Couldn't happen to a bigger asshole nicer guy!
[NY Post] - A man who accused CNN’s Don Lemon of assaulting him in a Hamptons bar three years ago claimed that the alleged behavior could be part of a "pattern."
Accuser Dustin Hice made the comments on Monday’s "The Megyn Kelly Show" even as Lemon’s attorneys have fought back against Hice’s lawsuit in court filings, accusing the ex-bartender of withholding texts, deleting social media posts and hiding a witness who contradicted his claims.
Hice claimed in his suit that Lemon had put his hand down his own pants, rubbed his private parts and then shoved his fingers into Hice’s face.
"Anybody that acts like that in public without any fear of what it might do to somebody or the consequences it might have, that’s a pattern," Hice told host Megyn Kelly after she asked if it seemed that was something he had done before.
"I wouldn’t be surprised," Hice added. "He’s protected by the fact that he’s African American, gay man on television and I’m just some nobody."
Lemon is gay and married, while Hice said in the interview he is heterosexual.
[Just The News] An Air Force combat photographer will lose his retirement benefits at month's end due to a disputed touching incident in a hot tub six years earlier, unless the Congressional Justice for Warriors Caucus can convince the military otherwise.
A court martial and administrative discharge proceeding failed to remove Master Sgt. Jeremy Zier, according to documents reviewed by Just the News, sparking a social media campaign to remove him that included the now-No. 2 at the Air Force.
The month before President Biden nominated Gina Ortiz Jones for undersecretary, the failed congressional candidate tweeted that the administrative result sends the message sexual assault victims are "not valued."
Months earlier, after the court martial, she tweeted that this was not a "sex case" because "Sex is consensual." In a message shared with Just the News, Zier told his military lawyer this was "meant to insinuate that I raped" the woman who accused him.
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My understanding of the military field awards is that they can be revoked anytime for any reason. The awarding officer doesn't have to explain why and can give the award to someone else.
[Guardian] Alec Baldwin has urged film and TV productions to hire police officers to monitor weapons and ensure guns used in filming are safe in the wake of the fatal shooting during filming of the western movie Rust.
Baldwin accidentally shot and killed the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on 21 October after being told the gun he was rehearsing with on the film set in New Mexico was "cold", or safe to use, according to the Santa Fe county sheriff’s office.
"Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety," the actor posted to Twitter on Monday. The account has since been made private, but the message was also placed on the actor’s Instagram account.
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Lots of cops have worked as consultants on film shoots (oops, I didn't mean for a pun there) usually for the purpose of making sure police procedure details are accurate. Most of them are detectives. Many of them may have never fired their weapon anywhere but on the PC range at qualifying time (many of them hate having to qualify to keep their jobs) How many of them do you think want to be responsible for people like Alec Baldwin handling a gun?
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Cut out the middleman. Have the police monitor Baldwin. While he does 7-10.
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Several gun blogs have pointed out that NRA's Eddie Eagle program to teach school kids gun safety could have given Alec the knowledge he needed to avoid this catastrophe. Of course, the "education mafia" wants nothing to do with gun safety being taught in "their schools."
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I hear recently-fired anti-gun grandstander (former Miami police chief) Art Acevedo is looking for work...
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How would the armorer feel about having someone carrying live rounds on the set?
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I suggest strip serches for everyone to get on the set. Looking for guns, knives, and live bullets.
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You mean...like...an armorer, but not trained and qualified in the use of such movie equipment and procedures? Because magic badge?
Interesting glimpse into Baldwin and the elite mindset, no? Putting on the costume automatically gives that person all the necessary skills hollywood's stereotypes require of said costume. Put a frock on the officer and the fatal bullet would have been shot out of the sky, saving the day. Blast the AC/DC and slo-mo walk out.
If any one knows he owns a Firearm they should call the Police so they can raided his houses to see how many other irearm he might have?
NOTE:
As we know when a person points and aims a firearm at a person, pulls the trigger and kills a person without intending to do so, that is called Negligent Homicide.
At a minimum, if convicted of negligent homicide in New Mexico, a person must be charged with a 4th degree felony (or more), spend up to 18 months in jail (or More) and fined up to $5,000 in penalties and fees.
The person can also be held liable in civil court for restitution by the victim's family.
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This just seems like a legal deflection. Its not that he hired an inexpensive, inexperienced armoror, its that the armoror was not a police officer.
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BLUF: I know it is fun to hate on Alex Baldwin, but who in their right mind would give him a loaded weapon and expect him to handle it responsibly?
At the risk of becoming the g(r)om of Alex Baldwin shooting threads, this happened on a movie set. A movie production is a fantasy factory. Factories can be dangerous if you are not careful.
Every year, movies involving guns get made and no one gets hurt or dead*. Actors point guns at each other and pull the trigger and no one dies... as long as everyone does their job. The critical point is that a live round ended up in what was supposed to be a movie prop. This is the armorer's area of responsibility. Somebody from that side of the production house fucked up and a woman died as a consequence.
* Hollywood takes pains to avoid people dying on set because it drives up insurances costs and production stops until the union ambulance crew can remove the body. Union shop, man. Can't violate the work rules!
Remington Firearms is moving its headquarters from Ilion, New York, to Georgia, where it will open a factory and research operation
The company plans to invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, southwest of Atlanta, and intends to hire 856 people during a five-year period
It was not immediately clear what effect the transfer would have on Remington's operations in New York and Tennessee
The news came shortly after famed gunmaker Smith & Wesson announced it will leave its historic 165-year-old headquarters in Massachusetts for Tennessee
[AMMO] Known primarily for his turn as Lucas McCain on Rifleman, Chuck Connors was also a professional baseball and basketball player, longstanding and prolific character actor, and a conservative activist.
Chuvashia is about 250 kilometers due east from Moskva, on the west side of the Urals mountain range.
[REGNUM] Snow is expected in Chuvashia on November 9 and temporary white cover may be established in some places. IA REGNUM was informed about this by the author of the project "Weather in Chuvashia" Vladimir Mikhailov.
According to him, the autumn weather ended on November 8, which will give way to cold weather. On November 9, snow and rain are forecasted in the republic, it is possible to establish temporary snow cover in certain territories.
On the night of November 9-10, the temperature will drop sharply, the temperature will be below zero and will remain during the day, although it will be sunny. Atmospheric pressure will rise to 757 mm Hg.
Cloudy weather will return on November 11, and a warm front will cause snowy weather with an intensified southwest wind. According to preliminary data, the temperature will not rise above zero, but the perceived temperature will be -10 C to -15 degrees C. On November 13, snowfalls will continue, on November 14 it will freeze again.
According to preliminary forecasts, next week the blocking anticyclone should bring sunny weather, the temperature during the day may be 0 ... -5 degrees C.
HISTORY OF THE ISSUE
As a rule, unfavorable meteorological phenomena occur simultaneously in several regions of the Volga region. So, in the summer of 2019, many regions suffered from heavy rains and low air temperatures. In September, due to a drop in temperature below the climatic norm, almost simultaneously in all 14 regions of the Volga Federal District, heating began to be supplied to houses. Either way, it's always best to prepare for both bad weather and good weather by planning things for the week, month, or season.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The harvesting of grain and leguminous crops has been completed in the Novosibirsk Region. More than 3 million 480 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with a record yield for the region. This was reported by the regional government.
The authorities note that the achievement of high results was facilitated by the intensification of agriculture, the growth of technical equipment in agriculture and effective measures of state support.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novosibirsk Region, the average grain yield in the region was 23.3 centners
...a unit of weight in parts of the former Soviet Union equal to 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) ...
per hectare this year. At present, all the harvesting areas of grain - about 1.497 million hectares, have been threshed. Collected 3,480.7 thousand tons of grain in original weight. There has not been such a volume of grain harvest in the region since 2009. So, in 2020, it was harvested 830,000 tons of grain less: 2,651.4 thousand tons.
The gross harvest of spring wheat amounted to 2.138 million tons in the originally capitalized weight, 85 percent of the harvested wheat falls on food grains of the 3rd and 4th class.
[FunctionMilRu] Northern Fleet Commander Admiral Alexander Moiseev introduced to his subordinates his new First Deputy Chief of the Fleet Staff Rear Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov, who took up his duties on November 6.
As the commander of the fleet noted, the new chief of staff is well known to the officers of the Northern Fleet. He spent most of his service in the submarine forces from the commander of the group of the navigational warhead of a nuclear submarine to the deputy commander of the formation.
Rear Admiral Konstantin Petrovich Kabantsov commanded the White Sea naval base of the Northern Fleet and the Primorskaya Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the Northern Fleet by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on October 1, 2021.
During his military service, Rear Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov graduated from the N.G. Kuznetsov, Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. He was awarded the Order for Military Merit, the Nakhimov Medal and other state and departmental awards.
The predecessor of Rear Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov, Rear Admiral Vladimir Vorobyov, was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces and departed for a new duty.
[DW] Investigators from four European countries have made arrests in raids targeting groups behind ransomware attacks, Europol says. The suspects are accused of carrying out some 7,000 cyberattacks.
Seven people suspected of carrying out global cyberattacks on businesses and institutions have been arrested since February in an international operation, European Sherlocks said on Monday.
Officials said two people were arrested in Romania last Thursday, while five others were detained in other countries earlier. The two Romanians alone are alleged to have carried out 5,000 cyberattacks from a total of 7,000 under investigation in Europe.
The alleged attacks used ransomware, a type of software that locks up the contents of targeted computers until the owners pay money. The suspects are said to have procured millions of euros through their crimes.
WHAT IS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION?
Eurojust, an EU agency dealing with judicial cooperation, said German, French, Romanian and Swiss teams took part in the recent European raids, which formed part of an international investigation called GoldDust. The US and 16 other countries are involved in the probe.
The groups targeted include the Russian-based gang REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, and the ransomware group GandCrab, according to Europol, the EU's police agency.
WHAT ARE THE GANGS ACCUSED OF?
"Suspected of about 7,000 infections, the arrested affiliates asked for more than €200 million ($232 million) in ransom," the statement from Europol said.
It said the two Romanians took in around half a million euros.
Eurojust said companies, local administrations, hospitals, schools, universities and courts were among the bodies targeted by the hackers.
REvil, with which the Romanian hackers were associated, has been linked among other things to cyberattacks on the world's largest meat processor, JBS SA.
Two other suspected REvil members indicted by US authorities
Monday saw two other suspected REvil members, one Ukrainian and one Russian, indicted on cybercrime charges in the US in connection with a wave of ransomware attacks.
Officials said the Ukrainian man was recently arrested in Poland, while the US government had recovered $6.1 million (€5.3 million) in criminal earnings from the Russian suspect.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... praised the indictments in a statement and added that cybersecurity is a "core priority" of his administration.
"When I met with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in June, I made clear that the United States would take action to hold cybercriminals accountable," Biden said. "That's what we have done today."
[BBC] The American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates that the US is short 80,000 truckers - an all time high for the industry. And if nothing changes, the shortfall could reach 160,000 over the next decade.
The lack of drivers has made it hard to get products from ports to shop shelves and is driving up prices for a wide variety of products ahead of the winter holidays.
BLUF: Long hours and low pay in an industry where the average age is 49 and historical turnover is 90%. And of course the pettifogging rules in California have caused so many shipping containers to pile up awaiting the few drivers who meet the rules to take cargoes across the California border. Nonetheless, wait times for truck driver schools have tripled, a hopeful sign for the future.
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They only want to drive. Someone else offloads.They claim shortages but they only want to hire perfections. Older truckers retire as soon as possible. Over regulation and fines companies make truck driver pay. One fine could be $10,000 dollars.I was in it for a while but in one day I was stopped three times. Why stopped again I asked, "they may have missed something". New tractor just purchased stopped and fined. They can always find something.
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When an injury sidelined me to a desk job I had an experience with some visitors to our small installation at the time. They were from a large trucking company in the region and looking for truckers. They had no idea about transportation and personnel management in the service, but they had the time to learn. There weren't many transportation people at our installation but they left with the means and skills to identify who, what, where, and how to take their search for employees. Given the 'jab or out', the trucking companies could be picking up a good number of trained personnel if they knew what they were doing. As 'challenging' trucking can be for drivers, they certainly don't deal with a lot of stuff the military piles on top of one's experience.
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Oh, probably by doubling the price of diesel and further complicating machine and physical requirements to the point that those who can afford to remain in the business no longer enjoy the challenge no matter the benefits. Then chosen illegals, who are already immune to citizen laws, enter and take over the industry.
[JPost] The IDF Manpower Directorate’s "Titkadmu" program is opening the military's doors to teens on the autistic spectrum with a unique approach pioneered by Cpt. Udi Heller.
After years of exempting them from serving in the Israeli military, the IDF is aiming to recruit some 500 soldiers on the autism spectrum by the end of next year.
The future soldiers will join the army as part of the IDF’s Manpower Directorate’s TITKADMU program which recruits autistics into the military.
“Today there are 52 soldiers with autism in the program, and by the end of December, we will have 70. By the end of 2022 there will be over 500,” said Capt. Udi Heller.
Heller, the highest-ranking soldier with autism in the IDF, initiated the program which he says gives hope to the thousands of autistics in Israel.
According to Heller, there’s been an 18% increase year-by-year of those diagnosed with autism in Israel’s education system; 19,500 diagnosed in 2019, 27,300 in 2020, and some 32,000 this year.
That sounds more like evaluators getting better at recognizing the symptoms than an actual increase of sufferers year over year.
And with all those young people diagnosed with autism in the education system, “there’s no reason why there can’t be 10,000-15,000 with autism in the army. We want thousands of recruits with autism to serve in the IDF, it’s not a military of only geniuses,” Heller said.
Israel didn’t recognize autism as a medical disorder for years and the first diagnosed soldier with autism volunteered in 2006. Other than TITKADMU, there are currently some 200 other people with autism volunteering through other organizations and programs like Ro’im Rachok (Hebrew for “seeing into the future”) that helps students on the spectrum prepare for military service.
TIKTAKDMU builds a special track for volunteers with autism who spend six weeks along with specialized mentors who help them integrate into military life and who accompany them throughout their service. During the six weeks, the mentors also meet with the families of the cadets in order to learn more about them.
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/\ Messing with female reproductive cycles may have lead to unforeseen genetic consequences. The timing appears to coincide.
Autism is much more prevalent in white families (possibly 2x higher) than Hispanic. Disregarding the obvious, researchers point to autism being "underdiagnosed" in Hispanic children.
With our good friends in Big Pharma and Big Gov't as stakeholders (both husband and wife must pull the plow). The obvious once again surfaces. Yes, I'm at it again, following the money.
As we have recently witnessed, "Replacement People" can easily be imported.
Except autism does not mean you are not a genius. My grandson did not speak until age three. At two he spent his time visually stimming on the carpet. He became obsessed with youtube vids about Science and Astronomy. His heroes were people like de Broglie, Thomson, Rutherford, and Planck, not to mention Kip Thorne and his LIGO device. He could barely speak their names. Just before his third birthday he began to read and type in searches for Dr. Seuss. That was when he began to speak. Shortly after he found that he could search History and Science and everything. The other day he told me it was Guy Fawkes day. I did not know that. He read it in a dictionary. He is a voracious reader. At five he began to learn Calculus from a graphing calculator located at desmos.com. He is nine now and in Third grade. It is no longer "calculator Calculus". He knows the chain rule and can prove it. Ditto the product rule. He knows and can prove the elementary properties of the exponential function, trig functions, and so on. He loves de Moirve's Theorem, aka he knows about Complex numbers. We are now working on the proof of the Quadradic Formula. You be the judge. Does he sound mentally retarded?
Autism is a different dimension than cognitive ability. Some are very smart and some not so much.
My $0.02 as the grandfather of a kid on the spectrum.
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My nephew's almost non-verbal 19-YO autistic son is extremely good at minutia, crosswords, Sudoku and complicated puzzles. He can read and write in 6 languages. He just doesn't interact well with people in general.
Maybe one of the reasons the IDF is seeking these folks out.
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^^^ good point, maybe being trained for intel analysis?
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It isn't that Autistic people are any dumber or 'retarded' but they just process things a little differently. And as a result they aren't that good at socialisation - not picking up the hundreds of clues and hints which make up interactions. OTOH they may view things differently and might see things others miss.
And I would take any claim that 'more people are autistic' with a huge grain of salt. The 'Spectrum' didn't even exist then - only the hardest cases were diagnosed with Authsm while others, more high-functioning, weren't even diagnosed. now they are so of course you have higher numbers.
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Correct. You have described ASD exactly. Also, in the past they missed a lot of it and it really wasn't in the DSM. Looking back at my childhood, I never fit in with the other kids. They made fun of me when I started talking about the newly invented LASER. I spent my days in my little Chem Lab in the basement, making pyrotechnic devices. My father encouraged this insanely. Do you really provide concentrated Nitric and Sulfuric acids to a ten YO who has announced that he is trying to make Nitroglycerine? Thank God I failed at that one. Similar activities today would warrant a visit from ATF.
Looking back I can see that I displayed the symptoms and today I would have gotten a diagnosis.
I don't fit in anywhere and have only four friends. One is an Electrical Engineer. The other three have PhDs in Math(Stanford), Physics, and Geochemistry. I have a PhD in Math and was a doctoral candidate in Physics.
I can connect to people, actually. Just special people and one at a time. I am married for 40 years and have children and grandchildren who are my total focus.
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I can connect to people, actually. Just special people and one at a time. I am married for 40 years and have children and grandchildren who are my total focus.
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I can relate Helmut. I still can't connect easily and when I look at my 2 autistic boys, and how I was back in my childhood I really think I 'fit the profile' myself. Oh well I'm over 60 now - well accustomed to it - still get a little anxious about stupid things but I recognise it and work it out. Good thing my wife is understanding :).
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Once completed, Tiangong Space Station will weigh some 66 tons, far smaller than the ISS, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs around 450 tons.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...
