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The Wild West was calm, collected and civilzed in comparison to Chicago. The add in Detroit, LA, DC, St Louis, Milwaukee, Newark, Philly ect, ect, etc. And aside from the occasional crime of passion and lunatic what I suspect all of these have in common is drugs, gangs and arguments over territory
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Well, I'm confused.
On one hand, the shooter is black, while the victim is white - so the shooting is completely justified.
On the other hand, the victim is Muslim while the shooter is not - so this is an Islamophobic hate crime.
[FOXNEWS] A woman walking her dog was killed Monday morning when an alligator attacked her and dragged her into a lagoon in South Carolina, police said.
Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a call around 9:30 a.m. about a possible alligator attack near a lagoon in Sea Pines Plantation, a resort community at Hilton Head Island. Officers arrived and discovered the woman’s body inside the lagoon.
According to witnesses, the unidentified woman was walking her dog when an alligator, about 8 feet long, "attacked and pulled" her into the water. Security staff also viewed surveillance video of the attack, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources spokesman Capt. Robert McCullough told The Post and Courier.
Authorities are at the lagoon searching for the alligator.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the woman’s cause of death. Her dog was not harmed.
Sea Pines Living posted on its Facebook page to confirm the woman’s death.
“Sea Pines CSA is actively working with local authorities to ensure necessary access to the site while the investigation is underway. At this time, little information is available about the individual or incident. We are extremely saddened by this news and will share information with the community as it is made available,” the post read.
McCullough said the woman was the second person to die from an alligator attack in South Carolina history.
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'Heads up' wealthy east coast migrants. Sea Pines Plantation is NOT New York's Central Park. Save yourself and let the gator have the dog.
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Sorry about the woman getting eaten up and all of that.
There's "Spuds Makensie" and Whymeramer types of absolutely malicious dogs that need to be paraded about in this lagoon. Especially the Makensie's who destroy the grass.
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The alligator is a dog freedom activist from PETA.
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I suspect the dog went nutzo over the 'gator and the 'gator went after the dog. The woman, assuming she is like my wife, got between the 'gator and the dog. Not a good place to be.
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A man stands at the bar boasting that he has a dog that is the greatest fighter of all and will beat any dog in a fight and to prove this offers a prize of a $1,000 if his dog can be beaten.
An old man sitting near by says my Terrier will beat your dog no problem!
So the man immediately sets up a fight between the two dogs.
In the ring the two dogs are thrown in and the man's dog growls and starts to bite the other dog with its massive teeth for the terrier to flick itself around and snap the neck of the dog and then devour it whole!
True to his word the man counts out the grand and hands it over saying “just what type of Terrier is that?”
The old man puts the money in his pocket and replies “a long tailed short haired snub nose Terrier or Alligator for short.”
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My wife said"...I would have to let the leash go."
I replied "...tougher call for me- eaten by the alligator or explaining to you how I let your dog get eaten by an alligator."
[AlAhram] Two monks have been referred to trial in Alexandria for the murder of the abbot of their former monastery, according to a statement from the prosecutor-general’s office on Sunday.
Isaiah El-Maqary was detained on 11 August on suspicion for the murder of Bishop Epiphanius, who was found dead at Abu Maqar monastery in July. Isaiah has since been officially defrocked by the church due to behaviour unbecoming of a monk.
Another monk, Faltaous El-Maqary, was detained on 12 August for aiding and abetting Isaiah El-Maqary.
The prosecution stated the two men will be tried on charges of "premeditated murder."
On 29 July, 64-year-old Bishop Epiphanius was found dead under suspicious circumstances. He had led Abu Maqar monastery in Wadi El-Natroun, northwest of Cairo.
"During investigations, Wael Saad Tawadros, formerly known by his monastic name Isaiah El-Maqary, confessed to collaborating with the second defendant, Rimon Mansour, formerlyknown by his monastic name Faltaous El-Maqary, to kill Bishop Epiphanius due to personal disagreements," the statement read.
The statement said the two men ambushed the bishop on his way from his residence to the monastery chapel, where Tawadros hit him on the head with a steel bar.
A post-mortem report showed that the bishop died from severe head injuries, including skull fractures and bleeding.
Following the murder, the church has imposed new measures to regulate monastic life.
The new measures include a freeze on accepting new monks, a ban on monks’ use of social media, a ban on building non-sanctioned places of worship, and a ban on monks leaving monasteries without official permission.
[FOX] BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ‐ An Argentine police officer is being hailed a hero after breastfeeding a malnourished baby while on duty at a children’s hospital.
Celeste Jaqueline Ayala was working her shift at Sor Maria Ludovica Hospital in Buenos Aires when she heard a baby crying incessantly. Ayala, who is the mother of a newborn baby, asked hospital staff if she could hold and comfort the crying baby.
After receiving permission, Ayala cradled and breastfed the baby until he stopped crying. Above and beyond the call of duty by any standard.
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Why is a lactating woman on active duty as a police officer?
It would be unwise to ask that question nowadays in America, Iblis – insulting to career women, donchaknow. That's why breast pumps were invented, and freezers, and instant powdered formula.
h/t Instapundit
[VinePair] Budweiser sales in China have officially surpassed the brand’s sales in the U.S., according to a recent report. In fact, Chinese beer drinkers are now consuming more Budweiser than anyone in the world.
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I read that the domestic big brewery beers we have today, Miller, Budweiser, and some others, were made different than old-style brews in order to appeal to women. I'll research it a bit more.
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[AsiaTimes] Security demands for multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road projects have led to the creation of independent paramilitary forces.
It has been described as China’s ‘Private Army.’ Fueled by growing demand from domestic companies involved in the multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, independent security groups are expanding in the country.
In 2013, there were 4,000-registered firms, employing more than 4.3 million personnel. By 2017, the figure had jumped to 5,000 with staff numbers hovering around the five-million mark.
Many of these operatives are former People’s Liberation Army veterans, who have been recruited by security companies closely linked to ‘New Silk Road’ projects.
“Like their Western counterparts, most Chinese PSCs employ former soldiers or former police officers, a fact that blurs the line between China’s security forces and private security providers,” a report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies, or MERICS, a leading German think tank, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the United Kingdom stated.
“Beijing keeps the People’s Liberation Army and paramilitary groups such as the People’s Armed Police under the tight and exclusive control of the Chinese Communist Party. However, a booming domestic private security sector has developed since the legalization of PSCs in September 2009,” the study, entitled China Security Project, added.
At the heart of this expansion has been President Xi Jinping’s grandiose Belt and Road Initiative. These ‘New Silk Road’ superhighways will connect China with 68 countries and 4.4 billion people across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe in a labyrinth of infrastructure developments.
[Mail] The world's largest plane, Stratolaunch, could be just months away from its first flight.
The aircraft - which is the vision of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen - has a wingspan longer than a football field and comes equipped with two cockpits, 28 wheels and six engines normally used to power 747 jumbo jets.
Eventually will be used to transport rockets carrying satellites and even a newly revealed manned space plane into the Earth's upper atmosphere, where they will blast off into space.
Now, Allen has said it will finally take the the skies 'this fall'.
[Business Insider] The Russian gun maker of the AK-47 unveiled a brand new rifle on Monday called the AK-308, which it will demonstrate at the Army-2018 Forum on Tuesday.
"The weapon is based on the AK103 submachine gun for the cartridge 7.62x51 mm with elements and components of the AK-12 automatic machine," Kalashnikov Concern said in a press statement on Monday.
"At the moment, preparations are under way for preliminary testing of weapons," Kalashnikov added.
The AK-308 weighs about 9.5 pounds with an empty 20-round magazine, Kalashnikov said. The gun also has a dioptric sight and foldable stock.
At this point, it's unclear if the Russian military will field the new AK-308, but it certainly seems like a possibility.
In January, the Russian military announced it would replace its standard issue AK-74M rifles with AK-12 and AK-15 rifles.
The AK-74M fires a 5.45x39mm round, has a 30-round magazine and weighs about 8.6 pounds when fully loaded.
On the other hand, the AK-12 shoots a 5.45x39mm caliber round, and the AK-15 shoots a 7.62x39mm round, according to Kalashnikov. Each of those two weapons with an empty 30-round magazine weigh about 7.7 pounds.
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I thought the whole point of going away from the M-14 was because the 7.62 round was not controllable in full auto. Why would this be different? Someone with more knowledge please correct me.
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Battle Rifle vs Assault Rifle. This is the former. Might just be a good weapon given the pedigree of durability in the AK design, and the solid performance of the 7.62 NATO round.
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7.62 round was not controllable in full auto
The round is controllable, a wrongly configured weapon is not.
#7
Still if it's as good as an AK-47, such as you can drag it through the mud and dirt, use it as a shovel, and then it still fires like a sewing machine; it's a keeper.
[AsiaTimes] Official election results show the long-ruling Cambodian People's Party won every parliamentary seat, marking the end of the nation's dalliance with democracy
This story got tons of sob-story airplay this weekend, even after the murder charge was released. CBS8 in San Diego totally blew it on this. Bottom line: Murder warrant in Ol' Messico, he and wife are illegal, 5 anchor babies, and scheduled caesarean for their 6th. SPIT
[San Diego Union Tribune] An immigrant in the U.S. illegally who was detained by federal officers in San Bernardino last week while heading to the hospital with his pregnant wife is one of three men listed in an arrest warrant for a 2006 murder in Mexico.
Joel Arrona-Lara is wanted in connection with the killing of Miguel Ángel Morales Rodríguez, alias "El Garcia," according to the arrest warrant, which was provided by a law enforcement official who is not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
The warrant includes photos of Arrona-Lara, as well as his wife’s name and those of his parents. The other two men listed in the warrant are Julio Cesar Arrona-Lara, alias "El Chikis," and Roberto Arrona-Lara, alias "El Rigo."
All men share identical surnames, but their relationship is unclear.
The warrant did not detail the circumstances behind the murder, but a 2014 news release from the Guanajuato attorney general's office said an arrest warrant had been issued for Julio Cesar Arrona-Lara in connection to a 2006 homicide. It accused Julio Arrona-Lara of beating Rodríguez on March 17, 2006. The man later died from his injuries.
It is unclear what role the other two men, including Joel Arrona-Lara, might have played.
Officers with Immigrant and Customs Enforcement’s Fugitive Operations team in Los Angeles received the request for collaboration and assistance in Arrona-Lara’s arrest from Guanajuato’s attorney general on July 24, according to the agency.
Emilio Amaya Garcia, Arrona-Lara’s legal representative, said that in interviews with Arrona-Lara, he denied being involved in any problems in Mexico.
"It seems like there are members of his family who were, but he said he was never arrested or detained," Garcia said. "He doesn’t know of a reason why he would have an arrest warrant in Mexico."
Joel Arrona-Lara was heading to the hospital with his wife, Maria del Carmen Venegas, on Wednesday for her scheduled caesarean section when he was apprehended by Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents.
Security video obtained by KCBS-TV shows two SUVs blocking the couple’s vehicle as they tried to park at a gas station Wednesday. Venegas said ICE agents emerged from the vehicles and asked for their identification. She pulled out her ID, but her husband said he had left his at home.
Venegas told KCBS that agents asked her husband to exit the vehicle. They searched the car for weapons, and the video shows two agents alongside Arrona-Lara with his hands cuffed behind his back.
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh... don't want to interrupt the narrative.
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So. Mexico wants this guy back in a country where a vast majority of murders are unsolved. Must have murdered someone who's family has some pull.
Just as foreign countries refuse to extradite murderers to the US if the death penalty is on the table, we should refuse to extradite when the death penalty is off the table.
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CBS8 in San Diego totally blew it on this.
Yeah, they totally blow a lot of things. But they're really good at sob stories. And if there is any static about how this family is being separated, tell them they can all be reunited in Mexico.
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Americans now get to spend millions of tax dollars to raise their 5 6 kids.
[The Hill] Protesters on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus on Monday night brought down a controversial monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers, according to media reports.
The Daily Tar Heel posted a series of photos and videos that showed protesters surrounding the monument and shrouding it in banners around 8 p.m. The monument was covered in a canvas that read "For a World Without White Supremacy."
By about 9:30 p.m., protesters had toppled the monument, and began burying its head in dirt.
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When ever mobs do such things I suggest replacing the monument with an even larger one. Sooner or later they will get the message that proper civilized processes exist for such change. And when will police be accountable for watching a crime and doing nothing?
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.
[FOXNEWS] A woman walking her dog was killed Monday morning when an alligator attacked her and dragged her into a lagoon in South Carolina, police said.
[AsiaTimes] Security demands for multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road projects have led to the creation of independent paramilitary forces.
