


Ill Annoy: Local Group Asks You To ''Tip Your Mask''
Brought to you by something called "The Village of a Thousand Elders".

So much for the wisdom of "elders".

[WANDTV] All Illinois shoppers out and about during the pandemic are asked to tip their masks in order to avoid confusion and anxiety between the public and business owners.

The "Tip Your Mask" initiative is a coordinated effort involving multiple Illinois police departments. With store owners concerned about people hiding their faces and potential crimes being committed, people are asked to slightly lower their mask and briefly show their faces when they enter a store to let employees know they are simply there to shop.

People are asked to wash their hands and sanitize as soon as they can after tipping their masks.

Gov. JB Pritzker is mandating Illinoisans wear face masks in public beginning May 1. The CDC currently recommends people do this.

Reverend Wonder Harris, founder of the Village of A Thousand Elders, told NBC affiliate KWQC business owners in East Moline told him it would ease their minds if people would tip their masks and show they were just in the store to buy things.

"If people were to commit a crime, they wouldn't tip the mask because they'd be caught on camera," Harris said.

In comments to KWQC, Pastor Darryl Thompson said he and other minorities might feel concerns about racial bias and could be hesitant to wear a face mask in public. He told his son to only wear a mask once he's inside of a business due to fears of what other people might think about a black man wearing a mask.
Posted by: charger || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not Bee, again... This is gonna be a bad day
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 4:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Easier to treat or bury the sick and dead I guess, than end crime.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Brilliant. Have a certain spot people coming in out of the heat and into AC, with their grubby hands, go up to their sweaty T-zone to dink with a mask, take it off, breath heavy a couple times, try to get it back right on short time and without mirror, and move on so the next person can come right to the same place and repeat.

Tip this.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
US airports say they need at least $10 billion in additional federal aid as losses mount in coronavirus pandemic
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 09:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great housing for the homeless/
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||


Coronaplague roundup
Project Veritas: #ExposeCBS Michigan Health Center Workers Stage “Fake Patients” In COVID19 Testing Line For CBS News















Trump: COVID-19 task force not dismantling, just refocusing
[IsraelTimes] In reversal, US president says panel will continue, concentrate on rebooting the economy.

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



#3  but infections across the country are steadily rising as states lifting lockdowns,

As expected. The key is to keep it at a level that the hospitals can handle.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  It should take a couple of weeks after lifting the restrictions for cases to rise. That is, if lockdown was actually kept.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 3:09 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 The plant 'refused to take the pandemic seriously, and kept its functions as normal, taking no precautions and implementing no protocols for the safety of its workers

Why does this sounds familiar?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 3:11 Comments || Top||

#6  #2 Wait until NYC is unlocked and New-Yorkers start flooding out.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 3:34 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ A number of 'out of state' tags in my area. I don't think people are paying much attention to the 'Stay At Home' instruction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2020 3:37 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 Well, according brilliant Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, this should increase your neighborhood's immunity. Diamond Princess, Stockholm, dontcha know?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 3:45 Comments || Top||

#9  I work at a meat processing plant could you for Christ's sake slow the coronaplague roundup up! We are getting sick getting yelled at by are bosses and the white house and the meat is just rotting! Plus if you read all of the info there are a shot load of long haul drivers who have empty trucks and no work!
Posted by: Crusoting Brown1441 || 05/07/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||


#11  Plus if you read all of the info there are a shot load of long haul drivers who have empty trucks and no work!

The Army is always looking for ex-pat drivers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Breaking: TX Supreme Court orders release of jailed Salon owner

Think that hack in black will face a backlash lesson? Me too
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Link to above
Supreme Court Of Texas Orders Release Of Jailed Texas Stylist Shelly Luther
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||


New York Reports Over 1,700 Previously Undisclosed Deaths at Nursing Homes
[BREITBART] New York state is reporting more than 1,700 previously undisclosed deaths at nursing homes and adult care facilities as the state faces scrutiny over how it’s protected vulnerable residents during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

At least 4,813 people have died from COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes since March 1, according to a tally released by Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s administration late Monday that, for the first time, includes people believed to have been killed by the coronavirus before their diagnoses could be confirmed by a lab test.

Exactly how many nursing home residents have died remains uncertain despite the state’s latest disclosure, as the list doesn’t nursing home residents who were transferred to hospitals before dying.

The revised list shows that 22 nursing homes, largely in New York City and Long Island, have reported at least 40 deaths.

Parker Jewish Institute in Queens and Isabella Geriatric Center — one of New York City’s largest nursing homes with 705 beds — have reported the highest number of deaths: 71 and 64, respectively.

Audrey Waters, a spokeswoman for Isabella Geriatric Center, said in an email last week, "Isabella, like all other nursing homes in New York City, initially had limited access to widespread and consistent in-house testing to quickly diagnose our residents and staff. This hampered our ability to identify those who were infected and asymptomatic, despite our efforts to swiftly separate anyone who presented symptoms."

In many cases, the state’s new figures reveal many more deaths than previously reported at nursing homes: Isabella Geriatric Center had 13 COVID-19 deaths reported as of May 1, and now reports the deaths of 21 patients who were confirmed to have COVID-19 along with 43 deaths of residents presumed to have COVID-19. And Ozanam Hall of Queens now is reporting a total of 53 deaths, up from just 10.

Several veterans homes have been especially hard-hit by the virus: The Long Island State Veterans Home has reported 53 deaths; including 48 confirmed and five presumed COVID-19 deaths. The New York State Veterans Home at St. Albans in Queens has reported 33 deaths while New York State Veterans Home at Montrose in Westchester says 22 residents have died.

Cuomo promised on March 2, when only a handful of coronavirus cases had been reported in New York, to make a "special effort" for nursing homes and congregate homes housing senior citizens. The state directed nursing homes to screen visitors and consider modifying visiting hours on March 6, and later suspended visits to nursing homes statewide March 12.

But the governor is facing criticism over his administration’s role in overseeing and supporting New York’s overwhelmed, state-regulated nursing homes as many have struggled to treat COVID-19 patients, amass enough personal protective gear or ensure adequate staffing.

Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you, Governor Cuomo. Putz.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/07/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  When you go full PR bs to show who's in charge, you better make good, or things have a tendency to come up and bite you big time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2020 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  sadly, NY State is not the only place where this is happening

of the total US fatalities there may be 40% that are nursing homes, assisted living, etc.
Posted by: lord garth || 05/07/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
LA city council votes to name hotels that refuse to house homeless, may 'commandeer' them
[Foxnews] The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday voted to identify hotels refusing to take in the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic and said they could possibly be "commandeered."
Putting homeless into better accommodations than you or I live in - for free. That's Democrats
Only 1,582 people have been placed in hotels, far short of the city’s goal of housing 15,000, FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported.

"Each hotel brings new hope, each room could save a life," Mayor Eric Garcetti said of Project Roomkey, according to KABC-TV.

"If hotels are making a distinction among people classifying housed and unhoused differently in terms of accommodations that they’re going to be repaid for, that the city and county will pay for with reimbursements, then I think there’s a potential civil rights violation," Councilman Mike Bonin said. "If the problems are on the hotel end, the public should know why, and then we should consider commandeering as they’ve talked about in other cities."

SAN FRANCISCO GIVES DRUGS, ALCOHOL TO HOMELESS ADDICTS IN HOTELS DURING CORONAVIRUS, SPARKING DEBATE

The council also plans to investigate if hotels refusing to house homeless have received tax breaks from the city recently.

The motion, co-authored by Bonin, says, some hotels have been "unwilling to participate, reneged on initial interest, citing security concerns, liability issues, objections from corporate management or fear of lost revenue from being branded a 'homeless hotel,'" according to KABC.

"It would seem to me to be a complete justification that we expect something back especially during an emergency," Councilman Mitch O’Farrel said of hotels that have received tax breaks.

The Ritz Carlton in downtown Los Angeles, which has luxury condo residences, was among those resisting.

The hotel has received millions of dollars in tax breaks from the city over the years, according to FOX 11.

The condo residence’s homeowner’s association cited security, health and property value concerns in a letter to homeowners saying they would resist housing the homeless.

Art Avaness, broker and owner of RE/MAX DTLA who manages six units in the building, told FOX 11 they were "shocked and offended" the hotel might be forced to participate.

HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS TEST POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS IN DENVER

"In theory, it’s a great idea, I support the program but in practice specifically for this property, it just isn’t, because you want to house hundreds of homeless people in a structure that’s literally in the same building with 224 homeowners?" he told FOX 11. "Having it in your own home basically is just a little too much, in fact, it’s offensive."

Avaness told KABC the average price for a one-bedroom unit is around $1 million. "Minimum one million and goes all the way up to $40, $42 million," he said.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 12:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  kinda like housing britsh soldiers in private homes.
Posted by: Chris || 05/07/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't Mayor Garcetti and Congressman Schiff and the rest of LA's virtuous public servants take them into their own spacious houses?

"Hug a hoodie."
"House a homey."
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3  At least the soldiers probably wouldn't sh*t in your stairways.

Unless you really pissed them off.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/07/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Chris, I think that argument could be made; forced quartering of state agents. In fact, 'during wartime' would be a subgroup of 'during emergency'.

To create the illusion of private property rights, many question must still be asked: accordingly what is the substitute for fair trade lodging fees? Who does the maintenance if residents are not allowed outside? What is the compensation if/when residents are released to de-con the structure and/or replaces fabrics? Food? What about damages due to the various forms of cabin fever, cuz if they can't keep drugs out of prisons this is an impossibility? Who is liable for the eventual theft, rape, medical emergency, or fire? What happens when a group decides they have had enough and decide to leave - lock the doors, armed guards?

No way should they sign onto this and expose themselves legally to any and all misdeeds with a poor-faith business partner with the full power and protection of law on their side. Say one of these places burns down, hundreds dead included those who actually paid to stay. Lawsuit. State: oh, well your residence wasn't up to fire code. It was a campfire! Ah, so you admit your rooms were not properly constructed for any residents. This building wasn't designed for homeless people! Ah, discriminatory and negligent, and racist. Tsk, tsk.

Place is going to be ruined, you on the hook, no make them take it, maybe have your day in court but avoid the hanging.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  How many employees in the City of LA are qualified property rental managers?

Without the cooperation of the housing and rental industry they have nothing. The Gov may take a couple scalps to make a show but will have to back down. Cooperate, and your business will never again be yours. Go ahead, apply for eviction of non-paying, see how that works for ya.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||

#6  The chickens are coming home to roost. All this time Garcetti and his ilk thought it was OK to let these people sleep, pee and poop on the streets instead of incarcerating them in tent cities or barracks out in the boondocks like any responsible government would do to vagrants and the mentally ill. Well, it was OK until it wasn't. If I had to stay in a Los Angeles hotel, which I hope I never do, I'll be sure to look for the ones that the LA City Council identifies as being "unwilling to participate" in this cockeyed scheme of theirs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/07/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  SAN FRANCISCO GIVES DRUGS, ALCOHOL TO HOMELESS ADDICTS IN HOTELS DURING CORONAVIRUS

A party in every room.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 15:15 Comments || Top||

#8  SCOTUS will slap this down in a heartbeat. *cough* Kelo *cough*
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/07/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Putting homeless voters into better accommodations than you or I live in - for free. That's Democrats

FIFY.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2020 16:28 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Police are bombarded with fireworks by baying mob during coronavirus lockdown patrol as they pin down a resident in Paris suburb
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Chaotic scenes broke out in the French capital's eastern Noisy-le-Grand suburb

  • Police on quarantine patrol were targeted with fireworks by rioting residents

  • Two of the attackers were apprehended and five officers received minor injuries
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Noisy Le Big, certes
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  France doesn't have a 2d Amendment. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||


Arabia
US announces $225 million in emergency aid to Yemen
[AlAhram] The United States will provide $225 million in emergency aid to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
to support food programs, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, as aid groups there are forced to scale down operations due to Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
interference and amid a spreading coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
outbreak.

"This assistance will provide the UN World Food Program’s emergency food operation in southern Yemen, as well as a reduced operation in northern Yemen, which the WFP was forced to scale down earlier this month because of the ongoing interference of (the) Iran-backed Houthis" Pompeo told a news conference.

Yemen is already grappling with the world's biggest humanitarian crisis caused by a war between the Saudi-led coalition seeking to restore the internationally recognized government, and the Houthi movement that drove the government from power in Sanaa in late 2014.

Around 80% of Yemen's population, or 24 million people, rely on aid, and 10 million are facing famine. Yemen has the world's fourth highest internally displaced population and healthcare is scarce in rural areas.

The country has reported a total of 26 coronavirus infections with 6 deaths but due to inadequate testing and a shattered health system aid groups fear a devastating outbreak. According to WHO only 200 tests with results have been delivered nationwide.

Under such circumstances, a gap in aid funding is a major risk. The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
last week warned that 31 of 41 major UN humanitarian assistance programmes will scale down or stop in coming weeks without more money as donors and aid agencies have increasingly complained of interference and obstruction from Houthi authorities.

Rooters reported last month the United States was readying a "substantial contribution" to help Yemen but that it had to find alternatives to the WHO after President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
criticized the agency being "China-centric" over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and paused funding.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 02:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And here I thought Pelosi was trying to blow money on pet projects.
Posted by: Clem || 05/07/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  $225m would go a ways in pushing out the Iranians.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Or feeding the Houthis and their camp followers first if they get their hands on it
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||


Britain
Betrothed Boris Johnson 'granted divorce' from second wife
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexican mob attempts to ‘rescue’ patient from hospital claiming COVID19 a 'conspiracy'
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They'll get lots of cheers from American "conservatives".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/07/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The virus is real; the response and things would provide a modicum of fuel to "conspiracy analysis".
Posted by: Clem || 05/07/2020 0:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Clem, I hope I don't offend you by asking - but do you have an alibi?😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 3:05 Comments || Top||


Venezuela: Guaido taking refuge in European embassy
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies



#3 
I can have a signed contract by Donald Trump in my hand, to invade North Korea, in under 15 minutes.

All I need is internet, photoshop and a printer.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 22:50 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Dogs destined to be EATEN in South Korea are saved following months spent in cages after coronavirus outbreak delayed their rescue
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 09:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We were on death row, man."

"Shhh... we're felons rejoining society."

"I knew there was a Gawd !" [Whines]

"Methinks foist we gotta find this lady Coronha and thank her. Just sayin' "

Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/07/2020 22:44 Comments || Top||


Kim Jong-un deliberately faked his death to expose traitors in his circle: Report
[WIONews] North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un deliberately faked his death to expose traitors in his circle and who had hopes of taking power from the leader's "death", reports claimed.

Sky News Australia has said that Kim, 36, may have deliberately pretended to be dead so that he could figure out if there were leaks in his inner circle in North Korea.
Further into the rabbit hole we go.
Posted by: Spot || 05/07/2020 08:53 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suppose we'll know who these traitors are the next time Kimmie fires up an anti-aircraft gun.
Posted by: Raj || 05/07/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Kim Jong Un once filmed talking to possible body doubles
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was once filmed chatting to two identically dressed lookalikes (short video at link) — escalating wild conspiracies that a body double was recently used to claim he is alive and well.

Footage from July 2017 discovered by the Sun shows the Hermit Kingdom’s leader with the doppelgangers as he showed off a new missile.

The pair appear the same height and size, with identically cut hair shaved at the back and sides, and wearing suits perfectly matching the one worn by their leader, the Sun noted.

The footage appears to strengthen rumors that Kim, 36, has long used body doubles to help ward off assassination attempts, which the International Business Times has said is a “well-known fact.”

The speculation heightened this week over images of Kim as he appeared at a ribbon-cutting function to dispel reports that he was seriously sick or even dead.

Web sleuths claimed there were clear discrepancies in facial, hairline and dental features when compared with previous appearances.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/07/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah but can the doubles keep up with The Great Swordsman's 2,000 comfort girls?

"I know, I know... You're saying, Hey, I could use a little of that. But could you use a lot?"
Posted by: Lex || 05/07/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  And our fake news media swallowed it hook, line and sinker. No critical analysis, straight to claiming he was dead.
Posted by: Spike Grineng8188 || 05/07/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Anyone seen Jason Alexander recently?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/07/2020 20:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sweden Health Agency Investigates High Coronavirus Death Toll In Elderly Care Homes
h/t Instapundit
[Forbes] - Sweden’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 2,854. As the total accelerates ever higher than its Nordic neighbors, the Swedish Public Health Agency (FHM) is now looking at why the infection has hit the country’s elderly care homes so hard.

The Swedish capital Stockholm has been the epicenter of the outbreak in Sweden so far, accounting for almost half of all deaths recorded. According to data released last week, 630 of the 1,406 coronavirus deaths in Stockholm were people in elderly care homes. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that at least 541 care homes across Sweden have had at least one case of the coronavirus.
If there is one, there is more.
Deputy state epidemiologist Anders Wallensten said the extensive spread of the infection in elderly care homes was "highly unfortunate"* but didn’t believe Sweden’s delayed action on coronavirus restrictions was to blame:
*Sweden’s FM cites Palestinian despair in discussing cause of Paris attacks (https://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-attacks-rooted-in-palestinian-plight-sweden-fm-says/)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2020 07:19 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Harder than Norway, it appears. Cases per million (Worldometer)
Norway 1475 Sweden 2433 However -
UK 2962 France 2669
Spain 5494 Germany 2008 not to mention -
USA 3816 and Israel 1889

Anybody investigating Spain's numbers?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/07/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Italy probably deserves some mention as well.
Posted by: Clem || 05/07/2020 23:33 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
UPS Makes First Delivery for CVS in The Villages Florida (short video)
[YouTube] UPS and CVS made their first delivery via drone here in The Villages today. The flight was short and designed to be a test of the overall process. There are still many details to be worked out to be a successful business venture. Here is a short video of the maiden flight takeoff and landing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
White man who chased and shot dead unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery with his son is an ex-cop
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] whose law enforcement links caused two prosecutors to recuse themselves - as victim's mom says police are protecting him because 'he is one of them'
  • Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot dead in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23

  • Arbery was jogging when he was chased by two white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael, who believed he was a burglary suspect

  • Gregory McMichael is a former police detective and district attorney investigator

  • The first prosecutor recused herself because McMichael used to work in the department

  • The second, George Barnhill, declined to press charges, saying the pair were within their rights to make a citizens arrest and carry guns

  • He then recused himself over a different conflict of interest; his son works in the DA's office where McMichael worked

  • Now, a different prosecutor is insisting on convening a grand jury for the case

  • But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that stalls the justice process by months

  • In the meantime, Greg and Travis remain free
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 09:18 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Saw a video, pretty much murder. They deserve to ride the lightning.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/07/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#2  They're going to need the time to concoct an excuse. Or they could ask Schiff for an idea or two.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The local newspaper makes it sound a bit more complicated than white racists kill innocent black jogger. Link
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2020 17:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The guy's family commented that he had been jogging there for a long time. You'd think residents would be familiar with him.
Posted by: gorb || 05/07/2020 23:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Does not need to be a racist to commit a murder of a black person. And vice versa.
Due to the venal letists, seems any conflict between a white and a black now has always seen from their instrumental Marxist racist prism.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 05/07/2020 23:58 Comments || Top||


Science
Revealed, the reason why obese people may be more at risk of coronavirus: Fat cells make large amounts of a protein used by the deadly infection to infiltrate human cells
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The evidence is not concrete but data from hospitalised COVID-19 patients suggests obese people are more likely to die than those who are slim.

Revealing, indeed! I thought the number of fat cells was the same, it's just my fat cells are larger than my adult children.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/07/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  There seems to be a high blood pressure-COVID 19 virus; mostly speculation/conjecture at this time.

"People with high blood pressure are also slightly more likely to die from coronavirus. Their risk is about 6% higher than the overall population.
What's the Link?"


Many obese people also have high blood pressure?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  The virus binds to the Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor. Angiotensin is a peptide hormone that causes vasoconstriction and an increase in blood pressure.
Posted by: John Frum || 05/07/2020 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Many obese people also have high blood pressure?

Ah'm 'morbidly obese' based on my BMI, weight:height ratio. Ah'm also heavily muscled with a avg BP of 120:70. Numbers don't mean nuttin.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/07/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||



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