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Lebanon Hizbullah: "It's war!"
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Reddit User Reportedly Admits Murdering Elderly Trump Supporters in Nursing Home
[NationalFile] The Reddit user bragged about the alleged murder of 11 elderly Trump supporters.

An Reddit user by the name “LoveThisLife0101” bragged about allegedly letting eleven elderly supporters of President Donald Trump die under his care by refusing to resuscitate them.

LoveThisLife0101 also boasted about their alleged tampering with elderly patients’ food and deliberately administering incorrect medicine.

The post was inspired by the “It’s Okay to Be White” campaign which has made several international headlines over the past two years.

Our source confirmed that he sent the alarming messages to Reddit and he did not receive a response. He then gave the information to Internet researchers on 4chan.

National File also contacted Reddit for comment and did not receive a response.

Following the shocking post, 4chan reportedly revealed the identity of the individual behind the posts.

National File’s source explained that the identity of the Reddit user could not be verified, but stated that some Twitter users believe they located the person’s name and place of employment.

Twitter users messaged the company believed to employ the Reddit user, AMN Healthcare, for more information.

AMN Healthcare claims that the person named does work for them, but “does not work in a clinical setting or work in a location where patients are cared for.”

The company added, “However, we take this very seriously and are conducting a thorough investigation.”
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/03/2020 07:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thus switching their votes to Democrat.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/03/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  If you admit to a crime, even if it is a lie, you should serve time.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/03/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  According to the best Donk vote farmers, there are no conservatives in nursing homes. They have the papers to prove it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2020 21:18 Comments || Top||


Move over Florida man: Oklahoma man on meth steals car from porn video store with goat and guy inside, drives through 3 states, leads cops on low-speed chase
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/03/2020 04:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Beto"? Izzat you?
Posted by: Lex || 01/03/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  An emotional support goat?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  low speed chase? OJ sequel? goat skin gloves; if they fit you must convict....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/03/2020 14:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Strong entry to start 2020.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/03/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||


Father of two small children beats up accused molester in Spotsylvania
[Fredericksburg Free Lance Star] A North Carolina man was beaten up last week by the father of two small children he was accused of molesting while visiting a home in Spotsylvania County over the holidays, authorities said.

Sheriff’s Capt. Liz Scott said deputies had to rescue the suspect from further injury after responding to a 911 call. Scott said the father had already obtained a weapon and that deputies may have saved the suspect’s life.

Mark Anthony Stanley, 60, of Burlington, N.C., is charged with two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and assault. He is being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

According to Scott, Stanley came to Spotsylvania to visit relatives. On Dec. 29, Scott said, the father of the children, ages 2 and 3, woke up at 6:30 a.m. and went to check on them. He walked into the room and told authorities he caught Stanley nude from the waist down while molesting the children.

"It was an absolutely horrible incident," Scott said.

According to Scott, after the father asked what he was doing, Stanley pushed the father out of the room and locked the door. The father then forced the door open and began beating Stanley, she said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2020 02:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I'd been the police I'd have turned up found out what's going on then had an "urgent cup of tea to make"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/03/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Coffee over here BP, coffee and a doughnut.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2020 6:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Sort of like the gay butler in the Wolf of Wall st.
Posted by: Cesare || 01/03/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#4  My sympathies with the parent, who underwent the horror. Useless modern jurisprudence and faggot legalism that keeps a man from 'making it right'.

My grandfather once caught a visiting 'uncle' molesting my cousin sister when I was small. I just remember a ruckus, and a big green bag being buried by servants on the estate at night. The man wasn't even sorely missed by his own family I think.

I remember a case in Texas a few years back. A man beat a rapist to death with his fists, good judge let him walk. The rapist was an immigrant or something.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 01/03/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
445 Bangladeshi caught returning from India in 2 months, claims BGB chief
[HindustanTimes] Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) has intercepted 445 people returning to the country from India in the last two months, Major General Shafeenul Islam who heads the country’s border guarding force told news hounds on Thursday, according to media reports from Dhaka.

This accounts for nearly half of all arrests made by BGB for illegal border crossing from India. Maj Gen Islam told news hounds that the BGB had detained nearly 1,000 people through 2019.

The spike in the arrests along the India-Bangladesh border coincides with a renewed campaign and public debate in India around the Citizenship Amendment Act that was passed by parliament last month and the proposed National Register of Citizens.

The CAA-NRC plan had triggered widespread street protests that started from northeastern states and later spread to other states and had spotlighted Home Minister Amit Shah pledge to evict all illegal immigrants colonists by 2024.

Maj Gen Islam, who was recently in Delhi for the Director General level talks with the Border Security Force (BSF), told news hounds that the 445 people caught at the border were Bangladeshi nationals who went to India illegally at different times and have nothing to do with the citizenship law in India.

"It is BGB’s duty to stop illegal infiltration into the country. It is our routine job and has nothing to do with NRC or CAA, therefore we are not worried about India’s internal crisis," the BGB chief told news hounds, according to Dhaka Tribune.

There have been reports in the Bangladesh media earlier about these arrests. Like the report in The Daily Star in November that quoted officials linking the spike in illegal crossing to fears of detention by the police.

The Daily Star reported the BGB chief as saying on Thursday that the paramilitary force had detained 1,102 people for trespassing into Bangladesh from neighbouring India last year. Of them, 606 were men, 258 people were women, 235 were children and three were human traffickers.

After verifying their identities through local representatives, BGB came to know that all the intruders are Bangladeshis. At least 253 cases were filed on charge of illegal trespassing through the borders of Jhenidah, Maheshpur and Satkhira, he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2020 01:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
I guess nobody wants Bangladeshis, not even Bangladesh.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 01/03/2020 3:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Josh Hawley: I'll Introduce A Resolution On Monday To Dismiss The Impeachment Charges Against Trump
[Hot Air] He’s been running for the 2024 nomination since the day he was sworn in as a senator, aiming to win over Trump’s base by picking fights with populist enemies like Big Tech. This move won’t hurt his chances.

Senate rules currently require the chamber to hold a trial once the president is impeached. McConnell himself has cited them as reason for why he can’t simply toss the articles of impeachment in the trash once Pelosi delivers them. In reality, he would want to hold a trial anyway for the simple reason that it helps vulnerable Republican incumbents like Cory Gardner, Martha McSally, and Susan Collins to show voters back home that they’re taking the case against Trump seriously before they inevitably vote to acquit. They’re going to try to soften the political blow by doing the same "prayerful" shtick about their deliberations as Pelosi did for hers. No need to make voters on the other side any angrier than they’re destined to be by appearing arrogant and contemptuous of the Democrats’ allegations against Trump.

Hawley doesn’t care about that, though. His seat is safe-ish in Missouri and he has his eye on the White House. He’ll be as contemptuous of the House effort as he can be in order to make an impression on Trump fans even though his proposed resolution to change the rules would obviously be an uncomfortable vote for Gardner, McSally, and Collins. The base wants to see Pelosi punished for impeaching the president and for her dopey delay strategy in refusing to send over the articles. What better way to do that than to change the rules to empower the Senate to dismiss impeachment if it isn’t brought in a timely manner? Federal courts allow it in criminal cases. Why should impeachment be different?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2020 02:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
12 hurt in New Year jubilation firing, 15 suspects held
[DAWN] Police authorities have arrested around 15 people for allegedly violating the government ban on firing shots into the air to herald New Year, which caused injuries to 12 persons, including three women and a minor girl, officials and rescue services said on Wednesday.
"Gravity is blasphemous!"
According to hospital sources, 12 persons were shot at and maimed owing to jubilation firing carried out in different parts of the city on Tuesday night.

Out of them, six maimed persons were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, said Dr Seemin Jamali, executive director of the hospital. None of them sustained life-threatening wounds.

Five more injured were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital while one person was taken to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, hospital sources added.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that a minor girl was hurt in Gulshan-e-Iqbal who was taken to a private hospital.

The rescue service official added Um-e-Banim, 12, was shot at and maimed near her residence in Block-4 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, when unknown persons resorted to firing. She was taken to the Aga Khan University Hospital for further treatment.

The Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that among the injured were three women.

Posted by: Fred || 01/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anyone up for a round of Chicago/Not Chicago?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/03/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  15 suspects held

Do they arrest miscreants in Chicago, SteveS?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2020 20:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Good point, tw. I don't think shooting people is considered a crime-crime in Chicago.

For the record, according to HeyJackass!, the weekly total is 35 shot with 6 dead.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/03/2020 21:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Germany/Not Germany.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/03/2020 22:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Da hell?! Apologies.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/03/2020 22:43 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Cinescope?
Posted by: Lex || 01/03/2020 22:49 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Daniel Defense DD5 V4 Hunter .308 Rifle (with adjustable gas block)
[Breitbart] The DD5 V4 Hunter is a precision built Daniel Defense rifle specifically designed to hunt popular, big game animals in North America.

The Hunter is available with a 18 or 20-inch barrel and has an adjustable gas block, to help tune your rifles to match your personal choice of suppressed or non-suppressed shooting.

The Hunter is equipped with a Geissele Super Semi-Automatic 2-Stage Trigger that allows you to: 1. Bring back when on target, removing all slack from the trigger pull. 2. Finish the trigger pull with a simple squeeze that is short and crisp. This trigger helps eliminate a tendency toward rifle movement during trigger pull, allowing the hunter to pull the trigger in stages while staying on target.

The DD5 V4 Hunter comes finished in Kryptek Highlander Camo and is optics ready.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2020 02:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Science
Scientists take big step towards making the perfect head of beer
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  :'-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/03/2020 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Where is that Oktoberfest graphic from the Rantburg library...? (The beer was nice, too...)
Posted by: magpie || 01/03/2020 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/03/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Is it a full bodied.....beer?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/03/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember this one time in Idaho when ... wait a monute, this says "perfect head of beer" not "for".
Never mind.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/03/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Hamms did it in the 60's with an isotope.

"Dad worked summer tours in the brewery.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/03/2020 22:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Brotherhood of Hamms?
Schweisterbund von Spaten?
Posted by: Lex || 01/03/2020 22:29 Comments || Top||



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