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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NYPD is searching for man who beat woman, 46, into a coma as she walked to work and tried to pull her pants off before fleeing on foot
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • NYPD is looking for a man seen in video punching a woman in Williamsburg on Tuesday
    ...Williamsburg is where the Chassids live. Certain groups have developed the habit of driving over there for a bit of Jew beating...
  • Unnamed suspect
    ...he appears to be a young white man this time, rather than an African-American or a Muslim...
    is accused of ambushing 46-year-old woman on her way to work, slamming her to the ground and hitting her in the head and body

  • Police say he tried to remove her pants before fleeing on foot

  • Victim was taken to Brooklyn Hospital and placed in medically-induced coma after suffering severe head trauma
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 10:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


College student, 21, and her stepfather, 45, are shot dead in road rage attack over fender bender while he was arriving to drop off keys to the new home she'd just bought
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, and Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, were killed on Monday

  • They were attacked in a road rage incident in Georgetown, South Carolina

  • Ty Sheem Walters III, 23, opened fire after rear-ending Wall's car, cops say

  • Anderson and Wall were killed, and another person was injured in the gunfire

  • Wall was arriving at Anderson's home to help with her new house

  • The college student had just purchased the home with money she'd saved

  • Walters allegedly fled on foot into the woods but was arrested after a manhunt
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 10:13 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some lives don't matter.... the lives of law-abiding, productive, hardworking citizens
Posted by: Chitch White6146 || 08/27/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Not road rage. Murder
Posted by: Gleresh Glump4925 || 08/27/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Ty Sheem Ha Sheem Walters III, was arrested and charged with murder after cops said he rear-ended Wall as the stepfather was turning into his daughter's driveway, and then killed Wall, Anderson, and injured one other person in a fit of rage.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Ty Sheem Ha Sheem Walters III, was arrested and charged with murder after cops said he rear-ended Wall as the stepfather was turning into his daughter's driveway, and then killed Wall, Anderson, and injured one other person in a fit of rage.

Why am I thinking Nathan Bedford Forrest?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  ...I spent a decade in Georgetown from Sep 06 to Jul 08. Not a word of this surprises me.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/27/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Beating the living shit out of this mutha f'er with a tire iron would still be too good for him.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I wish I could invent what I call the shampoo method of justice. You know, "Death, Revive, Repeat"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/27/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Dead eyes. Make the rest of him follow
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#9  He many have carried out the death penalty twice. The state is incapable of similar power. Not because the Constitution outlaws it, but because the judiciary does.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Most of us will probably be dead and buried while this scum of the earth will be alive and well getting three hots and a cot.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 18:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Has Lebron weighed in on this yet?
I'm sick of this - it's common for feral young black men to prey on anyone they are near.

This, Lebron, is why so many police interactions end badly.
Posted by: Rob06 || 08/27/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||


Ohio Medical Board Issues Verdict on Muslim Doctor Who Boasted She'd Give Jews ‘Wrong Meds'
[PJ] Lara Kollab, the former resident at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic who gleefully boasted that she would give the wrong medication to Jewish patients, has now, according to Cleveland.com, been "permanently prohibited from practicing osteopathic medicine or surgery in the state of Ohio, or from participating in another medical training program." The only salient question here is: what took them so long?
At the graphic, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Heinrich Himmler (1943).
This has been in deliberation for at least a year and a half. The Jerusalem Post reported as long ago as January 2019 that the "Jewish-American advocacy group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations [PJTN] filed a complaint with the state of Ohio Medical Board insisting the medical license of Dr. Lara Kollab [be revoked] after it was revealed she tweeted she would provide Jewish patients under her care with the wrong type of drugs."

Even worse, Kollab’s vicious statements were made as far back as 2012. Why didn’t the Ohio Medical Board revoke her medical license immediately?

Kollab was a doctor of osteopathic medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. But then Canary Mission published a report on her fiendishly hateful anti-Semitic tweets, including one in which she declared that she would "purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds." In another tweet, she wrote: "Studying for my med micro final, came across this. Clearly, I pay attention in class and write very useful notes." Accompanying that tweet was a handwritten note that read: "People who support Israel should have their immune cells killed so they can see how it feels to not be able to defend yourself from foreign invaders."

Kollab’s Twitter feed was a cesspool of hatred for those she called "Jewish dogs." She said: "walking through the streets of palestine is funny- every person who gets mad says something along the lines of ’Allah yo5odhom el yahood’ [Allah will take them, the Jews]." She reveled in her own hatred: "so basically every mseba [insult] I say is directed at the yahood [Jews] haha. even if I do something really stupid I say ’hebel yihbilhom el yahood’ [stupid stupid Jews] hehe."

It isn’t surprising that a devout and observant Muslim would have a seething hatred of Jews. The Qur’an tells Muslims that the Jews are the strongest of all people in enmity toward them (5:82), are accursed by Allah (9:30), and are always scheming against the Muslims (2:79; 3:75-3:78, 3:181, etc.). There is a great deal more anti-Semitic material in the Qur’an and Sunnah. These and other Qur’anic passages likely provide some insight into Kollab’s mindset.

In the Hippocratic Oath, doctors pledge that they will "do no harm or injustice" to their patients. Kollab not only repeatedly expressed her vehement hatred for Jews, but actually stated explicitly that she would give them the wrong medicine in order to do them harm.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 00:53 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I believe we have already seen this movie and it does not end well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  There's always Pakistan. Enjoy!
Posted by: Clyde Thraiter7206 || 08/27/2020 3:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Why didn’t the Ohio Medical Board revoke her medical license immediately?

Because they're pussies afraid to make tough, anti-PC calls like this.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, but make an attempt at humor on a hockey broadcast, and you are suspended in a New York minute. Bunch of pathetic limp Richards.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Looking at her picture, she doesn't look muzzie.
Posted by: Dacama || 08/27/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Neither does Brennan...
Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Warthog || 08/27/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Sounds like she's a perfect candidate for organ donation....to pigs and monkeys.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/27/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Looking at her picture, she doesn't look muzzie.

Palestinian-American, Dacama. Her family is from the West Bank.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#9  #8^ Thanks.
Posted by: Dacama || 08/27/2020 16:55 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin investigators say knife found at scene of police shooting of Jacob Blake
KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) - Investigators of a shooting by a white police officer that left a Black man, Jacob Blake Jr., paralyzed and the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, torn by civil strife found a knife belonging to Blake at the scene of the confrontation, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 00:46 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  gentle knife-wielding giant
Posted by: Kofi Bluetooth4800 || 08/27/2020 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I resent these people like hell. And the main reason - one of these days I'm going to read "Black man was lynched by a white mob", and my first thought will be "he probably had it coming".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Wisconsin investigators say knife found at scene of police shooting of Jacob Blake

To be promptly ignored by the MSM.
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 ignored hell, the MSM will claim it's a plant.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Knife was intended to be used mostly peacefully.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Knife was intended to be used mostly peacefully.

Well, deer hunting season is coming up and most hunters use a knife to field dress their catches.

Then again, Mr. Blake probably does not partake in that food-gathering excercise.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/27/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe he uses the knife to hunt bear?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#8  NBA shot itself in the foot for what appears to be another rush to judgement on a bad example of systemic racism.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/27/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/27/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Drug induced black man likes to hit women and boink children.

No wonder the NBA is in solidarity.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Not that I would, but Yahoo has closed comments on multiple articles, even in its Sports section. Here is their cute little quip:

"Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting."
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 22:10 Comments || Top||


Sailor being investigated for arson on U.S. warship that caught fire, official says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A United States Navy sailor is under investigation for possible arson aboard a warship that caught fire last month and injured dozens of people, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.

More than 60 people, including about 40 sailors, were treated for minor injuries during the four days of firefighting from land, air and sea when the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard caught fire while it was docked in San Diego.

The Bonhomme Richard, whose size ranks second in the U.S. Navy fleet to that of an aircraft carrier, sustained severe damage from the flames, leaving the ship listing to the starboard side, its superstructure collapsed and melted.

The defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Navy and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials were investigating a sailor, who was being questioned.

No one has been charged or arrested so far, the official added.

The Navy declined to comment on an ongoing investigation.

"We have nothing to announce at this time," a Navy statement said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 00:04 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Strange criminal activity, shrouded in secrecy by DoD. Could there possibly be something we're not supposed to know ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Word from the Herd is:

*They've had video of someone from the beginning.
*NIS is dotting every I and crossing every T. Their inability to actually prosecute anyone with any competence is coming back to haunt them, and they have been taking their time.

We'll see.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/27/2020 5:08 Comments || Top||

#3  So is the sailor perchance Antifa or BLM?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Doubtful 3dc. I suspect another entitlement group is involved, one that DoD now enthusiastically embraces. Just a guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 6:13 Comments || Top||

#5  He's an AFG translator?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||


#7  Just an early Floyd / Kenosha peaceful protester - nothing to see here.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#8  The biggest reason why the US is still the preeminent power in the world is the Navy, its control of the seas and its guarantee of passage and trade.

Based on the what's been happening the last few years, there's a massive cleanup job that needs to be done in the service.
Posted by: charger || 08/27/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Spencer Rapone's cousin?
Posted by: Ebboling Platypus9124 || 08/27/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||


Yaser Abdel Said Captured In Texas For Daughter's Honor Killings
[WFAA] A man on the FBI's Most Wanted List for slaying his two daughters in "honor killings" outside an Irving hotel in 2008 has been captured, the FBI and Irving Police Department announced Wednesday evening.

Yaser Abdel Said
...an Egyptian-American immigrant taxi driver who did not assimilate...
is accused of shooting and killing his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah. Investigators believe he was taking them to dinner when he shot them in the back of a taxi cab outside the Omni Hotel in Irving.

Said was taken into custody "without incident" in Justin, Texas, on Wednesday, according to an FBI release. Initially in federal custody, he will be transferred to Dallas County, the release said.

The FBI said they also arrested two relatives of Said in Euless for harboring a fugitive and they believe there are others who helped him evade capture.

Said has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitive list since 2014. FBI had placed a reward for tips and believed he may have still had ties to North Texas. The FBI said he frequented diners like Denny's and IHOP.

The FBI classified the shootings as "honor killings."

In the recorded 911 call, one of the girls is heard saying her father shot her.

Police believe Yaser Said was angry they were dating boys who were non-Muslim and killed them.

It was a high-profile case and there are still many details some are discovering more than a decade later.

"He followed them everywhere and he recorded their every move," said Ruth Trotter, a family friend, of home videos that show the father with his two teen daughters before their violent deaths.

In one of the videos, Yaser appears to be stalking his daughter Sarah at her work.

"She smiled at the customer," he says.

"Baba she has to do that. It’s part of her job," Amina replies to her father.

"She’s in trouble," he retorts.

Problems with their father went back years.

When they were younger, the girls told police he was sexually abusing them.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Great.
Now we're gonna have raghead riots in Dallas.
Maybe we can shoot them.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The ultimate bus journey! Tour from London to Delhi across 18 countries in 70 days, stopping off at Moscow, Prague and even the Great Wall of China on incredible new £15,000 excursion
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 10:36 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


CNN analyst & a lecturer at Yale, @AshaRangappa_, released the personal phone number of a conservative reporter
[Twitter]


Asha grew up in Hampton, Virginia[3] and graduated from Kecoughtan High School. She graduated cum laude with a A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1996 after completing a 136-page long senior thesis, titled "The Rule of Law: Reconciling, Judicial Institution Building and U.S. Counternarcotics Policy in Colombia", under the supervision of John Dilulio.[4][5] Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studying constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia.[3] She attended Yale Law School and did an internship with the US Attorneys office in Baltimore.[3] She graduated in 2000[2] and took a clerkship serving the Honorable Juan R. Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[6] In 2003 she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut.[7]

In 2001, Rangappa began her FBI training in Quantico, Virginia. After graduation from Quantico Academy, she moved to New York City where she took a job as an FBI special agent, specializing in counterintelligence investigations,[6] and became one of the first Indian Americans to hold the position.[8][2]

In 2005, Rangappa left the FBI to get married and have children.[2] She returned to Yale to become an associate dean of its law school.[9] Currently she serves as a director of admissions at Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[10] She has taught at Yale University,[11] Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses.[7]

She has published op-eds in HuffPost,[12] The Washington Post,[13] The New York Times, Time,[14] The Atlantic,[7] and The Wall Street Journal.[15] She has appeared on BBC, NPR,[16] and other networks as a commentator. She serves as a legal and national security analyst for CNN.[17][18]

Rangappa is a member of the board of directors for the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut,[19] the Connecticut Society of Former FBI Agents,[19] and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
Indian-American Renuka Asha Rangappa, like the woman she mocked that triggered young Alex Nester’s article, chooses to go by her middle name. She is large, containing multitudes...

Related: asharangappa.com
About - huge photo and note about living in Hamden CT
The article in question: CNN Analyst Falsely Accuses Nikki Haley of Changing Name
Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What an enormous relief to know she worked on counter intel threat assessment in the NYC ofc while an FBI 'special agent'. Something this slimy could easily have worked in the bureau's crown jewel, Boston.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/27/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  She's a legend in her own mind.
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2020 19:04 Comments || Top||


Becki Falwell confirms pool boy affair, denies Jerry watched
[NYPOST] Becki Falwell claimed Tuesday that she and the husband she cheated on, evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr., are "more in love than ever" — and insists he never watched her have sex with her much younger lover."We have the strongest relationship, and Jerry is the most forgiving person I’ve ever met," said Becki, 53, who began an extramarital affair with a Miami pool boy around 2012 — trysts that allegedly excited her spying evangelical hubby.

Becki denied to the Washington Post that her husband ever watched her have sex with pool boy Giancarlo Granda, 29.

Her comments come two days after Jerry Falwell, 58, a real estate developer and the now-former head of conservative Liberty University, revealed details of his wife’s affair with Granda. Jerry said the fling was brief and didn’t involve him — and that Granda had been trying to extort the pair over it ever since.

Granda has said Jerry — the son of the late famous televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. — not only knew about the affair, he enjoyed watching Granda and Becki have sex. Granda has denied any extortion attempts.



Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Too cheap to buy the missus a nice pair of C cups, Junior?
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Falwells should just go into politics. It wouldn't even be news then, especially if a Dem.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Wasn't there a previous, gay 'pool boy'?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||




The sea monster: Gigantic 1980s Soviet vehicle MD-160 that dwarfs a Boeing 747 lies abandoned in the Caspian Sea where it will be converted into a museum
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Ekronoplan
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/27/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  400 MPH missile-boat-plane-whatever.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/27/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 400 MPH missile-boat-plane-whatever.

Russian RMS Queen Mary
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Russians build them big.
Posted by: Dale || 08/27/2020 19:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I always thought their farm tractors were big.
Posted by: Dale || 08/27/2020 19:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Soviet Naval Aviation took amphibs/Hydroplanes quite seriously.

Check out The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 – Soviet Vertical Take-Off Amphibious Aircraft from the 1970s
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/27/2020 21:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pope Francis: Pandemic reveals unjust wealth inequality that 'cries out to heaven'
[Washington Examiner] Pope Francis said Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic reveals that the world's wealth is controlled by "a few rich people," which is "an injustice that cries out to heaven."

"We must say it simply: the economy is sick," Francis wrote in a letter. "It has become ill. It is sick. It is the fruit of unequal economic growth — this is the illness: the fruit of unequal economic growth — that disregards fundamental human values."

Francis emphasized the "injustice" that a small group of people "possess more than all the rest of humanity" and said that economic inequality is inextricably tied to the "damage inflicted on our common home," the Earth.

"We are close to exceeding many limits of our wonderful planet, with serious and irreversible consequences: from the loss of biodiversity and climate change to rising sea levels and the destruction of the tropical forests," Francis said. "Social inequality and environmental degradation go together and have the same root: the sin of wanting to possess and wanting to dominate one’s brothers and sisters, of wanting to possess and dominate nature and God Himself."

Francis also criticized the way that many governments have handled the pandemic, pointing out that work-from-home situations and online education are not viable options for many poor people. The pope, who frequently comments on social justice issues, said that these problems are not new but that the pandemic has "exposed and aggravated" a widening "inequality" between the rich and poor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/27/2020 00:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah Popie. Your Vatican real estate makes even Zuckerberg's palaces look like cardboard shacks. Share your wealth before admonishing others.
Posted by: Clyde Thraiter7206 || 08/27/2020 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing that some indulgence buying can't fix...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2020 2:21 Comments || Top||

#3  There's a cultural inequality. Some cultures value work and some value parasitism...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 3:54 Comments || Top||

#4  There's always been 'inequity' in the world as long as records have been kept. It's not going to change. No matter what 'system' you try to impose, there will always be one percenters. We're men, not angels. Follow your own laws - thou shall not covet, thou shall not steal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/27/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  "The poor will always be with you."

- Jesus of Nazareth
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/27/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Inequality is the socialist buzzword. You can't complain about the poor in America because they are wealthier than all but a few in Africa, so you go after the difference between rich and poor as if that's really a meaningful standard.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/27/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#7  The Catholic Church is the largest and topmost Christian organization which has an estimated wealth more than $30 billion. Estimation of its net worth comes from their ownership of properties including churches, schools, presbyteries, hospitals, nursing homes, offices, tennis courts and telephone towers.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/27/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Someone put a holy sock in this pope's mouth. Bring back "the Rottweiler"!
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 22:07 Comments || Top||


Global COVID19 cases surpass 24 million, according to Johns Hopkins University
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How many Flu cases?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 4:04 Comments || Top||

#2  "It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not sweating this - I'm already dead from Trump's tax cuts!
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Net Neutrality repeal killed me!
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 08/27/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Lies, damn lies and statistics.

What next?
Posted by: AlanC || 08/27/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ More of the same, of course! People eat that stuff up.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#7  I think more people want a return of Zima.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  With a world population of 8 billion, this means that only about 3 tenths of 1 percent of the people on the globe even have the disease, let alone suffering any effects from it. Or, conversely, 99.6%+ of the world's population doesn't even have the virus.
Posted by: Tom || 08/27/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||


Stronger Hurricane Laura races toward heart of US oil refining industry
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Hurricane Laura has strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it barrels toward the Louisiana and Texas coasts. "Little time remains to protect life and property," the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

The hurricane is on the verge of becoming a Category 5 hurricane before it potentially makes landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday, after which it is expected to rapidly weaken. Laura is expected to be the most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. this year. At least 20 million people are in the storm's path and over half a million people have been ordered to evacuate.

The hurricane center warned of potentially catastrophic and life-threatening storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding Wednesday night along the northwest Gulf Coast.

Laura's maximum sustained winds have increased to 150 mph, and is located about 75 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and about 75 miles south-southeast of Port Arthur, Texas.
Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mild thunderstorm in North Texas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||


#3  Heard the storm surge was 10 feet, instead of the predicted 20 feet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Yesterday (Wed): sunny skies, light breeze, people running around with their hair on fire.
Today (Thur): Sunny skies, light breeze. A lot quieter. I guess they all evacuated.
Has not rained a single drop.
I guess I'll put the generator back up.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/27/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  satellite image from 48 hours ago

so far only one death attributed

many of the people who live within a mile of the coast live in mobile homes and get out of the way for these things
Posted by: lord garth || 08/27/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Storm surge of 'only' 10 feet is still significant in a place like Cameron Parish ('County') where the highest elevation is less than 20' feet.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/27/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#7  I hope they got those school buses in a safe place this time.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 18:13 Comments || Top||

#8  10 feet is plenty.

It was the call of 20 which was getting the volunteer communities really kicking into gear.

I understand there are convoys of hay from Texas on the way as a Thank You for Your Help after Harvey.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Flash floods kill more than 70 in Afghanistan
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Colombia official says troops alone will not stop killings
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
In a shift, Belarus leader seeks to stem protests gradually
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China-Japan-Koreas
Vanguard to close Hong Kong, Japan operations
[Yahoo Finance] U.S. asset manager Vanguard Group said on Wednesday it will close its operations in Hong Kong and Japan and exit Hong Kong exchange-traded funds, citing unsupportive "industry dynamics".

The fund giant, with about $5 trillion in assets, said in a statement that its Hong Kong business primarily served institutional clients and not retail investors, which are its primary focus.

It said the exit would happen gradually and take between 6 months to two years.

Vanguard, which launched a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) in China in May 2017, said it will "gradually cease (its) onshore presence in Hong Kong and make an orderly exit" from its Hong Kong ETF, Mandatory Provident Fund and Index-Tracking Investment Schemes businesses.

Hong Kong is home to Vanguard's Asian headquarters. The index fund giant closed its Singapore operation in 2018.

In a separate statement, a spokesman confirmed that Vanguard would also close in Japan, and shift its primary office in Asia to Shanghai.

"Our future focus in Asia is on Mainland China," the spokesman said in an email.

Vanguard's closure plans were first reported on Wednesday by Ignites Asia, a Financial Times service.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 10:51 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  HK has, for a long time, been the comfortable plush "front office" operations and marketing/sales face for companies that had moved manufacturing first and then accounting, IT, operations and other management to Shenzhen and other places in southern China. Hong Kong was sort of the insurance policy for the ChiComs with regards to the West but, with the abrogation of the one country two systems agreement from when HK changed over from British to Chinese sovereignty and the draconian Nat Sec law in HK recently, that junk seems to have sailed.

The Vanguard decision may not be directly caused by the Chinese heavy HK hand - but probably made it easier. They are index funds anyway so probably can manage from almost anywhere. Their joint venture with Ant hopes to have a dual listing IPO in HK and Shanghai. HK will become more of a second fiddle to Shanghai probably as the financial center of the heathen Chinee - for better or worse.
Posted by: York Harding || 08/27/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Well you can see from text they are shifting to China.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 08/27/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||


Promote Ethnic Unity by arranging for Han men to MARRY Uyghur women
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 08/27/2020 07:15 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Well, this is _one_ way to soak up the "Excess" Han male population. Conquest by assimilation, anyone?
Posted by: Nguard || 08/27/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  4 Han women for every Uyghur male? What say you Xi?
Posted by: Clyde Thraiter7206 || 08/27/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm kind of amazed China didn't do this right off. Last I heard the 1-child policy has left them with way to many males. If each took an Uyghur bride they could basically destroy Uyghurs culture in a generation.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/27/2020 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  What do the bride candidates say?
Or are they, say, just egg baskets?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  they did this with the Tibetans
Posted by: 746 || 08/27/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Bold plan there Longshanks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Egg baskets, yes, willing or not, and Uyghur men can go without. Young Han men who are unlucky with Han girls but have shown themselves to be good communists are rewarded. Uyghur parents who are willing to pimp their daughters are also rewarded.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  That's how Chinese absorbed anybody who successfully invaded them in the last 2000 years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||


Norks issue new picture of Kimmie
Is he real or is he Memorex?
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Posted by: Fred || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Things don't seem so bad there. They have bottled water.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ^And very clean clothing. Though white isn't slimming.
Posted by: Secret Master || 08/27/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 4:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I see flowers in the background. Are they in bloom at the proper time?
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2020 5:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Very doubtful, gorb - remember the harpies screaming about Melania's Rose Garden renovations last week? The pictures the MSM were using showed the cherry blossoms in the background, making those pictures sometime in April. I have some tulips and some other fuckin' plant / bush that flower in the spring as well, so this pic's four or five months old, at least.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Could be worse, wearing all that white after Labor Day
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#7  It's their service dress white uniform. Very spiffy, them Norks.
Posted by: Spot || 08/27/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#8  and some other fuckin' plant / bush that flower in the spring as well,

What colour are the flowers, Raj dear? And is it perfumed?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||

#9  The flowers behind Pudgy are actually an oversized painting — the gilded frame can be seen when the image is expanded. I think they are azaleas and rhododendrons in some sort of mountain forest scene.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#10  The flowers behind Pudgy are actually an oversized painting...

Or... Pudge is even shorter than we thought.

This fun! It's like playing "Kremlinology" in the old days.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/27/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#11  tw - just looked it up - it's a lilac. My brain's still a bit jarred from a 1.5 hour dental session yesterday. Oh, and a half dozen yellow tulips.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Pictures of the ears please.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Well dang. I thought I had him. Outsmarted again.

How about his weight? Does he weigh less than any other photos?
Posted by: gorb || 08/27/2020 19:03 Comments || Top||

#14  it's a lilac.

I love lilacs. My mother planted one at the corner of the house on which I grew up. The only house I had a lilac in was the rented house in Germany — none of the others have had enough sun in the right places.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 22:00 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU trade commissioner RESIGNS after outcry over attending quarantine-defying golf party in Ireland
[RT] EU Commissioner Phil Hogan is the latest political casualty of the ’Golfgate’ scandal in which a host of Irish politicians partied at a golf club dinner,
hours after introducing strict lockdown measures for the public.
Hogan, a member of Ireland’s Fine Gael party, announced his resignation on Wednesday. One day earlier, he briefed Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on his activities in Ireland last week.

Hogan attended a lavish party at the Station House Hotel in Clifden, County Galway, last Wednesday. Together with more than 80 people, including current and former MPs, senators, ambassadors and a supreme court judge, Hogan dined in an event organized by the Oireachtas (Parliament) Golf Society.

While guests sat ten to a table, the Irish public were hit with new coronavirus lockdown measures. These included a ban on indoor gatherings of more than six people at home and more than 50 in restaurants. Most pubs in the country remain closed too, and the entire county of Kildare, which borders Dublin, is under strict lockdown.

Hogan insisted that he broke no regulations, as he tested negative for Covid-19 two weeks before the dinner. However, Irish regulations require anyone returning from abroad — as Hogan did from Brussels — to quarantine for 14 days, test or no test. Since his return from Belgium, it emerged that not only did Hogan not quarantine at home, he journeyed to Dublin, Kilkenny and Limerick — via the quarantined county of Kildare.

With public anger high, Hogan is not the only Irish politician whose career was jeopardized by ‘Golfgate'. Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary resigned last week after apologizing "unreservedly" for his attendance.

For Ireland's newly-appointed Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheal Martin, the scandal is yet another bump in a rocky two months in office. Since forming a government in June, Martin has already lost one agriculture minister over a drunk driving charge, and faced criticism for bumping up the paychecks of his junior ministers at a time of virus-induced austerity.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just who in the hell do these people think they are? Their arrogance is something, as is their snobbery.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice he resigned, Clem - would his USA counterpart do the same?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ...at a time of virus-induced austerity.

I wonder what really caused the austerity - the virus or stupid EU commissioners passing lockdown edicts and then breaking them themselves en masse? It's a real mystery.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Lockdown induced.

Just like COVID, the harm is from over-reaction.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, he resigned but still did it in the first place. "...a lavish party...". Uh huh.

Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Got caught, unless you think he would have woke up the next morning, looked in the mirror, and decided he wasn't fit for duty.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||


French minister defends 'precious freedom' of topless sunbathing after social outcry over police ordering women to cover up
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Holiday maker tells locals how to behave, and also uncovered bewbs cause the covid and we can't have an article without mentioning the covid.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  There can be no free speech without boobs!
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/27/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#3  You don't want to get skin cancer on them there hooters, ma'am.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/27/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||


Hydroxychloroquine reduces by 30% the risk of death in hospitalized patients affected by COVID-19
[MedicalXpress] An Italian observational study contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine in the current pandemic. The research, conducted on 3,451 patients treated in 33 hospitals throughout the Italian territory (list of participating centers attached), shows that the use of this drug reduces by 30% the risk of death in hospitalized patients affected by COVID-19.

Published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, the study was coordinated by the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of the I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, Pozzilli, in collaboration with Mediterranea Cardiocentro, Naples, and the University of Pisa, with the participation of 33 hospitals forming the CORIST collaboration (COVID-19 RISk and Treatments). Researchers analysed data regarding current and previous diseases, therapies followed before the infection and drugs administered in the hospital specifically for the treatment of COVID-19. All this information was compared with the evolution and the final in-hospital outcome of the infection.

"We observed—explains Augusto Di Castelnuovo, epidemiologist at the Neuromed Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, currently at Mediterranea Cardiocentro in Naples—that patients treated with hydroxychloroquine had a 30% lower in-hospital mortality rate compared to those not receiving this treatment. Our data were subjected to extremely rigorous statistical analysis, taking into account all the variables and possible confounding factors that could come into play. The drug efficacy was evaluated in various subgroups of patients. The positive results of hydroxychloroquine treatment remained unchanged, especially in those patients showing a more evident inflammatory state at the moment of admission to the hospital."

"While waiting for a vaccine, dentifying effective therapies against COVID-19 is an absolute priority," says Licia Iacoviello, Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at Neuromed and professor of Public Health at the University of Insubria at Varese. "We hope that our research will make an important contribution to the international debate on the role of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of hospitalized patients for coronavirus. Further observational studies and ongoing clinical tials will of course be needed to better assess the role of this drug and the most appropriate administration methods. However, data from the CORIST collaboration support the use of hydroxychloroquine. At variance with some studies carried out in other countries, where efficacy of the drug was not observed, it is interesting to note that the doses of hydroxychloroquine adopted in Italy (200 mg, twice a day) are lower than the ones used in those researches."

"In past months, the World Health Organization recommended a stop to the use of hydroxychloroquine on the basis of an international observational study, subsequently retracted. Now the new data from the CORIST study, resulting from a 'real life' national collaboration, might help health authorities better clarify the role of this drug in the treatment of COVID-19 patients," says Giovanni de Gaetano, President of Neuromed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now combine HCQ/zinc with covid specific antibodies.
Antibodies for extracellular virus, HCQ/zinc for intracellular.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Take your daily aspirin.

Blood thinners may increase coronavirus survival by 50%, decrease intubations 30%: Study
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||


Belgian restrospective study: HCQ saved lives
[ScienceDirect] Of 8075 patients with complete discharge data on 24th of May and diagnosed before the 1st of May, 4542 received HCQ in monotherapy and 3533 were in the no-HCQ group. Death was reported in 804/4542 (17.7%) and 957/3533 (27.1%), respectively.
[this is HCQ, low dose, i.e. 2400mg over 5 days, without zinc or an antibacterial]
Posted by: lord garth || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Great White North
Book reveals how RCMP caught KGB agent posing as Canadian

[Globalnews.ca] On Jan. 30, 1961, acting on information uncovered by the RCMP, Britain’s MI-5 security service examined the penis of a man who purported to be a Canadian named Gordon Lonsdale and confirmed he was a KGB spy.

It was the turning point of a key Cold War counter-espionage operation that outed Konon Trofimovich Molody as a Russian "illegal" — a deep-cover Soviet agent who had taken over Lonsdale’s identity.

Stealing the identities of Canadians is a common Russian spy stunt, but choosing Molody to double as Lonsdale was a fatal oversight by the KGB, and one the RCMP helped expose.

The RCMP played a "crucial role," says Trevor Barnes, the author of a new book on what became known as the Portland Spy Ring, in an interview with Global News.

In Dead Doubles, Barnes mines newly declassified MI-5 case files to unravel the story of what the British call one of their "most significant post-war counter-espionage cases."

The investigation began after the CIA learned from an informant, code-named Sniper, that secrets from a highly-sensitive Royal Navy research facility in Portland, England, were making their way to the Soviets.

MI-5 soon focused on Harry Houghton, a former British naval attaché in Warsaw who fit the profile supplied by Sniper. While under surveillance, Houghton met in London with a man MI-5 identified as a Canadian jukebox salesman, Gordon Lonsdale.

To discern whether Lonsdale might be also a spy, MI-5 had a discreet look in his safe deposit box and discovered "a treasure trove of KGB spy paraphernalia," Barnes said.

Notably, hidden in a cigarette lighter, MI-5 operatives found cipher pads of the type used by the Soviets to decode incoming radio messages and encode outgoing ones.

The RCMP subsequently began to investigate Lonsdale, but could find little about him, except that he was born in Cobalt, Ont., in 1924 and had obtained a driver’s licence in Vancouver in 1954. In 1955, he had applied for a passport.

Beyond that, the RCMP security service struggled to find any trace of the man. There were scant records or witnesses who recalled him. His life in Canada was "shrouded in darkness," wrote the MI-5 officer in charge of the investigation.

"This total absence of documentation is perhaps the most revealing piece of evidence that Lonsdale is an illegal intelligence agent."

As it turned out, it wasn’t actually the most revealing piece of evidence.

The CIA informant Sniper defected in January 1961, forcing MI-5 to round up its spy ring suspects, including Lonsdale and two others posing as Canadians. But MI-5 needed "irrefutable evidence" that the man who said he was Lonsdale was an imposter, Barnes said.

So the RCMP kept at it, and on Jan. 16, 1961, they reported to MI-5 they had found something: Lonsdale’s father in northern Ontario had given a statement, and he was adamant his son had been circumcised....

....Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia continued sending "illegals" to Canada to assume false identities, often chosen by "tombstoning" — trolling graveyards looking for deceased children whose lives they could exploit....
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Canadian jukebox salesman

Seems like the first clue right there - who's buying that bullshit?
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  God forgive me, I have to say it.
"So, they caught him by the foreskin."

I'll be standing in the corner if you want me.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/27/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Ghost of Pappy™ issues you a pass, Ed. Almost Snark O' The Day
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrat governors who ordered nursing homes to take COVID patients probed by DOJ
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 15:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just curious - if they were sent to state hospitals, who paid?

If they were sent to nursing homes, who paid?

Might it just be about the money?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/27/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Well it is one way to stop having to pay those pensions...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/27/2020 17:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow, you mean Bill Barr is on the trail again?
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 18:15 Comments || Top||

#4  I really believe the Dem Govs were intentionally trying to thin the elderly population in order to remove as much past financial "liabilities" from their welfare system.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/27/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Should've put governor Charlie Baker (R - MA) on the list just to make it 'bipartisan'.
Posted by: Raj || 08/27/2020 20:11 Comments || Top||

#6  If they were sent to nursing homes, who paid?

They were nursing home residents who fell ill there, were sent to hospitals for diagnosis and treatment, but such was the concern about keeping hospital beds available for te hordes to come that they were quickly sent back to their nursing homes to recuperate or die while more valuable sick people were allowed to be treated by the hospitals.

So they were already paying their monthly rent and fees, and Medicare covered the upcharge for being on the skilled nursing floor.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 20:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Minnesota?

TW there has to be a longer money trail.
Posted by: Woodrow || 08/27/2020 22:23 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Arab towns a ‘catastrophe,’ virus czar warns
[IsraelTimes] Coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu says at a presser that Arab-majority areas are seeing a large spike in coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
infections.

"Local authorities in Arab areas see it, feel very very unsettled, because this is creating infection cycles," he says. "I call on Arab society and leaders to act. This is a catastrophe."

He notes that his continuing opposition to lockdown measures, but says that Israel’s infection rate is among the highest in the world, creating a "complicated situation, perhaps among the most complicated in the world."

Gamzu says Israel has reached a point where it is seeing 400 deaths a month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Soon to outpace the ultra-orthodox (whom G*d told not to wear masks)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 4:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
More than 100 coronavirus cases in 8 states linked to massive Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 12:56 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When we're averaging 50k cases per day in the U.S., this proves ... just, what, exactly? Bikers B Bad?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/27/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#3  g(r)om, they decided to roll the dice. Some loose.
They decided.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/27/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  And they isolated themselves - so is not to affect others? Did the idea - that they owe consideration to others, even occur to them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  3 Weeks after event.
100 confirmed cases of event goers.
Event goers may not have contracted China Plague at the actual event.
Test may be false positives.
250,000 event attendees.

No deaths.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Yet
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/27/2020 15:29 Comments || Top||


#8  Eeyore speaks
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 15:50 Comments || Top||

#9  No deaths...yet

That's significant if true.
Generally there are fatal bike accidents, shootings, crushing of attendees passed out under vehicles, ODs, etc.
Pretty subdued.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Yet?

How many more weeks do you need?

One of those old school bikers, been smoking cigarettes for the last 50 years, gets the covid in October, you gonna call that on the Sturgis event?

And 500,000?

I like the line, 'While bikers ride in open air..'

Like riding in the open air is better protection against the covid than, say in your car with the various air filters working on air...from the open air?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/27/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Three cheers to 500,000 people who want to live life and enjoy life, not just sitting around thinking about a life not worth living.
Posted by: Clem || 08/27/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Ditto that #11.
Posted by: Dale || 08/27/2020 19:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Eyesore?
Is that a bad thing?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 21:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Gotta own your behavior Frank.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/27/2020 21:05 Comments || Top||

#15  Yep
Posted by: Frank G || 08/27/2020 21:51 Comments || Top||



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