[FOX] A California man is being credited for heroism after he reportedly jumped in front of a woman who was allegedly being attacked by a machete-wielding man.
Blaine Hodge, 27, was at a Starbucks in Bakersfield on Sunday when a woman ran into the store, convinced someone was trying to kill her, KGET-TV reported.
"She was panicked. She was saying 'help me' and then at one point she said, 'This guy's going to kill me,'" Hodge's friend, Joe Harris, told the news station.
Harris said a man walked into the store while "holding something in his hand."
That's when Hodge stepped in.
"Everyone else was running away and he was the first person to run straight to the action," Harris told KGET. "He was like: 'I'm going to stop this guy, regardless if I get stabbed or not. I can't let this woman die.'"
Hodge was reportedly stabbed "many times" during the encounter, and required nearly 200 stitches.
BLUF:
[ABC-7 NYC] Sources tell Eyewitness News the suspects have been identified as:
--Sgt. Carlos Cruz, 41, 69th Precinct Det. Squad, charged with enterprise corruption;
--Sgt. Louis Failla, Patrol Borough Queens South, charged with official misconduct;
--Sgt. Cliff Nieves, 37, Transit Bureau Investigation, charged with promoting prostitution;
--PO Steven Nieves, 32, 84th Precinct, charged with promoting prostitution;
--PO Giancarlo Raspanti, 109th Precinct, charged with official misconduct;
--Det. Gionanny Rojas-Acosta, 40, Central Investigation Division,charged with enterprise corruption;
--Det. Rene Samaniego, 43, Brooklyn South Vice, charged with enterprise corruption.
O'Neill released the following statement after the arrests:
"Today, those who swore an oath and then betrayed it have felt the consequences of that infidelity. The people of this Department are rightly held to the highest standard, and should they fail to meet it, the penalty will be swift and severe. I thank Deputy Commissioner Joseph Reznick for the thorough investigation performed by the Internal Affairs Bureau, in partnership with the Queens District Attorney's Office, in rooting out this illicit activity. His unit initiated this probe and in doing so, has sent a clear message: there is no place in the NYPD for criminal or unethical behavior."
Many of the women involved in the case appear to be from Central America. Emphasis added.
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Just like bootlegging, corrupting the system. Legalize it, Tax it, Establish quality control. See - Nevada (or Canada). After SCOTUS ruling on Lawrence vs Texas removed the morality of human behaviors, its now just about commerce. Remember if its free, its legal. If you charge it's illegal. Take the graft out of it, put the tax on it.
This shit really ticks me right the fuck off:
[Time] - Hope Brown can make $60 donating plasma from her blood cells twice in one week, and a little more if she sells some of her clothes at a consignment store. (just a bit of unreported income here? - ed.)
It’s usually just enough to cover an electric bill or a car payment (are you driving a used Pinto / Hyundai Excel? - ed.).
This financial juggling is now a part of her everyday life‐something she never expected almost two decades ago when she earned a master’s degree in secondary education and became a high school history teacher. Brown often works from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. at her school in Versailles, Ky., then goes to a second job manning the metal detectors and wrangling rowdy guests at Lexington’s Rupp Arena. With her husband, she also runs a historical tour company for extra money.
"I truly love teaching," says the 52-year-old. "But we are not paid for the work that we do."
That has become the rallying cry of many of America’s public-school teachers, who have staged walkouts and marches on six state capitols this year. From Arizona to Oklahoma, in states blue, red and purple, teachers have risen up to demand increases in salaries, benefits and funding for public education. Their outrage has struck a chord, reviving a national debate over the role and value of teachers and the future of public education. I first saw this on a high school friend's Facebook page (do not lecture me on that point - I have a semi-professional commitment for that; key words 'high school' for you wannabe wags / scolds) and within 20 seconds had the following questions about what a piece of shit slanted hatchet job this article was:
Not trying to pick a fight here, but for me this article raises more questions than it answers. How many teachers arrive three hours before the presumed 8:00 opening bell? Does she do this every single day ('often' is not quantified and could mean any number)? What exactly is she doing during those three hours? Why isn't her actual salary mentioned, or her husband's? Does she have a family? How many kids are they trying to support? Are they living in a house they really can't afford?
The salary omission is, to me, really the key to this entire article, and the failure to disclose it does little to sell the main point of the article, that presumably she is underpaid relative to her efforts.
I don't like articles like this which are scant on certain facts, like the ones I just mentioned. Granted, I'm a cold, heartless bastard but for me the point of this article (and I've read many of them) is to take one person's situation and then shoehorn that into an indictment of the whole system. It's rightly called a 'sob story', meant to elicit sympathy for the subjects of the story. Sorry, I'm not buying it.
Care to guess the number of responses to that post / comment of mine?
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Work 9 months of the year to get the salary that all others have to work 11 and a half?
If their output was of superior measured quality why would anyone object? Problem is that the quality is lacking and obstruction to good metrics only raises suspicion to actual performance.
Besides one of the greatest contributors to successful students is a home environment that supports education. Lowering standards incentivizes good parents to remove those higher performers from the public system. Raising teachers salaries does not effect any of that, thus little change in outputs other than creating day care and paper mill factories that exist upon the back of taxpayers.
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Missing a lot of details here as has been noted; USN-Daughter and her Spousal Unit are both teachers in public schools; first few years out of the gate were a bit tight and they worked summer jobs, but now are OK. The school mandated they get master's Degrees w/in a few years and yes there was some support for that but are not complaining now. And they also have a portion of their pay during the school year withheld to cover the summer.
Not living in a Stately Wayne Manner, but typical 'burb, and have 2 late model cars, neither on a Rolls.
Their biggest complaint re compensation was the mandatory dues collection ( both conservatives) going towards the WEA and NEA democrat support.
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i have never heard anyone say they are paid enough.
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She's getting paid the going market rate. If she doesn't like it she should consider another line of work. If enough teachers do that there will be a shortage of teachers and school districts will have to pay more. But if there are too many would be teachers looking for jobs the districts will have to pay less. Anyone who aspires to teach our children should understand supply and demand.
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These stories annoy me not just for the lack of relevant info as evidenced by commenters here but also because teachers whine that they work more than their approximately 6 hour work day - well guess what - salaried workers in corporate America work well more than their assigned 8 hour day on a regular basis, sometimes you travel so your 24 hour day is not your own and with cell phones you are often always on. Cry me a river!
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Spouse is a public school educator. She is well paid for her efforts. Some/a lot of her peers are over paid.
Administration and Board of Education types border on corrupt.
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Funny, I had a sob piece scroll across me just the other day.
It went something like, "Let's pay teachers what an average babysitter would make; $10/student times school days yadda yadda yadda $300,000/year or such."
As well it should. Totally ignores the economies of scale, for one thing. For another, babysitters don't generally make your kids stupider.
In one of those amusing coincidences the Universe is famous for, I happened to see this graph the other day: inflation-adjusted cost of K-12 education vs student achievement. tl;dr: Since 1970, costs have risen 200% while student test scores have remained flat.
To be fair, a lot of that cost is the increased number of administrators, diversity officers and other well-paid but useless poobahs, not teacher's salaries. But recently, there have been a number of news stories about the low percentage of high school grads who are scored as competent in reading, math and science. The lack of progress in education is striking if you compare today's cars, computers, science, medicine, whatever with 1970s state-of-the-art.
And don't get me started on the whole-word method of learning to read, or Common Core math.
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Just thought I'd post this: In Woodford County, KY, where that teacher lives and works, her salary for 9 months of work is between $57,000 and $64,000, depending on her professional qualifications aside from her Masters. She receives $18,000 and change in benefits, including health insurance, term life insurance, and a state pension. She can earn extra money by teaching during the summer, or by, for instance, being a club sponsor, a counsellor, tutor or an athletic coach (the teacher in the article does none of those things). Her daily hours are 8:15 to 3:15, including a guaranteed meal break and several periods during the day that must be left open for her to complete her classwork. If her salary was extended to 12 months, her annual salary for about 6 hours of work a day would be $77,000 a year.
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I wouldn't begrudge teachers more pay if they didn't let their union use dues to gain Dem power rather than improve student scores. Oh, and about those student scores: Don't fight merit pay and get rid of non-performers. Raise scores without cheating or STFU.
When they fail a student, the student doesn't learn.
If I fail in my job, people die
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The cutest girl I dated in college was an education major. She thought that Israel was in South America. I rest my case.
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It's not as if the prostitutes they normally use get disinfected in between uses/users.
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I could be wrong but I doubt anyone paid to use the brothel, this sex doll brothel just smells like a publicity stunt to sell papers or clicks or something.
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I would bet on alternate reality slip from other dimensions before space aliens. (It would be a lot less work than traveling from other star systems.)
Think the airships in the "Long Earth" SF novel series: Wikipedia on the series
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Long Earth is like 'Sliders' with more safety doing each transition in something airborne so you don't transition into a cliff or in front of a coming semi.
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Golden Age Science Fiction Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper has my vote. As a bonus most of H. Beam Piper's works can be downloaded for free (the magic word) from Gutenberg.org.
A humorous note: H. Beam Piper had a long running feud with Analog's editor John W. Campbell over the story that made the first half of the book. The original story had a space freighter captain discovering the planet Freya ('whose natives are so identical to humans' that they can interbreed! And were blonds, of course *cough*). John W. Campbell put his foot down "no independent evolution allowing pregnant alien girls!" so H. Beam Piper re-wrote the story to fit into his ongoing Paratime series...
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so H. Beam Piper re-wrote the story to fit into his ongoing Paratime series
Freyans are descendants of Martians just like we are according to H. Beam Piper. The principal female character in Uller Uprising has a Freyan grandmother.
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#5 Freyans are descendants of Martians just like we are according to H. Beam Piper. --g(r)omgoru
According to John F. Carr, the editor of the posthumous H. Beam Piper collection Federation(1981) he discovered an unpublished manuscript in the Piper estate that he decided to include: "When In The Course___". John F. Carr contends that "...John W. Campbell--who had fits over the concept of parallel evolution,..." suggested to Piper that if he rewrote it as a Paratime story that it would sell--which it did. The story is a mirror image of the published "Gunpowder God" with the same character names... Rylla, Tarr-Hostigos, etc.
I mention this as more of an insight in the odd incident in the journey from author's typewriter to published word.
[FoxNews] As Hurricane Florence, now a Category 2 storm, drives toward the East Coast, Waffle House is monitoring the impending dangerous weather by activating its storm center.
The popular Georgia-based diner chain, renowned for its 24-hour service 365 days per year, has an emergency routine that’s so well-regarded, the Federal Emergency Management Agency unofficially uses the restaurants' status as an indicator for the severity of a natural disaster.
After several Waffle House locations closed or were serving only a limited menu in 2004 when Hurricane Charley hit Florida, FEMA officials noted the severity of the storm damage based on the fact that the chain never closes.
“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad. That’s where you go to work,” then FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said.
When a storm strikes, local officials will put out a call to the nearest Waffle House and find out what’s on the menu. The “Waffle House Index” has three, color-coded levels: green means the restaurant is open and serving a full menu; yellow indicates the menu has been scaled back and there may be water but no power; and red indicates the restaurant is completely shut down—and the area is likely in need of serious assistance. More at the link
[Mail] This incredible footage shows the Northern Lights erupting with colour over Lapland.
Scientists say the spectacular light show was bursting with more colour this week because of a huge hole that has opened up in the sun's corona.
The northern and southern lights, also known as the 'Auroras', are triggered when electrically-charged particles from the sun enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Solar flares only impact Earth when they occur on the side of the sun facing the Earth. Sometimes, these explosions can send out coronal mass ejections - large clouds of plasma and magnetic field that erupt from the sun.
The increased number of charged-particles ejected from the hole in the sun's upper atmosphere combined with a potent burst of solar wind is believed to have fuelled more intense light shows.
These have also extended the reach of the 'Aurora Borealis', or Northern Lights, which can now been seen at high latitudes in the US and UK.
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fwiw, March and September are the best months for viewing the Northern lights because the axis of the earth's magnetic field is perpendicular to the movement of the sun's mass ejections
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Somewhere I heard that video never captures the true color of northern lights. I've never seen northern lights myself but after looking at that video I'm disappointed. The only color I see is a washed out green. Otherwise it's monotone.
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they are usually blueish and greenish but Ive seen pink rings before, video doesnt do them justice
Incredible images of the large Russian military exercise known as Vostok 2018 collected by @DigitalGlobe today, September 13, 2018. pic.twitter.com/OKbL0LTtlM
[IsraelTimes] The United States is imposing sanctions on two North Korean-controlled information technology companies based in China and Russia.
The Treasury Department announces it’s designating China Silver Star, its North Korean CEO Jong Song Hwa, and its Russia-based sister company.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says in a statement that the sanctions are intended to stop the flow of illicit revenue to North Korea from overseas IT workers hiding behind front companies and aliases.
The Trump administration has kept up sanctions pressure on the North, even as the US seeks to negotiate on denuclearization.
Treasury says that China Silver Star is associated with the Munitions Industry Department of North Korea’s ruling party which oversees the nation’s ballistic missile programs.
[Joe.co.uk] Goldsmiths LGBTQ+ society has been suspended and disaffiliated from the Students' Union after tweeting an extensive thread defending the use of gulags for "reeducation."
A member of the society with access to its Twitter account spent Monday September 10 attacking "T*rfs" (Trans-exclusionary radical feminists), before arguing that gulags have been mischaracterised as a result of CIA propaganda, sending bigots to them is "compassionate" and that the Soviet penal system was, in actual fact, "rehabillitary [sic]." It's like The Gulag Archipelago was never written. It was disappeared and made into wrongthink.
A Trans-exclusionary radical feminist is a person who does not accept a trans-woman is a woman.
What else is one to think about men who pretend to be women in order to take over their last remaining political refuge?
The Twitter account posted these views in the "mini-thread" transcribed and screenshotted below, since the society's webpage has been taken down and tweets made protected:
"So... first of all,the USSR no longer exists, therefore "gulags" no longer exist. May as well make a case against orientalism but USSR =/= Russia. Russia is NOT governed by a communist party. Got that? Okay, good.
So... gulags. First myth to debunk: "u work until u die in gulags!!!!". The Soviets did away with life sentences and the longest sentence was 10 years. Capital punishment was reserved for the most heinous, serious crimes.
Why? The penal system was a rehabillitary one and self supporting, a far cry from the Western, capitalist notion of prison. The aim was to correct and change the ways of "criminals". If it couldn’t be done in 10 years, it couldn’t be done at all.
Much like wider Soviet society, everyone who was *able* to work did so at a wage proportionate to those who weren’t incarcerated and, as they gained skills, were able to move up the ranks and work under less supervision.
Educational work was also a prominent feature of the Soviet penal system. There were regular classes, book clubs, newspaper editorial teams, sports, theatre & performance groups.
There’s so much more to add but the reality is none of you actually care to learn about gulags. You don’t care about what fascism actually is and how it fuelled by anti-communist, orientalist myths and lies propagated by the CIA.
Long story short, friends, the ideas of TERFs and anti trans bigots literally *kill* and must be eradicated through reeducation. Science must be decolonised and de-essentialised in order for this to happen. #noterfsonourterf
Final note: If your sources are written by fascists or supported by the US State Department, they’re probably pretty trash sources. Good night and remember ‐ #NoTerfsOnOurTurf"
The far left openly advocating for gulags - not for us, but for fellow leftists who aren't quite far left enough. I can't think of a more suitable warning to not just the left, but the entire world.
The assumption is that those who aren’t fellow leftists are already in the gulags... or dust in the wind, depending. Someone needs to be used to debug the system before the insufficiently woke 1st gen. get what’s coming to them from those who know better.
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A Trans-exclusionary radical feminist is a person who does not accept a trans-woman is a woman.
I thought someone that thought a trans-woman was not a (biological) woman was called a 'Biologist'...
My eyes crossed trying to parse Trans-exclusionary radical feminist ... Okay, breaking it down Trans[vestite]-, understand so far, -exclusionary, understand so far, radical, (??) it is new and 'radical' to discriminate against transvestites, who knew?, and feminist -- (WTF?!?) Now I am totally lost as to what this twit was trying to convey... Word Salad logorrhea...
[Al Rooters] Turkey's high inflation is a result of the central bank's wrong steps and Turkey must lower interest rates, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, two hours before a central bank announcement which investors expect will hike rates. Gulenists!
Speaking to a traders' confederation in Ankara, Erdogan said what Turkey is experiencing is not a crisis and repeated his belief that high interest rates cause high inflation. Economic Genius
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Turkey's inflation is a result of wrong central bank steps, Erdogan says
[Wash Times] California secessionists have what may be a tempting proposal for the red states: Help the Golden State secede by voting to kick it out of the union.
Citing a looming court fight over state-splitting, Calexit organizers have postponed their ballot strategy and launched a campaign to convince red-state legislators to vote in favor of telling California to take a hike.
"We are going to rely on the deep hatred for California that exists in red America," said Louis Marinelli, a founder of Yes California, the Calexit campaign.
The plan is to convince 25 of the 31 Republican-held legislatures to pass "consent to secede" resolutions, then place the question before California voters in the form of a ballot measure, instead of vice versa.
Calexit could then "come back to California and tell the people: we have the constitutionally required consent to secede, all we have to do now is vote yes," said Mr. Marinelli in an email.
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Yes but what they don't get is once out, we declare war, invade and subjugate with extreme extreme prejudice. Then we can we repop with humans. We'll give normals a year to get out of there first.
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I'd be more inclined to let them leave, then suck up all the water from their river supplies (Colorado, Klamath, etc.), then open up 'renegotiations'. Same difference, really.
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California secessionists have what may be a tempting proposal for the red states: Help the Golden State secede by voting to kick it out of the union.
Do it by amendment to the Constitution. Apply by having your Congressional delegation submit the appropriate paperwork.
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I'd still prefer to return the state to Mexico (together with its population) and call it square with La Raza. After we level the military bases - and complete a wall around the state
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#4 But you don't want to get rid of all of California - just the coastal enclaves, right?
Depends upon how they present it to Congress and how Congress acts on it. Could be like the partition of Ireland. Let the counties vote which probably will be the coasties north of San Diego along the coast north through the bay area.
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The right of secession was argued often prior to 1861. Some argued secession was a constitutional right; others argued there was a natural right of revolution. Either way, these arguments led to the Civil war which didn't go so well for either side.
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We'll give normals a year to get out of there first.
Thanks for that.
But, seriously, you guys don't want to lose San Diego Bay or Alameda in San Francisco Bay because of the impact that would have on your Pacific Fleet. Although it may be tempting to cut us loose, be advised that the next steps would be that you would lose Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado. Better to secure our border with Mexico as it now stands. The loonies in the coastal enclaves would be nothing without their slaves Mexicans to mow their lawns, wash their cars and clean their homes. Deport the illegals and you may find a few more Republican congress critters coming from California.
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California leaves the union and Oregon and Washington will soon follow.
[ARABNEWS] German Bishops Conference regrets leaking of the report, but admits that the study confirms “the extent of the sexual abuse” that took place
An investigation in the United States last month found rampant sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by about 300 Catholic priests in the US state of Pennsylvania
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This leads to the selling off of assets, the elimination of staff and the inability of maintaining existing facilities, all in order to pay massive civil judgements to the victims throughout the world.
With the massive immigration of Islam Catholicïsm will never be the same again. Khan's London is the model of the future of the West.
[MAIL] An inventor has created a disposable product to eliminate the sometimes embarrassing smells and sounds that can happen when a person breaks wind. Ja, ja, iss was du willst !
Leopold Trimmel from Hofstetten-Gruenau, Austria, has designed a pressure relief filter, called 'oxxxo Bodykat', which helps gas be released in a controlled way.
The product is said to catch the gas, stopping any unappealing odours from escaping, and also help to alleviate pain as the user will be able to avoid a build up of wind which could lead to bloating.
According to the website, 'oxxxo Bodykat' is meant for people with food intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, damaged gut flora or incontinence.
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If you ain't staring at boobs in the first year of your life, its a good bet that you're probably not going to have a long life.
Mikey: So they come in different sizes? What are these? Jumbos?
James: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Mikey: Yeah. Lunch!
- Look Who's Talking (1989)
I'm not sure about these research results. I think they need to be replicated.
2. Have lots of sex, 3. get married, 4. have kids, 5. be responsible, and 6. get a dad bod are the others for those who might not have gotten past the headline.
I can imagine situations where your life might be shortened by adhering too rigidly to the list, e.g. bad marriage, kids who constantly get into trouble, and sex addiction.
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Robots should be able to study data and determine which groups behave logically and constructive and which are emotional and destructive. Something a lot of humans once had little problem doing but now seem incapable of.
Massachusetts cops are hunting for a man they say urinated on several American flags at a veterans cemetery ‐ after an "outraged" witness posted pictures of the vile act.
George Gatteny, of Somerville, said he spotted the suspect among a group of people Sunday at a World War II memorial in the Somerville Veterans Cemetery.
"As they approached the statue, I saw them grab the 3 or 4 mini flags that were placed in [front] of the statue," Gatteny wrote on Facebook. "What I saw him do next pushed me to the point where I said to myself, ’ENOUGH.’ The guy started urinating on the flags."
A woman with the man acted as a lookout while he relieved himself, only stopping when Gatteny yelled at him, he said.
"He stopped urinating, pulled up his pants and started walking out of the memorial," the post continued. "Both of them walked up Broadway laughing. I walked behind them for a while telling everyone I pass what they did."
Gatteny said an elderly man who knew two veterans buried at the cemetery thanked him for taking a stand. But Gatteny was determined to get photographs of the couple so they could be held accountable for their actions, he said.
"What possible reason could they have for desecrating a WW2 Memorial??" Gatteny asked. "There are consequences for our actions. They probably thought no would do anything. They were WRONG!"
Gatteny later met with police to provide photos and statements to investigators.
"They are all over this," according to Gatteny’s post, which generated more than 17,000 comments and was shared more than 39,000 times.
Somerville Police Deputy Chief James Stanford told the Boston Globe that detectives were investigating the incident. No additional information was available as of Tuesday and messages from The Post seeking comment on Wednesday were not immediately returned.
The city’s mayor, meanwhile, slammed the act of vandalism as "despicable," according to a statement to the newspaper.
"If these allegations are true, they are offensive not only to our community and our own veterans, but to our entire nation and those who served and continue to serve," Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone said.
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.
[FOX] A California man is being credited for heroism after he reportedly jumped in front of a woman who was allegedly being attacked by a machete-wielding man.
[FoxNews] As Hurricane Florence, now a Category 2 storm, drives toward the East Coast, Waffle House is monitoring the impending dangerous weather by activating its storm center.
North Korea
