[NYPOST] A Long Island school bus driver was busted Tuesday for allegedly molesting a 6-year-old and having child porn on his phone, cops said.
State authorities were tipped off to Charles Titone’s alleged behavior, which led local cops to the 46-year-old’s Huntington Station home, where they found kiddie porn on his cell phone, according to police.
Titone was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of sexual abuse and possessing a sexual performance by a child, cops said.
The child was never on Titone’s bus route, police said.
The bus driver worked for Huntington Coach Corporation and had routes in the Northport-East Northport school district, police said.
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[NYPOST] A Kansas man was busted for driving a stolen Chevy SUV to a local jail to bail out his brother ‐ who was being held for driving a stolen Chevy SUV, according to authorities.
The sibling already in the pokey, Eric Dean McCracken, 36, had been arrested in Topeka early Friday for allegedly driving a stolen 2007 Trailblazer with a suspended license, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
A few hours later, his younger brother, Keith Ray McCracken, 32, was also arrested after a short chase with cops tracking the GPS of a stolen 2015 Silverado, the department said.
"It is believed that the younger McCracken was en route to the Jackson County Jail to post bail on his older brother in a stolen vehicle," Sheriff Tim Morse said in the release.
Keith’s arrest led to a family reunion ‐ with both brothers ending up in Jackson County Jail awaiting bond, the release said.
Eric McCracken was booked for driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property. His brother was held for fleeing and eluding a law-enforcement officer, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property, the statement said.
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[BREITBART] Teenage climate scold Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change... issued another warning Tuesday to adults who allow global warming to continue, suggesting they fail to grasp the power of the young.
"People are underestimating the force of angry kids," the 16-year-old Swedish activist told crowds in Lisbon, Portugal. "They’re angry and frustrated."
Ms. Thunberg arrived into a Lisbon port around lunchtime and was greeted by city mayor Fernando Medina and a crowd of well-wishers after spending more than two weeks crossing the Atlantic in a 45-foot catamaran to avoid burning fossil fuels.
Together with British navigator Nikki Henderson and an Australian family, Thunberg set sail back to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from New York on La Vagabonde catamaran on November 13.
Thunberg said she will spend a few days in Lisbon before heading for Madrid, where the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... COP25 climate summit is already underway.
People are underestimating the force of angry kids
That battery's done put in backwards.
Australian family eh? Lisbon via Botany Bay? Who's the navigator, fuggin' Captain Cook? Bustin out the sextant, shootin' the azimuth and comparing star charts and shit?
(Mr. Crabs voice)
Haul the keel up and scrape the barnacles me boys!
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Kids are ignorant and easily manipulated,
Underestimate assumes the kids opinions are worth something, they are not. They are just puppets and everyone knows it except the kids themselves.
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This is why the vote (in the US) is restricted to people over 18. Some idiots want to lower the voting age to 16 or even younger.
If I had my way, the age would be raised to 35 - you have to be old enough to be president for you can vote.
And stay off my lawn.
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So I am not afraid to spank some smart assed kid. But with that said I do know the power of children that are as hateful as they are misinformed and what they are capable of. Pol Pot knows of them as well.
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I'd be happy to go back to the landowner's vote system. Show you have some skin in the game.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A bald eagle has made an unexpected appearance at a Virginia tax preparation office, slamming into a window and then apparently flying off without serious injuries.
The Virginian-Pilot reports the mature bald eagle struck a window Monday at an H&R Block office in Norfolk, leaving a hole nearly three feet (one meter wide) and scattering glass shards over the office floor.
Harry Patterson Jr., who runs a neighboring insurance office, says he was on the phone when he saw what he thought looked like a stuffed animal. Patterson says the office is closed until tax season.
A spokesman for H&R Block acknowledged the incident. Good symbolism, birdy!
[OUTLINE] A research scientist believes the US is in the middle of a 'Pig Bomb' - where feral hogs are increasing in huge numbers.
Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist whose been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep growing unless there is a swine flu epidemic.
His comments come just a week after a caregiver was mauled to death by wild hogs in Texas.
Christine Rollins, 59, was attacked and killed outside the home of the elderly couple she was looking after in what the local sheriff described as 'one of the worst things he has seen'.
It's unclear what provoked the attack by multiple animals, by Mayer claims that deadly wild hog attacks are more common than shark confrontations.
They are responsible for six a year on average, 'but you never read about them' he said.
'It's a crazy situation with everything that's happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has went kaboom! in North America,' Jack Mayer told The Daily Beast about the wild population of six million and two million in Texas alone.
Caregiver Christine Rollins, 59, was attacked and killed by feral hogs last month. Now a research scientist has claimed a 'Pig Bomb' has blown up in the US
The attack took place outside a home in Texas where two million of the six million wild hog population lives.
'There's not another animal that can put little feet on the ground quicker than a wild pig.'
Throughout the 20th Century there were about two million wild pigs across 20 states but the tripled figure accounts for 48 states.
Mayer blamed global warming for increasing the survival rate of newborn piglets and producing more acorns, bulbs, roots and tubers for them to eat.
They can start reproducing at three months old and do so twice a year.
Various sized bites on Rollins suggested she was killed by a sow and her young. They can birth as many as 20 little ones which can weigh up to 50 pounds.
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Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist whose been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep growing unless there is a swine flu epidemic.
The sort of expert you can really do without.
Why not export the pork, eat more ribs this winter, lower prices and send to China ?
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I'd say send every elected state representative and senator out with a requirement of at least 10 or they can not run for office again. Those against guns will be limited to spears. One or the other herd will be reduced.
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I'm sorry, but the idea of facing a bunch of feral hogs with just a spear seems really stupid. You need something with a large caliber and a large magazine. And several extra magazines.
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Not just a farmer's problem, heard a story about a pack so bold they would come to the cake truck drop after the truck leaves and eat the cow food.
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I went to Starbucks and offered to buy 2 officers a cup a coffee and they said no need as they get free coffee at the Starbucks. So not all Starbucks managers and employees are cop haters.
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Three points of personal contact which make or break a business - impression going through the door, interaction with employees, using the restroom.
[ToloNews] By international standards, air quality in Kabul has recently been rated "hazardous."
How does this compare to the worst cities in China, Istanbul during the winter, and Los Angeles before we started cleaning up our air in the 1970s?
The Afghan Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday said that air pollution-related diseases have increased by 5 percent this year, and it called on relevant organizations to take the necessary measures before pollution impacts more lives.
"The statistics which we have from the hospitals indicate that it has increased by 5 percent compared to the past year," said Nizamuddin Jalil, a front man for the Ministry of Public Health.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... a number of residents in Kabul have said that the National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) has failed to take solid steps towards reducing air pollution in the country.
"They are burning rubber, it creates smoke and this also impacts the agriculture in our area," said Abdul Mateen, a resident of Deh Sabz district of Kabul, referring to the kilns operating in the districts.
With the onset of winter, the vast majority of people in Afghanistan have turned to burning coal and wood to heat their homes ‐ a move that seriously impacts the quality of air.
Assessment by Air Visual, a US and Swiss-based software company measuring air pollution, indicates that the air quality in Kabul has reached a "hazardous" level, and this has put the city at the top of the world’s "most polluted cities" list.
Based on NEPA standards, air pollution shouldn’t exceed 75 micrograms in one cubic meter, but in the past few days the level of air pollution has been at least three times as much as this.
According to Air Visual, air pollution levels in some parts of the city have risen to a standard of 247 micrograms per cubic meter.
Of course. NATO would constrain his government to do things he doesn’t want to do, not do things he desires, and spend money on the military. Here’s hoping Labour gets so few votes they disappear from Parliament.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Jeremy Corbyn, current leader of the UK Labour Party, claimed in a 2014 video that he wished NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and other Western military alliances did not exist.
The footage has been publicized just in time for the United Kingdom to host a major NATO summit this week, bringing together world leaders, including US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... .
The footage, reportedly from 2014, shows Corbyn, flanked by Labour candidates Catherine West and David Lammy, saying: "I am no fan of NATO, indeed I wish NATO didn’t exist. I am no fan of Western military alliances, indeed I wish they didn’t exist", The Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Last month, Corbyn reportedly refused to call the NATO alliance a great military success during an interview. Asked if he agreed with the chief of defence staff, Nick Carter, on the latter’s description of NATO as being the "most successful military alliance in history", Corbyn replied: "I’m not sure I’d define it as that", according to the Daily Mail.
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I wish NATO would stop existing. It's a gigantic payment from the US to wealthy First World nations and serves no other purpose today than to enable military adventures.
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He hates NATO as they opposed his wonderful Soviet buddies.
h/t Instapundit
[AmericanThinker] The Chicoms have a problem.
Seems the Hong Kong protests they are so desperate to tamp down have started to ignite elsewhere, deep into China's cities.
Here's one the Chicoms really didn't want:
Protesters in southern Guangdong province, China, took to the streets last week to demand the communist government not build a polluting crematorium near their town, adopting slogans common to the Hong Kong protest movement, Time magazine noted on Monday.
The Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, which openly supports the anti-communist movement, reported the use of slogans such as "revolution of our times," which China considers seditious hate speech, and "just like you, Hong Kong!" in Guangdong. As China heavily censors coverage of the Hong Kong protests and bans all statements of support from the few permitted social media sites in the country, the adoption of the Hong Kong movement's slogans and tactics is a sign that people within Communist China are informing themselves regarding the protests through unapproved means.
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Eh, this kind of thing happens all the time in China. Don't get excited. It's local. China has a Google-like control of information. If they don't like it, it doesn't exist.
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Given that most Chinese dynasties collapse due to the destructive aspect of corruption, Xi should be concerned.
Actually, that's the way it's portrayed in Chinese historical accounts, which are written as homilies/parables for future rulers. In reality, it's really the same reason that all other regime changes occur - power struggles among elites or, uniquely in China's case, armed revolution from below. The Han, Ming and (current) Red dynasties are all the fruit of peasant revolts. Since the establishment of a unitary continental-sized state in Northeast Asia by the First Emperor 2200 years ago, roughly 1/3 of its duration has been under the rule of these three regimes. It would be as if one of the Servile Wars had established a commoner as Emperor whose progeny ruled Rome for 1/3 of its existence. There was no comparable phenomenon in Europe for most of its history, until the French Revolution. And the three Chinese dynasties mentioned were only the first place winners. There were multiple first runner-ups, peasant rebels all, that came within a whisker of the throne. Such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bei Liu Bei, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zicheng Li Zicheng and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan Hong Xiuquan. And these aren't even the full extent of the roster, and that's not even counting the honorable mentions.
Of course *we're* hearing about it. Duh. It's the Chinese who won't hear about the protests. Thus they won't spread.
I thought this went without saying, but I guess not.
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*Facepalm*
Of course *we're* hearing about it. Duh. It's the Chinese who won't hear about the protests. Thus they won't spread.
I thought this went without saying, but I guess not.
Given that the successful peasant revolt that put the Han dynasty in power for 400 years relied not at all on modern communications, it's not a given that this won't spread.
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Protesters in southern Guangdong province, China, took to the streets last week to demand the communist government not build a polluting crematorium near their town, adopting slogans common to the Hong Kong protest movement,
That suggests there are communication channels beyond official state media.
Back in the Soviet era, there was a Russian word "samizdat", meaning self-published. It referred to printed material, typed or mimeographed that was passed from person to person. Nowadays, you could pass around flash drives. Not all news comes over official media channels.
[Kyodo News] Tokyo - The government said Monday it has agreed to buy an uninhabited island in Japan's southwest with an eye to using it as a U.S. military takeoff and landing training site.
The 16 billion yen ($146 million) acquisition of the 8-square-kilometer Mage Island in Kagoshima Prefecture will pave the way for the relocation of the practice site for U.S. carrier-borne fighters from Iwoto Island in the Pacific, some 1,200 km south of Tokyo.
"It's important to secure the site for field carrier landing practice from the viewpoint of security so we will continue to try to build a permanent facility at an early date," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference. The agreement was reached Friday.
The U.S. military used to conduct takeoff and landing practice at its Atsugi base near Tokyo but the training site was moved to Iwoto Island in the 1990s on a temporary basis due to complaints about noise.
The fighters were all transferred from Atsugi to another U.S. military base in Iwakuni, western Japan, last year, making the flight to the island even longer. As a result the United States asked Japan to prepare a more convenient and permanent location for the drill.
Mage Island is located about 400 km from Iwakuni while Iwoto is 1,400 km away.
[DAWN] A case was registered against a suspect for sexually assaulting a six-year-old boy in Rohillanwali, Muzaffargarh, it emerged on Tuesday.
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Rohillanwali cop shoppe on December 1 under Section 377 (unnatural offence) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC). Later Section 367-A (kidnapping or abducting in order to subject person to unnatural lust) was also added to the FIR.
According to the complainant Muhammad Ashraf, on the day of the incident, his six-year-old nephew had gone out of the house alone at 3pm to buy something from a shop. When the minor did not return for a long time, the complainant became concerned and went to look for him with others.
According to the FIR, they heard screams and as they approached the sound, they saw the victim being sexually assaulted. When the suspect saw Ashraf and others approaching, he left the victim and escaped.
Ashraf said his nephew was unconscious at the time. Police said the boy was shifted to a hospital where a medical examination was conducted and efforts are underway to arrest the suspect.
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday admitted for hearing an application submitted by former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ...husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... , seeking bail on medical grounds in two cases filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The petition will be heard by an IHC special bench tomorrow.
Zardari is under detention on charges of money laundering and presently undergoing treatment at the Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad. He was arrested by NAB after the cancellation of his pre-arrest bail by the IHC in the fake bank accounts case on June 10.
In his petition, filed earlier today, he maintained that he is suffering from a heart condition and has had three stents placed in his body. He said that he also suffers from diabetes which means that he has to constantly monitor his blood sugar levels.
The PPP co-chairperson's medical reports were also submitted along with the application to the IHC so that bail may be granted.
The high court also admitted for hearing a bail petition filed by Zardari's sister Faryal Talpur. In her appeal, Talpur maintained that she is the mother of a differently-abled child. In order to care for her child, she asked the court to grant bail until the completion of the trail. Her petition will also be heard tomorrow.
[DAWN] Police on Tuesday said they suspect a criminal gang is behind the kidnapping of Dua Mangi, a girl who was kidnapped from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's DHA neighbourhood late Saturday night and is still missing.
A senior police official, who wished not to be named, told Dawn that a preliminary probe had revealed that a criminal gang had intercepted the 20-year-old girl and her friend as they were walking on the road. They shot at the boy and injured him and kidnapping Dua for ransom. He said that her family, however, had so far not received any ransom call.
Police also said they made progress in the case today, citing the recovery of the car used by the abductors. The car was found abandoned in Gulshan, within the limits of Sharea Faisal.
The official, who is familiar with the case, said that the car had been snatched from Ferozabad on November 27.
The officer said the family had initially suspected involvement of a student in the case as reportedly some quarrel had taken place between the girl and the student but "no concrete evidence had emerged". The officer clarified that no one has so far been arrested in the case.
DIG South Sharjeel Kharal said different investigation teams were working on the case and that police were in touch with the family and making concerted efforts "to recover the girl safely".
[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Tuesday said that the world's leading financial institutions had given Pakistain their vote of confidence and acknowledged the improvement over the past five months in its economic indicators.
"The World Bank president came and appreciated Pakistain's performance and instructed that better ties with Pakistain be formed.
"The Asian Development Bank, the foremost entity with whom we are linked to economically right now, also recognised the improvement in the performance of Pakistain's economy and declared a $3 billion increase in its programme," said Sheikh as he held a presser in Islamabad alongside Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Hammad Azhar, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Shabbar Zaidi, and special finance secretary Umar Hameed.
"Similarly, IMF (International Monetary Fund), viewed as the world's largest financial lender and whose fundamental task is to form an opinion regarding the various economies across the world, after viewing our economic performance, declared that all of Pakistain's agreements made with the IMF had been befittingly achieved," he continued.
Answering a question it never occurred to me to ask:
[IsraelTimes] A fire killed 13 people, including several children, in a farming community along the border with Israel and Syria, Jordanian officials said Monday.
The Jordanian civil defense said in a statement that the fire broke out early Monday in a shack where two Pak families live in the village of al-Shuna al-Janobia.
It said the dead included eight children, four women and a man ‐ all said to be Pak nationals.
Three others were maimed.
The civil defense said an electrical fault caused the fire and an investigation has been launched.
The village sits along the Jordan Valley, south of the confluence of the Yarmouk and Jordan rivers.
The agricultural sector in Jordan employs several thousand Paks, many of whom live in dire conditions.
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That's where Asian hubris will win over Mengelian mad tech. They cannot produce a caucasian or any non-mong looking baby and label it as genetically superior.
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Here’s something you don’t come across every day. A couple in Texas is going to prison for smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S.
30-year-old Brianna Branch and 32-year-old Kevin Barr were hit with time behind bars by U.S. District Judge Janis Jack for smuggling over 100 people into the country during a three-month period.
According to the DoJ, the pair led a conspiracy to sneak adults and minors past South Texas Border Patrol checkpoints. They recruited drivers in Houston to truck it over to the border and put the pilgrims into utility trailers.
That constituted, in the eyes of the Justice Department, "unnecessary and harsh conditions."
The couple’s soon to be transferred to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility.
...For his role, Kevin’s gettin’ contained for 85 months. Brianna’s being breadboxed for 70.
h/t Instapundit
Remember the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary? It feels kind of quaint now, because congressional Democrats have so completely outdone their hysterics in the time since.
For the first time, a vice president had to break the tie in favor of confirmation, all because liberals didn’t like that DeVos was wealthy and unlikely to devote her energy as secretary to ensuring that the department worked for teachers unions rather than students.
If Democrats and the national media weren’t in a sticky mess right now over impeachment, they might notice that DeVos has done some things that might concern them. And she still has at least a year left to do more.
The Washington Examiner's editorial board recently checked in with DeVos for her thoughts on her tenure as secretary.
She said in an interview that she’s most proud of introducing a major bill that would make $5 billion available to parents of K-12 students so that they can choose where their child attends school.
She also noted her rollback of the Obama-era guidelines on adjudicating sexual misconduct claims in higher education. DeVos’s new regulations on the subject are set to go into effect soon and ensure all students have the right to due process ‐ a nice change from the current standard, which basically offers prayer as the only defense for male students accused of sexual misconduct.
But something DeVos has consistently said since the start was that her primary goal is to shrink the department all around, reducing its power as much as possible.
She’s had some success there. Under her watch, the department has eliminated 600 staff positions, bringing the total from 4,300 to 3,700.
I wonder how that compares to how much President Obama expanded it...
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The only Constitutionally based interest of the federal government in education is the systems run by the Department of Defense and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The only 'student' programs are those of the GI Bill and Public Health Service. The rest of should never have been created.
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.
[NYPOST] A Long Island school bus driver was busted Tuesday for allegedly molesting a 6-year-old and having child porn on his phone, cops said.
[BREITBART] Teenage climate scold 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[OUTLINE] A research scientist believes the US is in the middle of a 'Pig Bomb' - where feral hogs are increasing in huge numbers.
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
...husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
[DAWN] Police on Tuesday said they suspect a criminal gang is behind the kidnapping of Dua Mangi, a girl who was 
It also changes our attitude towards new human life.
Great job Betsy, and thanks for passing along my thoughts on Gallagher. 
