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Senior TTP leader Omar Khalid Khorasani killed in Afghanistan, Taliban spokesperson confirms
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wendy's employee Antoine Kendrick sucker punches customer in Prescott Valley, AZ
[AZFamily] Surveillance video caught the moment a Prescott Valley Wendy’s employee came up to a customer and sucker-punched him after an argument a couple of weeks ago. On July 26, 35-year-old Antoine Kendrick was at the register taking the 67-year-old man’s order. However, police say the man then complained about his order, and that’s when things turned violent.

The man is seen hunched over and licking his Frosty when Kendrick comes out from behind the counter. To the unsuspecting man, Kendrick comes up next to him and immediately throws a punch, hitting the customer in the head, police said. The man falls to the ground as other customers are standing and watching. Kendrick looks at the man lying on the ground before he walks behind the counter, grabs some stuff, and walks away.

Investigators said when the man fell, he hit his head and was knocked unconscious. He was flown to a Valley hospital in critical condition. “Oh, wow that was a pretty hard hit. That was a Mike Tyson hit,” one customer said. “The customer didn’t touch him, so he had no right to touch the customer, period, end of story. I just think that’s horrible and wish it didn’t happen. It puts a bad light on our entire society.”

Another customer says he has been living in the area for 20 years and has never seen something like this. “It’s mellow up here, you don’t have that kind of stuff. It’s a shame. I feel for the guy that got hit. It’s not right.”

Kendrick was booked on one count of aggravated assault.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/10/2022 08:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We have no idea what the customer said before Mr. Kendrick came around the counter. Does Arizona have law around the idea of Fighting Words?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/10/2022 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "Wendy's, Where We Serve Great Food, and Knock-out Customer Service - Come In Today And Get A Real Punch Out of Us!" --- New Wendy's Sales Motto - Dave would be ... ?

Sarc Off
Posted by: Caesar Noodleman7901 || 08/10/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3 
Why is it we see 16-30 y/o Black Males Sneak attacking older White & Asian Seniors?

Or have I missed reports of 16-30 Y/O White or Asian Males Sneak attacking Sr. Black Americans?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/10/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Only an idiot would attack a senior. They could literally die in a skirmish that a younger person would shrug off. A moment of rage and you are in prison for murder.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/10/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Re#3 They have no impulse control, they also look at prison as a passage of going through the street life.
Posted by: Chris || 08/10/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Another solid reason to just use the drive through.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/10/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Clearly this was the retribution for the White Supremacy being displayed as he was eating his Vanilla Frosty. There are limits as to how much disrespect a proud Black Man can stand!...

/massive level of sarcasm off! This isn't just aggravated assault, it's a a racist hate crime, and the DA needs to lose his job if he doesn't add that charge.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/10/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Considering hit location, approach, and strength disparity, that should be attempted murder.

Investigators said when the man fell, he hit his head and was knocked unconscious.

Bullshit. Man was hit, went unconscious, fell, and hit his head again.

I don't believe the bit about no audio either. Major chain, register surveillance, literally fit terabytes in size of a lunchbox.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^ Many states have laws against recording audio along with video. Something to do with "'wiretapping laws' I think.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/10/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||

#10  And don't forget the overwhelming wave of older white and asian men attacking 16-30 Y/O black males.
Posted by: Unomomble Hapsburg9350 || 08/10/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Are you really as stupid as you sound?
Posted by: Unomomble Hapsburg9350 || 08/10/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Let it go Haps.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/10/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm so old I remember when all the MSM were solid on selling that the Knock Out Game was just a hoax.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/10/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#14  Many states have laws against recording audio along with video. Something to do with "'wiretapping laws' I think.

Sounds right. Appreciate it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 15:39 Comments || Top||

#15  Well, you do have "This call may be recorded for customer assurance purposes," and the fact that the courts have pretty much come down on the side that the police cannot stop you from recording them, as long as you don't physically interfere with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/10/2022 16:52 Comments || Top||


West Virginia man killed on vacation with his family after offering stranger a ride
[NYPOST] A selfless West Virginia man was found dead after he picked up a stranger while vacationing in South Carolina, his widow has revealed.

Josh Wilson, 40, was driving to his hotel room in Myrtle Beach last month with his family when they stopped at a gas station, where a stranger asked him for a ride, The Sun News reported.

Wilson — who was visiting from Parkersburg, West Virginia — agreed to give the unknown man a lift after dropping his family off, according to the outlet.

"I didn’t think anything of it because he does it all the time," his wife, Staci, told the newspaper.

But Wilson was later found in his car with gunshot wounds, the news site reported. He was brought to a hospital, where he was taken off life support on July 10.

Cops believe the man who asked for the ride wasn’t who killed the 40-year-old West Virginian, according to a story published in mid-July by a local ABC TV station.

Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never knew Manchin was a hitchhiker....
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/10/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2 
Quentin Ahmad Jean has been charged for Josh Wilson’s murder.
Posted by: jpal || 08/10/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Is is just me? Why does it seem so ridiculous that Mr. Wilson (who had his family in tow) would pick up a fella like our Quentin here ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/10/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#4  "He did it all the time."

Perhaps a casual sexual solicitation gone awry.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/10/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Speaking of great bassists...

"Yo, sensible baldheads, despair
At the sight of me mighty Black Hair!"
And over the streets
Swing two shoes with no feets,
Though the vandalised cameras don't care.
Posted by: Ho Chi Borgia1796 || 08/10/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||


Stranger sneers 'I hate Mexicans,' pummels woman in random subway attack
[NYPOST] A woman was punched repeatedly in the face by a stranger who sneered, "I hate Mexicans" on a Brooklyn subway Monday, cops said.

The 41-year-old victim boarded the northbound Q train at the Newkirk Avenue station around 8:45 a.m. and was talking on her phone when a woman sat down next to her, cops said.

Without warning, the attacker stood up and punched the victim in the face several times, according to police.

"Why did you hit me?" the victim asked.

"I hate Mexicans," the woman replied.

As the train pulled into the 7th Avenue station, the victim snapped a photo of the assailant on her phone, cops said. The victim suffered bruising, swelling and a cut on her lip but refused medical attention.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is investigating.

Cops described the attacker as a female with a dark complexion and approximately 5’6″ tall. She weighs about 120 lbs. and had long dark hair that was pulled back in a ponytail, as well as a tattoo with roman numerals on her left arm.
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..with a dark complexion

New Orwellian dictionary approved euphemism?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/10/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Because mexicans work for a living.
Posted by: Slusomp Pholunter6434 || 08/10/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Fascinating how many racist incidents occur in the blue areas while the media talks of the red areas as hotbeds of racism.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/10/2022 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  as well as a tattoo with roman numerals on her left arm.

Probably how she remembers to sign her name.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ LaWanda X?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/10/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Strangly,

XXMMMXX

Hey Post....that doesn't mean Roman Numerals.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Dark complexion...Roman numerals...the girl is obviously Sicilian.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/10/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||

#8  See: the "Sicilians" speech in True Romance.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/10/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#9  How did she know the woman wasn't Guatemalan? It could have been pretty embarrassing to mess up a hate crime.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/10/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#10  "You're an eggplant"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/10/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#11  That would be 'the color purple' not dark.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/10/2022 23:17 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi ambassador drops dead giving a speech in Cairo
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/10/2022 04:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/10/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Update: KSA gentleman who keeled over was Mohammed Al-Qahtani a Saudi businessman, not an ambassador.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/10/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Taiwan kicked off its two-day military exercise%u2014known as Tianlei, which can be loosely translated as 'Heaven's Thunder'
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Liz Cheney's husband's company is an advisor to Communist China on US acquisitions.
Posted by: Phons Omert2327 || 08/10/2022 1:13 Comments || Top||


#3  Imagination, Komrade Ambassador?

Sounds like someone's had a bit much to think.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 18:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Haven't crashed all those first stage launch units yet, eh?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/10/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||


Economy
USA Labor Productivity Decline in 2nd Q is almost as bad as 1st Q
[Breitbart] Productivity crashed over the past year as the economy added workers at a rapid clip even as economic output grew slowly, data from the Department of Labor showed on Tuesday.

The productivity of the business sector fell 2.5 percent compared with a year ago, the largest decline ever recorded in data going back to the first quarter of 1948, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The decline comes from a 1.5 increase in economic output and a 4.1 percent increase in total hours worked.

Productivity declined at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.6 percent in the second quarter. That’s a less rapid decline than the 7.6 percent contraction recorded in the first three months of the year but slightly below economist expectations for a 4.5 percent decline.

The economic output of the business sector fell 2.1 percent and hours worked increased 2.6 percent.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/10/2022 09:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CPI sucks also despite what Bidet spox and propagandists say.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/10/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||


Consumer prices rose 8.5% annually in July, as inflation remains stubborn
[Just the news] Good thing they passed the bullshit "Inflation Reduction" Climate Change spendathon in the middle of this inflationary era
The CPI increased by 9.1% in June
The Consumer Price Index increased in July by 8.5% over the last 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday.

The increase is slightly smaller than that seen in June, when the CPI increased by 9.1%, which was the largest yearly increase at that time since December 1981.

The lower prices for gasoline offset price increases in food and housing, the bureau stated.

While energy is 32.9% more expensive in July 2022 than it was in July 2021, prices fell by 4.9% from June.

However, from July of last year to this year, food prices rose by 10.9%, and increased by 1.1% just from June to July alone.

Earlier this month, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari called the current inflation levels "very concerning."

"We keep getting inflation readings, new data that comes in as recently as this past week, and we keep getting surprised," he said, adding that the current rate is "higher than we expect."

The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act by 51 to 50 earlier this week with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote. Republicans argue that the bill will increase inflation and harm average Americans.

The legislation, which has yet to pass the House, would allocate $80 billion in additional funding to the Internal Revenue Service while raising taxes on most Americans.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/10/2022 08:45 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  "The lower prices for gasoline offset price increases in food and housing, the bureau stated."
?????

Gas is still +/- $1.20 higher in my neck of the woods, than it was in 2020, which is about a 57.91% increase.

Tell you what Nancy P., I just want a SSA / SSD COLA increase equal to the Congressional Pay Raise of March 2022 "a 21 percent increase — according to the House Appropriations Committee summary."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/10/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I wouldn't hold my breathe on that wish.
Posted by: Chris || 08/10/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Stubborn. After Democrats; DC just passed the Make Bigger Inflation Act, we may end up wishing for a stubborn 8.5%.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/10/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I just hope that there aren't premature declarations of victory followed by an easing off that will make inflation much worse. See 1975-82.
Posted by: Tom || 08/10/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||


#6  Just wait until the real food shortages show up. Warehouses are just now starting to empty, so by Q4 we will see some real bare shelves. Later meat will be hard to come by as herds are now being culled and there will be later by Q1 2023.

Revolutions and violent civil disorder have reliably happened when food jumps over 20% rise in cost quickly. The US is just now passing that with shortages coming. How long before people start burning down areas, rioting over it and shooting each other?
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/10/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Researchers urge the government to set up labs for molecular diagnostics and make disease screening obligatory for cousin marriages
Where then will the special ed.-cum-jihadi grooming schools get their cannon fodder?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Prob need the same for ALL immigrants/migrants/foreign tourists/anti-vaxers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/10/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess Ilhan Omar has a unique solution for that difficulty.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/10/2022 12:35 Comments || Top||


With an alarming 14 new Polio cases reported in just 4 months, urban cities like Khi, Isb & Lhr are said to be the next epicenters
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Area 7th century cause and solution?

Kill the vaccinators.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/10/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Polio: What to know about signs, symptoms of virus as fears rise in New York
abc7NY on MSN.com|1 day ago
Posted by: Caesar Noodleman7901 || 08/10/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||





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Wed 2022-08-10
  Senior TTP leader Omar Khalid Khorasani killed in Afghanistan, Taliban spokesperson confirms
Tue 2022-08-09
  Pakistani Taliban Commander Allegedly Killed in South-Eastern Afghanistan
Mon 2022-08-08
  Gaza ceasefire takes effect, per agreement by Israel, Islamic Jihad
Sun 2022-08-07
  All senior Islamic Jihad officials in Gaza eliminated
Sat 2022-08-06
  Day 2: Gaza: Palestinian militant Tayseer Jabari Tango Uniform as Israel strikes after threats
Fri 2022-08-05
  Russian invaders shell Dnipropetrovsk region at night
Thu 2022-08-04
  Iraq's Sadr demands new polls as political crisis escalates
Wed 2022-08-03
  Afghanistan Needs India’s Help ‘Desperately’ to Secure Peaceful Environment: Taliban Interior Minister Haqqani
Tue 2022-08-02
  Nancy does Taipei
Mon 2022-08-01
  US takes out Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in 'successful' Afghanistan counterterrorism operation
Sun 2022-07-31
  Zelenskyy ordered the evacuation of the city of Donetsk
Sat 2022-07-30
  Yale study shows sanctions are crippling Russia's economy
Fri 2022-07-29
  Ethiopia says over 209 Al-Shabab fighters killed after failed incursion
Thu 2022-07-28
  GDP Shrank 0.9% in Q2, Marking Second Consecutive Quarter of U.S. Economy Contraction
Wed 2022-07-27
  US Seeks Life Sentence For Canadian ISIS Propagandist


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