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'Death to the dictator!': Anti-government protests reach Tehran
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ABC News Launches Weeklong Special on Crime Waves in Democrat-Run Cities
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 07:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They have not, and will not, note the connection between the crime wave and the political party in power in those hellholes. Go after the rural rubes for insurectionism!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2 


Anyone believe the MSM turned on Democrats?
Or is it like I commented yesterday...

I feel the ultimate goal is a Nationalized Police Force controlled by DC.

For an example see the National Socialist 1st attempted plan called "Staatschutzkorps".
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  "ABC News noted they “dug” down and discovered “violence occurs disproportionately in poorer, urban areas — from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York City.”"

I'm so grateful to ABC News for discovering this hidden fact. Who knew? This is real, hard-hitting journalism.
Posted by: Tom || 07/27/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  These so-called hard-hitting reporters ought to read Rantburg for awhile--it would save them a lot of time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Ms. Boxer, I refer you to a hard-hitting article about to come out. See the Burg today.

ABC News Launches Weeklong Special on Crime Waves in Democrat-Run Cities

Who has turned these cities into shit holes? Forgive me for my schadenfreude.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Mayor Daily kept “people of color”, colored people, on the other side of I94 and away from his neighborhood.
Posted by: Jomose Creresh9907 || 07/27/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Skip the last day of the special where they tie it all back to Trump and White culture of racism since 1619; only fixed with reparations and more GIVERnment.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/27/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I feel the ultimate goal is a Nationalized Police Force controlled by DC.

A force as professional, unbiased, and competent as the FBI.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/27/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||


Florida child killer, 55, dies in prison while awaiting resentencing for the 2004 kidnapping, rape, and murder of an 11-year-old girl
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Convicted killer and rapist Joseph Smith, 55, died in prison on Monday

  • He was being held at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida which has not released his cause of death

  • Smith, then 39, was convicted in 2006 of kidnapping, rape and murder

  • Carlie Brucia, 11, was abducted on February 1, 2004 and found four days later

  • Smith was caught on surveillance camera snatching Brucia that day

  • A jury voted 10-2 to sentence Smith to the death in March 2016 for these crimes

  • He was awaiting a resentencing hearing after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that juries must be unanimous in death penalty cases

  • Brucia's father, Joseph, told FOX 13 'I feel wonderful' when asked about hearing of Smith's death 17 years after his daughters horrific death
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least you can sill trust criminals, right?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  That saved the taxpayers a bundle.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3 
"which has not released his cause of death"

Code words for internally handled.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Hopefully an acetylene torch has been ID'd as the murder weapon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  So the effect of the Florida Supreme Court ruling is just to outsource the death penalty to the private sector?
Posted by: Tom || 07/27/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  has not released his cause of death

Meaning his roommate has not yet been released early "for good behavior"
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/27/2021 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Handled by a DOC (Descent Ordinary Criminal)
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/27/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Used to be the 'Way of the World' of how child molesters were accommodated, Mr. Master
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Resisting arrest?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Like a 'Roach Motel'.
They check in, but they don't check out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2021 17:03 Comments || Top||


US diplomat, 45, pleads guilty to raping and drugging 23 women over 14 years while stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, of La Mesa, California, pleaded guilty Friday to federal sexual abuse and transportation of obscene material charges

  • An investigation into Raymond was launched after a nude woman was spotted screaming for help on the balcony of his Mexico City apartment last May

  • The woman told the FBI she had no recollection of events after consuming drinks and food provided by Raymond

  • During their investigation, FBI agents said they recovered hundreds of files depicting more than 20 unconscious and nude women on Raymond's devices

  • The files date back to 2006, continuing up until May 2020

  • Photographs and videos clearly depict Raymond fondling the victims breasts and buttocks, in addition to lying in bed with unconscious women twice

  • Over the course of 14 years, Raymond admitted he recorded and/or photographed at least 24 unconscious and nude women without consent

  • If convicted, Raymond could potentially face life in prison
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hear that?
The Bill Cosby defense Hunter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  ask Bill, he's a rookie.
Posted by: Chris || 07/27/2021 1:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently not everyone in the Foggy Bottom community is geigh.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 3:51 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 Snark of the day?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  He wasn't a diplomat....
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/27/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Possibly someone in OGA They obviously have no standards.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  I never understood guys who want to have sex with passed out women. I want my women to do all the work.
Posted by: Penguin of the Desert || 07/27/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#8  This guy was off the radar for a long time. How does that happen?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#9  How does that happen?

His sponsor 'retired'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ BINGO !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Find the nastiest prison in Mexico and shove him in. Check up on him a century from now to see if he's okay.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2021 19:21 Comments || Top||

#12  I suspect he's going prison for a long time. Hopefully, the ledger of life will be balanced in the joint.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/27/2021 20:01 Comments || Top||


Boston-area man arrested and charged for raping a horse in Norfolk, Mass.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Yuck. Uck. Uck.

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but was she a RACE horse?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Delusional - he think he's hung like a horse?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2021 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  was she a RACE horse?

Are you assuming my pronouns? Really?
Posted by: dat horse tho3632 || 07/27/2021 1:26 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Wren || 07/27/2021 1:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Neigh means no
Posted by: Bunyip || 07/27/2021 3:05 Comments || Top||

#6 
"What? No! I thoughts it was that
Kardashian gal, teasin' me an' twerkin'!
An' I gots me a dream, sirs,
big booty before me jerkin'."


That awful joke aside, in an enlightened age he would have been tied to a stake and left to vultures put in an asylum for the criminally insane.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 3:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Didn't the ancient Romans train horses to rape people in the coliseums of old? Or where the animals giraffes?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/27/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#8  If Obama had a son?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Didn't the ancient Romans...

Is that what started the dog and pony shows?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:38 Comments || Top||


Landlord caught on video in tenant's home sniffing her underwear
[NYPOST] A Connecticut landlord allegedly sneaked into his tenant’s apartment to sniff her underwear — and the disturbing act was caught on camera, police said.Jorge Orellana-Arias, of East Haven, was charged Thursday with third-degree burglary after the woman told cops she had video of him inside her unoccupied apartment several times rifling through her and her daughter’s clothing, the Hartford Courant reported.

The woman first suspected something was wrong in May and started "barricading adjoining doors" in an effort to thwart the alleged intruder. But Orellana-Arias then used another door to get inside the residence, police said.

The woman set up hidden cameras inside the apartment to prove her intuition and the footage showed Orellana-Arias going through her and her daughter’s clothing, Sherlocks said.

"She stated that the camera caught Orellana-Arias entering her apartment through a side door, before proceeding to both bedrooms where he would locate female underwear," police said in a statement. "The video, which was provided to officers, shows Orellana-Arias bringing female garments to his nose, apparently in an effort to sniff them."

The woman also reported that Orellana-Arias entered the residence at one point while her daughter was home alone, police said.

He was apparently "startled" by the girl’s presence and left the apartment "immediately," police said.

The allegedly lecherous landlord was arrested Thursday before posting $25,000 bond. It’s unclear if he’s hired an attorney who could comment on the allegations. He’s due in court on Sept. 14, the Courant reported.



Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Navy?
Perhaps they were hole sailors?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 0:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Presidential material?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Fraternity hero?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||


4th person killed overnight in Seattle's deadly weekend of gun violence
[KOMONEWS] Police detectives are working overtime after a man was shot and killed Sunday night outside an apartment building in the Lake City neighborhood - Seattle's fourth homicide in less than 24 hours.

Officers and medics responded to the scene, in the 12700 block of 33rd Avenue NE, at around 10 p.m. after several 911 callers reported hearing a series of gunshots.

A security guard at the apartment building found a man with a gunshot wound to his chest and helped emergency personnel get to the victim.

Officers and medics attempted life-saving measures but the 28-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

A preliminary investigation found that the victim was returning home to his apartment when a car pulled up and multiple people opened fire, said Valerie Carson of the Seattle police.

Another person was also struck with a bullet and has a graze wound after that bullet went into one of the nearby apartments.

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  4?
They'll never catch up!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:41 Comments || Top||


Chicago expressway shootings continue to surge despite $12.5M grant, federal intervention
[FOXNEWS] There have been 137 shootings on 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...
-area expressways so far this year as of Sunday, Illinois State Police confirmed to Fox News. There were 128 expressway shootings in Chicago in all of 2020, and 52 in all of 2019.

Dan Ryan Expressway, which runs from Circle Interchange with I-290 near downtown through the South Side, is perhaps the most dangerous highway in Chicago. A Jeep Wrangler was riddled with bullet holes near 37th Street on the Dan Ryan Wednesday, which marked the 43rd shooting so far this year on that roadway.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about replacing the words 'gun violence' with 'black violence' in all reports and texts? Just a thought.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Victims rarely cooperate with police and often know their assailants.

Let them sort it out on their own then. Court and detention costs are saved. Staying off the Dan Ryan is definitely a wise move. It's a win-win all around.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Victims rarely cooperate with police and often know their assailants.

Also tells me most of them deserve it. The others are Darwin's FU to blue voters.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 3:58 Comments || Top||

#4  As long as you are unwilling to face the truth you'll never 'solve' the problem.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Big-money federal grants are apparently not the answer to every single problem we have. But I don't expect the politicians and the media to learn this basic truth any time soon.
Posted by: Tom || 07/27/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Not as long as federal $$$ holds.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||


Gunman is STONED to death by Texas partygoers after he opened fire at a late night gathering, killing one and injuring at three
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The shooting was reported just before 1 a.m. Monday morning, after a fight erupted among partygoers at a residence in the Como neighborhood of Fort Worth

  • According to police, a man attending the party became upset and left, later returning with another individual

  • The man, whose identity hasn't been released by officials, shot at least one person in the backyard, before fleeing as partygoers chased him out the door

  • The partygoers proceeded by picking up landscaping bricks and hurling them at the gunman

  • Police said the shooter was eventually caught by the group, but continued shooting as he struck at least three others

  • One of the gunshot victims died at the scene

  • The gunman was struck multiple times with at least one landscaping brick and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"Gents! Shall we be disrupted,
by souls so ill-corrupted?"
"Nay!" Everyone eagerly shouts.
Sensing threat, the villain routs.

"I didn't bring the hardware!"
"I left 'ol Bessie in the truck."
"Heh... There's this fine mound,
of alley apples lying around."

WHOOSH! CRUNCH! "A hit!" WHAM!
"...'Nuther!" POW! "Oooh he's ham!"
Everyone walks up, picks up his brick,
"Well, you can’t beat that with a stick."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  "He that is without, uh, gun... uh... etc."
Posted by: dat horse tho3632 || 07/27/2021 2:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Bringing a brick to a gunfight?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/27/2021 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I do believe "going Biblical" will become a trend...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't say this was a bad ending for the gunman.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Did he say "Jehova"?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/27/2021 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  He just wanted to get stoned and shoot up a party. Executed plan in wrong order,
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||

#8  "You never hear the brick about to hit you in the head"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/27/2021 18:52 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
At the Olympics, the USA loses again and again, but Americans don't care
[AMERICANTHINKER] For many decades, the quadrennial Olympic games were grand moments of patriotism. Even as the Soviet teams used mountains of government money to train their athletes, our plucky amateurs somehow kept winning. There was a reason the Miracle on Ice was a miracle. Of late, though, our athletes are no longer amateurs; the Soviets are gone; we worship at the Chinese shrine; the Olympics are on every two years and broadcast 24/7, making for complete over-saturation; and too many of our Olympic athletes hate the country they're representing. For that reason, those Americans who love their country the most have cared the least when Americans have fallen flat in Tokyo.

The first occasion for an anti-Olympic celebration came when the women's soccer team suffered a humiliating defeat to Sweden, with the Swedish team beating the Americans 3-0. That score, in a game renowned for sometimes having only one score during the entire game, was a blow-out. The Americans didn't just lose; they were humiliated. And as many conservatives felt, it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of self-centered, unpleasant, unpatriotic women. Brigitte Gabriel's response is representative of the conservative view:

The next to go down in flames, on Sunday, was the men's basketball team, which embarrassingly lost to La Belle France. Who loses basketball to La Belle France? And once again, because the NBA was one of the leaders in using the Black Lives Matter movement as the occasion to disrespect the country that gave its athletes such extraordinary fame and wealth, Americans didn't care. The patriots not only were unmoved, but also did the unthinkable and celebrated an American loss at the Olympics:

The American athletes continued to offend at least half of America when the American swimmers slobbered all over Mrs. Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name...
, chanting "Dr. Jill Biden" to the woman who is a combination of Lady Macbeth and Edith Wilson as she sat in the stands.

I hope they all lose, every last one of them, and lest anyone ask, "But what about the athletes who love America?," here’s my answer: if you belong to a business — say, the American Olympic sports franchise — that hates its customers, the fact that you, personally, don't hate those customers is irrelevant. The customers are going to hate you. If you dislike that reality, it's time to get into another business or start pushing back against the haters within your organization.

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  no one gives a shit about these woke asshole. Where is my grant money for doing that study?
Posted by: Chris || 07/27/2021 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  It's always been something of a political forum, it's just ''out of the closet' so to speak this year.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 3:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I pretty much agree with Widberg.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/27/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  If so many US Olympic athletes hate the USA, I hope they all lose disgracefully. I guess that means I DO care, after all, just not in the usual meaning of "care".
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/27/2021 6:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Following the Tokyo festivities, could we possibly schedule a three week cultural holiday for our US Olympians in Durban, South Africa ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 8:01 Comments || Top||

#6  ^-- better: Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the woke-ers paradise after all.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Excellent choice! The airfare is cheaper as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#8 
Have yet to turn on, listen to, or watch any Olympic game so far. Not even the Thong Volley ball blogged about.

Like many other people feel now.....
Politicized sports and sport figures is a NO-GO at this station. Especially when the team owners & leagues stay quite and make $$$ hand over fist from it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Wouldn't care if they were winning either. Woke idiots.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/27/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Who? The (Summer) Olympics? Get 'Woke' go broke.
Posted by: magpie || 07/27/2021 11:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Get ready for the "unity" themes in the MSM as they try to lure the awakened citizens back to "woke"-lite, with all the condescending tone they can't help but think will soothe the lost rubes. Like all zealots, they overplayed their theme and now begin to see the disconnection and rejection become serious in traditional, white, America...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/27/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  I haven't watched or followed in 30 years
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/27/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Sadly, it ended in 1968 for me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#14  I've been boycotting the olympics (like most other sports) for decades. I'm way ahead of my time.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2021 21:55 Comments || Top||

#15  Well,
maybe the thonged Volley Ball.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||


Minnesota fourth-graders told to hide 'equity survey' questions from parents
[FOXNEWS] A Minnesota fourth-grade student and her mother expressed concern to their local school board after her class was given an "equity survey" and students were told not to tell her parents about the activity.

Fourth-grader Hayley Yasgar told "Fox & Friends" on Monday, sitting alongside her mother Kelsey, that the questions were confusing and it made her "very nervous and uncomfortable" when the students were told not to tell their parents.

According to a video uploaded by Alphanews, when students didn’t understand some of the survey questions, they were told by a teacher in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District to not repeat the survey questions to their parents.

"The survey asked questions that some students didn’t understand. Even after hearing an explanation from their teacher, some still couldn't comprehend the survey questions," The Center Square reported.

The George Floyd incident sparked a nationwide conversation on race and the role of policing. School districts across America are pushing Critical Race Theory

...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
on students to attempt to contextualize current events on matters of race.

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good thing the nanny state and disney/netflix/amazon haven't totally dissolved family yet.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 5:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Woman says she was refused entry to garage over ‘inappropriate' top
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 09:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If she was Stacy Abrams it would be inappropriate but it looks perfectly appropriate on her.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/27/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Thought police strike again.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Folks wear a lot less than that around here, and that's in the winter.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The insurance coverage for shops generally require shirts with sleeves, long pants, and usually safety shoes and glasses.
They frequently have a sign that only employees are allowed the the work area.
Just the way it is.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Most garages I've been to frown on customers entering the service area no matter what they are wearing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2021 19:18 Comments || Top||

#6  A wrenching exposure. "Oh dear,
A boob have I been, and a rear!
I'll put twelve of my best,
In appropriate dress,
On their wall for the following year."
Posted by: dat horse tho3632 || 07/27/2021 19:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Or It Could Be Some OTHER Reason
Mechanics have the RIGHT not to be ASSAILED by the likes of YOU.



Posted by: Crusoting Elmuse7174 || 07/27/2021 20:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Not much there to flop out, honey.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:28 Comments || Top||


Michael Flynn slammed online for joking about assassinating someone in DC as he's gifted semi-automatic rifle at church
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] This is why we don’t joke about killing Americans here at Rantburg. Too many take it seriously — and most of the possible reactions are undesirable.
  • Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was presented with a semi-automatic rifle at an event at the Church of Glad Tidings on Sunday

  • Jason Parker, who owns a gun company, told him that he was 'trying to come up with a rifle that we thought was appropriate for a general'

  • He then handed the former general a Woodland Camo AR-15, to which Flynn replied: 'Maybe I'll find someone in Washington D.C.'

  • The crowd at the Yuba City, California church then started laughing and applauding

  • But Flynn faced backlash for his comment on social media, where people called his comment a 'clear and present danger' and reported him to the FBI
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..but, but, it's not like talking about sending millions to 'reeducation' camps, right?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Or wishing all Trump voters would die...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, but it's still fun.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
French Intelligence Warned Obama State Department About Wuhan Lab In 2015: Former US Official
[Daily Caller via ZERO] By 2017, France had been 'kicked out' of the lab, and cooperation had ceased, leading French officials to once again warn the US State Department of 'grave concerns' as to Chinese motivations, former State official David Asher told the Daily Caller.

The State Department alleged in January 2021, at the end of the Trump administration, that the Wuhan lab had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.

The State Department did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

On Thursday, China said it would not allow the World Health Organization to inspect the lab further. China has blocked the WHO from accessing important records at the lab. -DCNF

"The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector," said Asher.

According to USAID, the US Agency for International Development provided $1.1 million to US-based NGO EcoHealth Alliance for a sub-agreement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology - on top of millions received from the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and $600,000 annual grant from Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institutes of Health.

In short, after the Obama administration paused Gain-of-Function research, US entities funneled money through EcoHealth to continue it, despite France's warning.

According to Asher, the NIH, DoD and USAID should have ceased federal funding in 2015.

Link to Daily Caller's original article.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 05:06 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector," said Asher.

And there you have it. "Sucked right in" we were. We were victims I tell you, victims !

French DGSE warns Foggy Bottom, but not US Intelligence? (or at least no mention of it) Very curious I'd say.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 5:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Here is a link to "Investigative Reporter" and author Eleanor Bartow's other COVID related stories. If you detect an underlying pattern to her reporting, you may not be alone.

Klik here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 5:29 Comments || Top||


#4  Obama administration? Obama State Department? Already warning alarms going off in me and paranoia is ticking up a notch. IMO thinking of Rahm Emanuel's statement: "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." Would consider that administration capable of anything.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||


Grandson of Rev. Billy Graham in critical condition with COVID-19
[NYP] The grandson of late evangelist Billy Graham is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19, relatives said.

Jonathan Lotz, who reportedly worked with his grandfather from 1994 through 2002, was in an ICU at an undisclosed hospital Sunday, according to a Facebook post by his mother.

"Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator, that his oxygen levels would increase, that his lungs will be strengthened, healed and that his health will be fully restored — with no long-term complications," wrote Anne Graham Lotz, one of the Rev. Billy Graham’s five children. "My heart is filled with gratitude for your prayers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 04:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I notice a thunderous silence on the subject of vaccination.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 5:43 Comments || Top||

#2  His faith was weak.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 - Fuck right off.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Polite, well reasoned discourse, eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Since you're spanking your monkey over the possible Covid death? Yeah, that was as civil as I'll be
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Vocabulary, my boy, vocabulary.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#7  No shakshuka this morning for either of you. OFF to your rooms please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Shakshuka is wasted on somebody like Frank G.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 8:16 Comments || Top||

#9  I had to look it up, of course, but I'm surprised I was not exposed to Shakshuka in Rabat. Or Guelmim.

Long time ago - maybe I forgot.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Try my recipe - I use matbucha instead of fresh tomatoes, but you can use salsa.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Seems to be an analogue to huevos rancheras.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Comes from the same place - Mediterranean. Although, without sausage.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 10:54 Comments || Top||

#13  The Pipe of Peace (famed throughout the Middle East!), or, Doctor's Orders

To Frank, nekulturny, in Stuka,
g(r)omgoru: "For you, NO SHAKSHOUKA!"
The Doctor: "Hey, boys,
Politesse... and less noise!"
[here he graciously offers his hookah]
Posted by: dat horse tho3632 || 07/27/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||

#14  (r), you’re a racist.
A racist fu*king pig.
Posted by: Xyz || 07/27/2021 23:14 Comments || Top||


The vanishing city! Dunhuang in China 'disappears' as it is swallowed by gigantic wall of sand more than 300 feet high
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The ancient city of Dunhuang was engulfed by an enormous wall of sand Sunday

  • Footage shows high rise buildings disappearing beneath the cloud of dust

  • Police were forced to shut down major roads and ask motorists to wait out the storm in service areas as visibility plummeted to less than 20 feet

  • The Silk Road city is home to the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow that's so cool!
Posted by: Wren || 07/27/2021 1:02 Comments || Top||


#3 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  now for the rest of china.
Posted by: Chris || 07/27/2021 1:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Welcome to Phoenix
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Chicago cops are accused of fabricating evidence from ShotSpotter technology used by departments around the US that detects gunshots with artificial intelligence and led to fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Activists in Chicago are demand the CPD end its contract with ShotSpotter, an AI-powered hidden-microphone system used to detect gunshots

  • Reports have shown that its sensors are disproportionately placed in minority communities

  • The technology immediately dispatches police to the alleged location of a gunshot, which led to the March 29th shooting of 13-year old Adam Toledo

  • In a number of cases, prosecutors have withdrawn its findings due to inaccuracy claims where it appears police have had the information altered

  • In May, the MacArthur Justice Center found that 86 percent of the alerts led to no evidence a crime at all
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 06:08 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did they use it to get a FISA warrant?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, the kid did have a pistol in his hand. He dropped it right before he was shot by the officer.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Or, possibly, a fraction of the second later.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 16:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Reports have shown that its sensors are disproportionately placed in minority communities

If you load the city of Chicago into your Geographic Information System (GIS) and draw polygons around the minority neighborhoods, you would find most of the Shot Spotter sites within those polygons. So yeah, it's totally racist.

If you load the city of Chicago into your GIS and drew polygons around neighborhoods with an above-average number of shootings, you would find most of the Shot Spotter sites within those polygons. That's just practical. No need for a Shot Spotter if there are no shots, right?

Is there a German word that means "laughs hysterically upon seeing the word 'disproportional'"?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/27/2021 22:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Chicago cops aren't that smart.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:31 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
New York: A black man shouting about people going back to China gets punched to the ground
How very odd. And why does he have the flag of Colombia on the back of his bicycle?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Best video of the day. Learn something, white Americans!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Asian smackdown.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 5:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Definitely a 'hate crime.' I suggest a federal task force be organized to immediately identify and arrest the assailant. Millions, no billions may need to be spent, additional hires, overtime, etc. Leave no stone unturned !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2021 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4 
Tai Chi's for pussies,
or newly rich hussies.
Even the dreaded
Dragon Society agrees.

The best play maker,
is a strong haymaker,
or a right hook that
puts men on their knees.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 5:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Now, now, Dron - hitting a man in the face with your fist is theologically unsound.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe for the theologians, Grom. ☺
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#7  ^I see I have to preach to the Heathens.
Fists are for soft parts. Heel of palm for hard parts. And, if their face offends you, bring them down and stomp on it.

p.s. Don't try to kick them in the ball - go for a knee instead.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#8  ^Balls (I need a new keyboard)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#9  I see. I've been doing it wrong this whole time, shucks!

[rushes off in search of vertebrate assemblage of hard and soft parts]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#10  https://youtu.be/bmfudW7rbG0
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 07/27/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Yes, TOTW, I heard the song first thing in my head as I watched it.☺
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#13  What a dirtbag to sucker punch someone from behind. Looked to be a rabbit punch, too. Highly dangerous. Good thing he lacked the heft or skill to send the guy to the emergency room, or worse*.

* Technically, in NY state, one-punch killings don't carry the threat of a significant custodial sentence, especially if the perp is black and the vic is white. But given that the victim was a twofer - black *and* (presumably) Hispanic - NY might have revived the death penalty just for this ill-tempered Oriental.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 07/27/2021 17:51 Comments || Top||

#14  Joanne Watters, the hare-brained judge who let the pigmented one-punch killer off:

Posted by: Zhang Fei || 07/27/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||

#15  The Justice Department dropped cases against five visiting researchers accused of hiding their affiliations with China’s military, in a major setback to a landmark effort to root out alleged Chinese intelligence-gathering in the U.S.

In brief court filings late Thursday and Friday, prosecutors said they would no longer pursue visa fraud and other charges against the scientists, including biomedical and cancer researchers in California and a doctoral candidate studying artificial intelligence in Indiana.

DoJ disagrees with him.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/27/2021 18:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Once knew a Wing Chung fellow.
He practiced the 'whipping something' backfist knuckle strike [on me].
Seems pretty legit.
Down, but not out.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden's COVID-19 Death Count Hits 200K, the Equivalent of 83 Pearl Harbors
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 09:09 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, that's why he wants to vaccinate everybody. Before the vaccine wears off.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Superstar media god Simone Biles had to bow out at the Olympics because of an unexplained "medical issue." If it was some skeletal-muscular thing that is a job hazard for a gymnast, that's too bad. If it's because she failed a COVID PCR test turned up to an Olympic level of false positivity, well, ain't that a shame?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Along with his questionable win in the 2020 election, Biden has also won responsibility for COVID. He owns it now. But don't forget, he also owns fentanyl and every day that he and his fellow Democrats refuse to secure the border it's gonna get worse.


More fentanyl seized by CBP so far in 2021 than in all of 2020.

Drug overdoses have killed 841,000 since 1999..
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#4  It probably isn’t Covid that took Simone Biles off the floor — she was later seen sitting in the stands to cheer in her teammates.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#5  It wouldn't have been good for her to massively outperform the rest of her team mates. /sarc.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:27 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican prosecutors allege jaw-dropping series of scandals including cover-ups, lavish spending and shady property deals ahead of huge financial trial's opening
  • Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals

  • One cardinal and nine other people are accused of bleeding donations

  • Case suggests Pope Francis and top lieutenants authorised them in some cases

  • Pope Francis has in many ways already prosecuted Angelo Becciu

  • Becciu sent 100,000 euros in funds to a Sardinian charity run by his brother
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One cardinal and nine other people are accused of bleeding donations



Routine for all organized religion.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Jerry Falwell

Jim Bakker
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:46 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 06:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NASA needs $$$$$$.
NASA discovers something just in time for BUDGET submissions just around the corner.

eg. Mars rocks found at the South Pole indicate Life on Mars. Hubble pic's indicate life on Venus.

So show me plans to build and develop a USS Stargazer class ship with "warp drive" before 2060. Then come talk to me.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  But - the Hubble be dead!

Oh.

Astronomers re-examined Hubble observations from the last two decades to find this evidence of water vapor.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Translation: They knew about it for decades but held on to it until they needed additional budget.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Strange life from Ganymede! Oh Yessir!
We could splice up a novel plague,
put the Chinks through the stressor.

4 YEARS AND $40 BILLION LATER

Hunh! No molecules of life, Perfesser?
What?! You... had alimony to pay?! And...
Bastard, you bought a Maserati Aggressor?!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/27/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  With SpaceX getting the win for Europa this is a chance to snag the $2B from Bezos.

Jeff Bezos offers $2B incentive to NASA to include Blue Origin in moon plans
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Think I saw where Hubble was repaired. And Webb should go up this fall. (Hmm, Webb, Hubbell, where have I seen those names together before...)
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/27/2021 18:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Actually I believe Hubble was able to switch to a 3rd backup or something.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2021 18:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Has Bezos actually tried a different approach, like, say, actually launching something to orbit?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/27/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||

#9  First 'penis' in space! Jeff Bezos's phallic Blue Origin space rocket universally trolled


Fools and their money are soon parted.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 22:30 Comments || Top||


Musk and Bezos battle it out for space dollars: SpaceX is awarded $178 MILLION for NASA's first mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in 2024 - as Bezos offers $2 BILLION if the space agency works with his Blue Origin
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 06:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  D.D. Harriman lives!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  mixed feelings: bribery to use an inferior product vs. finally getting all those Amazon dollars to do something useful other than paying alimony.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/27/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Bezo's people using the same approach at NASA that they did at the DoD. (And Congress, and the media, and ...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||

#4  how about just paying taxes like the rest of us
Posted by: Chris || 07/27/2021 23:03 Comments || Top||


A beer a day keeps the doctor away! Drinking six pints a week decreases the risk of heart attack, stroke, angina or death among those with cardiovascular disease, study finds
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 00:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So ah'm guessing ah'm about 20 years ahead.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going to live forever
Posted by: Chris || 07/27/2021 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  It also helps prevent kidney stones
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/27/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4 

☺ Was the study funded by US Breweries ☺ and did it take into account being tipsy reduces stress which is a top 5 CVD cause?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  The problem with studies like these is often the baseline. If you are overweight, sedate and in general poor health (like more than half of us) the beer may do you some good. But if you are in good health probably not so much.
Posted by: Angstrom || 07/27/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  To the tune of "Eight days a week:"

"Six pints a week, I dru-u-u-u-unk it. Six pints a week is not enough..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Beer for breakfast starting today.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#8  ^3 It also helps prevent kidney stones
So I'd have more if I gave up beer?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/27/2021 18:32 Comments || Top||



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