[NBC] SEATTLE — Three people are dead and six others wounded after a shooting Sunday at a hookah lounge in south Seattle, authorities said.
City police didn’t immediately release any information about a possible suspect or suspects in Sunday’s early morning shooting in the Mount Baker neighborhood.
Officers responded to the scene around 4:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving multiple 911 calls, police said.
A 22-year-old man and a 33-year-old man died at the scene, and a 30-year-old woman died at Harborview Medical Center, officials said. The names of the victims weren’t immediately released.
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I was banned from a local college hookah lounge/bar.
Again and again 3 frat sisters couldn't keep their pipe lit and wanted the bartender to light it for them, every time, which took away from my quality bartender service.
Well into the evening, the fourth time, on my way out, in passing, I said, "Somebody needs to teach you how to suck."
[BREITBART] Nearly 40 people were shot, seven of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Breitbart News reported at least 29 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning in Chicago, and five of those shooting victims shuffled off the mortal coil.
By Monday morning, ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted the number of shooting victims had risen to at least 38 with two additional shooting fatalities.
One of additional shooting deaths occurred at 3:30 a.m. Sunday "in the 800-block of North Orleans Street." A 24-year-old driver was at a stoplight when someone in a white SUV opened fire on him, shooting him multiple times.
The driver was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Chicago, like all of Illinois, has an "assault weapons" ban, a "high capacity" magazine ban, a red flag law, a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, and gun owner licensing. Additionally, Cook County, where Chicago is located, has its own "assault weapons" ban.
The Sun-Times indicated there were 384 homicides in Chicago January 1, 2023, through August 20, 2023.
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If an ammunition shortage is holding them back, I'd be glad to send some useful web links.
The driver of the Ford150 pickup truck, whose name was not revealed, was circling a busy intersection at 17th Street and Northside Drive on Sunday night
When the Georgia State trooper begins to pursue him the out-of-control driver is seen plowing into innocent bystanders in the street
The driver was eventually caught and cuffed by the fast-acting officer
[CincinnatiEnquirer] A panel of three federal judges in Cincinnati affirmed a lower court's dismissal last year of defamation lawsuits by former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann against five national media outlets, including The Enquirer’s owner, Gannett Co.
Sandmann, who according to his social media accounts now attends Transylvania University in Lexington,
...is the Cincinnati Enquirer trying to gin up outraged calls to the university to get Mr. Sandmann expelled? There is precedent — there was a successful campaign to to get his original college acceptance revoked immediately following the incident, which is why that polite young man ended up at Transylvania U instead of somewhere more prestigious...
pursued multiple lawsuits against media outlets over reporting about a viral video, which showed a Jan. 18, 2019, encounter in Washington, D.C., involving then-16-year-old Sandmann and a Native American man, Nathan Phillips.
Professional Indian activist with a habit of aggressive drum chanting and claiming he was the subject of racist attacks that inevitably turn out to have been his fault. He also is not a Vietnam war vet, though he did wear the uniform while repairing refrigerators until the Marines were able to get rid of him.
A 2-1 decision Wednesday by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati supported the July 2022 ruling of a federal district court judge in Kentucky, who said the media outlets — Gannett, The New York Times
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Once again, its the courts who created this not the legislative branch giving open character assassination to 'professional journalists'. Libel is libel. The 14th Amendment calls for equal protection before the law. There is no public or private status.
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I used to teach Construction Electricity courses for young apprentices and trainees. There is a lot of math that goes along with this.
On the first day of class I always brought in a 6-foot stepladder, climbed up (not to the top rung for you OSHA guys) and dropped a calculator to the floor. It inevitably smashed (bought a cheap one for each demonstration).
Then I asked the question "You have to calculate something, no one else around you has another calculator, so what do you do now?"
Then proceeded to teach, or refresh, the wonders of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication on paper. (Including fractions, which for some reason was the most difficult for many).
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/\ Very excellent teaching point. I doubt many forgot it.
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^^ Excellent teaching example, MR! I remember working in an ice cream freezer and 'pro tip': LCD screens on calculators don't work at -12F and sometimes the calculator works after being thawed ...sometimes. Pencils and mental calculation time if you ever have to do a physical inventory count.
I just finished wiring a smoke detector in the wife's basement hobby rooom. Linked it to an existing detector in an adjacent storage area. Went to Depot to get 15 foot of 14-3 Romex. Paid almost $47.00...unbelieveable. It was locked in a cage due to shrinkage.
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Just dug out some of my old high school algebra books to keep the old brain active. Pre-computers, pre-calculators. Full of appendix pages with values for logarithmic and trigonometric functions we could look up. And I am really surprised by the amount of just plain old arithmetic we were expected to do by hand.
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[NYPOST] The EMS worker stabbed by a disturbed man last month was just trying to calm him down before he yelled, "F—k you!" whipped out a kitchen knife from his boot and attacked, Manhattan prosecutors said Monday.
Convicted felon Rudy Garcia, 48, was being tended to by EMT Julia Fatum, 25, as he was transported by ambulance from the Upper West Side, where a 911 call came in reporting a cardiac arrest, authorities said.
Garcia, who "appeared oriented and alert," tossed a gum wrapper at Falum and "became agitated and combative," prompting her to try to defuse the situation, prosecutor Joseph Abrams said as an indictment against the suspect was unsealed.
That’s when Garcia screamed the profanity and "pulled a large knife out of his sock and stabbed her chest, arm, and left leg several times,’’ the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
When Fatum "confronted the defendant verbally about his behavior, the defendant stated ’F—k you!’ and stabbed [Fatum] several times," Abrams added in court.
Garcia appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court wearing beige jail clothes and a blue mask as he pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges of second-degree attempted murder and assault.
The alleged assailant stabbed Fatum six times in the chest, thigh and arm with the knife during the July 19 attack.
She suffered "significant" blood loss and nerve damage in her thigh which required two surgeries, authorities said.
A graphic video of the aftermath of the stabbing showed Fatum screaming and sobbing and bleeding on the ground.
"I don’t know what happened," Garcia can be heard saying after he was ordered by first responders to "back off" and put his hands down.
"You stabbed her, bro!" an EMS worker shouts at him.
The ambulance had been close to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital, so several hospital EMTs and security officers immediately rushed over to help, Abrams said, noting Garcia was held in the vehicle until the cops arrived and arrested him. Fatum was "rushed directly into the ER," the prosecutor said.
Despite two surgeries, Fatum is "still suffering from loss of function in the left hand," Abrams said, noting that doctors predict it could take months for her to get the full use of her hand back. The judge ordered Garcia to continue to be held on the previously set $500,000 bail."
Garcia has eight prior arrests, including one from June in which he was allegedly caught in a subway station with a knife also stashed in his boot.
He was previously convicted of head-butting a police officer who was trying to arrest him for allegedly hitting his sister in 2017. He also has a conviction for illegally carrying a boxcutter. Back in the Upper Paleolithic when I was an EMT, we transported mentally disturbed patients in restraints. If they were let out of restraints for any reason, one of us was standing by to administer "O2 therapy" (an oxygen bottle upside the head.)
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Could have been worse, I suppose.
The EMTs could have run a red light getting to the patient.
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Some guys just need to ride the Pinochet Helicopter Tours
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When I was in EMS every psych patient got searched before transport. Not by the cops, but by us. Many wear put in handcuffs, again not by the cops, by us.
It was a different world then because we understood that these patients were potentially dangerous and could pose a threat to us.
Now EMTs are told that they have to be punching bags for violent patients or be fired.
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This will happen more and more as police are defunded and replaced by social workers.
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As anyone who has been around humans knows, shouting at them to calm down rarely ever works. I don't recall anything in Boy Scout first aid about stabbing, but times do change.
A question on technique: do you stab them once, kinda like a dope slap but more pointed (heh!), or do you keep stabbing repeatedly until they are sufficiently calm?
[AFRICANEWS] Zim-bob-we's President Emmerson Mnangagwa is slated to pursue a second five-year term next week.**According to the constitution, this term should mark his final one.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... a portion of his supporters has already begun advocating for a constitutional change that would permit him to seek a third term—an idea to which he appears somewhat open.
In July, during a gathering of a Christian sect that supports him, Mnangagwa made a statement implying that continuous rule could be achieved through prayers at church.
This remark reinforced the perception that the transformation he promised when he took over from long-standing authoritarian leader Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... six years ago has not materialized.
Sections of the ruling ZANU-PF party, including the youth and women's wings, have also called for a constitutional amendment to extend his rule beyond the prescribed two terms.
This situation represents a significant shift for the 80-year-old leader.
After being considered a potential successor to Mugabe for years, Mnangagwa faced a period of exile when Mugabe appeared to be grooming his wife for succession in 2017.
Mnangagwa returned after a popular coup later that year, vowing to depart from Mugabe's repressive and isolationist rule.
Political analysts have noted that he is not so different from his predecessor.
"You have someone who has been a political understudy of Robert Mugabe so all the negative things you can talk about Zim-bob-wean politics, Mnagangwa has grown up with that system and so now that he is in power and he has the military behind him, he is going to use those bad, same tactics to hold onto and remain in power," said Edgar Githua, an International Relations, Conflict and Diplomacy expert at United States International University-Africa. "He will weaponize anything to remain in power," he added.
Dubbed "the Crocodile," Mnangagwa was previously associated with enforcing Mugabe's tough actions.
These actions included the North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n-trained military brigade's 1980s massacre of around 20,000 Ndebele ethnic minority individuals in the Matabeleland region while Mnangagwa served as security minister.
He was also linked to a violent mostly peaceful crackdown on the opposition following Mugabe's loss to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2008.
Despite this history, Mnangagwa initiated discussions about these past atrocities after becoming president and aimed to differentiate his administration from Mugabe's.
He made promises of compensating displaced white farmers, abolished a law mandating foreign business ownership be ceded to locals, and advocated for democracy.
He sought to restore relationships with Western countries, even applying for Zim-bob-we's reentry into the Commonwealth and engaging with international forums like the World Economic Forum.
Although some questioned whether Mnangagwa's rule would be different from the past, he managed to charm Western nations and investors.
Even the opposition, once critical of the ruling party showed some support by attending his inauguration.
[AFRICANEWS] Gabon's main opposition parties, who have lined up behind a single candidate to challenge Ali Bongo Ondimba in next week's presidential vote, on Sunday urged a boycott of legislative contests the same day, after a last-minute change to voting rules.
Former education minister Albert Ondo Ossa secured the backing of the Alternance 2023 opposition grouping on Friday, hoping to unseat Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich West African state for 55 years.
Last month, however, Gabon's electoral commission announced that any vote for a local deputy would automatically be a vote for that deputy's presidential candidate.
Last month, however, Gabon's electoral commission announced that any vote for a local deputy would automatically be a vote for that deputy's presidential candidate.
The move was denounced by critics as favouring the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), since Ondo Ossa is not backed by any single party, and therefore will not have corresponding candidates for the parliamentary vote.
During a rally in Libreville broadcast on social media, Ondo Ossa and Alternance 2023 officials warned of an "unfair vote" that violated the separation of executive and legislative powers.
They urged a boycott of the parliamentary elections, calling instead "to vote only for the president" and to "throw the legislative ballot sheets in the trash".
[AFRICANEWS] The trial of the former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , Augustin Matata Ponyo, opened on Monday 21 August 2023 before the country's Constitutional Court.
The former prime minister and opposition politician is accused of embezzlement.
Of the $285 million disbursed by the Treasury as part of a pilot project, the politician is suspected of having embezzled $205 million
Of the $285 million disbursed by the Treasury as part of a pilot project, the politician is suspected of having embezzled $205 million.
Truly the man is an overachiever.
The former governor of the Central Bank, Deogratias Mutombo, and the South African businessman Grobler Christo, manager of the company in charge of the project, are also being prosecuted in this case.
Augustin Matata Ponyo, a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on December 20, is contesting the legal proceedings, which he describes as a plot to damage his campaign.
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[PJ] A 16-year-old autistic girl in the UK had begun behaving oddly. Her sister called the police for help, at which time she was escorted home.
So far, so good. An autistic girl is acting a bit erratic, as often happens, so the authorities are called for help.
This is when things take a left turn, via Reduxx (emphasis added):
As [the mother] brought her daughter in, the girl made a would-be innocent remark about the female officer who had been amongst the West Yorkshire police escorting her.
"She said ’I think she’s a lesbian like nanna Julie,’" [the mother] recounts, noting that the female officer had short blonde hair. "I just felt a jolt on my back... the officer had launcher herself in my home at me and Amanda. She was grabbing her."
Snow says her daughter scampered into a cupboard under the stairs and began crying and apologizing, unsure of what was going on. Amanda also began self-harming out of stress.
"She was crying and saying sorry to the police woman. That’s when I grabbed my phone and started recording."
Footage from the incident, which has reportedly been removed twice from TikTok for unspecified reasons (I’m going to go out on a limb and say "hate speech" or some other Social Justice™ hallucination):
The autistic teenager was subsequently brutally hauled off to jail for reportedly 20 hours, after which she was released with no charges filed.
At least she wasn’t imprisoned for long. The rest is appalling. I do understand that the police cannot be expected to intuit that an offense is due to mental/emotional difficulties rather than malicious intent, but that they are required to enforce this law is simply evil.
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[REGNUM] On August 13, primary elections were held in Argentina, the main purpose of which is to approve the final list of candidates for president, provincial governors and parliament. General elections are expected in October 2023. To participate in the voting, each candidate must receive at least 1.5% of the vote, and the results of the primaries help determine the strongest participants from each party, in order to roughly imagine the balance of power on the eve of a large-scale election campaign. Talk about the default in particular and about the economic situation of the state in general became the main thing for presidential candidates, forcing populists and oppositionists of all stripes to enter the arena, as well as resuming the discussion about the possible (non) entry of Argentina into the BRICS bloc (Argentina filed an application last year).
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The possibility of real change is real. In the Primaries held on 13 August conservative candidate Javier Milei of the La Libertad Avanza party was the unexpected winner, with 30% of the votes. A look at the map proves that Milei won the popular vote in provinces from the Patagonia south to the Chaco north. If he can hold his own in Buenos Aires where the left radicals are strong, it is possible that Argentina may have a pro-business, pro-Capitalist government for the first time in decades.
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If communism loses its grip in Latin America, it will be ash heap of history time for sure.
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^^^
" If communism loses its grip in Latin America"..."possible that Argentina may have a pro-business, pro-Capitalist government for the first time in decades."
It's moving North, to far better looting opportunities and a friendly Marxist political party.
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[Regnum] Checking on the fact of a photo shoot of two girls, which caused a wide public outcry, is being carried out by the police in Dagestan. This was reported on August 21 by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Dagestan.
It is specified that the check was organized on the fact of a photo session of two girls in the Sulak Canyon. The actions of the participants in the photo shoot will be checked for the offense under the article on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences, gender reassignment. An offense of this kind involves the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of one hundred thousand to two hundred rubles.
Pictures of two girls dressed as newlyweds have circulated on social media. The entire series of photographs was framed as a report from the engagement ceremony of the participants against the backdrop of the Sulak Canyon. Following the posting scandal, the photo shoot was removed from social media, but verification has already begun.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the police are checking on the fact of information that appeared on the Web, according to which unknown persons rearranged the laid out letters in the name of the village of Sukko into a swear word. Photos of the huge curse, which can be seen from almost every point in the village, were posted on the Web by local residents.
It was also reported that on August 12 in St. Petersburg, a man arranged an unusual photo session on the Anichkov Bridge, and now he faces responsibility. The vandal climbed onto a bronze horse on the Anichkov Bridge.
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"Phil Swift here with the ideal waterproofing for your Submarine screen door: 'Flex Tape and Flex Seal!' Good to 20 meters or the first submergence"
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If only OceanGate would have known.
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[JustTheNews] If Texas were its own country, it would already be the world's third-largest producer of natural gas and the fourth-largest producer of oil.
The powerhouse of the U.S. energy sector—the Texas oil and natural gas industry—reached a new record production high in June and July, surpassing all-time highs set 30 and 40 years ago, according to an energy economics analysis published by Texas Oil & Gas Association.
The analysis, conducted by TXOG's Chief Economist Dean Foreman, Ph.D., shows that Texas' production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids broke previous records and that resource reserves are expected to support decades of prospective production. It also highlights a range of records broken in May, also surpassing previous 30- and 40-year-old highs.
"Texas shouldered three quarters of U.S. oil production growth year-to-date through July, re-setting its production records in the process," Foreman said. "TXOGA's new analyses offer insight into the value chain and operational flows, showing Texas is the key enabler of regional U.S. production, transportation, refining and exports–and a source of dynamism amid global markets that have been searching for clarity this year."
"Texas has broken its production records and increasingly driven U.S. oil and natural gas production," the report states. Year-to-date through July 2023, Texas accounts for 43.3% of all oil production and 27.4% of all natural gas marketed production in the country.
The Lone Star state's oil production reached a record high 5.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) in June and July, while the report added that natural gas marketed production reached 31.4 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) in June before decreasing to 31.2 bcf/d in July.
These milestones are significant, TXOGA argues, because, "Texas drives U.S. oil and natural gas production, transportation and exports, thereby helping to sustain downward pressure on prices, foster investment and innovation, and augment reserves to support future production."
Because Texas' oil and natural gas reserves remain abundant, the industry is "supporting value chains with decades of prospective production," it says, also contributing to national reserves. The analysis found the reserves "remain abundant and continue to grow." Since 2016, Texas has accounted for over 40% of the nation's oil reserves and nearly 25% of natural gas proved reserves, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
According to a U.S. Geological Survey, decades of potential growth are attributed to these proved reserves—led by Texas—in the Permian Basin and Gulf Coast.
"Although the pathway from exploration through development and production inherently depends on economic considerations, it is clear that U.S. oil and natural gas have remained abundant, and with Texas' leadership, these resources could remain the bedrock of American energy security for decades to come," Foreman said.
TXOGA President Todd Staples points out that, according to EIA projections, by 2050, the world's energy needs will nearly double.
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And in New Mexico:
New Mexico Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels) Jul 31, 2023 · Crude Oil Production. …
YEAR JAN FEB MAR
2023 56,035 50,379 57,037
2022 42,355 39,725 46,329
2021 33,717 27,319 35,719
2020 33,059 31,523 34,874
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[NYPOST] The EMS worker stabbed by a disturbed man last month was just trying to calm him down before he yelled, "F—k you!" whipped out a kitchen knife from his boot and attacked, Manhattan prosecutors said Monday.
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[PJ] A 16-year-old autistic girl in the UK had begun behaving oddly. Her sister called the police for help, at which time she was escorted home.
[JustTheNews] If Texas were its own country, it would already be the world's third-largest producer of natural gas and the fourth-largest producer of oil.
