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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Highland Park shooter Robert Crimo pleads not guilty to 117 criminal counts after killing seven people and injuring 48 by opening fire on Fourth of July paradegoers from a rooftop
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Robert 'Bobby' Crimo,
    ...the increasingly troubled, Antifa-loving rap artist who went by ‘Awake the Rapper’. His father, who’d signed off on the paperwork so he could buy guns and other weapons, was separated from his flakey mother...
    21, has pleaded not guilty to 117 counts after he was accused of killing seven people during an Independence Day attack in Highland Park, Chicago

  • Seven people were injured and more than 40 injured in the July 4th attack after gunman Crimo allegedly opened fire from a roof and took aim at paradegoers

  • He has now pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery

  • He's accused of using a rifle 'similar to an AR-15' to spray more than 70 rounds from atop a commercial building into a crowd that had gathered for the parade in Highland Park, Illinois
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 07:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Texas trial begins for Egyptian-American father accused of killing his daughters
[AlAhram] The trial of Egyptian-American father Yasser Said,
...also in our archives as Yaser Abdel Said and Yaser Said, he was well known to the local police for abusing his daughters...
65, who is accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in New Year's Day in 2008, began on Tuesday in Texas, with the defendant facing a life sentence if convicted.

Amina Said, 18, and Sarah Said, 17, were found dead in a taxi parked near a Dallas-area hotel nearly a week after they and their mother, Said's ex-wife, fled their home in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville to Oklahoma to get away from Said's threats, the prosecutor said Tuesday during his opening statements at the capital murder trial.

The sisters had become "very scared for their lives," and the decision to leave was made after Said "put a gun to Amina's head and threatened to kill her," prosecutor Lauren Black added, reported the AP.

The Egyptian-born cab driver came to the US on a student visa in 1983 and lived with his family just north of Dallas, Texas, and evaded arrest for more than 12 years, according to news agencies.

Said spent six years on the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before he was arrested in 2020, nearly 12 years after the accident.

AP reported that Said wrote in a letter to the judge that he was overseeing the case and that he was not happy with his kids’ "dating activity" but denied killing his daughters, while prosecutor Black said that he was "obsessed with possession and control."

"He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date," the prosecutor added. "And he controlled everything in his household."

Following his capture, Patricia Owens, mother of the victims and Said’s former wife, said that she does not know the motive behind the murder. "All I can say is there’s going to be justice," Owens said in remarks to The Dallas Morning News.

In a previous statement reported in 2011 by the same outlet, Owens, who divorced Said in 2009, said that she does not know what drove Said to kill.

Owens said her ex-husband was not religious and that Islam does not condone the killing of innocents, however, she said that he was obsessed with his daughters becoming what he considered "too westernized."

Sarah Said had called 911 the night she was killed and told the operator "I'm dying, I'm dying..." A short time later, the authorities received another call from a man reporting two women unconscious in a car in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas.

With multiple gunshot wounds each, the police found the girls dead inside the taxi that their father had driven for the past 10 days as per the taxi's registered owner.

Defense attorney Joseph Patton said in opening statements that the evidence would not support a conviction, explaining that in moments of extreme trauma like being shot multiple times, people can have hallucinations.

The police were too quick to focus on Said, Patton said, suggesting that anti-Moslem sentiments played into that focus, AP's report noted.

The report also cited an email sent from Amina Said to her Lewisville High School history teacher a few days before the crime. The prosecutor read the email in which Amina stated that she and her sister Sarah did not want to live by their father’s culture and marry men from the Middle East, "especially men we don’t know or love."

"I know that he will search until he finds us, and he will without any drama nor doubt kill us," the email added.

In 2020, the defendant was found hiding in Justin, Texas, barely 30 miles (48 kilometres) from the scene of the murder.

He had reportedly been sheltered by his son Islam Said, and his brother Yassein Said. The pair were arrested and are serving sentences in federal prison.

Said became a permanent American resident after gaining citizenship in 1997.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  May those Angels Rest In Peace.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulomolet3546 || 08/04/2022 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Why are they only going after life? He should get the jab. This is Texas, where you are supposed to get the death penalty. But then it IS Dallas, a hive of scum and villainy second only to Austin.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/04/2022 4:35 Comments || Top||

#3  This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs. - Charles James Napier
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  #2: death is too quick. life at hard labor, outdoors, is harsher.
Posted by: irish rage boy` || 08/04/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Electric chair set to slow roast.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Owens said her ex-husband was not religious and that Islam does not condone the killing of innocents...

But defines "innocents" very narrowly.

Oh, and then this woman's lips fell off.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/04/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 #5 In Texas, working hard labor outside is sizzling.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/04/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Put her in a glass jar outside in Houston. Let him bake in the sun.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/04/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||


Gunman, girlfriend charged in McDonald's shooting over cold fries: cops
[NYPOST] The man who allegedly shot a McDonald’s worker — leaving him clinging to life — during a heated spat over cold fries has been charged with attempted murder, cops said Wednesday.

Michael Morgan, 20, was taken into custody shortly after the Monday night shooting outside the eatery at 1531 Fulton St. in Bed-Stuy — and was charged late Tuesday with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.

Camellia Dunlap, 18 — identified by police sources as Morgan’s girlfriend — was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.

Her exact role in the shooting was not immediately known.

The 23-year-old victim was working at the fast-food joint at 1531 Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 7 p.m. Monday when Morgan’s mother began hassling him over her fries, a high-ranking police source said.

Posted by: Fred || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Cold McDonald’s fries are not very good.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/04/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Couldn't Morgan and his girlfriend just have asked for some different fries instead of blasting some hapless Mickey Dee's worker (Rhetorical question)? Toss the mom in the clink too. Most likely the Yoot was carrying illegally.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/04/2022 17:27 Comments || Top||


Kidnapped girl's escape leads to discovery of two bodies in Alabama
[NYPOST] A maiden of tender years chewed through restraints to escape a rural Alabama home where Sherlocks later found two decomposing bodies, authorities said.

José Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, is facing kidnapping charges and multiple counts of capital murder in connection to the bodies found at the home after a 12-year-old girl was discovered walking along a roadside early Monday in Dadeville.

Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett told news hounds at a presser that a driver picked up the girl and called 911 — setting off an investigation that led to Pascual-Reyes’ arrest and the gruesome discovery, AL.com reported.

Pascual-Reyes, who remains tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
pending a bond hearing, was arrested in Auburn. The bodies were found in his Dadeville home, not far from where the girl was discovered wandering alone.

The decomposing remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences to be identified, Abbett said, adding it’s unclear how long they had been there.
They hadn't yet mummified. "It's a fluid investigation"
"It’s a fluid investigation," the sheriff told news hounds. "Things are changing, and I don’t want to jeopardize the identification of our juvenile."

Court filings obtained by WSFA show the girl had been tied to bedposts for nearly a week. She was assaulted and plied with alcohol, but managed to escape by chewing through her restraints, the documents show.

Authorities did not indicate whether the girl knew Pascual-Reyes, AL.com reported.

“I would say she’s a hero,” Abbett said. “It’s one of those things we won’t get into until later. We gave her medical attention. She is safe now. We want to keep her that way.”

Pascual-Reyes had lived at the home since February, Abbett said. Other people were there when cops arrived, but he did not elaborate, AL.com reported.

“It’s horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature,” the sheriff told reporters Tuesday.

Posted by: Fred || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

If he turns out to be an illegal? I hope every blog brings it up and uses it as an example of what Wide Open and/or Improperly Secured Borders offers the US Citizens.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/04/2022 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Trump told everyone this was happening, and the media called him a bigot.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  N2N1 he is here illegaly and has been deported at least once
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/04/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||


Woman smothered to death by in-laws in Bemina; 5 arrested
Posted by: Fred || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Boy, that's gonna make Thanksgiving awkward...

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/04/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Cowboy Poet Baxter Black passes on
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2022 06:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "6 and 7/8s"
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember when Harry Reid got called out for spending federal monies on "Cowboy Poetry Slam."

At least it wasn't drag queen story hour.

Good times, good times...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Dingy Harry, lol. Hard to believe those seem like the good old days now even though we hated his guts.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/04/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Hero store owner, 80, blames 'clueless' politicians for California crime surge after he had heart attack fending off robbers armed with AR-15 (but he still returned to work next day!)
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Craig Cope, 80, a business owner in Southern California, defended his store with a shotgun early Sunday

  • Cope said politicians aren't doing enough to deter crimes because they have 'no clue what's really going on out here in the real world'

  • 'There's people that choose to be burglars, there's people that choose to be armed robbers,' Cope said

  • The would-be robbers approached Norco Market & Liquor in Norco, California, planning to rob the store

  • Deputies identified three of the suspects as Justin Johnson, 22, Jamar Williams, 27, and Davon Broadus, 24

  • Shortly after Cope fended off the suspects, he suffered a minor heart attack
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, at Waffle House....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/04/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Here's hoping for a full recovery from his heart attack.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/04/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Noticed the robbers parked in the handicapped spot. Just how little early
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/04/2022 18:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Alligator with knife in its head found swimming in Florida pond
Not the same as sharks with friggin' lasers in their heads.
[NYPOST] An alligator in a Florida pond gave passerby a scare over the weekend when it was spotted swimming with a large knife sticking out of its head.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said on Monday it was notified about photos depicting the knifed reptile circulating on social media, ClickOrlando.com reported.

Reports stated that several passersby observed the alligator in a pond along Providence Boulevard in Deltona on a recent afternoon.

FWC officers were dispatched to the location over the weekend and captured the alligator with the knife still protruding from the top of its head.

The animal was then euthanized because of the severity of its injuries.

The person who stabbed the alligator has not been identified yet.

Florida laws prohibit intentionally killing or injuring an alligator, unless authorized by the FWC commission, or as part of the Statewide Alligator Harvest Program.

Posted by: Fred || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"The person who stabbed the alligator has not been identified yet."

So they pulled the Gators Stomach Contents?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/04/2022 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The person who stabbed the alligator has not been identified yet.

I think I know.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Forget it Jack, it’s Florida.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/04/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  *clicks link*

That's not a knife.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||


Journalists in D.C. taking psychedelic mushrooms for startling reason
By Laurel Duggan
Daily Caller News Foundation

[WND] Many journalists in Washington, D.C. are taking small doses of psychedelic mushrooms to improve their performance, according to Politico.

A 2020 D.C. ballot initiative made enforcement of bans on the purchase and distribution of psychedelic mushrooms the lowest priority of law enforcement, making the substance “basically legal,” according to Politico. The substance is used recreationally in full doses as well as in smaller "microdoses," which some believe can improve brain function.

"Microdosing mushrooms as a kind of performance-enhancing brain boost — already wildly popular among the California tech set — is now fairly common in Washington, especially in media circles," the Politico article said.

Additionally, many journalists are "macrodosing," or taking large quantities of mushrooms to experience a psychedelic trip, as well.

Some journalists questioned the author’s claim that microdosing was common is Washington media circles.
Read the rest at the link
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#1  Well that either explains... or excuses much.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/04/2022 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep - that'll solve the accuracy and bias problems with D.C. media...
Posted by: Raj || 08/04/2022 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  So with the schrooms they get to what....smarter than a chimp IQ?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/04/2022 4:36 Comments || Top||

#4  If you take enough shrooms you actual believe your own bull$hit.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/04/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  ...It may well be the ONLY way to overcome the cognitive dissonance they face every day in dealing with what the Biden Administration says, and reality...

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/04/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#6  We all said the Washington media was hallucinating and now we have the proof!!!
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/04/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#7  since i get my news from newsmax and my opinions from rantburg and instapundit, i dont care what they eat, drink, smoke, or rub-on. WGAF(who gives a f---)
Posted by: irish rage boy` || 08/04/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Some would say it is a coping with denial. I would add that if they can start smelling their words, they might come back to reality.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  if they can start smelling their words, they might come back to reality.

Or die from the toxicity of the Stoopid
Posted by: Frank G || 08/04/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#10  i get my news from newsmax

Looking at the news that CPAC takes Soros money, how can any source that promotes CPAC be reliable?

Looking at you, Breitbart...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Win Win.

"I see an alternate reality, where adding copious amounts of money into circulation devalues the money, like when 6 year olds play Monopoly and all paid money goes into Free Parking."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#12  Glad I don't have to explain to a son or daughter that what they have heard about "sports builds character" is bullshit
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 14:53 Comments || Top||

#13  Startling reason?

Because they can't cope with reality.
They are already stoned dumb by nature or nurture.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#14  Aaron Rodgers Says Psychedelic Drugs Helped Him Have the ‘Best Season of His Career’

The push to normalize drug use is on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 17:52 Comments || Top||


Panicked 911 call from N. Carolina air traffic control reveals co-pilot JUMPED from faulty light aircraft at 3,500 feet and died before pilot made successful emergency landing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I believe I would have took the chance of crashing.
Posted by: Chris || 08/04/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Some guy who survived two commercial plane crashes was asked for his advice. He said, "Always sit in the back of the plane."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Or at least jumping at 10 feet and surviving the roll.

Not sure about the qualifications, in general or 'at the moment', of a person who during an emergency steps outside a plane for a smoke break.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5 
"Oh, I found the autopilot! These damn upgrades. Looks like we made it, Ch... Chuck? Oh, Chuck, you stupid shit!"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/04/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Where Are All the Hurricanes?
I figgered all the hot air in Texas and the midwest sucked the heat out of the hurricane season.
[Forbes] It is the Atlantic hurricane season, and all of the seasonal projection experts said the same thing. It’s going to be another above-average season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website notes, "Based on a 30-year climate period from 1991 to 2020, an average Atlantic hurricane season has 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes." To date, three storms have been named, and they were all tropical storms.
But, never fear - the worst is yet to come!
While the past few weeks have been normal to slightly-below normal, it may surprise some readers that activity is still trending slightly ahead of schedule relative to climatological normals over a 30-year period. The third named storm of the season does not typically form until August 3rd. This year it formed around July 4th. On average, we do not expect the first hurricane and major storm (> category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale) until August 11th and September 1st, respectively. The next named system in the basin (4th storm) does not usually form until around August 15th.
Many more boring meteorological details at the link.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 09:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is EXACTLY what climatistas predicted: few hurricanes or more hurricanes. Droughts and floods. Extra hot summers and cold winters. Or cool summers and warm winters.
Anything can be blamed on climate change!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/04/2022 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Sand from the Sahara is suppressing storm formation in the Atlantic. For now.

As a resident of hurricane country, I don't want to jinx myself, but my favorite thing about hurricane season is the way they play state funeral dirge music on the weathertainment channels when the seasons ends without a catastrophe.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  "...But let's have a look back at Named Raindrop™ Jennifer..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Well would you want to visit south Texas in this heat? Neither does the hurricanes. Plus they are all liberals and groomers so they are avoiding Florida like the plague.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/04/2022 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Their season doesn't start till September.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Not to mention the last five years of Tornado Season has gone over like the recent James Bond movies.

Poorly over acted with an occasional action scene here and there.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||


#8  Bah. ERCOT shows the committed capacity hitting 80 gigawatts at 12:55 pm - an hour ago (CDT). Today's demand is supposed to top out at 78.5 GW at 5:30 pm, when capacity is 84 GW. Somebody's 'making news'!

ERCOT real time
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  No hurricanes? Climate change is the reason. It's always the answer. You can't go wrong (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/04/2022 17:11 Comments || Top||

#10  No hurricanes please but plenty of tropical storms bringing rain in an organized, timely fashion.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/04/2022 18:29 Comments || Top||


Surprise – the Australian Great Barrier Reef has "Bounced Back" from Climate Change
[WattsUpWithThat]
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/04/2022 08:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, yeah, but climate change will still be bad for it - someday. It says so in The New Daily (Australia) article!

I'm being sarcastic; the newspaper is not.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/04/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Until the NPCs download the latest update, "See, Legislation Works! Praise Be, St. Grrrrta!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 16:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Another end of the world catastrophe fails to materialize.

Shocking.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 08/04/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
US Army division to keep patch referencing the Confederate Army
[FoxNews] The 29th Infantry Division wore the patch while storming the beaches of Normandy during WWII.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had no problem with it when they were needing lots of southern boys to fill the ranks 1917-1973.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  By the end of WW11 the 29th had suffered nearly 29,000 causualties, KIA, WIA, missing in action.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  To all the woke renamers, Piss off! Keep your hurt feeling to yourself...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/04/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  E pluribus unum! So it references a 'coming together' after a bitter Civil War -- what an absolutely horrid idea to Wokester bigots. I thought for a moment that it was a Ku Klux Klan insignia the way they were acting.
Posted by: magpie || 08/04/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I despise the motives behind this. Orwellian erasure of our history is essential to its deconstruction to create the basis for revolutionary thought. They have to make American exceptionalism and prosperity brought on by capitalism and a vast middle class into a hate filled lie to justify the globalist future they are selling.

Honoring Confederate Generals was an act of reconciliation and recognition of resumed brotherhood. History of shared national comity, with all the sad exceptions along the way, doesn't fit the "white supremacy and racism" needed to fuel the useful idiot minds for the coming revolution.

"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past… The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/04/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Lee's actions after the war more than qualify him for recognition. It all could have degenerated into an ongoing unending insurgency at even greater costs to each side. Instead, Lee set the example, and had the influence that it required, that the issue was done and over.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Wiki on 29th ID: "The 29th Infantry Division has been featured numerous times in popular media, particularly for its role on D-Day. The division's actions on Omaha Beach are featured prominently in the 1962 film The Longest Day,[61] as well as in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan.[62][63] Soldiers of the division are featured in other films and television with smaller roles, such as in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds and the 2005 film War of the Worlds.[citation needed]

The 29th Infantry Division is also featured in numerous video games related to World War II. The division's advance through Normandy and Europe is featured in the games Close Combat, Company of Heroes and Call of Duty 3, in which the player assumes the role of a soldier of the division.[64]
"

No wonder the Wokesters have a good hate for the 29th ID --it's popular with all the wrong people!
Posted by: magpie || 08/04/2022 20:06 Comments || Top||


Gun sales in deep blue Massachusetts hit record levels beginning in 2020, sparked by fear: Report
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Things sure have changed. I grew up in Western Mass and my grandmother bought me my first rifle... using S&H Green Stamps.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/04/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||


Britain
Britain's most remote mainland pub
[BBC] The only ways to get to the Old Forge Pub are by sea ferry or by a two-day, 18-mile hike across the Scottish Highlands — a trip that gives new meaning to the term "pub crawl".

Our journey began at the end of the road. The longest dead-end road in Britain, in fact. It took two hours of knuckle-whitening jags around hairpin bends and past sheer descents, on a 22-mile taxi ride from the town of Fort William in the western Scottish Highlands, to get to our starting point of Kinloch Hourn.

In the company of two friends, Carl and José, I was embarking on a journey to the most remote pub in mainland Britain. Accessible only by sea ferry or by a two-day, 18-mile hike across the Scottish Highlands from the small settlement of Kinloch Hourn (or an even longer, 28-mile yomp from the hamlet of Glenfinnan), the Old Forge sits in the village of Inverie, on the southern coast of the Knoydart peninsula. "Walking in" to the pub is a rite of passage in the outdoors community, and one we were keen to tick off, thirsty in equal measure for adventure and the extreme satisfaction of a pint well earned.

Forming part of the so-called Rough Bounds – the "highlands of the Highlands" – Knoydart is remote and inaccessible even by local standards. There are no streetlights, you can't get a mobile phone signal, and the seven miles of paved roads are unconnected to the mainland network. Around 120 residents lived here at the last count, spread across 86 square miles (that's approximately the same population density as Alaska). The majority of those brave and hardy souls live in Inverie, and now, after a community buyout in March 2022, most of them own a stake in the Old Forge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2022 06:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Map
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Some of those I can't even pronounce sober.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||


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Pelosi Leaves Taiwan; PRC Uptempos Military Ops
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — After a trip that drew China’s wrath, a defiant Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan on Wednesday with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere "remains ironclad."

Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first U.S. House speaker to visit in more than 25 years, and China swiftly responded by announcing multiple military exercises nearby.

The speaker’s departure for South Korea came just a day before China was scheduled to launch its largest maneuvers aimed at Taiwan in more than a quarter of a century.

Before leaving, a calm but resolute Pelosi repeated previous remarks about the world facing "a choice between democracy and autocracy."

"America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad," she said in a short speech during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

Courtesy of Skidmark:
27 Chinese warplanes enter Taiwan's air defence as Taipei says it 'won't shy away from a fight': President Xi sends forces to surround island 'as part of his plan to secure his unification legacy'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 27 Chinese fighter jets, including 16 Russian-made Su-30s, have flown into Taiwan's air defence zone today

  • Comes amid huge air-and-sea war games that Beijing has declared in response to Pelosi visiting the island

  • Taiwan's generals have defied Beijing's threats, saying they will 'not shy away from a fight' with China

  • Expert told MailOnline that Xi's fury comes ahead of autumn's Party Congress where he will establish autocracy, with Taiwan 'reunification' his hoped-for legacy

Update:



Related: US, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Singapore launch huge joint military drills with 5,000 soldiers on Sumatra amid rising maritime threat from China during Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Won't be much Chinese shipping if things get hot.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/04/2022 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Seoul says Pelosi DMZ visit sends clear message to North
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||


#5  Ignoring all the saber rattling, tough talk and photo ops, I still can find no logical reasoning for her to even go on trips like this.

She supposedly does not initiate foreign policy, but what do I know.

Still seems like a kabuki, but that requires song (歌), dance (舞), and skill (伎).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/04/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Also, Kabuki is Japanese, so you'd figure Chinese would hate it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Media mask for husband's DWI courthouse business.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/04/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#8  I still can find no logical reasoning for her to even go on trips like this.

Remember 'Queen' Nancy's triumphant walks with a ceremonial gavel when she was elected speaker? Vanity. Narcissism. Nancy seems to live in a world where she is Prime Minister For Life™ in a parliamentary US government ...or at least she seems to act like it.
Posted by: magpie || 08/04/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Basking in the last moments of great power? Après moi, le déluge?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/04/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#11 
I wonder what this staged mini-drama event got for viewers? An how much Chinese $$$$ got funneled into (D) campaigns and pockets came from it?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/04/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#12  I still can't believe Nancy would do anything that Xi Jinping didn't want her to do. So, yeah, kabuki even if kabuki is Japanese and the Chinese hate it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/04/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#13  Wasn't it during the George W. Bush presidency that Speaker Pelosi paid a call to Syrian president Bashir al Assad? This is Pay Attention To Meeeeeeeee!!!!!! stuff.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/04/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: Frank G || 08/04/2022 13:43 Comments || Top||

#15  seems like a kabuki, but that requires song (歌), dance (舞), and skill (伎)

Nancy Pelosi Can Dance!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 15:41 Comments || Top||

#16  [Pelosi head on dancing AOC, in mirror]
Posted by: Angolunter Platypus1778 || 08/04/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

#17  Confucius screech opera: "Pooh shit
In the Strait! Nancy pitches a fit!"
Cue chop-socky talkie in
Chinese and Hokkien:
Biden dismissed? Or just quit?
["It big hit!"]
Posted by: Angolunter Platypus1778 || 08/04/2022 17:38 Comments || Top||

#18  Let’s see, she is second in line after the Vice President who is not a natural American. Biteone dies of COVID, Camala is not eligible to be president.. Viola.. President Pillousy…
Posted by: Papa Cooky || 08/04/2022 19:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
Serbian List calls the overthrow of the Kosovo government their task
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] On August 3, the Serbian List, a political organization of Kosovo Serbs, announced that they had set themselves the task of overthrowing the government of Albin Kurti in Kosovo.

According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, the party has said that this government is working against the interests of the Serbian people.

The "Serbian List" emphasized that they do not cooperate with Kurti, since he interferes with the establishment of peace.

“[Kosovo’s] Minister of the Interior Celal ] Svechla cannot accept the fact that the Serbs in northern Kosovo are more united than ever and are surviving and standing up against his threats and trusting in the leadership of the Serbian List.

It should be noted that Kurti's government was the first to not accept the "Serbian list" into the ruling coalition.

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Great White North
BCCDC removes data on COVID-19 infection outcomes by vaccination status from dashboard
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/04/2022 08:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "These indicators were initially created because we wanted to identify breakthrough infections as we were ramping up the vaccination campaign. As most of the population has now been vaccinated with at least two doses of vaccine and many more have been infected with COVID-19, the data became hard to interpret."

You mean it's hard to understand why the vaccines aren't making any difference?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/04/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought British Columbia is the conservative corner of Canada.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/04/2022 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  What gummint agency is in the "conservative's corner?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 13:45 Comments || Top||

#4  GEEZ but this ia all so embarrassing!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 08/04/2022 20:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kansas abortion constitutional amendment rejected by voters
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Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2 
While I am against Abortion On Demand, I have to consider the long range flip side of this.

Giving the Gov. /Political types the POWER to decide Personal Moral issues every election, is political fertilizer, for greater social problems down the road to happen.

With that said, Kansas already has something on the Legal Books. But it badly needs tweaking, given the advancement in Pregnancy Detection kits in the last 45 years. Now available for under $5 in many a Dollar Stores.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/04/2022 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden signs order to collect data, cover travel expenses for women seeking abortions
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/04/2022 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  It seems the amendment would have given the legislature the right to regulate abortion, and (I suppose) change the regulation every time the legislature changed.

I suspect both pro-life and pro-choice groups missed that part.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/04/2022 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. SCOTUS sent it back to the states. The state legislature should legislate, then let the courts verify the law passes muster. You know, the way the Founders intended.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/04/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm not putting too much into it other than:
() Weirdly timed bill - primary rather than general.
() Therefore, low voter turnout
() Majority of 'No' voters were Interstate People
() Oddly worded
() The 'no' voters really showed their ass on election day, one even wishing rape on my daughter to prove a point.*

*bout tired of this bosswoman bullshit, no consequence thinking.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 11:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, it does appear to be the will of the people of Kansas.

But I can still mourn for all the babies who will be killed in Kansas in the next few years.
Posted by: Tom || 08/04/2022 15:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Re #7: Me too, Tom.

Remember the Unborn!
Posted by: Mad Eye Elmack7548 || 08/04/2022 16:47 Comments || Top||

#9  The I-35 People were doing some end-zone dancing until they realized this result kind of destroyed The Narrative.

And like I said, The Whips going around saying that daughters needed to be raped in order to teach some manners was not a good look.

I'd more more accepting of the results had the question been during the general election, and had enough time to make the case instead of only the I-35 media yelling. And it is a constitutional amendment and I"m ok with the process, as it was our state's constitution which kindly instructed the governess to shove her ever loving covid protocols up her cat piss smelling ass.

In the meantime, nothing changes, nobody won.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 18:33 Comments || Top||

#10  *there is a lot of out of state and international business on the I-35 corridor, and they love to shit all over us hick Kansans, so there is a real peer push among those communities to be seen as progressives, especially with social issues, "Oh, I'm not like those Kansans; I just work here."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/04/2022 18:48 Comments || Top||

#11  I’ve read that there was a lot of out of state money supporting the pro-abortion side, but I don’t know more than that. I expect a lot of back and forth over this in various states for a while.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/04/2022 22:58 Comments || Top||



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