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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Convicted Felon Charged in Ambush Shooting of L.A. County Deputies
[LI] L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced the arrest of Deonte Lee Murray, 36, in relation to the ambush shooting of two county deputies.

From Fox LA:
Deonte Lee Murray, 36, of Compton, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon on two counts each of willful, deliberate and premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer and possession of a firearm by a felon, District Attorney Jackie Lacey said.

Lacey expressed her best wishes to the injured deputies and said, "They became victims of a violent crime for one reason: They were doing their job and they were wearing a badge."

The two deputies sustained wounds to the face and head on September 12 near the Compton Metro station. They received surgery and have left the hospital.

Police took Murray into custody on September 15 after a standoff in Lynwood on unrelated charges.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that they suspected him of an armed carjacking and not the shooting at that time:
The gang member apparently dunnit merely because he hates cops.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 08:40 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe released from prison to dodge the big Corona?
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Need to see a picture of the 36 year old child.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  The video sure made the assailant look like a kid or a munchkin.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  A usual suspects pickup. Soros funded lawyer and bail will call the day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Gonna need some stats; even I'm taller than that car.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe that is an Explorer, not a car. Assuming it is, does your opinion change?
Posted by: illeagle || 10/03/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||

#7  2020 Ford Explorer features & specifications: Height = 69.9 in. = 5'10"

From the foto the perp would appear to be between 5'2 and 5'5" or so
Posted by: Thaish Lumumba3594 || 10/03/2020 18:25 Comments || Top||

#8  It does, but not by much.

When I was younger, I had to step up into full size vehicles. Now, I have to duck.

I want them to be correct; picking someone up to end the story will piss everyone off.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 19:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't have a reference, but someone was pointing out the security cam footage had some severe lens distortion. That would make measurements or even just eye-balling it a little whack without some correction.

The vehicle was identified as a Ford or Dodge SUV-ish thing, not a car as it appears in the clip.

Still... the perp's gait is curious. Very dwarf-like, IMHO.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 19:50 Comments || Top||

#10  New police-shooters suit, double-breasted:
Deonte, not long since arrested.
No, crime didn't pay...
But today, in LA...
If a streetwise attorney invested?
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe the perp had rickets and became seriously bowlegged like Scatman Crothers or the running back Floyd Little?
Posted by: Deadeye Slaiter9572 || 10/03/2020 20:10 Comments || Top||

#12  ... or some sort of ball fungus.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||

#13  Would explain why so many were noting the atypical gait of the suspect.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||


Alabama man sentenced to 600 years for child pornography
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just kill him and save the money
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/03/2020 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Does he get Epstein's cell?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/03/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  When he gets to jail, he'll probably wish he were dead.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  He'll be dust in far less than 600 years.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  The ancients had a charming custom of sealing alive criminals in caves.
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#6  "They were relatives. I thought it was OK"
Posted by: Uleger Flart6593 || 10/03/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||


Chicago Shocking video shows the moment police confront a knife suspect, taser him, the man overcomes the taser and stabs an officer, and finally, police shoot him to death
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What? The guy was only armed with a KNIFE, and they SHOT him? Time to start up the riots.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/03/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I forget where I saw it (Second City Cop blog maybe?), but the cops were complaining that the cheap-ass (chinese?) batteries in their tazers would not hold a charge and were not reliably useful for subduing bad guys.

That would explain all these instances where the perps are seemingly unaffected by a taser shot. Although drugs is another possibility.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Gentle giant. Time to RIOT!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Thank you, pard, for not hitting me with any of those 17 9mm rounds you shot while I was in a clench with the perp. I owe you...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah no shit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Note the effective use of CQB squealing as an assault deterrent.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Woman cop needs a desk job. She panicked, screamed and neither backed away nor shot him. The perp could have killed her at any time but all he wanted was the Taser to stop. Instead, the male cops were forced to kill him. Complete CF.
Posted by: Lemuel Flereck8330 || 10/03/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  ^He had attacked and cut civilians moments before. He was advancing on the police before he was tased. He was tripping on something, shot numerous times but did not fall. Until a shot appeared to hit him in the spine.

This dude was on some serious drug and was hyper rabid.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/03/2020 21:57 Comments || Top||

#9  There needs to be a rule, imposed upon the media by court orders a la the "gag rule," that media coverage regarding every incident of deadly police shooting should either feature the results of a medical examiner-administered blood test of the victim and a related, detailed report
-
OR
-
... refrain from any comment, characterization or analysis of said shooting until such medical examiner report becomes available.
Posted by: Lemuel Johnson9090 || 10/03/2020 23:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Note the effective use of CQB squealing

A technique I must add to my repertoire.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 23:15 Comments || Top||

#11  A solid case for F.A.I.L. Slips.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 23:21 Comments || Top||


Eastpointe teen arraigned in death of 17-year-old girlfriend
[FREEP] A 17-year-old Eastpointe teen was charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of his 17-year-old girlfriend, Eastpointe Police said Friday.
'Cuz black lives matter.
RayQuan Taylor was charged with one count each of manslaughter and manslaughter-death by weapon aimed with intent but without malice, and two counts of felony firearms offenses, police said in a post on its Facebook page Friday afternoon.

He is accused in the death Wednesday of Kira Seymour, who is the mother of a 1-month-old baby girl.

Taylor was arraigned Friday in 38th District Court in Eastpointe and ordered held in the Macomb County Jail on a $500,000 bond, according to the police's Facebook post. His next court date is Oct. 20.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Cuz black lives matter.

Why no riots and looting? Oh, yeah.
Posted by: Lemuel Flereck8330 || 10/03/2020 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  RayQuan. Sort of like Ronald Raygun. But a mattering black life...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  death by weapon aimed with intent but without malice

"Nuthin' personal. Jus' business."
Posted by: Sheba Panda3942 || 10/03/2020 2:18 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 3:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Debunked. Sort of like COVID...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 4:16 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'You come for Rick Moranis, you come for all of us!' Social media condemns attacker in an 'I love NY' hoodie who sucker-punched 67-year-old, 5ft 5in 'Ghostbusters' actor in New York
The knockout game being played with gusto.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 12:14 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another under-reported common crime perpetrated solely by blacks on whites.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||

#2  If the people of NY catch the criminal before the police do, his health may take a turn for the worse, left-right, gangs etc seem to be untied on this one. Whoever did this should turn himself in.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/03/2020 16:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Is Hollywood blood extra red?
Should it get unpaid space in your head?
And is that -- have ya heard? --
Umpteen thousand and third
Random little old lady still dead?
Posted by: Rick Moranis || 10/03/2020 16:47 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 - I'm sure the MSM could find the rare exception to dispute the truth
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Guess he's a involuntary contestant on the Sledgehammer game?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/03/2020 19:37 Comments || Top||

#6  pssssst...

You think that kid would auto-recognize Rick Moranis?

That means they are already coming after you.

I did wonder what the reaction would be when, eventually, one of The Precious got whollopped.

And I do wish Mr. Moranis a speedy recovery; seems he is among the better people of acting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 21:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Guy should be careful sucker-punching a guy with a shrink ray...

(Honey I shrunk the sucker-puncher!)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2020 21:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Time to join the game. Locate and knock out this feral shit. With a tire iron.
Posted by: Heriberto White4468 || 10/03/2020 22:39 Comments || Top||


WWII The Karlsruhe steamer located, possibly contains Russian tsarist treasure
[Guardian] Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German second world war ship that may help solve a decades-old mystery about the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber that the Nazis looted from a tsarist palace in Russia.

Decorated with amber and gold, the room was part of the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg. It was last seen in Königsberg, then a Baltic port city in Germany but now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

The Karlsruhe steamer set sail from Königsberg in 1945 with a heavy cargo before Soviet warplanes sank it off the coast of Poland.

Divers from the Baltictech group say they have found the wreck of the Karlsruhe.

"We have been looking for the wreckage since last year when we realised there could be the most interesting, undiscovered story lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea," Tomasz Stachura, one of the divers, said in a statement.

Weather Channel video found here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 04:58 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Nazis carefully dismantled the chamber, packed it in crates, and shipped it to Königsberg Castle in eastern Germany, the ancient seat of the Teutonic Knights and the heart of their medieval amber trade. There Erich Koch, head of the Nazi Party in East Prussia, had the room reassembled and advertised it as a “German possession, now at last restored to its rightful owners.” In 1945, however, as Germany’s war was ending with the Allies squeezing the Nazis from the east and west, the room was once again dismantled, packed in 24 crates, and stacked in the courtyard of the castle. From there it disappeared, and it has not been seen since. Some investigators believe it burned when the Russians set fire to the castle when they attacked it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/03/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Another theory put forth is that the amber was taken from the castle’s courtyard in early 1945 and again hidden in its cellars. It was then destroyed when the castle was heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force. This theory is supported by the conclusions of two studies made by British investigative journalists Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy and by Soviet investigators. Both studies concluded that the Amber Room was most likely destroyed when Königsberg Castle was burned shortly after its surrender.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/03/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||


Althea Bernstein claimed 4 white racists set her on fire in Madison, Wisc.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

According to investigative documents, Bernstein told the responding officer she is Hispanic and Black.

Harris told Bernstein’s attorney, Andrea Sumpter, during a meeting Tuesday that no one planned to file any charges against Bernstein, saying there’s no evidence she colluded with anyone to make a false report and there was no evidence she was involved in any of the destruction during the protest.

Harris told Sumpter that Bernstein had clearly suffered injuries to her face and that detectives were interested in whether someone else had hurt her in a different way than she had alleged.

Sumpter said she had no alternative information from Bernstein or her family about how she was burned and “acknowledged that there can be many reasons why a victim might not want to be forthcoming about who caused injuries,” Harris wrote.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any relation to Jesse Smollett?
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  "Please respect my attention-grabbing lies privacy."
Posted by: charger || 10/03/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  ...pants on fire
Posted by: Gleting Black3363 || 10/03/2020 0:38 Comments || Top||

#4  (Definitely) Fat (maybe) multi-racial (maybe) jewish girl. Steve Sailer has been having fun speculating that Haven Monahan is one of the Hawaiian shirt clad "typical white frat boys" from her original, since downplayed incident report.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:38 Comments || Top||

#5  That "I'm cashin' in" smile. Hasn't worked out that way...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 1:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Supposedly 4 white guys in Hawaiian shirts. Could be the poifect crime.
Posted by: Lemuel Flereck8330 || 10/03/2020 1:49 Comments || Top||

#7  What Happened at Madison’s Protests(June 23-24)
Got too close to an Antifa / BLM molotov thrower? If it wasn't her.
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 2:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Likely she was the thrower. Evidence of lighter fluid on her shirt indicates that she prepped the cocktail.
Posted by: Beldar Snolunter9051 || 10/03/2020 2:23 Comments || Top||

#9  "They attacked me, cuz I was doing nuffin but getting ready to set up my GoFundMe site and do interviews"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 6:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Heavy.com did a 5 Fast Facts on the young lady:

Bernstein as an EMT and is studying to be a firefighter and paramedic. She is studying at Madison College.

That essay says she was home-schooled, lived in the Madison area her entire life, liked to travel, and worked at a veterinarian clinic.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Supposedly 4 white guys in Hawaiian shirts

Actually she reported two of the four guys wearing Hawaiian shirts (supposedly some dog-whistle for white supremacy), the other two were dressed in black.

Originally thought this might be some false-flag thing, but the more info (what little they release) leads me closer to what Beldar notes. The detectives would have found accelerant splashed somewhere in the vehicle if the event occurred as Ms. Bernstein described.

And the timelines are wrong.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/03/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#12  Anyone can lie, but the racial grievance crowd seems especially primed...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Looking at the burns, or lack there-of, going with Beldar.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Doing her best to Make America Racist Again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/03/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||

#15  She is lucky to escape with only superficial burns. They could have turned her into a newt. A fat, juicy newt.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#16  /\ Picture her taking a selfie, phone in her right hand when the thrower on her left throws a molotov. *Splat* *Sizzle* The burning gasoline soaked rag hits her on the left side of the faceas it flies by.
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 12:23 Comments || Top||

#17  Hawaiian rag in that bottle. Hazie Morono and Tubby Flabbard unavailable for comment...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 13:24 Comments || Top||

#18  Tokay with a tropical bokeh...
Oy vey, an inflammable nosegay!
Remember, remember...
The glimmer of amber!
A shot in the dark:
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 17:38 Comments || Top||

#19  All together now, everybody sing and reel in a rollicking crew:

Althea through thick & thin: ALTHEA!

Althea, fire of my loins but never loin from le feu: ALTHEA!

Althea now, Althea later (alligator), Althea forever, ALTHEA!
Posted by: Neville Cleque3524 || 10/03/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#20  but the song was more pleasant: " Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered to the extreme!"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 18:12 Comments || Top||

#21  Simple: run the records on her smart phone to get the when and where. Want to bet it shows she was not where she claimed she was, when she claimed it to happen? On the flip side, if the place/time are confirmed, then they have a case to work.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/03/2020 18:28 Comments || Top||

#22  The police already grabbed tons of video footage of the entire area and found nobody even close to matching the description and no evidence of accelerant anywhere but her shirt, not in car, not on pants.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/03/2020 19:02 Comments || Top||

#23  Stone walls do not a prison make, Althea, not iron bars a cage, but they will do.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/03/2020 22:33 Comments || Top||

#24  Nor...
Posted by: Grunter || 10/03/2020 22:34 Comments || Top||

#25  You really want someone who lies like this telling you "you're going to be OK" in the back of an ambulance?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 22:45 Comments || Top||

#26  She's a criminal. Prosecute her.
Enough of this bullshit and redirection.
Posted by: Bill Speaking for Boskone7602 || 10/03/2020 23:01 Comments || Top||

#27  ^ Amen
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 23:03 Comments || Top||

#28  Won't happen tho. She's a "victim of white supremacy" and we need to feel sorry for her and send money to her dollar up page.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 23:06 Comments || Top||

#29  Dunno about the molotov. If she'd been involved with that, John Nolan Drive would have been a faster way to get to ER. Maybe a little freebasing accident?
Posted by: James || 10/03/2020 23:42 Comments || Top||

#30  Homesick for altheas now (though I always kinda looked down on 'em as yankee hibiscus... shame on me).

A shriek like an Eli's, then swearin',
When "Black" one-drop anarchist Karen
Goes "Mazel tov!", throws,
Blows her Instagram pose
As she grows those road-roses of Sharon.
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 23:59 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Grieving family sue Texas cops for breaking 23-year-old father's neck during violent arrest, holding his head up to take mugshot and failing to get him medical attention for 21 hours - leading to his death three months later
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 12:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Violent arrest? Sounds like the perp put up a bit of a struggle, eh?
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunno, Clem, unless he was a flyweight boxer he didn't seem to have enough mass to put up a serious struggle
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/03/2020 19:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I was kinda being sarcastic, Merc. "Violent arrest" I guess could be taken multiple ways, but with the "grieving family" suing the cops, my suspicious meter went into the red.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 20:22 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Washington hits Belarus with sanctions as Minsk retaliates against EU measures
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong Un's sister is seen for the first time in two months after her absence sparked speculation about her falling out of favour with North Korean leader
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Kim Yo-jong, the dictator's younger sister, has not been seen since July 27

  • Security analysts speculated that her rising stardom had irritated Kim Jong Un

  • Kim has previously had political rivals within his own family executed

  • But Kim Yo re-emerged on Friday during Kim Jong's visit to flood-hit areas
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 12:54 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  She's back in favor since her frontal lobotomy...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 16:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if she was sent off to charm school.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Cardiac surgery - to install a human heart
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#4  6 more weeks of AA executions.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 23:36 Comments || Top||


Economy
661,000 New Jobs In September, Unemployment Rate Falls Half A Point To 7.9 Percent
[The Federalist] The September jobs report out Friday shows unemployment fell half a point from 8.4 percent to 7.9 percent with 661,000 new jobs added, signaling a stagnating economic recovery in the final weeks to the November election.

Unemployment previously stood at 3.5 percent in February before the pandemic hit in March, taking 40 million jobs with it as a consequence of lockdowns that would eventually be prolonged in many states for months and re-implemented in several states over the course of the summer.

The September jobs report will be the last one before Americans cast their ballots on Nov. 3.

Last month’s modest gains fall short of what economists were expecting. According to a survey of economists by Dow Jones, CNBC reported that economists were anticipating 800,000 jobs added with a decline in the unemployment rate from 8.4 percent in August to 8.2 percent. While the unemployment rate fell further than expected, the decline came with a 0.3 percent drop in labor force participation that included 700,000.

Gains in the hospitality and leisure industry led the September jobs numbers with 318,000 new jobs as the country continued its gradual re-opening, whereas retail saw a 142,000 job bump and health care and social assistance gained 108,000.

Stocks fell sharply Friday morning after the news of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania’s confirmed infection with the Wuhan coronavirus. DOW futures had plunged 500 points upon reveal of Trump’s positive test.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 05:42 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unemployment was supposed to still be over 10% near election day. Of course, Trump was supposed to be in jail by now too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Unfortunately, so was Hillary.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Mandatory Funemployment not appealing?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
The covid cruise ship graveyard: Passenger liners are stripped for scrap at Turkish dock after the multi-billion pound industry was smashed by the coronavirus crisis
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 12:35 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One Carnival ship named; three spotted.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Never went on a cruise. Don't expect I ever will...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 23:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
22 Bnei Brak synagogues closed, fined for ignorning guidelines
[Arutz 7] - Israeli police said they have shut down 22 synagogues in Bnei Brak.

Worshippers were fined for breaking government-imposed COVID-19 guidelines.
All they wanted is to pray for Rabbi Kanievsky‘s (the one who told them to ignore COVID-19 guidelines, and then got it himself) health.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 14:08 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Only room for one religion in this town, bub, and yours ain't it...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||


Tel Aviv doctor's plea shines light on brutality of coronavirus
"Anyone who has never faced a 45-year-old slightly overweight man with shortness of breath, placed him on a ventilator and only one week later signed his death certificate cannot understand what a pandemic looks like."

These words were written in emotional social media plea to the Israeli public by Dr. Or Goren, an anesthesiologist at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

The Facebook post that went viral highlights the concern that many of the public still struggle to understand how serious coronavirus is and how it can affect any one of us.
DeNyle is not just a river in Egypt
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'Vaccine against trauma death': Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting into muscle 'like a flu jab' at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims' lives
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Amazon warehouses that employ robots have 50 PERCENT more serious injuries than all-human facilities, new report reveals
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#1  Employ robots? Does Amazon withhold taxes from the robots' paychecks?
Posted by: Elmemp Bucket5506 || 10/03/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope Amazon pays their robots a living wage.
Posted by: Elmemp Bucket5506 || 10/03/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Imported H1B Robots
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 16:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, so they're 1099'd. No social security for you, robots.
Posted by: Elmemp Bucket5506 || 10/03/2020 18:44 Comments || Top||

#5  No wonder they're angry and violent.
Posted by: Elmemp Bucket5506 || 10/03/2020 18:45 Comments || Top||

#6  No wonder they're angry and violent.

They are now, but when Space Jesus returns and brings the Word Made Silicon, all will be well.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 19:54 Comments || Top||



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