[LI] The anti-Trump riots in Portland were vicious. KGW8 has numerous videos of the rioting. This poor woman, who apparently was pregnant, was attacked in her car by the mob. (Original video at KGW8)
Rioters trashed everything in sight, but backed off when a man stood in front of his apartment building holding a gun, as he shouted they were calling 911.
Video at KTLA confirms that the man was defending his apartment building. It appears nothing happened to him or the building.
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Saw one of those stills with text that everyone texts around yesterday. Some black comedian with the following caption: "You are anti-gun, but you are going to have a revolution? What are you going to fight with? Bongs and dildos?"
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aerially delivered wasp nests
Takes a Baby Boomer or older guy to know how to do that. AP!
Smoke 'em. Bag 'em. Toss (or use a rudimentary trebuchet made from stuff found in the garage).
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No way, I cut a Non-aggression Pact with the YellowJacket mob 20 years ago, don't mess with with me, my family or my dawgs and I won't use the gasoline again. Copy?
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What would happen if Democrat President Obama, Democrat Governor of Oregon Kate Brown, or Democrat Portland Mayor Charlie Hales got in front of the cameras and said stop the crap.
They have the same problem in Democrat run NY and SF and yet nobody says anything.
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#11 What would happen if Democrat President Obama, Democrat Governor of Oregon Kate Brown, or Democrat Portland Mayor Charlie Hales got in front of the cameras and said stop the crap. Great analogy - kinda like waiting for "moderate" Muslim leaders to denounce Islamic terrorism...makes ya think they agree with it...or lack an kind of moral courage to confront it.
OK, a feel-good article for our inner-lefty.
To the human eye, Jeremy doesn't look that different from most snails, but to other snails he is rather unique.
Due to a genetic mutation, Jeremy's shell swirls counterclockwise and his sex organs are located on the left side of his head, the opposite arrangement of most snails. According to NPR, this rare "lefty" look has made it nearly impossible for Jeremy to find a mate, because his sex organs don't align with those of other snails.
Luckily, Jeremy found a friend in Angus Davison of the University of Nottingham, who is working with a team to find out what gene creates this one in 100,000 anomaly. One of the best ways to do this is to study Jeremy's offspring. But first the snail has to have offspring, which requires another counterclockwise snail.
To find a mate for the lovelorn snail, Davison asked the public for help on Twitter, attaching the hashtag #snaillove to his plea.
"We didn't really know how big a hope it would be, or the chances of success, to find one," Davison told NPR about his "shellebrity." "But it worked -- we found two."
The two lucky ladies belong to snail enthusiasts who saw the tweet; one is named Lefty and is the pet of a Ipswich, U.K., woman, and the other was found by a snail farmer in Majorca, Spain, who discovered the rarity in a pile of snails about to be cooked.
So far, Jeremy has just met Lefty. The pair seems to be on the road to mating, a bizarre process for snails.
Snail mating first starts with some flirtatious biting, followed by "traumatic insemination," in which each snail stabs the other with "love darts." Since snails are simultaneous hermaphrodites, both female and male at the same, both of the snails produce offspring after this act.
This sexual makeup also allows snails to reproduce with themselves, but inbreeding is often avoided.
Once Jeremy and Lefty (hopefully) mate, the research team is interested in seeing if they will produce counterclockwise-shelled "children." Answers to what cause this genetic mutation could go on to help scientists understand physical symmetry in a variety of animals, humans included.
More good news for Jeremy: regardless of the outcome with Lefty, Davison's team plans to introduce Jeremy to the Spanish snail as well.
Watch what happens when a protester's balloon pops.
Bonus: This doubles as a metaphor!
According to one commenter, this is an excerpt from a much longer video taken during the usual miscreancy in Paris posted on May 19, 2016. Our girl and her pretty purple balloon show up at about 24:30. No dubbed in, frenzied weeping, but even more stupid. Watch this after seeing charger's main event, and enjoy it twice.
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These folks have never had anyone push back or disagree with them or even ignore them.
To be informed you're irrelevant had burst their egos.
It should have happened from age 5, maybe these folks can now become adults?
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Good grief is right. Tolerating PC foolishness in the schools and colleges has brought much of what we now see. It will be interesting to see who Trump appoints to the head the Department of Education. There has been talk of Dr. Ben Carson but there was earlier talk about doing away with the Dept. of Education in order to balance the budget.
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On the long video, the police spray something to disperse the crowd - tear gas, maybe? You can hear coughing. I suspect the snowflake got some of the liquid on her balloon and then, into her eye, when it popped. Shortly thereafter, another snowflake is seen squirting something (cleansing, one would hope) in her eye. Good thing someone was prepared for the police to react.
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It will be interesting to see who Trump appoints to the head the Department of Education.
He should appoint Darth Vader (maybe our own DarthVader!), then abolish the fucking place. It was created by Jimmuh Carter in exchange for the NEA's support in the 1976 election. I remember it like it happened yesterday because that's when I first started following politics - I told my father - 'That's horse trading, right?' He said 'Yup'.
"Don't reinvent government, just get rid of some of it" - Holman Jenkins
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That was hilarious TW. The Frog riot police are very patient until you lay hands on, then kerPow. See the dood what can most of his clothes ripped off by a dawg pile. Didnt seem like there were that many police until something happened, then out of the wood work with attitude.
Our Sflake also got a shot of pepper in the eye for her troubles. :>
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Glad you liked it, Shipman. You know me, I have to track things down if there's a hint that it needs to be tracked -- it goes back to a youthful interest in urban legends.
[PJ] Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump -- who said he has a concealed carry permit -- called for the expansion of gun rights Friday, including making those permits applicable nationwide. In a position paper published on his website Friday afternoon, Trump called for the elimination of gun and magazine bans, labeling them a "total failure."
"Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own," Trump wrote.
It's not a departure from what he's said on the trail this year, though it does mark a shift from a position he took in his 2000 book "The America We Deserve," where Trump stated that he generally opposes gun control but that he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to get a gun.
"Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons', 'military-style weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' to confuse people," Trump wrote Friday. "What they’re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans."
Liberals have long argued that guns should be regulated like automobiles. So what's not to like?
Trump said in the paper he has a concealed carry permit. The permits, which are issued by states, should be valid nationwide like a driver's license, Trump said. "If we can do that for driving -- which is a privilege, not a right -- then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege," Trump said.
[IsraelTimes] Fund to release $2.75 billion immediately, while further disbursements will depend on country’s economic performance.
They need that money -- Saudi Arabia has cut off oil deliveries as well as not delivered promised donations and investments. With the assumption that oil income is permanently reduced, spending decisions become starker.
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In the aftermath of the "Arab Spring" and the disastrous Muslim Brotherhood's Morsy revolution, the Egyptian budget deficit exploded. Morsy's economists argued that to survive his government would require an IMF loan package anywhere from $10-15 billion. Meanwhile, the central bank devalued the Egyptian pound while foreign reserves were reduced by some $16 billion. The Egyptian economy has yet to recover, and where that $16 billion went is anyone's guess.
[Dhaka Tribune] Notorious gangster Abdul Rauf Merchant, commonly known as Dawood Merchant, was deported to India last week, following his release from Dhaka Central Jail on November 6, reports The Hindu.
Dawood Merchant was flown to Mumbai on Thursday morning and produced in the Bombay High Court.
Merchant, a former aide of top Mumbai-based criminal cartel boss Dawood Ibrahim, was convicted for the 1997 murder of singer and founder of record label T-Series Gulshan Kumar in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He jumped parole in 2009 and reportedly moved into hiding in Bangladesh. He was incarcerated Please don't kill me! in Brahmanbaria in November 2009 for trespassing and possessing a fake Bangladeshi passport and was sent to Kashimpur jail in Gazipur.
In November 2014, he was sent to Dhaka Central Jail after he was arrested ‐ only four days after being released on bail ‐ under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which gives police the right to arrest anyone under suspicion.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kremlin said on Thursday US President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s foreign policy approach was "phenomenally close" to that of President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , giving Russia hope that tattered US-Russia relations could gradually be improved.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov, speaking in New York, said he saw incredible similarities between the two men’s foreign policy ideas, and this meant there was a solid basis to start a meaningful dialogue between Moscow and Washington.
Peskov, in the United States for a chess tournament, said he was struck by how similar parts of Trump’s victory speech were to a speech Putin gave in southern Russia last month.
Both men said they would put their own country’s national interests first, but that they would be ready to develop ties with other nations, depending on how ready other countries were to deepen relations themselves.
"They (Putin and Trump) set out the same main foreign policy principles and that is incredible," Peskov said in comments broadcast by Russian state TV’s Channel One on Thursday evening.
"It is phenomenal how close they are to one another when it comes to their conceptual approach to foreign policy. And that is probably a good basis for our moderate optimism that they will at least be able to start a dialogue to start to clear out the Augean stables in our bilateral relations."
With Moscow and Washington now at odds over Syria, Ukraine and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , Peskov cautioned that it would take a long time before relations could return to a high level, however, because of how far they had been allowed to deteriorate.
"An atmosphere of mutual trust takes years to achieve," he said. "It’s not possible to just declare that there is an atmosphere of mutual trust, especially after such serious damage was done in the last few years to our relations."
Peskov told the TASS news agency separately that Putin was ready to be flexible when it came to mending ties which he wanted to improve, but that there was a limit to his flexibility and that he would need to see some US reciprocity.
Peskov spoke after one of Russia’s most senior diplomats told the Interfax news agency earlier on Thursday that the Russian government had been in touch with members of Trump’s political team during the US election campaign and knew most of his entourage.
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Only Trump's is for US and Vlad's is for Russia?
China showed off what it claims is an anti-stealth radar system at this month's Zhuhai Air Show. If true, the radar threatens to undo hundreds of billions in U.S. spending on stealth warplanes. Depending on the tactics employed, perhaps.
China showed off two anti-stealth radars at Zhuhai. The first, the JY-27A 3-D long-range surveillance/guidance radar, is a Very High Frequency (VHF) radar that, according to Shephard Media, is the Chinese military's first active-phased array radar. VHF radars, with their longer wavelengths, are more likely to detect stealth aircraft, and it's been known that China has been working on them for some time now. Didn't Russia have them long ago, but they were the size of a football field and not portable? Looks like they've miniaturized them. They're the size of a barn now it seems.
Phased-array radars, unlike traditional "dish" radars, are flat panels composed of hundreds of smaller transmit/receive panels. While traditional radars are like turning on a flashlight in a dark room--everyone can see where the beam of light is coming from--phased array radars are more difficult to detect. They're also less susceptible to jamming. Can you home on them?
The article states "There are unverified claims that the radar can pick up hostile stealth fighters at ranges of up to 500km (310 miles.)" If so, that would out-stick American stealth aircraft, revealing them before they could get into a fight. Can they be spoofed? Heh heh, thought so.
Another anti-stealth radar on display at Zhuhai was the JY-26 Skywatcher-U. This radar works in a broader bandwidth, in VHF and Ultra-High Frequency bands. According to Shephard Media, it has a range of 310 miles and can track up to 500 targets at once. Intriguingly, it claims that while under development in Shandong, China it was able to track American F-22 Raptors flying over South Korea. They certainly weren't F-35s.
If this is true, the U.S. military could be in big trouble. The Pentagon has spent hundreds of billions on stealth technology over the past thirty years, on everything from the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter to the B-2 bomber and the F-22 Raptor. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project is estimated to cost everyone involve more than a billion dollars. All of those planes could have been a lot cheaper if not for the hard work of making them stealth, and if that advantage turns out to be useless that is a ton of money mostly wasted. Maybe. But fear not, this can be countered by pouring trillions of dollars into wind-powered wood-laminate aircraft.
While China's claim of detecting the F-22 sounds impressive, there is one awfully big caveat to go along with it. F-22 Raptors did briefly visit Osan Air Force Base in South Korea on February 17th, 2016. However, they were fitted with external fuel tanks that allowed them to easily make the trip from Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa to Osan. Large drop tanks hanging off their wings would have ruined their stealthy profile, making them much more visible to radar, so it's not entirely surprising that a radar would have detected them.
Does this mean stealth is dead? Not every radar is a VHF radar, and stealth is still useful against radars that are not VHF. Stealth also likely decreases the range at which radars such as Skywatcher can acquire targets. Stealth is part of the package of essential features of a modern combat aircraft, as important as electronic countermeasures, radars, or and defensive systems. Stealth, whether anyone likes it or not, is here to stay.
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...IIRC - and I will cheerfully admit to error - VHF radars are better at tracking stealthy aircraft than standard radars, but not perfect. And they really only work at all if the stealthy aircraft is obliging enough to fly in at altitude presenting its largest cross-section.
If, on the other hand, the stealth pilots don't cooperate, they may well give the radar crews just enough time to mutter the Mandarin equivalent of, "Oh, sh-
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Chinese military's first active-phased array radar.
These radars have a very long wave and while it can detect stealth aircraft in some aspects, it isn't very good at tracking them accurately and can't guide in a missile.
They detect a stealth aircraft out... there... somewhere towards the north. Only then do they send lots of other normal radars to the area to try to pick it up and kill it.
So far they are unproven in battle, but the good thing about it is a HARM missile can be dispatched to dispatch the radar.
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Of course current stealth technology will be overcome by sensor technology. Think of it as armor vs warhead. The next step in stealth may well be active stealth that sends a counter signal back to the source. If it isnt here already
[GP] The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, told Pro-Trump employees to resign this week after Trump won the election. Matt Maloney, a Hillary supporter, told employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors to resign.
Maloney sent employees this letter after Trump won the election.
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In reading (most of) the letter, it seems Maloney was saying the worst of Trump's rude talk had not place in his business. He concluded with, "deserves our open minds and a chance to lead."
I shed no tears for Grubhub, but this is another example of media distortion.
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[Free Beacon] Inflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $222 billion in the first month of fiscal year 2017, but the federal government still ran a $44 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.
Treasury receipts include tax revenue from individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, social insurance and retirement taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items.
In the first month of fiscal 2017, the amount of taxes collected by the federal government outpaced the first month of all previous fiscal years, even after adjusting for inflation. The 2017 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2016 and runs through Sept. 30, 2018.
The federal government collected $221,692,000,000 in the first month of fiscal year 2017. Last October the government collected $211,046,000,000 in inflation-adjusted revenues.
Most of the $221 billion came from individual income taxes, which comprised more than half of that total, totaling $121 billion.
Although the federal government brought in a record of approximately $221 billion in revenue in the first month of fiscal 2017, according to the Treasury, it also spent approximately $265 billion, leaving a deficit of approximately $44 billion.
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
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Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, The Bushes, The Odious John Kasich, etal, by merit of their casting "shade" on Mr. Trump's legitimacy, partially own these protests.
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.
[Dhaka Tribune] Notorious gangster Abdul Rauf Merchant, commonly known as Dawood Merchant, was deported to India last week, following his release from Dhaka Central Jail on November 6, reports The Hindu.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
China showed off what it claims is an anti-stealth radar system at this month's Zhuhai Air Show. If true, the radar threatens to undo hundreds of billions in U.S. spending on stealth warplanes.
[GP] The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, told Pro-Trump employees to resign this week after Trump won the election. Matt Maloney, a Hillary supporter, told employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors to resign.
[Free Beacon] Inflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $222 billion in the first month of fiscal year 2017, but the federal government still ran a $44 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.
