[MSN] A "good Samaritan" with a gun killed an active shooter who may have been gearing up for a deadly rampage at a Texas sports bar Wednesday night, police said.
An armed "good Samaritan" - as the Arlington Police labeled him but NBC News clearly doesn't think so - happened to be eating at the restaurant with his wife. A concealed carry permit holder, he told her to get down on the ground and then shot Jones in the back.
"I don't think the shooter even knew where the rounds were coming from because he started shooting at the front door," Arlington Police Lieutenant Chris Cook said, who described the scene as "chaotic."
Use of force and firearms expert Emanuel Kapelsohn told NBC News that, from his understanding, the man who took down the shooter reacted appropriately.
"I think it's to be applauded," he said. "Not everybody in the world ought to own a gun. Not everybody in the world ought to carry a gun. Not everyone in the world ought to engage an armed criminal where innocent people could be potentially injured."
"But this good Samaritan obviously had the ability to do what he did," Kapelsohn added. "Who knows how many people would be dead if he had not acted?" I heard this on the radio yesterday morning, but was surprised to see it make the major media.
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But, but ... now the active shooter can't get a fair trial!
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According to one poster, Zona Caliente Sports Bar has a Hooters vibe but way better food.
A patron might have to duck a few rounds but the food is to die for.
I wonder what caliber the CCW holder "Good Samaritan" was carrying?
[THESMOKINGGUN] Eight teachers were maimed yesterday trying to break up a high school brawl involving a quartet of female pugilists who are now facing multiple criminal charges in connection with the 7:30 AM melee.
The fight at Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, a Philadelphia suburb, began as students were headed to their first period classes. As seen in the above video, after two girls began throwing punches at each other, two more students joined the fray.
The fight, recorded by several onlookers, prompted one student to offer color commentary on the indignity suffered by one combatant: "Oh, shit! Her wig came off!"
When a substitute teacher sought to intercede, she apparently caught an overhand right (or elbow) intended for an opponent. The teacher crumpled to the floor with a concussion.
Police tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... the four students on a variety of charges, including assault and reckless endangerment. Three of the girls were charged as juveniles, while Amber Lewis, 18, was charged as an adult. Lewis is locked up in the Montgomery County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond. Two of the defendants are sisters.
In a letter to parents, Ray McFall, principal of the 1500-student school, referred to the initial fight as a "physical altercation," adding that administrators would not tolerate fighting or "the filming of fights." McFall added that, "Both behaviors are beneath us and reflect poorly on our larger population."
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reflect poorly on our larger population
Metro mega-school gen pop...
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A bureaucrat brings us some clarity:
"A public school brawl is a rarity,
But students are frightened
And tensions have heightened
Since Trump," sez the un-Colin Flaherty.
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Hat tip to the passenger and his wife. Notice how calmly the offended passenger continues to facilitate dialogue and the video recording of the event? He knows he has just hit the legal damages lotto and is trying to mentally select the color and optional equipment for he and his wife's matching 2018 Carreras and Ivy League colleges for the boys. It really is quite a lot to think about on such short notice.
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I don't think the passenger rules have been significantly updated since the Civil Aeronautics Board era. Maybe the 'contact' aspects need to be moved from the FAA to the FTC for administration and subject to existing legal precedents concerning such.
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As I understand the conditions of the ticket (contract) it only applies to the person named, so when the 18 year old did not use his, it reverted to the airline to sell again, not to the family of the non-flying passenger to use for their unticked baby.
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As I understand the conditions of the ticket (contract) it only applies to the person named, so when the 18 year old did not use his, it reverted to the airline to sell again, not to the family of the non-flying passenger to use for their unticked baby.
Yes, but this unhappy event appears to have taken place at a layover or stop, with Delta's full concurrence for the passenger switch at the flight's point of origin.
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Is this something that has been going on for a while, and we are only finding out about it now that people are posting video taken on their phones, or is this something new?
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Depends on the airline. Southwest has always been tolerable in my experience. Hawaiian has always been more than tolerable. The one time I flew JAL it was pretty good in spite of the long distance. United - not so much.
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Been flying since '67. Some airlines were very good some great and some just okay up until the '90s when amenities and courtesy started to wain.
After 9/11 it's gotten pretty bad all around with a few airlines trying to return to civility but amenities are few and far between unless you pay the big bucks for business or first class.
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In the video, an employee tells him refusing to get off the plane was a federal offense and he could be jailed.
"What blew me away was when they said, if you don't give the seat up, you're going to jail, your wife is going to jail, and they're gonna take your kids away," he told NBC4 Wednesday.
Was the employee representing himself/herself as a police officer? If so, that is an offence.
Southwest says they are not over-booking their flights. Of course, they don't go everywhere.
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The airlines claim not giving up your seat is disorderly conduct. In reality a flight attendant telling someone to get out of their seat and leave unexpectedly is disorderly conduct.
Try that on a Greyhound passenger and see what happens to you, not just by the passenger bit the whole cabin. 'Nother class of people, bro.
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How long before phones must be turned off before entering the plane (for safety reasons of course), or forbidden in the cabin because of terrorism ( aka might film airline employees doing bad things)?
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Buried in news earlier this week was the story about the bumped (and bruised) United pax:
settled for am 'undisclosed sum.'
expect the Delta family will also be getting an 'undisclosed sum.'
[FOX] With fears the Trump administration will tax or block south of the border cash transfers, remittances sent to Mexico from the United States jumped 15 percent in March from the same period last year – marking one of the largest cash transfers from Mexicans living north of the border to friends and family back home.
Mexico's central bank, Banxico, reported that around $2.5 billion in cash transfers were sent to the country from the U.S. last month, compared to $2.2 billion a year earlier -- and making March the third largest in U.S.-Mexico remittance history. In October 2008, individuals sent to Mexico $2.6 billion and in May 2006 $2.5 billion went to the country.
"This is due to uncertainty about the measures that Trump has announced, such as preventing any undocumented people from sending money abroad or applying a remittance tax of up to 5 percent,” Juan José Li Ng, a senior economist at BBVA Bancomer, told Reuters. Lots of discussion about a federal gasoline tax hike. Apparently no discussion about a remittance on money transfers to the Mexicans. Our fine representatives at work in Washington.
[Ynet] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... has issued a directive to government offices that allows women greater access to government services without the consent of a male relative.
Women's rights activists say the memo, which has been circulating in government offices this week, codifies the rights of Saudi women to access a job, higher education or medical procedures, for example, without a male guardian's permission.
[DAWN] Venezuelan police fired tear gas and protesters hurled petrol bombs as thousands rallied on Wednesday in anger at President Nicolas Maduro’s plan to rewrite the constitution. They were the latest festivities in more than a month of unrest sparked by Venezuela’s political and economic crisis.
Clouds of grey smoke from tear gas canisters filled the air as police with riot shields and trucks advanced along a major avenue in the east of the capital. Protesters at the head of the crowd hurled stones and Molotov cocktails and officers fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to push them back.
Protesters were inflamed above all by President Nicolas Maduro’s latest maneuver against opposition efforts to remove him from power. The socialist president launched procedures with the electoral council to convene a "constituent assembly" to rewrite the constitution. His centre-right opponents said that was a way of dodging elections in order to cling to power.
They blame Maduro for an economic crisis that has led to shortages of food, medicine and basic goods in the oil-rich South American nation. Maduro says the crisis is the result of a US-backed capitalist conspiracy.
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I wonder how much more tear gas canisters cost than loaves of bread?
Imagine pelting a hungry crowd with muffins.
[Zero Hedge] In the latest verbal fireworks involving the Pacific Rim's most unstable nation, overnight North Korea accused the CIA and the South Korea National Intelligence service of supporting a terrorist cell plotting to kill its "supreme leadership" with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a "pipe-dream" could never succeed. I believe someone said the same thing about indoor plumbing.
According to AFP, the North's Ministry of State Security released a statement saying "the last-ditch effort" of U.S. "imperialists" and the South had gone "beyond the limits."
"The Central Intelligence Agency of the US and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) of south Korea, hotbed of evils in the world, hatched a vicious plot to hurt the supreme leadership of the DPRK and those acts have been put into the extremely serious phase of implementation after crossing the threshold of the DPRK," the North’s KCNA news agency quoted the statement as saying adding that "They hatched a plot of letting human scum Kim commit bomb terrorism targeting the supreme leadership during events at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and at military parade and public procession after his return home."
"A hideous terrorists’ group, which the CIA and the NIS infiltrated into the DPRK on the basis of covert and meticulous preparations to commit state sponsored terrorism against the supreme leadership of the DPRK by use of biochemical substance, has been recently detected."
In taking a page right out of the Turkish "shadow government" playbook, North Korea said the cell had "infiltrated" North Korea but the Ministry of State Security will "ferret out and mercilessly destroy to the last one the terrorists of the US CIA," the local ministry said as cited by the state’s KCNA news agency. Pyongyang identified one of the people involved in the "vicious plot" as "Kim," a timber worker who was allegedly bribed by the CIA while working in Russia in June 2014.
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... Actually, THIS worries me - "The imperialist running dogs were gonna whack our beloved Fat Boy, so we had no choice but to strike first."
Remember how many NATO/WARPAC scenarios started with a manufactured provocation from the Red side.
Mike
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They don't need to get that fancy. You love watching all the new military testing and have stands built for the viewing. We just wait until one kicks off and drop a cruise missile on your fat ass.
The fact your ass is still pudgy and not in tatters proves we don't want to kill you.
[Telegraph] Beijing has shown increasing concern towards Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme over fears that it is prompting the United States, Japan and South Korea to build up their militaries in the region.
The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) took aim at "a string of absurd and reckless remarks" from Chinese media towards the regime’s nuclear ambitions.
"The DPRK will never beg for the maintenance of friendship with China, risking its nuclear program which is as precious as its own life, no matter how valuable the friendship is," the hard-hitting commentary said, referring to the country’s official name.
"China should no longer try to test the limits of the DPRK's patience... (and) had better ponder over the grave consequences to be entailed by its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations."
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Sacramento area prices hover at the $2.85-95 mark now for Shell regular, and that is before additional 12 cent tax increase in November. As of November 1st, gas price will include 18 cents federal tax, 42 cents CA exercise tax and 9.8 cents sales tax. Almost 70 cents per gallon!
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IMO, this is a structural shift in the oil market. And oil will settle toward the cost of fracked oil, which I understand is dropping all the time.
If I were the Saudis, I'd be thinking about kicking off a war in the Gulf. Saudi and the Emirates can get most of their oil to market via pipelines that bypass the Gulf. Shiia Iran and Iraq can't.
Every time the Soddy's do something to prop up the cost of their oil, it encourages more oil production in the US and down go the prices again.
The oil price the KSA needs, given their vast horde of princes and Ferraris is around $100 a barrel, US shale oil is wildly profitable right now at $47 a barrel so the Soddy's are screwed.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. Do you suppose this means they will cut down on the funding to all of those Wahabi fanatics they've been financing all these years? AND the Moslem Brotherhood?
Times could get tough for the jihadi business as the revenue stream could dry up to a trickle
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Taxes of inflation. When the Fed magically created billions of unbacked dollars to bailout the connected, we pay the price via inflation. In 2006 the Treasury could mint 100 pennies for a dollar, today they can only mint less than four dozen. That is why the price of gas hasn't gone back down to pre-2008 levels.
No date or specific location provided, but from the signage, the area appears to be Maghrebin. From Wiki - Maghrebis in France or French Maghrebis are immigrants from Maghreb countries (mainly Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) in France. The term may also refer to French-born persons who have Maghrebi parents or who have Maghrebi ancestral background. The term includes all ethnicities from the Maghreb living in France (Arabs and Berbers).
[DAWN] LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman was killed in an attack by a group of criminals in Tajori town here late on Tuesday night.
A police official said that SHO Tajori Irfanullah along with a police constable came under attack when they were in the locality to confirm presence of a group of wanted criminals led by its kingpin Mohammad Ali.
"The proclaimed absconders fired at the cops when they saw them coming towards their hideout," he maintained, saying that as a result of the fire, constable Momin Khan was killed on the spot, while SHO escaped.
The official claimed that the SHO identified the fleeing attackers, who were named Mohammad Ali, Sabir and Noor Aslam. They were wanted by police in murder, attempted murder, attacks on police and other cases of heinous nature, the official claimed.
Soon after the cop’s killing, a contingent of police reached the area and tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! several suspects in a search operation.
The dear departed cop was buried in his native Gandi Khankhel village with official honour.
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[DAWN] North Korea's embassy in Pakistain has accused the country's tax authorities of assaulting a diplomat and his wife, claiming armed officials broke into their Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... home and held guns to their heads, an official confirmed on Thursday.
The written complaint, seen by AFP and addressed to the chief of Excise and Taxation department, demands action against the officials and warns the incident could seriously impact diplomatic relations.
It said at least 10 gunnies from the department burst into the diplomat's Karachi home on April 9 and attacked him and his wife, dragging her by the hair and hitting them both in the face before aiming guns at the couple.
They also shot at photographs of the couple, the letter alleges.
"This is a very serious issue and we have set up a high-powered investigating team to probe into the allegations framed by the Korean embassy," Shoaib Siddiqui, chief of the department told AFP.
The incident was recorded on closed circuit television cameras, the letter, dated April 27, claimed.
"We will examine the CCTV film so that we can identify the men," Siddiqui said.
The diplomat's role in Karachi is not known.
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[DAWN] Maryam Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, triggered a new controversy on Tuesday when she took to social media to attack the authenticity of the Panama Papers and the journalists who exposed them.
Her tweets came as the Supreme Court announced the formation of a three-member bench to monitor progress on the investigation it had ordered in its April 20 verdict, where it had also ordered the constitution of a joint investigation team (JIT) consisting of personnel from various military and civil investigative agencies.
In a series of tweets, sent out after the prime minister’s address in Layyah, Ms Sharif dismissed the Panama Papers as "crap". She said the leaks had been "trashed in the rest of the world", adding: "Those relying on it to bring down [Nawaz Sharif will] bite the dust Insha’Allah".
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[THEVERGE] SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn’t mean it has forgotten about Earth. Elon Musk’s company yesterday outlined its plan to put a network of internet-providing satellites around our planet, stating in a Senate hearing on broadband infrastructure that it wanted to start sending the craft into space in 2019, before the full network came online in 2024.
SpaceX’s vice president of satellite government affairs, Patricia Cooper, said that the company was aiming to get a prototype satellite into space this year, before launching another in the early months of 2018. These prototypes will be used to demonstrate that the custom-built craft are capable of providing internet for Earth dwellers, but assuming the tests go successfully, SpaceX plans to start building the network proper in 2019.
SPACEX WILL LAUNCH THE SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKETS
The company will launch additional satellites in phases until 2024, at which point Cooper says the network should have reached full capacity, with the craft operating on the Ka- and Ku-band frequencies. SpaceX will be using its own Falcon 9 rockets to get the satellites into low-Earth orbit -- a measure that will help it save costs and ensure it’s not beholden to the launch schedules of other spacefaring firms.
Cooper said the plan would put 4,425 satellites into orbit around the Earth, operating in 83 planes, at fairly low altitudes of between 1,110 kilometers and 1,325 kilometers. The company will also support its network with ground control centers, gateway stations, and other Earth-based facilities. That makes it an ambitious plan, not least in terms of volume. There are only an estimated 1,459 satellites in orbit around our planet at the moment -- the SpaceX scheme would launch triple that figure, potentially cluttering up the space around Earth, making future launches potentially difficult and dangerous.
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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.
[MSN] A "good Samaritan" with a gun killed an active shooter who may have been gearing up for a deadly rampage at a Texas sports bar Wednesday night, police said.
[THESMOKINGGUN] Eight teachers 
[Telegraph] Beijing has shown increasing concern towards Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme over fears that it is prompting the United States, Japan and South Korea to build up their militaries in the region. 
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[THEVERGE] SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn’t mean it has forgotten about Earth. Elon Musk’s company yesterday outlined its plan to put a network of internet-providing satellites around our planet, stating in a Senate hearing on broadband infrastructure that it wanted to start sending the craft into space in 2019, before the full network came online in 2024.
