[ABC] O.J. Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in prison for a Las Vegas robbery, a group of four Nevada commissioners decided today.
The imprisoned former NFL player could be released as early as Oct. 1.
Simpson, 70, delivered a rambling account of the case to the parole board earlier today, maintaining that he didn’t intend to steal but "wish this would have never happened."
Simpson was at times jovial and combative with the members of the parole board, expressing his remorse and saying he's humbled by his incarceration. Simpson was sentenced to prison following an arrest in 2007 during a botched robbery in Las Vegas, when he led a group of men into a hotel and casino to steal sports memorabilia at gunpoint. He contended the memorabilia and other personal items belonged to him.
[HotAir] Tuesday, police arrested Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley middle-school teacher who is one of the leaders of the Antifa group By Any Means Necessary. Felarca is charged with inciting a riot last June in Sacramento, CA. From Berkeleyside:
Felarca was captured on video hitting a member of the Traditional Worker’s Party, a white supremacist group that had taken out permits for a rally on the west steps of the state capitol. Felarca, a member of the group By Any Means Necessary, and other counter-protesters blocked the rally by chasing and hitting and even stabbing members of the Traditional Worker’s Party.
This video appears to show Felarca punching a protester in the stomach before other members of her group jump him:
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They sure were quick to start stomping on a guy who went down. 30 protestors and 300 antifa anti-protestors, several stabbings, two nearly died. Three antifa arrests. Berkeley.
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She'll be tried, maybe let off, if convicted get probation, and in two years will be in the legislature. It's California.
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a Civil count that hits her pocketbook is in order as well. "Let's go to the tape!"
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While out walking along the edge of a bayou just below Houma, Louisiana, with my soon to be ex-husband discussing property settlement and other divorce issues, we were surprised by a huge 12-foot alligator suddenly emerging from the murky water and charging us with its large jaws wide open. She must have been protecting her nest because she was extremely aggressive.
If I had not had my little Beretta Jetfire .25 caliber pistol with me I would not be here today! Just one shot to my estranged husband’s knee cap was all it took.
The gator got him easily and I was able to escape by just walking away at a brisk pace. It’s one of the best pistols in my collection!
Plus … The amount I saved in lawyer’s fees were more than worth the purchase price of this gun. — Matilda Landry
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Minnesota sheriff is blaming animal rights activists for releasing 38,000 mink from an Eden Valley fur farm this week, causing thousands of the domesticated animals to die in the wild.
"If they actually cared about animals they wouldn’t release thousands of mink to die out in the heat," Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson said Tuesday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
"They are not interested in animal rights, they are interested in chaos," he said.
Dan Lang, owner of Lang Fur Farms, estimated that more than half of his animals are dead, he told the St. Cloud Times. He and a group of neighbors have spent hours rounding up the dead mink, and the live ones, he said, are now fighting among each other because they’ve been thrust into different groupings.
"We just threw mink in pens to try to get as many back as we could. And now they are killing each other," he told the St. Cloud Times. "And they’re still dying. They are still dying from heat stress."
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idiots did the same thing in Lake County IL in the early 2000s.
And yeah .. they mostly died.
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...lower requirements for the environmental impact study. Too many clowns dumped pythons there. Releasing more 'non-native' species into the place will require too many filings. Saving a tree if not time on paperwork.
[BBC] Homelessness in Los Angeles County soared by 23% in the past year and it shows. The problem has become tangible and inescapable, with makeshift tent encampments cropping up across the sprawling metropolis.
Tourists are shocked to find themselves stepping over people draped in filthy blankets and begging on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Shop owners routinely swill the pavements to wash away urine and the accompanying stench.
"For the 31 years that I've been involved with homelessness... it has gotten worse far worse than I've ever seen before," says Ted Hayes, a long-time activist.
Hayes says gentrification of the downtown area has begun to scatter a previously concentrated homeless population across the city.
The yearly homeless count in Los Angeles County rose to 58,000 in 2017, up from 46,874 in 2016.
Neighbouring areas, such as Orange County, are also experiencing the same upwards trend.
Young people - aged 18-24 - are the fastest growing group of homeless people, up 64%. And children without a home increased 41%.
"Something is shifting right now, we're all noticing it," Kerry Morrison, executive director of the Hollywood Property Owners Alliance says. "We could viscerally feel that something was changing maybe about two years ago."
Morrison believes the problem has worsened because of combination of factors, with rising housing costs in the city at the top of that list.
"The cost of housing is far outpacing the increase in incomes."
Another potential factor is California's drive to reduce the prison population. The state has committed to new rules that mean nearly 9,500 people will be released early. Morrison believes that in some cases, they also end up on the streets.
There's also what she describes as the "attraction" of the Golden State to Americans who find themselves in dire economic circumstances.
"California seems to have this allure," she says. "'Go west and stake your claim. Make your future here.'"
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While places like Skid Row aren't around anymore to keep them warehoused, mainly it's the benign political and environmental climate. Having a good supply of drugs available is a factor as well.
As an aside, L.A. County's been dumping the more-problematic population into the other counties.
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Go west and claim your EBT card. 10% of the population and 30% of the welfare recipients.
Although on a normalized population basis, the largest welfare drain cohort is the US Congress. Wish I was sarcastic. Those useless tools couldn't find their own tallywackers with a 6-man search party...now /sarcoff
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"The cost of housing is far outpacing the increase in incomes."
This is always a favorite response of politicians, do gooders and developers. But it's a load of crap. If these people were willing to work and manage their money for some purpose other than booze, cigarettes and drugs they could find housing somewhere. Maybe not in Los Angeles, but somewhere. Go ahead and build a high rise apartment building and subsidize the rent for them at taxpayers' expense. Watch them tear it apart and burn it down.
But I think a better approach is to let them pitch their tents out in the desert surrounded by concertina wire so civilized people don't have to step over them on the sidewalks and smell their pee. We have vagrancy laws, we just need to enforce them. A taste of that might not smarten 'em up but it'd at least get them out of Los Angeles...and San Diego too.
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Basically used to have warehouse-type hotels. Basically plywood cubicles, but cheap. Plenty of bums and drunks, but they were well-behaved bums and drunks.
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Back in the long long ago, middle aged couples would turn their homes into boarding houses, take in respectable singles, shared baths, a meal or two a day included, for a few dollars a week. The man of the house was also the enforcer of decorum. My parents lived in separate boarding houses up until their marriage. Mother's landlords kept an eagle eye on my future father when he came courting. Mother's landlady became her "second mother" -- mother's exact terminology. Can't imagine that happening much if at all nowadays with the current generation.
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Just came back from Callie and the bums are everywhere, and very aggressive.
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From what I understand the homeless breaks down into three groups: (1) Temp homeless, people that did everything right but bad luck hit them (2) Grifters who don't want to work (3) Drug users and the insane
I don't know the numbers for each but the system works pretty well to get the first group off of the streets, and the second group survives off of the loopholes in that system. Nobody knows what to do about the third group but the answers that help the first one don't seem to work.
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let them pitch their tents out in the desert surrounded by concertina wire so civilized people don't have to step over them on the sidewalks
Hmmm. Not a bad idea, but it needs better marketing. Let's call it the Bumming Man Festival and give out free tickets. Should be a magnet for wastrels and layabouts of all stripes.
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the original Skid Road is ironically in Seattle, another bastion of the homeless which also happens to be one of the epicenters of the Left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row
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LOL! My family actually has several school desks (unknown vintage, probably '30s-40s) from a school in Gerlach my Uncle dismantled - under contract.... Initials and slurs still carved into them :-)
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Why, what else would one do at a desk in Gerlach?
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If they would let the bees keep more of their honey instead of feeding them sugar water or corn syrup water over the winter, the bees wouldn't be nearly as weakened and succeptible to various stressors. And if they didn't truck the bees quite so far, they would be less stressed.
For most crops, the native American bees are perfectly capable of handling pollination -- and all the farmers need do is provide suitable nesting sites upwind from the fields or orchards so they'll be out of range of sprayed pesticides. Orchard mason bee houses are easily and cheaply made, or can be ordered from a variety of sources. They do not, however, produce either honey or wax, and they are competition for the professional beekeepers with their trucks full of hives.
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And quit putting the damned bee boxes next to the interstate. Traveling up and down I-5, I must have killed hundreds of the critters. And that's just one vehicle.
[TOWNHALL] King's College London, a prominent university in the UK, announced it will be replacing some of the portraits of the school’s founders in the main entryway because they are white, which, apparently, is “intimidating” to minority students.
The entryway will instead feature a “wall of diversity” of black and ethnic minority scholars. The changes are being implemented by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, whose dean of education, Patrick Leman, explained that the reason for the change was because the entrance was full of “busts of 1920s bearded men.” The inclusion of more diverse modern scholars will make the entrance feel less “alienating,” he said.
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[CNN] A Swiss couple who disappeared from their farm in the Alps during World War II have finally been found, 75 years later, mummified in a glacier.
Marcelin, 40, and Francine, 37, Dumoulin went missing on August 15, 1942, after leaving to milk their cows in a meadow near their home. They never returned to their family, including their six children.
A worker found the frozen bodies of a man and a woman last week during routine maintenance. The corpses were preserved in the receding Tsanfleuron glacier, near a slew of trendy ski resorts at 2,600 meters (8,500 feet) above sea level.
"From afar, it looked like small rocks, but there were too many in the same place," noted nearby Glacier 3000 resort director Bernhard Tschannen in an interview with Radio Television Swisse.
When he got closer, he noticed a collection of frozen accessories -- backpacks, watches, mess kits, a glass bottle and boots -- all of which dated back several decades.
Decked in World War II-era clothing, the duo was frozen close together. Their bodies have since been airlifted from the Alps.
The couple's youngest daughter, 79-year-old Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, told Swiss paper Le Matin their children had never stopped looking for them.
"We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day," she said.
Another daughter, Monique Gautschy-Dumoulin, told Radio Television Swisse (RTS) her parents were walking to the valley the morning of their disappearance. It was a nice day, she says. Her father was singing.
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All in the natural order of things. Climate change brings closure to the family.
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So that long ago the glacier reached as far it does today. It looks like we have found another climate cycle -- time to refine the climate models. Ain't science grand!
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Glaciers are not static, they are slow moving rivers of ice. Something that falls in (like a crevasse) will slowly flow down till it eventually emerges from the end. Gerbil Worming has squat all to do with it.
[Strategy Page] The British organized JEF (Joint Expeditionary Force) has accepted its first two non-NATO members: Sweden and Finland. Originally formed in 2014 with contingents from Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands and Norway the JEF has not yet become operational. That is not expected to happen until 2018. JEF contributions are limited to commando and other infantry units trained and equipped to move into action quickly. JEF also accepts air force and naval elements of a similar nature. This is why Britain is the lead member because Britain has the most long range military air and naval transport capability.
JEF is meant to supply, on short notice, a small force (of a few hundred troops) that can be sent anywhere in the world to deal with a crisis situation that would benefit from immediate attention before it turns into something larger and more difficult to deal with. Closer to home, JEF could put a force of up to 10,000 troops (land, air and naval) into action quickly. This option appears aimed at Russian plans for surprise attacks like those used successfully against Ukraine in 2014 (successfully to seize Crimea) and less successfully in 2015 (to take the Donbas area of east Ukraine).
After the Cold War ended in 1991, NATO nations began planning rapid reaction forces based largely on using conventional forces for emergencies within or adjacent to NATO member nations. This concept was expanded with the formation of the EU (European Union) in 1993. That was because at the same time the EU was formed there was a major crisis next door in the former communist state of Yugoslavia, where a civil war had broken out. The EU was meant to be an economic/political union. The EU has purely European and had more European nations as members than NATO did. Despite the existence of NATO, plans were soon underway to establish some EU military cooperation as well.
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Unfortunately, the EU has a very long history of grandiose military plans that go nowhere. That's because since 1991, they have cut back on their militaries to the point where they have just enough to keep drawing aid from Uncle Sugar. This one will join the parade.
Mike
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[DAWN] A double murder convict was hanged on Tuesday after spending almost two decades in Central Jail Adiala for killing his brother and sister-in-law in Kallar Syedan. Good idea. Keeps recidivism down.
Mohammad Izrum, a resident of Kallar Syedan, was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by the police on April 21, 2001 for the murder of his brother Mohammad Javaid and his sister-in-law Rukhsana over a property dispute on May 31, 1998.
The accused was awarded the death sentence on two counts by the court of an additional sessions judge on Sept 30, 2004.
In addition, he was also ordered to pay Rs500,000 fine and in case of failing to pay fine, he had to undergo a six month imprisonment.
Mohammad Izrum filed a mercy appeal in the Lahore High Court against the verdict of the trial court in 2004 which was dismissed in April 2010 and the death sentence was upheld.
He then filed an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistain in 2011 which was also dismissed in Jan 2017. A final clemency appeal was made to the president through the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Home Department which was also dismissed on Aug 5, 2017.
After the final mercy appeal was rejected by the president, the concerned court of law issued a death warrant and fixed the date for the execution of the convicted murder for July 18, 2017.
He was hanged in the central jail at 4:30 am on Tuesday. His body was handed over to his son.
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Two decades in jail before the execution? That's an American level of delay.
[DAWN] Two suspects in a robbery and murder case were bumped off by the complainant in the case while they were on court premises in Rawalpindi's Gujar Khan Tehsil on Wednesday.
The person who reportedly opened fire on the victims is reported to have turned himself in right after the incident. The pistol used in the incident was recovered from his person.
The victims, Mohammad Usman and Adnan Altaf, had been brought to the court for a hearing of a two-year-old case of dual murder and robbery against them. The victims in that case were brothers of the man who opened fire on Wednesday, the Gujar Khan SHO informed DawnNews.
A first information report (FIR) against the accused has been registered, he said.
Meanwhile relatives of the slain individuals protested with their bodies and blocked GT road. They said that the security at the court was not adequate which resulted in the killings. They also demanded the arrest of 'other culprits' in the case.
The protesters however dispersed after successful negotiations with the police. The superintendent of Saddar police had suspended all personnel deployed at the court and assured protesters that all found involved will be tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
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Samuel Jackson please come to the white courtesy phone.
The headline is a little over the top, but soon it will be impossible, without having actually witnessed a pronouncement, to tell real from fabricated.
[M.NextGov.com] The president was seething.
His problem was with the press, yes, but also with the technology they used. Electronic media had changed everything. People were glued to their screens. "I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting," he said in a news conference.
[Newsweek] Tyrannosaurus rex could not run, scientists now believe, in direct contrast to previous research. Instead, the dinosaur probably walked along at a fairly slow pace, eating slow-moving sauropods rather than chasing after fast-moving prey. I think they hopped along myself. Kangaroos are built the same way.
Previous research had suggested T-Rex could clock speeds of up to 45 miles per hour and the new estimates paint a far less fearsome image of one of the Cretaceous period's apex predators.
The debate over T-Rex’s running abilities has raged for decades. Following the initial discovery of the species in the 1800s, T-Rex was often depicted as being a fast-moving creature. In the 1980s and 90s, several studies reinforced this image, based on anatomical research that indicated a very fast running speed and a high level of athleticism.
But not all scientists agreed, and more recent research using biomechanical approaches has indicated the predator moved at far slower speeds. Studies published over the last 15 years have favored the idea that T-Rex could not run at all.
In a study published in Peer J Tuesday, a team from the University of Manchester, U.K., demonstrated how a T-rex would move. They used two separate biomechanical approaches to create a computer model simulating how T-Rex would run, if it could. Because their model combined different aspects of bodily analysis, including the stress placed on the skeleton and how its body would move anatomically, the team believe the picture produced is a more accurate depiction of T-Rex’s gait.
Their findings show that not only was the species unable to run, but it could not even walk very fast. If it were to run, it would have buckled under its own weight and broken its legs, they found. They believe T-Rex’s maximum speed peaked at around 7.7 meters per second, or just over 17 miles per hour (mph). To put that in perspective, Usain Bolt, during the 100-meter sprint, has clocked speeds of over 27 mph. More at the link
If the atmosphere was saturated with oxygen, well above what we exist with today, doesn't extrapolation with contemporary stats sort of become subject to limitations?
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I think Robert Baker's theory made sense. T-Rex was designed to take kills away from smaller faster predators that could outrun big t but never win in a stand-up fight.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Dr Sergei Paylian became obsessed with studying and reversing the aging process after seeing the funeral of his young, pretty neighbor in Tbilisi, Georgia
His company, Bioquark, works with biological extracts called bioquantines, which incorporate material from other regenerative species such as frogs
Bioquantines will be used in conjunction with stem cells, laser and nerve stimulation in an effort to bring 'living cadavers' back to life
The trials are set to take place in Latin America on brain dead patients to renew the body's ability to breathe and the heart to beat on its own
Others in the more mainstream scientific and medical community have said 'the probability of that working is next to zero'
Dr Paylian believes reprogramming cells to return to their younger, healthier states will be the future of medicine
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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.
Hogs normally fare badly in Alabama. 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Minnesota sheriff is blaming animal rights activists for releasing 38,000 mink from an Eden Valley fur farm this week, causing thousands of the domesticated animals to die in the wild.
[DAWN] A double murder convict was hanged on Tuesday after spending almost two decades in Central Jail Adiala for killing his brother and sister-in-law in Kallar Syedan.
[DAWN] Two suspects in a robbery and murder case were 
[Newsweek] Tyrannosaurus rex could not run, scientists now believe, in direct contrast to previous research. Instead, the dinosaur probably walked along at a fairly slow pace, eating slow-moving sauropods rather than chasing after fast-moving prey. 
In a study published in Peer J Tuesday, a team from the University of Manchester, U.K., demonstrated how a T-rex would move. They used two separate biomechanical approaches to create a computer model simulating how T-Rex would run, if it could. Because their model combined different aspects of bodily analysis, including the stress placed on the skeleton and how its body would move anatomically, the team believe the picture produced is a more accurate depiction of T-Rex’s gait.
