#1
Blacks always throw their shoes for some reason.
Poor Carnival. They used to be the redneck cruise line. But these ratchets are scaring off even them.
#7
I didn't want to sully the thread earlier, but yes, apparently it was at 2 a.m.
“Where the f** is security?”
Apparently the security guard catching crap for exiting the mosh pit and calling for backup, watching the clip, there are at least 2 other security members in the mix. Tells me that security was already positioned, probably for reasons.
Sigh. And how are chicken tenders properly cooked?
[Foxnews] Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., will no longer slap people with felony charges for possession of rifles or shotguns in the nation's capital, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
The change means federal prosecutors will not seek charges under the D.C. law that made it illegal to carry rifles or shotguns in the district, except in limited cases for permit holders.
Under the new policy, the U.S. Attorney's Office will continue to bring charges when a person is accused of using a shotgun or rifle in a violent crime or has a criminal record that prohibits them from possessing a firearm. The new policy also covers large-capacity magazines, but it does not include handguns.
Local officials may also prosecute people for illegally possessing unregistered rifles and shotguns.
Pirro, a former Fox News host, said in a statement that the new policy is based on guidance from the Justice Department and the Office of Solicitor General.
She also said the change complies with two Supreme Court rulings protecting gun rights.
Pirro said a blanket ban on possessing shotguns and rifles violates the court's 2022 ruling that struck down a New York gun law and held that people have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. She also cited a 2008 ruling blocking D.C.'s ban on handguns in the home.
The change comes amid President Donald Trump's move to boost the presence of federal law enforcement in the district in an attempt to reduce crime. Hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops have been deployed to the streets of D.C.
The White House said 76 firearms have been seized since the federal takeover began earlier this month.
"In line with President Trump’s directive to make D.C. safe, U.S. Attorney Pirro has made it clear that the old way of doing things is unacceptable," Tim Lauer, a spokesman for Pirro, said in a statement. "She directed her staff to charge the highest crime that is supported by the law and the evidence."
[ZERO] It’s a poster on the wall in his 1979 high school guidance counselor’s office that all these years later motivates Mike Rowe, the Emmy award-winning TV host, producer, narrator, podcaster, spokesman, bestselling author, and recording artist, on his quest to reinvigorate America’s enthusiasm, passion, and educational foundation for the skilled trades.
The poster’s caption - "Work smart, not hard" - underscored an image of "the happy graduate with his diploma and the poor schmuck who won a vocational consolation prize," recalled Rowe in a recent interview with The Epoch Times.
All these years later, Rowe remembers his guidance counselor pointing to the poster and asking him, "Which one of these guys do you want to be?"
"It was a very powerful moment for me," said Rowe. "I remember thinking, ’I wanted to lean across the table and give him a slap because the punchline in that poster is my granddad—the embodiment of a skilled worker had been affirmatively caricatured and lampooned and marginalized."
At the time, Rowe was wrestling with his own future.
"I was 17 and I'd taken some tests and done well, and he wanted me to go to the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, maybe James Madison. I didn’t have any money, and there was no way I was going to borrow. Debt was the only four-letter word that was truly off limits in my house. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. My plan was to go to community college for 26 bucks a credit and figure it out."
In the decades since that guidance counselor meeting, Rowe, who eventually did go on to a four-year college, has turned his visibility and success into the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Launched in 2008, the foundation works hard to debunk the myths and misperceptions about the trades and help close the skills gap through job boards, corporate partnerships, and scholarships.
"The problem with the push for college when we were in high school wasn’t that college was a bad thing," said Rowe. "It’s that the push came at the expense of all other forms of learning."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A homeowner is facing assault charges for attacking an armed burglar he found breaking into his apartment in the middle of the night.
An unidentified 44-year-old resident of Lindsay, Ontario, in Canada awoke to find a 41-year-old man inside in his home on Kent Street on Monday.
He confronted and fought the intruder, who suffered life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to hospital in Toronto.
The Kawartha Lakes Police Service was called about 3:20am and responded to the scene, arresting the homeowner after an investigation.
The owner was charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon and released to face court at a late date.
The unidentified intruder was charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, breaking and entering, mischief under $5,000, and violating his probation.
The suspected burglar, who was already wanted by police on unrelated charges, will be taken into custody when he is well enough to leave hospital.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford was furious that police leveled charges against the homeowner.
'This criminal that's wanted by the police breaks into this guy's house, this guy gives him a beating, and this guy gets charged,' he said at a press conference on Wednesday.
'Something is broken.
'I know if someone breaks into my house or someone else's, you're gonna fight for your life.
'You're going to use whatever force you can to protect your family. I know everyone would.'
Kawartha Lakes Police Chief Kirk Robertson issued a statement defending the decision amid the backlash.
'[T]he negative commentary about the officers and their actions is unjust and inaccurate,' he said.
Robertson explained that the law allowed people to use reasonable force to protect themselves and their property if they believed they were facing a threat.
'Under Canadian law, individuals have the right to defend themselves and their property,' he said.
'However, it is important to understand that these rights are not unlimited in Canada. The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced.
'This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances.'
Robertson said investigators were able to examine all the information and evidence that was available before pursuing any charges, but police were not revealing most of it to protect the investigation.
[FoxNews] Decision overturns lower court rulings that blocked cuts to $783M in DEI-related funding.
Another one bites the dust.
The unsigned majority order said NIH "may proceed with terminating existing grants" while leaving in place a partial block on issuing new directives.
The move delivers a political win for Trump’s broader push to roll back DEI programs across the federal government.
The decision overturns rulings by lower courts that had blocked the cuts. In June, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley of Massachusetts called the administration’s actions "arbitrary and capricious" and said NIH had "failed to provide a reasoned explanation" for cutting grants midstream. The 1st Circuit upheld her injunction in July, setting up Trump’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Justice Department argued in its July 24 filing that leaving the injunction in place "forces NIH to continue funding projects inconsistent with agency priorities" and warned the order "intrudes on NIH’s core discretion to decide how best to allocate limited research funds."
Opponents framed the cuts as ideological. The American Public Health Association warned that "halting these grants would devastate biomedical research across the country, disrupting clinical trials and delaying urgently needed discoveries" and said "the administration has offered no scientific basis for these cancellations — only ideology."
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[Regnum] A Royal Malaysian Air Force fighter jet caught fire during takeoff at Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport in Kuantan. This was reported on August 21 by the news portal The Star.
After a short flight, the American-made military fighter jet caught fire while gaining altitude on the runway and crashed to the ground.
"The pilot and co-pilot in the F/A-18D Hornet crash are safe," media reported, quoting Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Yahaya Othm.
#Cambodia / #Thailand 🇰🇭🇹🇭: A new video posted by Special Forces Command (BHQ) of Royal Cambodian Army en route to the Thai Border.
The unit seemingly deploying several MANPADS (Portable Surface-to-air Missile Systems) —which appear to be possible #China-made 🇨🇳 "FN-6" MANPADS. pic.twitter.com/r3qj7pXpvP
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A convicted killer is publicly hanged from a crane in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in front of a cheering crowd.
In graphic pictures and videos, Sajad Molayi Hakani, standing on a platform, is seen blindfolded with a noose around his neck on August 19.
The noose is attached to a crane being controlled by another man who appears to be part of the execution team.
The video shows dozens of people, including children, gathered around to watch the execution.
As the man is hanged, the crowd can be seen clapping and cheering in delight.
He was sentenced to qisas, which means retaliation in kind in Islamic law, for murdering a mother and her three children during a robbery in October.
His wife, Masha Akbari, who has also been sentenced to death, is set to be executed in prison at a later date.
Sadrallah Rajaei, the head of the Fars provincial judiciary, said: 'The qisas sentence of the second defendant in this case who is the wife of the first defendant, will be carried out in prison in the presence of the victims’ next of kin.'
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.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
