[NYPost] A Florida college student has been charged with hitting a police officer in the head with a skateboard during the January riot at the US Capitol, federal authorities said.
Grady Douglas Owens, a student at Full Sail University in Winter Park, was arrested Thursday on charges including assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and inflicting bodily injury for cracking the DC Metropolitan Police officer with a skateboard during the Jan. 6 siege, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit.
Owens was caught on bodycam video slamming the skateboard emblazoned with the words "White Fang" into the officer’s head, leaving him with a concussion and an injury to his right pinkie finger, according to the affidavit released Thursday.
The question then becomes whether he is actually Antifa/BLM Black Bloc pretending to be a Trump supporter or a naive idiot who concluded that if it’s ok for Antifa/BLM to do it, it’s ok for a Trump supporter. If he turns out to be Black Bloc, this article will need to be moved to Page 1: WoT, Fifth Column.
FBI Sherlocks tracked Owens down using a Twitter account called Sedition Hunters operated by a private citizen trying to help federal authorities identify alleged Capitol rioters, the affidavit states.
That image led Sherlocks to Owens’ Instagram profile, where he’s seen wearing the "same stocking cap" during the alleged assault, an FBI agent said.
The profile identifies Owens as a "mix and mastering engineer" as well as a producer and instrumentalist in Orlando and Austin, Texas.
Using license plate readers, authorities traced Owens’ silver 2005 Honda Element to a Winter Park apartment complex and a parking lot at Full Sail University, where he takes music production courses, the affidavit states.
An employee at the university confirmed Owens as the man seen in the skateboard footage, court documents show.
More than 300 people have been charged federally in the siege that left five people dead, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
Owens had his initial court appearance in Orlando Thursday. He was detained and scheduled to appear again Friday morning for a bond hearing, where prosecutors were expected to argue that he should be placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! as he awaits trial for "crimes of violence," the newspaper reported.
If convicted on all four charges, including three felonies, Owen could be sentenced to up to 36 years in prison, the Sentinel reported.
Owens, who appeared in court Thursday wearing shorts and a T-shirt, told a judge he believed his parents were trying to hire him an attorney, WESH reported.
That's the law that's "like Jim Crow on steroids."
Yesterday President Biden suggested, today we have the report that Major League Baseball responded to the merest touch of the whip like a thoroughbred. This continues the discussion started in that thread yesterday.
[NYPOST] MLB is taking its ball and leaving Georgia.
The league announced on Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta as backlash grows over a new Georgia law that is seen as an attack on voter access.
"I have determined the best way to demonstrate our value as a sport is relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.
"MLB fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box."
The Braves, in a statement, opposed the move.
A shame you’ll have to eat the loss, guys. But someone has to suffer for the greater good, and you made the mistake of living in Georgia. Still, consider the fact that the entire city of Atlanta can eat the lost revenue alongside you!
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Another'not too bright move' by woke major league baseball,
or the new political party to be known as Maleba
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Not going to help these people. Of course they can't seem to help themselves lately.
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Sue for breach of contract, and be glad to be rid of a season which lasted all of 1 day. Cash out investments and holdings.
It will be tough; The Braves have a fine tradition. But Blooper, like Slider, is a fallice joke, and nobody volunteers for a three hour shit talk session, and all the panders are not going to just suddenly take up baseball.
Congrats MLB. You managed to lose a coach who grew up with George Brett. Audio books from now on for tinker time.
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When MLB went all cable in my area it was easy to quit watching, I had no choice. Last year's kneelers made it easy to quit the radio. Now I'll skip the digital broadcast games. Local traveling leagues for me now.
And that's really too bad, for me anyway. I coached my boys from youth to high school for 20 years. Love the game.
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Haven't bought a Delta ticket or an MLB ticket in years. It's almost too easy...
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Lemee guess. Frisco... no, Chicago or Detroit.
(I'd go for Portland but I don't think they have the facilities.)
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According to the Washington Examiner, the Delta situation resulted from him putting the company in the public eye on the other side of the argument first, and reversing his position in response to leftwing pushback:
The backstory makes Delta, and Bastian, look even worse. Just last week, Delta released a statement praising improvements in the bill -- on absentee voting, weekend voting, poll worker flexibility, and more. Even though Delta conceded that "concerns remain over other provisions in the legislation," the assessment was basically positive.
The statement prompted some ugly blowback from the left. Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted, "Do not fly Delta. Do not spend money with Delta. Boycott Delta. Ruin Delta." The hashtag #BoycottDelta began to fly around on Twitter.
Talk of punishing Georgia grew. On Wednesday night, President Biden said he would "strongly support" moving the baseball All-Star game set for July 13 in Atlanta. "This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia," Biden said. The president has consistently mis-stated what is in the Georgia law. As Karl Rove outlines here, Biden has leveled three specific accusations against the law, and all three are false.
But it's enough to make a CEO tremble in fear. And so Bastian issued his new statement to the "Delta family." Then Georgia Governor Brian Kemp cut Bastian's legs out from under him. Delta did engage in the legislative process, Kemp said, and "At no point did Delta share any opposition to expanding early voting, strengthening voter ID measures, increasing the use of secure drop boxes statewide, and making it easier for local election officials to administer elections -- which is exactly what this bill does." Just to stick it in a little, Kemp added, "The last time I flew Delta, I had to present my photo ID."
So now Delta is being battered from all sides. What's the lesson? The lesson is not that the company should be four-square in support of the new bill. It is not that it should be four-square against the bill. It is that corporations like Delta should try to stay out of hot political controversies. Delta is a passenger airline. It flies people around the country and the world. It flies Trump supporters. It flies Biden supporters. If flies everybody. Why not just stick to flying and stay out of politics as much as possible?
Reminds me of a baseball coach I had. Late, or e'f up, and he would make us 'run the posts', run the perimeter. If he wanted to drive his point home, he would give the mark a lead and if he passed him, he had to run it again.
He had another card called 'burnout'. Basically, duff a throw, and he would call out the mark and the two would throw back and forth with Coach increasingly throwing harder until: mark would bail out or mark would throw poorly or Coach would get tired which was the only way to get out of the penalty box if you will. Losing, and its "Run the posts!".
Beginning of the season, Coach would Run the Posts three four times a practice. End of season, he didn't have to and Running the Posts was a rare thing.
You know, back when coaches could be Coaches.
Flash forward X decades and I find myself with the Coach Cap. Softball, but basically the same game, and there were practice sessions where it was more expedient and efficient to simulate outfield hits by throwing - working on lateral movement, over the head or short, whatever the player needed to work on - and could do that repeatedly for 30 minutes: benefits of a classical education to quote Hans Gruber. Also had a real disdain for those who mailed in warmup or floated a throw to first, but Running the Posts wasn't an acceptable option, which was unfortunate because that taught me the benefits of awareness and being a quick learner.
*paid off later in life, about to enter a potential structure fire and noticed teammate, in his haste, had donned his wildland tunic instead of his Big Shit coat. Not wanting to Run the Posts with a collapsed teammate I tapped him out (to be fair, it was his first real trial) even at the risk of the QRT not being fully stocked upon potential entry. Indeed, that is a Big No No, but 10 seconds can be the difference between smoking outlet and Crap the Basement is Engulfed.
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It’s a cool story he’s on the Braves ground crew and one inning per game he changes into the spandex and googles and takes on all comers.
He was collegiate track athlete and was racing some guys before a game one of the Bravos promoters saw him and whaalaa a superhero was born
I coach high school rugby and we make the kids circle the field with proper ball handling, once the ball is at the back of the pack, last man must sprint to the front
It is my experience that no matter how talented a participant is, or is not (me), all hit that wall and it is A Coach who gits them over, if the parent(s) allow it.
I only remember my tough coaches, and could go on all evening. I don't mean hit you with a sock of quarters, one come across as an absolute pushover intellectual other than he was wider than tall. When his #1 had us sniffing the rafters, we could hear him benching 300 reps. Made the fatigue ebb quick.
But I must admit there was nothing better than coaching my son in travel baseball for 6 years, most people can’t understand the satisfaction of getting to the baseball field at 8 am on Saturday in GA in July and staying there until 9. Going home washing the uniforms in iron out to get the GA red clay out and back Sunday at 9 and playing until you’re eliminated or win it all.
I coached him for 2 years in HS rugby and still coach that side, he’s playing in college. Was a top 100 player and might’ve been an AA last year except for Covid.
I always disliked the coaches that berated their players, you can critique them and be positive. Couple of years ago we were in Knoxville playing a decent rugby side but they made too many high tackles, didn’t come into the rucks properly. His face was beet red at halftime, spittle flying everywhere after the match I mentioned how he looked and with a slight jab said those are coaching issues. He thought about it thanked me and then gave me a jar of moonshine
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Nice work, a glass to you sir. I saw Able Bodied Men go down in the GA Summer after two hours of golf. We here prefer the 100+ temp with 35 winds + gusts, but the red dirt way. White pant dressings, so by the end of the season you could see who hustled if the pants had a pink tint.
Toughest thing I had to do, at the time youngest was in mech pitch so everyone is still learning, was the Ass. Coach at the time ->laugh y'all or you ain't human<- and youngest said something sporty during a drill. Had to take him aside, explain the chain of command, and stressed to pay attention or acquire a taste for leather. Must of done well, whole team even the fence setters and dirt kickers were on-board.
Here I am telling stories. Same year, young gal was struggling with throw and catch, and I was pushing her comfort zone with parents in-tow. Well she caught one with her cheek, wind and no tree evening sun, game conditions. Did my 1st aid thing with the dirty hanky and someone's cooler ice. Dad comes down, oh crap. He looks at her, says a couple things to her in their native language, puffs up and walks off, apparently satisfied with my actions and proud daughter had finally got a dinger doing something physical.
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Nice work, a glass to you sir. I saw Able Bodied Men go down in the GA Summer after two hours of golf.
I did my basic training at Ft Gordon in Augusta. Watching Texans and Arizonans do face plants from heat at 101 after saying this ain’t shit, kind of cracked me up. I would whisper but you have a dry heat
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One of my proudest moments was watching my son at 13 throw a dart from deep center, catcher never picked up the ball and it became stuck in his face mask. They did score
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I think it is time to end the MLB Anti-Trust exemption. Time to stop favoring all the big corporations. The same thing goes with large corporations sec 230 exemption, etc. Google, Facebook, Amazon... all of them. No more exemptions, no more special treatment. Once a company gets "too big to fail" it should lose all government protections, be it a bank, a brokerage or a baseball league.
Times up, no more playing favorties.
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" Time to stop favoring all the big corporations." I agree. However, they have already bought & paid for control of our political and economic systems. It's called "rent seeking". Quite a few of these corporations need to be put out of existence for the good of the rest of us (real people, that is). I do not see how this can happen with the deep entrenchment of corporations.
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[Townhall] President Biden on Friday lamented that people are letting their guard down amid the coronavirus pandemic even though the country is not in the clear yet.
"Too many Americans are acting as if this fight is over. It is not," he said Friday during remarks about the "promising" jobs report, which showed 916,000 jobs were added in March and the unemployment rate fell to 6 percent.
He reiterated his stance that if Americans just complied with all of the government’s health edicts maybe they could have a small barbecue on Independence Day with close friends and family.
"I've told people that if my administration did the hard work of getting shots to all Americans in the next few months, if the American people continued to do their part—mask up, practice social distancing—we could have a more normal July 4th," he continued. "But this is still April, not July. We aren't there yet. And so cases are going up again. The virus is spreading more rapidly in many places. Deaths are going up in some states."
He added: "So I ask, I plead with you: Don't give back the progress we've all fought so hard to achieve. We need to finish this job."
That's right, Joey, just like the War on Terrorism, the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on ________, and all of the other wars, metaphorical or not.
Re-education camps, that's the ticket. Those sprang up like mushrooms in her country's old stomping grounds after the fall of Saigon. She should ask around for tips.
[Washington Examiner] NPR issued a correction on Thursday to a book review that claimed U.S. intelligence discredited the story surrounding a laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
Revised now is a line in the review of the upcoming memoir, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, which details the 51-year-old's battle with drug addiction. Where it once said the laptop story was "discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations," has been replaced with a line that says: "Numerous news organizations cast doubt on the credibility of the laptop story."
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Because it's a beloved sacred cow, just like Planned Parenthood.
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NPR admits that US intel's discrediting of Hunter's laptop was total bullshi* -- after they buried the story and prevented it from cratering Biden's campaign last October
Politico admits that Democrats' and their State Media's apocalyptic descriptions of the Jan 6 trespassers was total bullshi* -- after they trumpeted this lie to provide cover for Democrats' and Biden admin's fascist power grabs in the name of destroying "insurrection"
NYT admits the Big Lie of supposed collision with Russia based on Hillary's hired gun Steele's dossier drunken pr0n script was total bullshi* -- after 4 years of constant lying, including falsified CIA reports, lies to the FISA Court, lies to the public that cldurectly contradict sworn testimony in secret to Congress that Schiff suppressed ...
WaPo admits that Biden's spinning of his total fiasco of a border policy was total bullshi* -- after nearly a million illegals have already infiltrated and spread their criminality and diseases into this country ...
Same pattern, repeated endlessly now:
1. Push a Big Lie
2. Enable criminal behavior by Democrats - stealing elections, trashing civil liberties, throwing the gates open at the border, enlisting foreign agents to spy on US persons, crippling a duly elected president with slander and false accusations
3. Issue a bullshit "hey wait..." piece after the wrecking ball gas swung
They are destroying this nation.
How long will we tolerate this?
How many more lies & how much more destruction before these criminals are held accountable?
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There's a huge market for lies. People would rater hear what they believe than the truth. Ever was it so.
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^ Some but not all. Problem is, it leave those of us who remember and cherish Reality Land with little choice but to shoot our way out of the Dem delusions we are currently locked down under.
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The CBS affiliate in Indianapolis reported tonight that Green filed a petition in Marion County Court on December 8, 2020 to change his name from Noah Ricardo Green to Noah Zaeem Muhammad.
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Leftists already treating DC as if it's Mecca. Fasten your seatbelts, bumpy weather ahead...
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President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...... ’s embattled son was pointedly asked "yes or no" if the MacBook Pro that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019 was in fact his.
"I really don’t know what the answer is, that’s the truthful answer," Hunter Biden said in an excerpt of the interview released on Friday, before adding, "I have no idea."
But asked whether it could have belonged to him, he replied, "Absolutely."
"Certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked, it could be that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me," he continued.
Hunter Biden made the rare media appearance while promoting his new memoir, "Beautiful Things," out April 6 from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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"...that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me," he continued.
Hunter Biden made the rare media appearance while promoting his new memoir, "Beautiful Things," out April 6 from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster."
[DAILYTIMES.PK] US climate envoy John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... will hold talks with Indian, Emirati and Bangladesh leaders during an Asian tour which started on Thursday in an effort to narrow differences on climate change goals to slow global warming. Notably, Kerry is not scheduled to hold talks with the leadership of Pakistain, which is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change.
Y’all are broke, so there’s really no point. If you could afford to bribe the husband of Mrs. Heinz-Kerry and his boss, it would be different... but you’re broke.
The development comes on the heels of the announcement of a climate summit called by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... later this month (April 22-23) for which he has invited 40 world leaders, including those from India, China and Bangladesh, but not Pakistain.
Pakistain’s exclusion from the invitation list for the summit has raised eyebrows, with several analysts questioning the move given the country’s vulnerability to global warming and Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... ’s focus on the environment front. Others perceived it as a snub for the country.
Reacting to Pakistain’s exclusion from Kerry’s planned Asia trip, Michael Kugelman, a scholar of South Asian affairs at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, said, "First Pakistain was left off the invitation list for the White House’s upcoming global climate summit. Now US climate czar John Kerry is headed to India and Bangladesh for consultations. Ouch."
The Foreign Office had last week hinted that Pakistain was not invited to the White House summit because it was "one of the lowest emitters — with less than one percent of the global emissions".
Kerry’s visit to India comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is facing calls from the United States and Britannia to commit India, the world’s third biggest carbon emitter, to a net zero emissions target by 2050.
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If John Kerry were an animal, he would be a ______
Ooooo OOooooo ummmmh...... I got it !
Green Poison Snake from Sulawesi
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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.
[NYPOST] MLB is taking its ball and leaving Georgia.
Not going to help these people. Of course they can't seem to help themselves lately. 
[Washington Examiner] NPR issued a correction on Thursday to a book review that claimed U.S. intelligence discredited the story surrounding a laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter......
...46th president of the U.S. 
