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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Walmart employee shoots customer after he tried to stop him from fighting a female coworker
[LEOaffairs] A Walmart employee shot a customer multiple times in Lauderdale Lakes Tuesday afternoon after the customer intervened during his “physical encounter” with a female coworker, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

The customer died of his injuries.

Tironie Shavar Sterling, 22, of Lauderhill, now faces charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery by sudden snatching, the Sheriff’s Office said in a media release.

Sterling was not working at the time but had arrived at the store early Tuesday afternoon to meet with the female employee, the release said. They began to argue, which escalated into a “physical encounter.” While they were arguing, Sterling dropped his gun on the floor and tried to steal her cellphone, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The release did not say whether the two were in a relationship.

As their fight intensified, the customer came over to try to help the woman. He and Sterling started fighting, and the suspect grabbed his gun from the floor and shot the customer multiple times, before fleeing the store on a scooter, BSO said.

The customer was airlifted to a local hospital and died later that night. He was in his 30s, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane.

The identities of the female employee and the customer are being withheld under Marsy’s Law, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that allows crime victims to shield their identifying information from the public.

City officials said in a tweet that the store will remain closed until further notice.

“Senseless violence like this is intolerable, and we’re heartbroken to learn a customer has been critically injured while helping one of our associates,” the Walmart spokesperson wrote in a statement on Tuesday. “Our thoughts are with him, his family and our associates at this time. The store will remain closed while we continue working with law enforcement.”

Deputies arrested Sterling about 5 p.m. Tuesday. He is being held at Broward County Main Jail pending bond.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 16:51 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As Sam Walton might have said, the customer is not always right, but he is always the customer. And sometimes, he needs shooting.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/03/2023 18:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Takes him out of the running for Employee of the Month.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 20:45 Comments || Top||


Shooting inside Atlanta building leaves 1 dead, 4 injured
Text added at 9:35 p.m ET — I assume there were some updates after DarthVader posted the link this afternoon.

—trailing wife
[Yahoo] Police say they have apprehended a man who allegedly opened fire inside the waiting room of an Atlanta medical facility, killing one woman and injuring four others Wednesday.

Authorities had swarmed the city’s bustling midtown neighborhood earlier in the day in search of the suspect, who fled after the shooting. Police said in a statement that the gunman, who they identified as 24-year-old Deion Patterson, was captured Wednesday evening. Authorities did not immediately release additional information about where Patterson was found.

Authorities said Patterson stole a vehicle and drove away after shooting five women on the 11th floor of a Northside medical building shortly after noon. The facility is in a commercial area filled with office towers and high-rise apartments and news of the shooting prompted workers and lunchgoers to shelter in place for hours.

She said her son had wanted Ativan to deal with anxiety and depression but that the VA wouldn't give it to him because they said it would be "too addicting.”
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said a 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting. The four injured victims were also women, aged 25, 39, 56 and 71.

Hours after the shooting, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens told reporters the surviving victims “are fighting for their lives at Grady Hospital.”

Patterson's mother, Minyone Patterson, told The Associated Press by phone that her son, a former Coast Guardsman, had “some mental instability going on” from medication he received from the Veterans Affairs health system that he began taking on Friday. She said she didn't know where her son was.

She said her son had wanted Ativan to deal with anxiety and depression but that the VA wouldn't give it to him because they said it would be "too addicting." She's a nurse and said she told them he would only have taken the proper dosage “because he listened to me in every way.”

“Those families, those families,” she said, starting to sob. “They’re hurting because they wouldn’t give my son his damn Ativan. Those families lost their loved ones because he had a mental break because they wouldn’t listen to me.”

She ended the call without saying what medication her son had been taking.

“We are horrified and saddened to hear of the active shooter situation in Atlanta today,” Veterans Affairs Press Secretary Terrence Hayes said in an emailed statement. “Due to patient privacy, we cannot discuss the Veteran’s personal information without written consent.”
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 14:20 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shooter identified:
Suspect Name - DEION PATTERSON
DOB: 10/98

Damned Amish again
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 14:49 Comments || Top||

#2  My sister works in that building downtown, thank goodness she was remote today
Posted by: Beavis || 05/03/2023 18:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Valedictorian.

https://twitter.com/Atlanta_Police/status/1653833540432281600
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/03/2023 19:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Deion Patterson has been apprehended.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-active-shooter-situation-leaves-multiple-people-injured-police-say
Posted by: lord garth || 05/03/2023 20:53 Comments || Top||


Massachusetts man allegedly plants fake bomb at Harvard, tries to extort money after answering Craigslist ad
[FoxNews] A Massachusetts man planted a fake bomb on Harvard University's campus in an attempt to extort a "large" amount of Bitcoin from the Ivy League school, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

William A. Giordani, 55, was arrested on Tuesday, May 2 by FBI agents in Massachusetts and was charged with conspiracy, along with aiding and abetting an extortionate threat.

According to an affidavit by Harvard University police officer Thomas Karns, working with the FBI's Boston-area Joint Terrorism Task Force, Giordani answered a Boston Craigslist ad posted on April 11, allegedly from a man named Nguyen Mihn, with a New Jersey phone number, offering $300 to somebody who could buy and deliver "some item" to his eldest son, a Harvard University student.

Giordani allegedly fulfilled the requests and bought fireworks in New Hampshire and several items from a Massachusetts' Home Depot store, including a sturdy tool bag, a safe, and wires.

Shortly before 2:30 p.m. on April 13, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call from a computer-generated male voice, the complaint states, noting that it came from the same New Jersey number that placed the Craigslist ad.

"There are three bombs planted around the Harvard Campus, and we are ready to provide undeniable proof," the distorted voice said. "For the sake of the student do not hang up until we have had a chance to demonstrate that this situation is real."

Each device had "an explosive yield of at least 80 megajoules and contain several pounds of metal shrapnel," the caller continued, saying that the force would kill at least 40 students and injure hundreds more.

The caller gave the Harvard police 100 minutes to meet his demands and told the HUPD to prepare to pay "a large bitcoin transaction", according to the complaint.

"In the meantime, you should begin preparing a large bitcoin transaction as soon as possible so that any technical difficulties can be resolved in the next 96 minutes," the caller continued. "We also request that you send the bitcoin using the fastest available transaction speed because if we cannot completely confirm payment when 100 minutes is up we will detonate the bombs regardless of whether there is a transaction in progress."

According to the complaint, the caller said that the exact bitcoin amount would be supplied in following text message.

Between 2:36 p.m. and 4:06 p.m., the HUPD received six additional calls—five of them from the New Jersey number—with demands for payment.

During the fourth call, the caller said that one of the explosives was in the Science Ceter Plaza, a popular spot for students at Harvard University. The caller said that the device was in a red-and-black Husky tool bag located between food trucks.

Police shared that April 13 "was the first 80 degree day of the spring, a day when students and other members of the Harvard community would reliably be eating, studying, and socializing in the plaza and other outdoor spaces on campus."

According to the complaint, just after 2 p.m., an hour and 15 minutes later, police spotted Giordani by the Harvard Webcam walking onto the plaza with the red and black Husky tool bag.

Police immediately arrived, found the bag and quickly evacuated the plaza and nearby buildings. The entire Harvard community was issued a campus-wide alert informing students and faculty of the bomb threat.

The Cambridge bomb squad was requested and used a robot device, which "executed a controlled destruction" of the bag, the complaint states.

Investigators also found "a metal locking safe," containing a package of wire, fireworks, and a small rectangular box with wires attached to it.

The package of wire had a yellow Home Depot sticker attached to it with the name "Nguyen Minh" on it, and the same New Jersey phone number the Craiglist poster and caller had used. It also included an order number, the store manager’s name, and the phone number of a Home Depot in Boston.

On April 25, law enforcement had enough evidence to link Giordani to the crime. They called him, and he agreed to meet them in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts at 10 a.m. on April 27, 2023. Giordani allegedly failed to appear.

Later, Giordani agreed to meet with FBI at their Bedford, Massachusetts office with his mother on May 1.

On May 1, Giordani's mother was the only one that came to the agreed meeting, she shared that he was "afraid that he would be arrested for transporting fireworks across state lines," the complaint states. Eventually, GIordani agreed to speak to officers on speakerphone.

The affidavit shows the phone call transcribed as the agents listened in:

"Giordani also told DR (his mother) that he spoke to the person who placed the Craigslist ad and that person told him that he would be calling Harvard Police to make a bomb threat to get money. Giordani also stated that at the caller’s direction, he then traveled to Worcester to get paid. When Giordani arrived in Worcester, the person told him that he wasn’t able to meet, and added that he wasn’t Asian (as claimed in the Craigslist ad), didn’t have kids (as claimed in the ad), and started "spouting off a bunch of racist things about blacks and Jews."

Giordani then asked his mother to come to pick him up at a specific location in Nashua, New Hampshire.William A. Giordani, 55, was arrested on Tuesday by federal agents and remains detained pending a Friday court hearing.

The affidavit states the agents then drove his mother to Nashua where they approached him and introduced themselves. He began to yell at his mother for bringing the agents to meet him, the complaint says.

Officers attempted to calm him down and requested to speak with him about the Craigslist ad and the events at Harvard.

Giordani refused to give access to his phone or to discuss the incident in detail, claiming that the phone was "his business phone" and that there were also intimate photographs on the device.

While declining to show officers his mobile phone, Giordani admitted that he knew what he did was wrong and that he "just put some fireworks in a safe and put them at Harvard."

Police shared that Giodani "did aid and abet another individual who, with intent to extort from Harvard University a thing of value, transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another."

Nguyen’s identity, if he is a real person, is unclear. Giordani is scheduled to appear in court on Friday, May 5 when a lawyer will be appointed to represent him, according to court records.

If convicted on both charges, Giordani faces a combined maximum of 25 years in prison.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 05:49 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like one of Stelter’s students.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 15:27 Comments || Top||


Nabbed! Texas gunman who killed five is cuffed in cop car after being caught hiding under the LAUNDRY in a closet and arrested - as tip ends four-day manhunt
[MAIL] The man accused of opening fire on a family in Texas, killing five people, has been arrested following a four-day manhunt.

Francisco Oropesa,
...more fully Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, previously Francisco Oropeza...
38, is accused of opening fire on his neighbors after they asked him to stop shooting in his yard because they were trying to get a baby to sleep.

The shooting happened on April 28, and sparked a national manhunt. On Tuesday, sources told NBC DFW that Oropesa was apprehended in the city of Cut and Shoot, Texas.

Officials said Oropesa was found hiding under the laundry in a closet.

Oropesa has been taken to the Montgomery County Jail and is charged with first-degree murder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 02:37 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Watch the Mexican embassy (and eurine embassies, and the Pope) swing into action to prevent this creature getting the death penalty.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 6:53 Comments || Top||


#4  Wasn't it BORTAC guys who got the results at Uvalde after the local LE got tied up messing with the hand sanitizer dispenser?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  I used to watch COPS. I vaguely remember a fugitive hiding between a mattress and a box spring. It was the worst game of hide and seek I have ever seen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 15:25 Comments || Top||


New SanFran DA: No Charges Against Guard Who Killed Shoplifter
[HotAir] JUST IN: DA @BrookeJenkinsSF declined to file charges

Yesterday San Francisco DA Brook Jenkins
...spelt Brooke Jenkins in the Rantburg archives, she was tapped by the mayor of San Francisco to replace Soros DA Chesa Boudin when the recall effort she led succeeded, she was elected last November after having reversed his innovations and fired fifteen of his prosecutors. She is one of those pro-police, law and order Progressives, which is a very nice change...
The declined to charge a Walgreens security guard who had shot and killed a shoplifter. The guard’s name is Michael-Earl Wayne Anthony and the shoplifter was 24-year-old Banko Brown, a trans man who was apparently homeless. Here’s the DA’s announcement.

"This was a shoplifting that really based on the facts...escalated into a robbery and the armed security guard did ultimately end up using lethal force by firing one shot from his firearm that ultimately killed Banko Brown."

Anthony was on duty last Thursday when he saw Banko Brown shoplifting, said a source with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the details. Anthony questioned Brown, and an altercation ensued. Brown threatened to stab Anthony, who had pulled out his gun but had not yet pointed it, the source said.

Anthony told Brown to leave the store. According to the source, that is when Brown approached Anthony, who fired his gun.
Much more at the link.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another 'homeless, mental illness' public safety containment act.

Video shows former US Marine, 24, putting violent subway passenger in chokehold before the homeless man passed out and died in hospital
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Learning the lessons from the successful recall of Chesa Boudin. Finally!
Posted by: Tom || 05/03/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||


US arrests suspect in Fox shooting
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] A suspect in the shooting at the office of the Fox TV channel was detained by police in Memphis, USA. This was announced on May 2 by the press service of the city police on its Twitter.

It is specified that in the morning in the parking lot near the office of the Fox TV channel, a man approached one of the employees and showed a weapon. The TV channel employee quickly ended the conversation and left, and the man with the weapon went to the main entrance to the office and opened fire on the building, presumably with an assault rifle.

After shelling the building, the man went to the nearest restaurant and barricaded himself there. Police arrived at the scene and blocked the adjacent street. Two hours later, the suspect in the shooting was detained, and the employees of the TV channel were allowed to return to the office.

As a result of the incident, no one was injured.
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
Trans supporters scuffle with cops and are dragged out of Texas House chamber after stopping debate on bill to ban children from being given sex change surgery
[Daily Mail where America gets its news]
  • Senate Bill 14 blocks treatments for young people including surgery, puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It would also revoke a doctor's license

  • The bill passed Texas' Senate on April 4 and moved to House debate, but was immediately blocked on a procedural issue and sent back to committee

  • Protesters inside the House chamber staged a noisy protest until the Sergeant at Arms cleared the gallery, and cops and protesters scuffled outside the chamber
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 07:05 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How long until Biden has them over to the White House?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/03/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||


Bud light sales are cratering...along with other A/B beers
[Hot Air] Mainstream Republican leaders have asked conservatives to stop boycotting Bud Light because they contribute to Republican candidates and the Republican Party.

You may be shocked to learn that even diktats from the top of the Party are being ignored by the man in the street. It’s almost as if we vote for Republicans because we don’t like being dictated to and prefer candidates who are supposed to protect our individual rights.

Because conservatives tend to be individualists and we don’t generally like mixing our economic and political lives, we don’t tend to engage in boycotts. That, too, has been a tool that liberals use, and have used quite successfully to bully corporations into abject compliance with their agenda.

But when Bud Light engaged Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesmodel and its Vice President explained that the company wanted to dump its current customers for a higher class of people, a funny thing happened: conservatives agreed to leave the beer for alternatives.

Fine. Do you think we are "frat boys?" We’ll go elsewhere and you can become the Gen Z transgender beer. You wanted it, you got it.

So despite the pleadings of the Establishment, conservatives have been leaving the brand in droves, and the informal boycott has created a "reverse halo" effect that is harming other Anheuser-Busch brands as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 03:13 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Too big to fail. Gov't bailout coming soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  the informal boycott has created a "reverse halo" effect that is harming other Anheuser-Busch brands as well.

I'm gonna miss a bottle of Rolling Rock during the hot Texas summer but sacrifices have to be made.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/03/2023 3:28 Comments || Top||

#3  AB owns Rolling Rock now? What is this world coming to. I didn't know that.

I truly hope AB suffers for a long time. I underestimated the long-term memory of beer drinkers.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 4:01 Comments || Top||


#5  In our Mid-east GA /Western SC Wally World Stores.
A 24 can case of Bud Lite is now selling for around $16.95. While a 24 can case of Coke products is selling for around $14.95. That works out to 9 cents a can difference between a soda vs. a Near-Beer.

Too bad for BUD...
If they had the huevos, they could run it as an April Fools Ad and made a killing.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2023 6:23 Comments || Top||


#7  Maybe InBev can put Dylan in their insufferable Corona commercials as the clumsy white man Snoop Lion makes fun of.

Or in their insufferable Modelo commercials, Dylan can show he has enough heart to drink Modelo by going into a junior high girl's locker room.

It could be their Cinco de Male lineup.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Ref # 5
Wally World in Gardnerville NV is selling a 36 can case of BudLight for $23.90. $.67 cents a can. However the case lot in the cold beer display is a solid square, indicating that at least at 1:30 pm yesterday, nothing had moved.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/03/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Other A/B Beers:

- Busch
- Natural Lite
- Landshark
- Kona
- Presidente
- Shocktop

And surprising me: Hoegaarden.

10 Barrel Brewing Co is Anheuser-Busch's micro brewery. And Busch Gardens is their amusement park franchise.

#WokeIsBroke
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2023 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  The best part of the "boycott" is our masters have ordered us not to boycott AB, that AB is a big contributor to Pubs. It's not a boycott, it's part of a movement.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 05/03/2023 13:22 Comments || Top||

#11  "Buy our product and the propaganda it stands for or we won't support your party."

Sounds like such a winning pitch.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#12  our masters have ordered us not to boycott AB, that AB is a big contributor to Pubs

They don't call them the stupid party for nothing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 14:13 Comments || Top||

#13  "Buy this beer so us politicians get lobby money" ain't much better.

Thanks for the extended list mossomo. Didn't realize Shock Top was still a thing. Hoegaarden is what Cringeshaw was showing off when he was making his everyman video. Of course I can't find it to post it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 14:23 Comments || Top||

#14  So.
After getting absolutely boned by corporate, each wholesaler employee will be receiving a free case of Bud Light.

Mighty white of them.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 15:55 Comments || Top||

#15  Re #14: I thought you were joking but NO! Every step the our incompetent elites take lands on a rake to the face.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/03/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||

#16  Ref 14 Above

From Conservative Treehouse Today:

"Across the United States, wholesalers are on the hook for inventories of Bud Light and Budweiser products that no one is buying. These products have an expiration date, thanks in part to the previously mentioned freshness campaign long ago created. The wholesalers have to swap out the close-dated products that are not being sold in retailers and restaurants. The wholesalers are then stuck with out-of-date product, and turn back to the corporate office for help.

From reporting in the Wall Street Journal, Anheuser-Busch (A/B) is telling the wholesalers to give the product free to their employees rather than dump it. By law, they cannot give it away to consumers, and they cannot cross promote the beer by “bundling” alcohol with another CPG product (ie, buy chips, get free beer).

The story is being promoted as A/B being magnanimous in giving the beer to the employees; however, in reality as the product hits its expiration or sell-by date, A/B only has that option, other than to dump it in the garbage and recycle the containers. There is so much unsold inventory, data below, they are now giving it away (lol)."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/03/with-sales-crushed-anheuser-bush-tells-wholesalers-to-give-bud-light-beer-away-free-to-employees-before-expiration-date/#more-246276
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/03/2023 20:16 Comments || Top||

#17  "Here's a case of skunk. You're Welcome."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 22:28 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Late-night shows at ABC, NBC and ComedyCentral will begin airing reruns as TV writers’ strike begins to take effect
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A missed opportunity to bring entertainment back to late night TV.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/03/2023 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  This is AI’s chance to show what it can do.
Posted by: Clusorong Trotsky5960 || 05/03/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  This is really going to mess with the NPC's firmware updates.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 11:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Reruns of late-night TV? Good gawd, now people who watch that garbage have a chance to watch that garbage again. Yuck.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 11:09 Comments || Top||

#5  If they really wanted to show solidarity with the union, they'd just leave the screen blank during that hour.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 11:29 Comments || Top||

#6  throw out your TV now
Posted by: 746 || 05/03/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  I predict that the ratings will be stable. Anyone stupid enough to watch the stuff once, won’t notice that it is a rerun.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 15:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Two children aged TEN are discovered working unpaid shifts at Kentucky McDonald's, where one illegally used deep fryer and both prepared meals while serving customers
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] Two 10-year-old children were found to have been working unpaid shifts at a Kentucky McDonald's, sometimes until 2am.

The children, who have not been named, prepared and served meals at the Louisville McDonald's, worked the drive-thru and cash register and had to clean the floor.

One was even allowed to work the deep fryer, a task that is considered illegal for anyone under the age of 16, as it involves 'dangerous equipment.'

The two children are just some of 305 children under the age of 16 who the United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division investigators discovered were working illegally at McDonald's restaurants in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio.

It comes as businesses across the country have been turning to younger workers to cope with the labor shortage — with some states passing bills to ease child labor laws.

According to the Department of Labor, 62 McDonald's restaurants were found to have violated child labor laws

They are run by three franchises: Bauer Food LLC, Archways Richmond LLC and Bell Restaurant Group LLC, which were required to pay a total of $212,754 in fines.

Officials say Bauer Foods, based in Louisville, employed 24 employees under the age of 16, including the two 10-year-olds who were hired back in August 2022.

Those children worked 10 shifts between two to four hours per night, investigators told the Miami Herald.

But under US law, the minimum working age is 14, but there are limits on working hours for those under 16 and prohibitions on hazardous jobs for anyone under 18.

The franchise was fined $39,711 as a result of these violations.

Meanwhile, Archways Richmond, based in Walton — about 80 miles northeast of Louisville, employed 242 14- and 15-year-olds who worked either too early or too late in the day.

Investigators said the franchise sometimes had teenagers working over three hours on a school day.

It was ordered to pay $143,566 in penalties as a result.

And Bell Restaurant Group, based in Louisville with additional restaurants in Maryland and Indiana also had 14 and 15 years olds working too early or too late into the night, and longer than allowed under law.

Fifty-eight of those teenagers were not paid overtime wages, federal officials say.

It was ordered to pay $14,730 in back wages and liquidated damages to the workers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 06:29 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  "where one illegally used deep fryer"

Laws are a joke. That's why my law is btwn me and G-d. It's a wonder how we manager to keep our hair clean considering that none of us are licensed to wash hair.



Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect that the 10 year olds were. Getting paid under the table. I imagine that turning in payroll tax paperwork with SSNs that match ten year old kids was the same as an admission of guilt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 20:42 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Bar Patrons Standing for National Anthem Sparks Outrage: ‘The Most Dangerous Situation'
[Breitbart] At Rainbow Oaks Restaurant — just an hour outside of San Diego — a TikTok user shared that she had faced the most "dangerous" situation she had ever been in. At noon, while she was eating her stack of pancakes, about a dozen people stood up for the Star-Spangled Banner being played on the bar’s TVs.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 06:13 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TikTok - where'd that originate again? Wuhan?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/03/2023 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  When the sports bars around here have the games on and they play the national anthem, people stand up. Its awesome to see.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/03/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Saw this story yesterday. The sort of people who get the vapors over any display of patriotism nauseate me at least as much as I nauseate them.

So, who says the country is divided?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Driven by it, but never ate there. Now I just might have to make a point of it
Posted by: Frank G || 05/03/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Frank, ate their once, breakfast, very good. Friends keep their RV up near there. Nice old school feel to the place. I think there's a tie-up for horses outside, too. If I can ever get myself to make the long drive to shoot at a Pala or Rainbow match, eating there will follow.
Posted by: Verlaine || 05/03/2023 11:31 Comments || Top||

#6  So what you are saying is this tiktoker put herself into a situation, knowing she was perfectly safe, in order to video such a thing for her soymageddon entry. Did she remember to order a Bud Light to calm down, or did she not get the latest firmware download?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Soymageddon. Heh... Featuring Soy-lib Green.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 12:07 Comments || Top||

#8  I had a carpenter helping with some siding installation a couple years back. H came around the corner, saw the American Flag on my house and started commenting that I must be a Trumper and hater and continued to tell me how evil it was to have the flag and how it offended him. I was blown away, needless to say I finished the siding job by myself.
Posted by: 746 || 05/03/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Exactly what I would have done.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 14:02 Comments || Top||

#10  She should go to Midland Texas and sit in the oilfield bars and disparage the national anthem. She might live if she beats the roughnecks to her car, otherwise the coyotes will be having a green meal.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/03/2023 17:33 Comments || Top||

#11  LMAO - poor chicklet had NO idea where she was. From SD to Rainbow Oaks you've got Camp Pendleton and Fallbrook.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/03/2023 18:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Guess she’s never been to San Francisco.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 20:33 Comments || Top||


US Marine Corps veteran who lost legs in Afghanistan says a nonprofit helped him stay alive
[FoxNews] Zach Stinson reveals how Semper Fi & America's Fund supported his family through great challenges
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 05:47 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Our Government and politicians can take care of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of illegal migrants but a disabled Marine must rely on nonprofits.

This is so foking WRONG !

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's not forget all those Ukrainian pensions, too.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/03/2023 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Bless his heart, but President Trump wanted reforms in the VA, not to mention the billions pissed away on other "programs" and "foreign aid" which would be better spent on more deserving matters.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  VA where son-in-law works was improving in effectiveness, efficiency and morale under Trump’s administration but has reverted to form now, and operates on PC BS, not medicine. (Decline started under Trump though, with Covid mandates.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/03/2023 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Bureaucracies are fine for normal problems. The difficult ones require outside teams to ensure that the bureaucracies accomplish their intention instead of slavishly following their rules.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2023 22:37 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian couple arrested for chopping their eight-month-old daughter into pieces and mincing her body parts using a meat grinder
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's the Russian word for Fargo?
Posted by: Raj || 05/03/2023 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't know that there was Planned Parenthood in Russia.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/03/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||


Economy
US Stocks Fall as Another Interest Rate Hike Looms (YouTube)
[CBS News] The Dow plunged over 480 points Monday as investors remain fearful the Federal Reserve could drive the economy into a recession with additional interest rate hikes. Dory Wiley, president and CEO of Commerce Street Holdings, joined CBS News' Lilia Luciano on the implications of the Fed's next move.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 06:55 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bank stocks are frigging crashing again this afternoon.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 05/03/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||


Banking crisis: the US economy is suffocating without an influx of new money
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In any case, America will face political instability during the presidential election race, and if against this background a new recession breaks out, coupled with the collapse of an increasing number of banks, then this could already threaten the most painful consequences for the country.

In the US, the fourth bank has failed since the beginning of 2023. Following Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and Signature Bank, another regional bank, First Republic, went to the bottom. He has become another victim of the deteriorating financial situation in the United States, which is already threatening a new recession and aggravating general instability in America - and in the midst of the presidential race.

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Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:




#4  Combine this with the boomers at the tail end of mass retirement and their liquid assets and stocks will be pulled into retirement funds and not available for investment. We are gonna have high inflation of 7-10% for the next decade.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Meanwhile the US Treasury just reported it will pay 5.274% on the 13 week bill to be issued tomorrow. Oddly enough the 4 week bill is only paying 3.905%. Unless you need to access all your money all the time, TreasuryDirect beats all the banks for this kind of loan.
Posted by: Big Cloluter7564 || 05/03/2023 16:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Banks consider offering depositors much higher interest rates to attract 'new money'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2023 17:46 Comments || Top||

#7  I bank at a small Christian denominational credit union and a couple of socks in the sock drawer.
Posted by: Slats Snore5077 || 05/03/2023 19:57 Comments || Top||


Europe
Eight children dead in school shooting massacre as boy, 14, guns them down as they cowered under their desks in Serbia, also killing security guard
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] Boy, 13, who massacred eight in Serbian school shooting rampage after drawing up a 'kill list' of classmates cannot be held criminally responsible because he is too young, prosecutors reveal
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 07:42 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fake news.

According to American MSM this only happens in the US.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Forget it Jake, its Serbia (where vendetta is alive and killing).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2023 17:39 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Supreme Court grants review of landmark case that may strip significant power from federal government
[Blaze] On Monday, the court granted review of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.

The case was brought by herring fishermen in New England, challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service's authority to force them to carry a monitor on their vessels who ensures the fishermen comply with federal regulations. Not only do fishermen not have a say in whether monitors are placed on their vessels, but they are forced to pay the monitor's salary.

The industry estimates the regulations reduce their profits by 20%.

What is the significance of the case?

The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to answer the following question:

Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.
The case, then, could gut the Chevron doctrine, established by the landmark Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. in 1984.

"In Chevron, the Supreme Court set forth a legal test as to when the court should defer to the agency’s answer or interpretation, holding that such judicial deference is appropriate where the agency’s answer was not unreasonable, so long as Congress had not spoken directly to the precise issue at question," Cornell Law explains.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 06:21 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Certainly no agencies have ever been unreasonable in their daily affairs. Oh well, it's fun to hope but having hard evidence against the Clintons has a better chance.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/03/2023 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  If the government has the right to force an inspector whom they have to pay themselves, the real question becomes: who is liable if the inspector accidentally falls into the ocean and is never seen again??
On the other hand, government employees have often been accused of doing illegal things, such as taking bribes or being treated by lobbyists seeking favors, or even treating domestic help as contractors rather than employees.
Per4haps Ms. Raimondo should be required to hire an inspector, chosen by adversaries, to make sure she doesn't violate any federal or state laws.
Posted by: By now || 05/03/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||


Pfizer Knew of COVID-19 Vax Risks to Breastfeeding Babies in April 2021
[PJ] The court-mandated release of the documents related to what Pfizer and the FDA knew about the COVID-19 injections and when has unearthed evidence that they knew as early as April 2021 that the mRNA shots trigger adverse events (AEs) in breastfeeding babies.

In the attempt to sell the COVID-19 vaccines to every man, woman, and child under the sun regardless of risk, age, underlying health conditions, etc., the corporate media claimed repeatedly, and continues to claim, that the vaccine was either not passed through the mother’s breast milk or, alternatively, that it was but it posed no risk to babies because the "experts" said so.

Good Morning America, for its part, not only ensured the shots were safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women, but that getting injected was "crucial" for them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 02:52 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Listen to your government leaders, babies are old school. New replacement people are arriving daily.

Yearly jabs will soon be required, you'll see.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Revolting.

I think it would actually be better if this was all some elaborate Squid Game concerning peer pressure.

The 'conspiracy theorists' batting average continues to improve.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 17:27 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
CDC Annual Conference on COVID Turns Into a COVID Superspreader - Karma is a bitch
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 13:44 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone had their five shots I presume.

Is five still the magic number? Seems like at the rate they were recommending more, we should be at like eight or nine. Hey, free side of fries with those...mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 14:29 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Malaysian rescuers are searching for three missing crew members from oil tanker that caught fire off country's southern coast; ship linked to Iran
[TWITTER]

Malaysian rescuers on Tuesday were searching for three missing crew members from an oil tanker that caught fire off the country’s southern coast.

Thick, black smoke engulfed the Gabon-flagged ship when the fire broke out on Monday during its journey from China to Singapore, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said in a statement.

Singaporean authorities identified the ship as the MT Pablo.

The fire was extinguished and the vessel was afloat with no danger to passing ships, a Malaysian official told AFP.

Two nearby ships and a maritime agency boat rescued 25 members of the MT Pablo’s crew, MMEA official Nurul Hizam Zakaria told local newspaper The Star.

"The search is now focused on finding the remaining three crew members," he was quoted as saying by the paper.

The cause of the incident is under investigation, the MMEA said.
An oil tanker that caught fire off the coast of Malaysia has been linked to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and is thought to have been used to avoid sanctions. The Pablo is an Aframax class tanker and has gone through several name changes and registrations over the last two years. Some crewmen are reportedly missing.
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week, US Navy says
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkaCttQ7OE
Looks like a vapor explosion.
Posted by: James || 05/03/2023 18:10 Comments || Top||



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