[AP] Authorities were trying Sunday to discover the types of drugs involved in a spate of overdoses that killed seven people in the Cleveland area a day earlier.
The deaths Saturday was the latest outbreak of drug overdose deaths in Ohio.
Tests were being conducted to figure out which drugs were involved, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson said. Officials suspect they were either heroin or fentanyl.
"This cluster of deaths is deeply concerning," Gilson said in a statement. "Although there is no clear link between the individuals, this number clearly raises the possibility of a very deadly drug in our community."
He issued a warning to take extreme caution while also advising people not to use illicit drugs.
At some point, people make choice, good or bad. How much do you invest in 'saving' them and how much of other peoples money do you steal invest in saving them?
[The Last Refuge] According to a story in The Christian Times, who they claim verified with The Charlotte Observer, Keith Lamont Scott had a two decades long history of gun violence, including an arrest/conviction for shooting at police officers in Texas. The New York Times has previously reported on his troubled past but not the 2005 shooting at police incident:
(Via NYT) [...] According to court records, Mr. Scott was born in South Carolina, was about six feet tall and weighed 230 to 250 pounds. While living in South Carolina in the 1990s, he was charged with a number of offenses including check fraud, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. Later, he moved to Texas where he shot and wounded a man in San Antonio in 2002, for which he was convicted and sentenced, in 2005, to seven years in prison. He was released in 2011. (link)
The Charlotte Observer also reported on Scott's extensive criminal career - and we did independently identify a criminal record in Texas - SEE HERE - which aligns with all of these reports.
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Anything come back from the lab yet? Blood work? No mention of priors in the MSM or convicted felon with a firearm. Firearm have a SN? Came from where? The martyrdom narrative fully in play.
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an arrest/conviction for shooting at police officers in Texas Ran the plates, the guy's string of run-ins with the law came up on the in-car computer. They probably said this is a potentially dangerous guy and acted accordingly. I'd be a bit edgy. Another poster boy for the left-- choir boy who's potential was never realized, would have gone to college, ya da ya da ya da.
[Guardian] Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest players in the history of golf, has died at the age of 87, a source close to the family confirmed to magazine Golfweek.
It was reported he died on Sunday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Palmer’s health has been in decline for some time.
"Thanks Arnold for your friendship, counsel and a lot of laughs," said Tiger Woods via Twitter on Sunday. "Your philanthropy and humility are part of your legend.
"It’s hard to imagine golf without you or anyone more important to the game than the King."
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Screw Apple. The arrogant asshats once again decide what you need or will be allowed to use. The only reason I've got an iPhone is because I got one for Christmas almost 5 years ago. That one is still working. Come replacement time I'm going Android
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Apple computers seem to be the computer of choice of Hollywood, the MSM, and lefties everywhere. I used to buy them for business and personal use long ago. They are too expensive and the software I was running at the time was not written for the Mac. One also had to put up with the corporate arrogance too.
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I might have mentioned this one before, but back in my software engineering days, I was in Cambridge (you know where this is going already) on an interview. It was going fairly well until he asked his last question - 'are you morally opposed to coding on the Mac platform?' I gave him the old Harold Ramis 'No, but I'm willing to learn', but it took all of my willpower not to reach across that desk and punch his lights out.
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Apple software is based on UNIX and thus potentially very robust and secure if folks know how to set it up. Go to any creative business (creative as in graphic design and advertising or Hollywood) and you'll find Macs everywhere. I'm not sure if Macs still have any kind of advantage to those fields but they gained that foothold long ago and have kept it.
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Yep. My professional lighting designer son comments on the superior software available for Apple in the design area, though, he has seen similar stuff on PCs recently.
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Dunno about superior software, but the Unix underpinnings make them a nice compromise--the pretty stuff for presentations works cleanly, and so does smooth interaction with the Linux workhorses. Some folks do analysis on Macs (for small datasets). The advantage to Linux on the laptops is that you can reconfigure what you please, and lots of folks do.
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My main workstation and all my servers are Linux. I use a Mac Air, an iPhone, and an iPad to communicate with the FOSS/Libre business community and also to phone, browse the web, read, and view YouTube and Netflix. It's all seamless. I also have a new Windows 10 laptop. It's a pain in the tail, but you can't send an invoice to Microsoft except with a Windows computer. Also three Kindles. Everything works well, except the Windows box, which is constantly fighting me and often has a dead battery when I open the lid, despite my best efforts with the energy dialog.
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I'm for electing the Clinton's and their extended family the first Martian Pilgrim Emperors. Must be present and on the surface of the planet to win.
How many seats do we have remaining on the manifest ?
[All Africa] Government says it has been shocked by the strange behaviour displayed by Botswana President Mr Ian Khama who this week chose to throw away the tenets of diplomatic engagement and publicly criticised President Mugabe.In an interview with Rooters news agency, Mr Khama provocatively said President Mugabe was now too old and should retire.
This is despite the fact that President Mugabe was constitutionally-elected and has a running term until 2018.
Responding to Mr Khama's remarks, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Chris Mushohwe said the sentiments by the Botswana leader were taboo in African etiquette and diplomatic parlance.
"The Government of Zim-bob-we is shocked by this uncharacteristic behaviour on the part of President Khama who until last month, was at the helm of Sadc, and should know better that you don't use the media platform to criticise fellow Sadc leaders as he has just done with President Mugabe," he said.
"It is a taboo in African etiquette and diplomacy. Cde Mugabe has at all times cautioned African leaders against attacking each other in public as this would serve to strengthen the hand of Western imperialism at the expense of African unity.
"In the case of President Khama, we need not to point out that he should have known better to keep his views about President Mugabe's age and administration to himself."
Dr Mushohwe said anyone who applauded Mr Khama for such untoward and unbecoming behaviour, was not only an enemy of Zim-bob-we, but the entire region.
"All those patting him on the back for a job well done are hypocrites who have sold their souls to the devil and do not mean well neither for Zim-bob-we nor this sub-region," he said.
"They are agents of regime change driving a foreign political agenda against national and regional interests. President Mugabe is a liberation icon and solid statesman who has fought for democracy and total emancipation not only for Zim-bob-we, but even the African continent as a whole."
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"It is a taboo in African etiquette and diplomacy. Cde Mugabe has at all times cautioned African leaders against attacking each other in public as this would serve to strengthen the hand of Western imperialism at the expense of African unity.
Quite frowned upon here as well, and for precisely the same reason.
...a coarse flour made from corn (maize), it is a staple in sub-Saharan Africa because it is cheap, widely available, does not need refrigeration, and can be made into porridge, polenta, and beer...
has flooded the resort town of Victoria Falls despite a government ban on the importation of the basic commodity. Zambia? You mean that place the white "settlers" went when their farms were stolen.
The Financial Gazette established that traders were making brisk business selling Zambian mealie meal at popular markets, while others moved around Chinotimba and Mkhosana townships on bicycles selling the product.
Some local shops also had stocks of the Zambian product, which sold for nearly half the price of locally produced mealie meal.
"It is the price and the quantity that matters," said a local trader.
"It all makes economic sense for the suffering residents," he added.
Investigations indicated that Zambian traders brought the mealie meal from across the border daily on bicycles for sale in Victoria Falls.
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From a VFH dining room, looking across the garden to the Falls bridge spanning the Zambezi, built by nasty colonials in 1906. Much history hidden in those old hotel walls. If only they could speak.
[Times of IS] Brian Mast likes to use the Israeli slang word achi. The Hebrew equivalent of "bro," an endearment among young men, it’s not something one would expect to hear in conversation with a United States Congressional candidate.
Mast, however, is not your usual aspiring American politician. A Republican running in Florida’s 18th Congressional District, Mast picked up achi and a few other popular Israeli expressions while volunteering with the Israel Defense Forces in January 2015. He was stationed that month at a base at Tel Hashomer outside Tel Aviv, where he packed medical kits and moved supplies around, including some heavy lifting.
While Israel was new to him, pulling his weight in a military environment wasn’t. Only two and a half years earlier, Mast was medically retired from the US Army following 12 years of service. During his military career, he earned the the Bronze Star Medal, the Army Commendation Medal for Valor, the Purple Heart Medal, and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
He also lost both his legs and a finger when, as a bomb disposal technician carrying out his duty in Afghanistan, he stepped on a hidden improvised explosive devise (IED).
Another F-35A fighter jet - touted as the future of military aviation - caught fire during an exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, the US Air Force has confirmed.
An investigation has been launched into what caused the fire, which was located in "the aft section of the aircraft," according to a statement from the Air Force. The jet was one of seven F-35As dispatched from Luke AFB, one of the bases responsible for joint strike fighter pilot instruction, as part of surface-to-air training at Mountain Home between September 10 and 24.
No injuries have been reported, but questions are being raised as to whether the fire may have originated in the F-35's F135 engine, manufactured by Pratt & Whitney, as was the case in 2014.
A 2015 report into a fire that destroyed an F-35A Lightning II at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida in June 2014, which resulted in the grounding of the entire fleet of the fifth generation fighter jet for almost a month, found the fire was caused by “catastrophic engine failure.”
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Because this beast is essentially a flying computer with an oh by the way capability as a fighter aircraft, I would expect it to be a cooling issue with one of the bizzillion CPUs in the thing.
[Mil Times] Military officials have been taking an "unnecessary safety and security risk to military personnel, their dependents ... and assets" by not properly screening civilian tenants who apply to live in privatized housing on base, the Defense Department Inspector General has found.
In some cases, that included failing to conduct criminal background checks at one of the Defense Department's most highly classified sensitive installations, Fort Detrick, Maryland, home to the military's chemical and biological research programs.
"The consequences of unauthorized access to these types of facilities could be catastrophic," the Inspector General auditors wrote.
According to the report, some of the tenants also received access badges that expired after their lease is ended, including some that exceeded the lease termination date by six months or more.
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.
[AP] Authorities were trying Sunday to discover the types of drugs involved in a spate of overdoses that killed seven people in the Cleveland area a day earlier.
[All Africa] Zambian mealie meal 
