[JustTheNews] The suspect has been identified as 50-year-old Mohammad Al-Rashidi, who allegedly set approximately 35 fires over the course of two months.
The Washington, D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) department on Friday confirmed that a man believed to be responsible for setting dozens of fires in the Capitol Hill neighborhood has been arrested by authorities.
The suspect has been identified as 50-year-old Mohammad Al-Rashidi, who allegedly set approximately 35 fires over the course of two months. It was not clear when the first fire occurred, but the most recent fires took place on Wednesday.
Al-Rashidi was previously arrested for arson on May 9, but was later released, according to WUSA-9.
Other fires were reported at and around Union Station on May 19, with four fires occurring within a one-mile radius of the location of a major fire at St. Joseph’s Church on May 3. They believed all four fires on May 19 were set by the same person.
“These fires are happening in the middle of the night," D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said. "They’re happening where they could grow, and my fear is that one’s going to extend to a house and someone’s going to get hurt or lose their property. … This is a big problem.”
Al-Rashidi, who allegedly comes from Louisiana, appeared before a judge virtually on Friday, where he claimed that he was harassed by police and had a tracking device on him. He is expected to appear in court again on Monday.
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Note: This is not particularly interesting - there's no violence or anything.
I've been wondering for years what Moonshine tasted like. While watching one of those Discovery Channel shows about people seeking monsters and ghosts this afternoon, I found on the internet that the only place in town for Moonshine is the old and famous "Argonaut Liquors" on East Colfax. I immediately left, and after 15 minutes of driving I was on Lincoln, and it was blocked at 13th street - something was going on at the state capitol building. You had to turn left, and I followed along for one block and turned left again and swung back around into the old "Capitol Hill" neighborhood and made my way to the Argonaut on Colfax.
I headed back down Colfax toward the Capitol to see how close I could get to the demonstration, and drove up to about 100 yards from the center. Denver police were forcing everyone to turn right, and I pulled over to two officers in gear and told them who I was, just Fairbanks there's no last name, and that I was wondering if they knew where I could park nearby. They pointed to open spaces to park 30 yards away.
I got out and thanked the officers, and said that the No More Kings mantra has only been in fashion for a week or two, and these people were oblivious to the world. I said that at least there's been no rioting in Denver, and they said that there had been earlier in the day. Some bad ones had stopped I25 at the Colfax bridge but for only a short time, and gas was used.
I easily made my way to the center of the gathering, about 40 feet from the speakers. A gentleman handed me a sign to hold that was printed on a copier. I says "WE NEED "JUSTICE" / NOT / "JUST - ICE" / & NO CRIMINAL "RAPIST" IN OUR WHITE HOUSE!!!" That made me feel at home with the crowd. A rotating group of speakers were going at it, and each one had a different blurb that could be voiced in English about the country, and most were particularly concerned about Donald Trump. Some were more concerned about how you and I are guilty of stealing the land from the Mexicans because I guess they were here first.
I hung out for 25 minutes walking through the crowd. I guessed 300 protesters were there, and after 10 minutes I began concentrating on the individuals. They were primarily 20-40 years old, with some lone older women wondering around aimlessly. All of the different signs have been seen elsewhere, and the nose piercings, etc. were to be expected. When I left at about 8pm I walked 40 yards to two Colorado State Patrol officers in gear and had a nice chat. I said the I guessed that only about 300 were in attendance and they appeared to be about 50% Latino and asked about the use of gas earlier in the day. One officer said his guess was about 45% Latino, and that earlier they had stopped the group on I25 in one hour using gas. I asked if it was going to get worse later at night, and the officer said that normally it winds down at this point and everyone goes home. As I drove slowly along Broadway in front of the capitol I saw a large group just showing up, about a hundred were now coming in in regular columns and I saw one Mexican flag. Apparently they are no longer using the Mexican flag in the protests.
So nothing particularly different occurred from other similar protests around the country. Meanwhile, back on the oasis, I need to open up this 750ml bottle of 50 proof Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine, but I've got a big dilemma here. I don't believe that you're supposed to sip it slowly throughout the evening, in a tall glass full of ice and lots of club soda. But this is a wrap, and I will just deal with it delicately.
She got him to buy the cow? I suppose congratulations are in order for her accomplishment. And it’s not like that household of evil squared is a new thing, after all. May they find as much joy in one another as they clearly deserve, and find themselves entirely too busy to keep throwing away his daddy’s money now that the US government is no longer available as a force multiplier.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin was all smiles despite the rainy weather as she wed the heir of billionaire philanthropist George Soros today at a lavish Hamptons celebration attended by at least one ex president and other Democrat A-listers.
The bride, 49, looked radiant in an elegant off-the-shoulder, floor-length cream gown with buttons in the back as she wed financier scion Alex Soros, 39, DailyMail.com’s exclusive pictures show.
The custom dress by Givenchy featured a delicate belt and olive branch embroidery with the bride and groom’s initials sweetly woven into the design, according to Vogue magazine, which had a deal to cover the nuptials.
The gown made by Sarah Burton was one of two dresses Abedin wore for her nuptials, with the other designed by Erdem Moralıoğlu.
Our exclusive photos show Democrat insider Abedin looking relaxed and happy as she greeted famous guests – which included Vogue editor Anna Wintour - at the Soros’ sprawling 12-bedroom Hamptons estate in Water Mill.
Abedin was closely accompanied by her son, whom she shares with disgraced politician, Anthony Weiner, 60, who she divorced after he was jailed for sexting a minor.
Weiner, who is attempting a NYC political comeback with a city council run, is not thought to have attended the wedding.
The Soros’ 12-bedroom, 10-bathroom Georgian mega mansion was surrounded by tight security, including sniffer dogs and Secret Service agents guarding Abedin’s former boss Hillary and ex-president Bill who were driven down the long driveway in a motorcade of blacked out SUVs.
[BBC] Every year, Paris tries new, 'revolutionary' methods to stop men from peeing outside.
In 2018, red flower pots equipped with urinals, allowed men to unzip and relieve themselves right on the streets of the French capital’s iconic Ile St Louis. The following year, another short-lived urinal project tried to make fertiliser out of men’s pee.
Of course, public urination is a problem in most big cities, and public restrooms are an essential service, especially for people experiencing homelessness. Yet many street urinators in Paris are offenders of opportunity rather than necessity. The city has even come up with a name for it: 'Les pipis sauvages', or 'wild pee'.
In her first column for the BBC, Daphnée Denis investigates why Paris is so prone to public urination: is it a historical, sociological or psychological issue? What is the real reason behind this habit?
Expressing their inner wild man, marking territory — because even if there is an official pissoire, these men will go nearby instead of in.
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Guys have been peeing wherever they happen to be for the last 100,000 years. It is a guy thing. It is even commemorated in a famous poem.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
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My little horse must think it queer
That I would stop and pee right here
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Eleven people have died due to flooding in San Antonio, Texas. This was reported by the American magazine People.
Four people who were previously missing were found dead in Bexar County. The publication named them as Macias Castro, 28, Matthew Angel Tufono, 51, Rudy Garza, 61, and Martha De La Torre Rangel, 55.
San Antonio was hit by heavy rain on June 12, causing flooding in the city. That day, local authorities reported five deaths.
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For those unfamiliar, San Antonio has a lot of ravines and narrow draws that fill and empty quickly. There are notorious interstate exit ramps that you don't use if it's been raining.
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True and kind of embarrassing that an unwary driver can be drowned within city limits in one of the deeper low-water crossing areas. Our rain gauge registered more than 6 and a half inches overnight, one of our neighbors reported 7 inches.
In the October 1998 floods, one fatality the driver of a pickup truck swept off the Basse St offramp on the 281 right by the newest and ritziest shopping center in town, the Quarry.
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The article is pretty poor. Among other little details it got wrong, low energy neutrinos interact very very weakly with matter, but high and ultra-high energy ones interact well. ANITA looks for radio waves created from charge separation in particle showers produced when those high energy neutrinos interact. It's a tricky measurement, and it isn't obvious that they understand the ice as thoroughly as they need to. OTOH, it isn't obvious that this is a detector malfunction either.
But IceCube didn't see anything, and it should have. Maybe they saw some radio reflections in the ice?
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....Do you people want a horror movie? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET A HORROR MOVIE!!!!!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
