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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Connecticut prepping new report on racial, ethnic disparities in traffic stops
[NEWSTIMES] When the most detailed analysis of statewide traffic stops in Connecticut history is released at the end of the month, it will show that more minority drivers were pulled over in the last year than their share of the driving population warrants.
Here's a fun game to try when you're out for a drive someday: Pretend you're a policeman. As you follow each car on the road for a few hundred yards guess what race the driver is from behind.
For a handful of police departments where the disparity is especially pronounced, the state intends to offer training and other assistance.
Here's another fun game: Ask your friends whether they want law enforced equally or proportionately. The answers will tell you whether they're happy reading the New York or Washington Post.
The goal is to address biased policing before it produces a crisis of confidence, as it did recently in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where a federal Justice Department probe found that officers routinely discriminate against blacks.

"I do anticipate changes in communities that have been identified where bias is present," said Ken Barone, a policy and research specialist at the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy in New Britannia and one of three authors who produced the analysis.

"The foundation of this project is if the public doesn't believe law enforcement is legitimate, then police have lost their credibility," Barone said. "So the next phase of this project is to put reforms into place."
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone that got their butts shot off during the past year had just committed a violent crime and then tried to beat up the police response.

Always followed by a riot of course.

Why? Black leadership has failed the black community. It is easier to play the race card than to get off their lazy pot smoking butts and become real moral leaders.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/08/2015 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  F*ck, I can't wait for the report, should be an interesting read. Maybe Baritone can make it into an opera, "New Britannia the World is Ferguson Black" - Tickets will be on sale to the Metropolitan Opera in NYC, at your next Connecticut State Trooper traffic stop.
Posted by: Snerong Clunk7821 || 03/08/2015 3:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Connecticut prepping new report on racial, ethnic disparities in traffic stops

Call me when they do the report on racial, ethnic disparities in murder, robbery, and rape that will get as much media attention.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2015 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  data shows that blacks commit more traffic violations (and other crimes). Police coverage is concentrated in high crime areas. Do you need to be Fox Butterfield to not see the connection?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2015 16:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember "Trigonometry is Racist" a few days ago, Frank?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/08/2015 17:28 Comments || Top||


2 teens get 30 years for raping woman, pouring bleach down her throat
[LATIMES] Two teenagers have been sentenced to 30 years in prison each for raping and pouring bleach down the throat of an 87-year-old woman during a break-in at a Hemet retirement home, officials said.

Raymond Michael Miranda, 15, and Ruben Melanson, 16, who were sentenced as adults, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including rape, burglary and elder abuse, said John Hall, a front man for the Riverside County district attorney's office.

The pair also admitted to a gang enhancement as well as having committed bodily injury to the woman during the April 17, 2014, attack.

Miranda and Melanson will be housed at the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Department of Juvenile Justice until they turn 18, then will be transferred to a state prison to serve the remainder of their sentences. They also must register as sex offenders for life.
Do prisoners object to the rapists of little old ladies like they do to the rapists of children?
Police said the teenagers broke into a gated senior living community, then broke into the sleeping woman's home. They beat her, sexually assaulted her and used knives and bottles during the attack, according to a Riverside County Superior Court criminal complaint. Prosecutors said the teens also poured bleach down the woman's throat.

During the sentencing, Miranda apologized for his actions, Hall said. The woman, who was identified only as Jane Doe, now has to use a wheelchair and an oxygen tank to help her breathe as a result of the attack, Hall said. At the sentencing, she thanked Miranda for apologizing, but said their actions were evil.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about "attempted murder"? They POURED BLEACH DOWN HER THROAT, and all they get charged with is 'elder abuse"? So if she was under 65 it would have been OK?

What about the knives and bottles? No "assault with a deadly weapon" charges? She is now in a wheelchair and on oxygen, permanently, because of their attack, but no "assault with gross bodily harm"?



Posted by: Sling Johnson6443 || 03/08/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#2  It's California. Their sense of Justice is a bit skewered.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/08/2015 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Disgusting little sh*ts, 30 years isn't long enough, but those two are going to become "toy boys" in prison, and there lives are toast. Damned animals.
Posted by: Thavins Clase8010 || 03/08/2015 14:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Do prisoners object to the rapists of little old ladies like they do to the rapists of children?

Pretty much. One of my father's 'friends' did time in the NH state prison in Concord for ripping off and beating up his own mother. One of my last classes at UNH was in criminology, the guy teaching the class was Concord's former warden. So we do a field trip to Concord, and who do I see in the big plexiglass room (protective custody, to separate these guys from GP) with about twenty other people? Yes, indeed. He recognized me, too.
Posted by: Raj || 03/08/2015 15:47 Comments || Top||

#5  I would call them evil and take them out back and put a bullet in the back of their head and charge the parents for the trial and ammunition costs.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2015 19:32 Comments || Top||

#6  So they will probably be placed in 'protective' custody. Which will cost even more.

Shame really. They really need to know what it is to be on the receiving end from Bubba the bull.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/08/2015 21:43 Comments || Top||


Boston high school employee accused of shooting student
[WASHINGTONPOST] A Boston high school employee known as "Rev" was charged this week with attempting to murder a student authorities say he had recruited to work for him selling marijuana.
So the janitor, an amateur preacher, was running a weed selling operation and was using the kiddies as his salesmen? Izzat what we get from that sentence?
Police and prosecutors say that Shaun Harrison, who had worked for English High School, shot a 17-year-old student in the back of the head Tuesday night. Remarkably, the student not only survived but flagged down a car while he had a bullet wedged in his cheek. He spoke with police in his hospital room the following day.
Used a .32 to do a .45's job, did he?
Harrison, 55, was
You can still be named 'Shaun' when you're 55? I thought you had to change it to something grownup when you hit 40?
tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
and charged in Roxbury Municipal Court with attempted murder.
One to the back of the head is usually more than just an attempt.
He operated "a marijuana distribution enterprise" and had gotten the student to work with him before some sort of still-unspecified dispute, according to the office of Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.
"Hey, yo! Ma man! Where at ma money?"
"Ah hain't gotcho money!"

"We're saddened, we're shocked by the news," Denise Snyder, spokeswoman for Boston Public Schools, said in a telephone interview Friday. "I think it was a really sad day for us yesterday."
You got a guy name "Shaun" who goes by "da Rev" and you're shocked at something? Really?
Harrison is believed to have regularly mentored the 17-year-old at the school, police said.
Ahah. Mentored him. I see.
His nickname, "Rev," was posted on what was his office door at English High School, which the Boston school system describes as the country's oldest public high school. (The Boston Latin School, the school's football rival, says they are the oldest school in the country, predating English by two centuries.)
200 years? Well, that's fairly close. Almost the same thing in Common Core math.
Kernaham Buck, an attorney for Harrison, told the Boston Globe that Harrison ran a substance abuse program at the school and had a "strong record of accomplishment in the field of human services." Buck did not immediately respond to a message on Friday.
Sounds like he was running his substance abuse program at a profit.
The mood was tense Friday afternoon at the school, a squat, brick structure located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood, as the news of Harrison's arrest dominated city headlines.
It was a dark and stormy night, too.
Outside the school, a man purporting to be affiliated with Boston English ordered a news hound off school property.
"Orff! Be orff wid yez! Substance abuse program's closed!"
"We've had enough with all this Shaun Harrison stuff!" the man yelled. When the news hound stepped onto the sidewalk just off school grounds, the man approached quickly. "I told you to get off school property!" he said.
Sounds like the local substance abuse program enforcer.
Prosecutors say that Harrison and the student met up Tuesday night and were walking on Magazine Street in Roxbury, when the older man pulled out a handgun and fired it at the back of the student's head before fleeing.
"What's that over there?"
"What?"
[BANG!]
"Ow! That hurt!"

The 17-year-old was taken to Boston Medical Center with what police said were injuries that were not life-threatening, after being shot behind the right ear. After the shooting, the teenager flagged down a passing car and asked for help, police said in the complaint filed in municipal court.
"Hey, man! Gimme a ride to the hospital! It's an emergency!"
"You ain't havin' no baby! You're a guy!"

In addition to attempted murder, Harrison was also charged with aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and other counts related to the shooting. While Conley's office asked that Harrison be held on $750,000 bail, Judge David Poole of the municipal court set the bail at $250,000. Poole also ordered Harrison to wear a GPS monitor, remain at home if released on bail and stay away from the 17-year-old.
If he actually kills him I'll betcha he really jacks the bail up.
Detectives with the Boston Police Department went to Harrison's home in Boston, just a five-minute walk from where the shooting occurred, and saw three men leaving: Dante Lara, 24; Wilson Peguero, 23; and Oscar Pena, 19. These three were searched and found to have guns, marijuana and a police scanner, and they were also arraigned Thursday.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Your name's really Dante? You the guy that wrote 'Paradise Lost?'"

Conley's office says any connection between the three men and Harrison's "alleged drug enterprise remain under investigation," but prosecutors believe they went to the home to remove evidence. Two of the men and Harrison also have similar tattoos, prosecutors said.
They hired a guy to run a substance abuse program who has a gang tat... on his neck?
"The investigation into his alleged drug ring remains very active," Conley's office said in a statement.
Inspector! How do you do it?
Snyder said that school officials learned of the allegations on Wednesday afternoon, found out he was arrested that night and fired him the following morning.
"Rev, yer fired!"
"It's because I'm black, ain't it?"
"Rev, we're all black. Except for the kids in the school band and the math club. They're all Asians."

He had started working as a coordinator at English High School, where his title was "dean of academy," on Jan. 5, after having worked for three other Boston schools since 2010, Snyder said.
"Whaddya do for a livin', Rev?"
"I'm a coordinator!"

His role at English involving [sic] helping provide what are known as "wraparound services" for students, Snyder said. These generally involve offering social services to students, finding disciplinary options other than suspensions or helping homeless students find housing.
"Why'd you shoot the kid in the back o' the head, Rev?"
"It was that, or suspend him."

A report issued last year by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center noted that the strongest types of these services involve a specific point-person to make sure "the social-emotional support responsibilities do not fall unduly on teachers and principals."
They can't be bothered with that sort of thing. Too busy.
The situation involving Harrison is "an isolated incident," Snyder said, adding that counselors and psychologists were being made available to anyone at the school who needs support.
"He's the only kid's been shot in the back o' the head all year."
"Nothing is more important than the safety and well-being of our students," John McDonough, interim superintendent of Boston Public Schools, said in a statement.
"Nothing!"
"English High School is filled with committed and caring educators who go above and beyond for their students every day. This school community is strong and its students and teachers have my unwavering support."
How many of them run their own substance abuse programs?
Snyder said school officials have received a few dozen phone calls about the situation, most of which involved people wanting to make sure Harrison was not returning to the school.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kids you just got to say "No to Drugs" or Your Drug Overlord will polish you off. And Let that be a lesson to you.
Posted by: Snerong Clunk7821 || 03/08/2015 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  future Community Organizer
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2015 16:57 Comments || Top||

#3  While this seems on the surface to be a sad case of firearm inadequacy, permit me to suggest that we are raising up a more thick-skulled breed of knuckleheads these days.

Props to Fred for most excellent and incisive in-line.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2015 20:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Planet Fitness drops member, so to speak, after gender identity complaint
[FOX8] It's a business that sells itself on being non-judgmental but Planet Fitness has allegedly revoked the membership of a woman for complaining, according to WNEM.

Yvette Cormier, a member at the Midland location, says she had no idea what that meant until a few days ago.

"I was stunned and shocked. He looked like a man. He did not look like a woman," says Cormier. Cormier is talking about a person who walked into the woman's locker room while she was getting undressed. She says she couldn't believe her eyes.

"This is very unprofessional. This is very scary," continues Cormier. Cormier says she immediately complained to the front desk and eventually to corporate offices.

"They told me the same thing, that he was allowed in there because that's the sex he wants to be," says Cormier.

Cormier says she understands that some men self-identify as women and some women self-identify as men but says this person looked like a man and that caught her off guard.

Cormier lost her membership for violating the company's 'Judgement Free Zone' policy.

Moving forward, Cormier says she isn't concerned with getting back her membership. Her concern now is to warn other women at this gym to make them aware of this policy, because she says Planet Fitness failed to warn her.

The company told TV5 that Cormier's concerns about the policy regarding gender identity was inappropriate and disruptive by complaining to other members at the gym.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Give it time, it will soon percolate down to the least common denominator, and every guy that wants to see a woman naked will feel free to follow her into the locker room, from planet fitness to the local high school. Soon to be followed by girls at the local high school being given 'F's' in gym for refusing to shower after gym. Because THEY are deviant for not wanting to be seen naked by all and sundry, including the entire high school football team.
Posted by: dlr || 03/08/2015 13:31 Comments || Top||

#2  OK, but he has to sit to pee. Sitzpinkler
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2015 16:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Insanity rules!!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/08/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Just remember, perverts and deviants have rights, too, and have been oppressed for years.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/08/2015 19:12 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
This Week In Guns, March 8th, 2015


Sorry. Had to Work. Saturday Edition

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

No question the BATF's dictum that M855 5.56mm ammunition was actually armor piercing, has spiked prices at the least in the short term for .223 as well as for .308 ammunition. .223 ammunition has increased by almost 30 percent in two weeks. If this was the intended effect, then it worked.

As I understand it, there are only two types of .223/5.56mm ammunition commercially available anyway. The main categories are the rounds you buy off the shelf at stores in brass or steel casings, and the military surplus which has been banned. I am certain there are others I am not aware of, but those are the main categories. The government also quit selling used brass last year. If the government imposes a ban on the surplus ammunition, and brass is unavailable except in new manufacture, then that leaves only commercially available ammunition. If you have tried to take some of your own steel cased ammunition to an indoor gun range, then you know those types are banned as well, even if they are lead core. A de facto ban on some sectors of both categories of ammunition.

As an aside, the M855 ban went into effect well before it was announced for the comments period.

Last Monday, government weasels got a federal judge to order a ban on open carry anywhere on federal property. The protesters in Spokane went anyway on Friday. No one was arrested. Not sure what will happen next, but when a Mandarin signs a court order that bans a practice legal in the state it has been imposed, a problem exists.

Speaking of which, a US district judge was shot in an attempted Detroit home invasion Friday.

Fascists, with all their heavily armed thug cops around, want something done about "ghost guns". "Ghost guns" are rifles, usually AR and AK types, which have been assembled from a kit using a receiver that is 80 percent or less complete. The government rules on those receivers are draconian and unnecessary. Fascists will tell you they are unregulated, when in fact they are heavily regulated. They will tell you because it makes crime easier to solve, except that serializing guns makes it easier for the government to identify owners, not to solve crime. As it is, and it has been reported everywhere else, "ghost guns" are not usually used in crime anyway.

Lastly, an indication of how stupid your Republican legislator thinks you are: Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner wants to dismantle the ATF. How about dismantling the Firearms Control Act of 1933 and so on?

Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Prices for rifle ammunition were mostly higher while prices for pistol ammunition were mixed.

Prices for used rifles were mixed while prices for used pistols were lower across the board.

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, steel cased, .28 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2014))

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)

Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. metals, HSM, FMJ, reloads, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store brand, reloads, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)

9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2014)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Cased, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Selway Armory, Northern Hill Precision, Reloads, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, store brand, Bulk, FMJ, .36 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each)

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Brown Bear, steel cased, FMJ, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Sportsman Guide, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .28 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each)

.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.07 (!) Each After Unchanged (3Q, 2014)

Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Brown Bear, steel cased, .48 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .48 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)

7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bellagio Security, Unknown Brand, steel case, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf WPA, steel case, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.02 After Unchanged (2 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguilar, RNL, .11 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 2,500 rounds: Bang It Ammo, Cascade Cartridge, RNL, .11 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $556 Last Week Avg: $556 (=) ($600 (18 Weeks), $515 (4 Weeks))
California (211, 212): Palmetto State Armory: $600 ($650 (7 Weeks), $425 (10 Weeks))
Texas (248, 245): Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Sport: $480 ($675 (7 Weeks), $450 (221 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (129, 144): Palmetto State Armory: $500 ($600 (21 Weeks), $490 (11 Weeks))
Virginia (198, 210): DPMS Oracle: $700 ($700 (4 Weeks), $500 (5 Weeks))
Florida (323, 313): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $500 ($600 (3 Weeks), $450 (19 Weeks))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,209 Last Week Avg: $1,200 (+) ($1,209, $953 (18 Weeks))
California (38, 44): Noreen AR10: $1,350 ($1,700 (12 Weeks)), $1,000 (13 Weeks))
Texas (49, 58): Armalite AR-10: $1,395 ($1,500 (15 Weeks), $900 (20 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (31, 35): Bushmaster: $900 ($1,100 (19 Weeks), $800 (8 Weeks))
Virginia (38, 37): Bushmaster: $1,450 ($1,450 (3 Weeks), $900 (16 Weeks))
Florida (51, 49): Rock River Arms: $950 ($1,500 (16 Weeks), $750 (5 Weeks))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $567 Last Week Avg: $626 (-) ($626 (2 Weeks), $462 (15 Weeks))
California (50, 50): IO: $600 ($695 (15 Weeks), $320 (10 Weeks))
Texas (45, 42): Npap AK-47 (Srbska): $635 ($699 (4 Weeks), $350 (17 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (54, 63): CAI Yugo M70 (Underfolder): $575 ($750 (5 Weeks), $450 (18 Weeks))
Virginia (62, 60): VZ2008: $525 ($625 (3 Weeks), $350 (5 Weeks))
Florida (98, 92): Romak: $500 ($625 (3 Weeks), $300 (15 Weeks))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $415 Last Week Avg: $390 (+) ($489 (8 Weeks), $320 (7 Weeks))
California (11, 14): Marlin 336 W: $400 ($400 (8 Weeks), $375 (10 Weeks))
Texas (13, 12): Winchester Model 1894: $400 ($550 (5 Weeks), $300 (9 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (12, 13): Marlin 336: $350 ($450 (5 Weeks), $250 (10 Weeks))
Virginia (6, 6): Marlin Model 30AS: $425 ($425 (6 Weeks), $350 (7 Weeks))
Florida (19, 21): Winchester Model 94: $500 ($500, $300 (8 Weeks))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $360 Last Week Avg: $390 (-) ($450 (10 Weeks), $360)
California (147, 159): Thompson Auto Ordance 1911: $400 ($600 (4 Weeks), $350 (15 Weeks))
Texas (170, 170): Rock Island Armory: $400 ($600 (15 Weeks), $350 (2 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (123, 153): Regent Arms 1911: $350 ($525 (11 Weeks), $325 (13 Weeks))
Virginia (155, 151): Rock Island Armory: $400 ($495 (7 Weeks), $250 (12 Weeks))
Florida (323, 316): Cimarron 1911: $250 ($450 (5 Weeks), $250)

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $305 Last Week Avg: $336 (-) ($336 (2 Weeks), $286 (7 Weeks))
California (156, 167): Smith & Wesson SW9VE: $300 ($450 (4 Weeks), $250 (9 Weeks))
Texas (205, 226): EAA Witness: $350 ($355 (3 Weeks), $235 (11 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (240, 246): Ruger P95 (Stainless): $300 ($350 (20 Weeks), $275 (7 Weeks))
Virginia (173, 181): Ruger P95: $275 ($350 (21 Weeks), $275 (16 weeks))
Florida (377, 368): Springfield XD9: $300 ($375 (12 Weeks), $270 (13 Weeks))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $335 Last Week Avg: $343 (-) ($345 (17 Weeks), $300 (19 Weeks))
California (69, 89): Smith & Wesson SW40VE: $300 ($350 (22 Weeks), $250 (9 Weeks))
Texas (82, 100): Smith & Wesson SD40VE: $350 ($425 (15 Weeks), $300 (21 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (96, 110): Glock 27: $250 ($340 (17 Weeks), $250 (4 Weeks)
Virginia (76, 82): Glock 22: $375 ($450 (12 Weeks), $275 (8 Weeks))
Florida (132, 152): Stoeger: $400 ($400 (3 Weeks), $275 (18 Weeks))

Used Gun of the Week: (Georgia)
FN Herstal SCAR 16S Chambered in 5.56mm

Chris Covert writes for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Posted by: badanov || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hold on to your guns, defend the Constitution. All other roads lead to third world chaos.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/08/2015 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently, there are several definitions of "ghost guns." One is guns fabricated with unfinished part(s) as mentioned here. Other "ghost guns" are made overseas and smuggled into the U.S. Still other "ghost guns" are made of plastic or other materials that makes them hard to detect. "Ghost guns" made overseas end up in gang activity largely because these guns are untraceable; they may be used once (for a hit or other crime) and then disposed of. Liberal law makers (gun grabbers) and the President via EOs pass onerous laws and issue Executive Orders (and IMO illegal) that make life difficult for legal gun owners but do little to address gang/criminal activity. However, it seems their purpose is not to address crime but to grab guns and create a nanny state with ever increasing loss of freedoms.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2015 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Couple denied role as foster parents over permits to carry guns.

A Nevada couple were denied their request to serve as foster parents because they have permits to carry guns.

Brian and Valerie Wilson, of Las Vegas, told “Fox & Friends” Sunday that they have always planned to become foster parents and eventually adopt, but have been denied permission to do so because of a state regulation that prohibits the carrying of loaded weapons with foster children.

“I really want a family,” said Valerie Wilson. “It really is heartbreaking because these kids are in institutionalized homes; they aren’t getting the families that they deserve,” she told “Fox & Friends.”

“It’s heartbreaking that they’re not getting the home they deserve,” she said.

“It just doesn’t make sense,” Brian Wilson added. “We’re talking about law-abiding people, people who have had background checks.

“We’re not talking about leaving a firearm around the house,” he said.

The Wilsons said they got the gun permits years ago after they were victims of an attempted home invasion. “We realized that bad things can happen to good people at any time and we need to be responsible,” Brian Wilson said.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/08/2015 12:04 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Man Beheads Fiance with Knife in Herat
[Tolo News] A young woman was decapitated by her fiancé, a member of the local Public Protection Force, in Feroza district of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province on Saturday. Police officials said the man has already been tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
, and the victim's family have called for justice.

The marriage was arranged, and the sister of the man who stands charged of the murder is in fact the fiancé of the victim's brother. The incident was said to have occurred when the man arrived in the early morning at his in-laws house and attacked his fiancé with a knife.

"About 4:30 A.M. this morning, the fiancé of this girl came to her house and first hit her with a knife, and after she screamed, he beheaded her," said Aminullah, a relative of the victim.

The assailant reportedly expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the crime. "The murderer expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after killing her, but was arrested by police later; now, we want justice," another relative of the victim named Abdul Qadeer told TOLOnews.

The relatives of the murdered girl have joined together to call for justice. "We want the government to hang the man behind the murder," one relative named Nesar Ahmad said. "If the government does not make a decision, we will and and we will kill the man. We have given the sacrifice of blood, and we want blood in return."

The motive for the murder, if there was one, remains unclear. Regardless, the tragedy comes just a day before before Afghanistan celebrates International Women's Day, further highlighting the extent of challenges the country continues to face in addressing violence against women.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a little pre-marital head, Islamic style
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2015 17:10 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Suspect in Russian Politician's Killing Blows Himself Up, Report Says
Unexpectedly. Think he knew about the bomb? Me neither. Looks as if Vlad is gonna pin this on the Usual Suspects™ - Caucasus Version
A suspect in the murder of the opposition politician Boris Y. Nemtsov blew himself up as the police closed in on him overnight, Russian news reports said on Sunday, while new disclosures indicated that one of the men already detained in the killing had served as a police officer in the fight against Islamic insurgents.

Five suspects were due to be arraigned at Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, said in a statement. Security forces established a cordon around the court.

The two prime suspects, whose names have been officially confirmed, are Zaur Dadayev and Anzar Kubashev, whose arrest was announced on Saturday. There was no announcement from law enforcement agencies confirming the names of the other three suspects although details of further detentions emerged overnight.

The arrests and the police activity were centered in the Northern Caucasus, long a trouble spot for Russia, but there was still no coherent picture of the case from Russia's law enforcement agencies as scattershot details emerged.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2015 10:45 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Both those guys use to be Oswald's roommate when he lived in Russia according to Oliver Stone.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/08/2015 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Chechnyan tie to Nemtsov murder
Posted by: Pappy || 03/08/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||

#3  He was obviously guilty or he wouldn't have blown himself up! Move along, nothing to see here!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/08/2015 18:00 Comments || Top||

#4  And it is always a good idea to give your splodeydope a surname popular in Muslim-(fill-in-the-blank) Turkmenistan.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/08/2015 20:01 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess he just went to pieces over the accusation.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/08/2015 22:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greek riot police fire teargas to disperse demonstrators
[Iran Press TV] Greek riot police fire teargas to disperse protesters demanding the release of all immigrants and refugees outside one of the country's largest detention centers.

Clashes broke out on Saturday after police forces used tear gas to disperse protesters gathered outside a detention center in the southeastern city of Corinth.

The mostly peaceful demonstrators, waving red and black anarchist flags, broke into the camp's main entrance. They called on the government to immediately release all immigrants and refugees held in camps and detention centers across the country.

They also violently urged the new leftist government to reverse the immigration policies put in place by the previous government.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Farrakhan Tells Black Soldiers To Desert For The 'Day Of Judgment' For Whites
[DailyCaller] Quoting scripture, Farrakhan said, "Prepare slaughter for the children for the iniquities of their fathers."
Aren't there laws rules suggestions against this sort of crap?
Mr. Farrakhan is Nation of Islam. Why is he quoting Isaiah 14:21?
Likely because it talks about the slaughter of children, which apparently doesn't seem to bother him. Might be a religious thing...
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Your words will destroy you.

Nation of Islam Farrakhan at war with Christians quoting Christian scripture is hypocrisy. That verse in context is in regards to people such as him.

This dead man walking is part of Obama's Chicago choom gang.

If these people keep pushing it, and don't expect the feds to stop this gang of idiots, the fools who follow him through the gates of hell will deserve the means that got them a ticket there.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/08/2015 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't guess this statement would be racist though would it.
Posted by: chris || 03/08/2015 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Farrakhan, honestly I'm surprised he is still alive.
Posted by: Snerong Clunk7821 || 03/08/2015 3:19 Comments || Top||

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#5  Farrakhan, honestly I'm surprised he is still alive.

He's a sprightly 81. Plenty more years of spreading hatred before the Mother Wheel gathers him up.
Posted by: Secret Master || 03/08/2015 13:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, hold on. I like this! From Wikipedia:

"As of 2012, Farrakhan no longer supports Obama, whom he has since called the "first Jewish president", due to Obama's support for the 2011 military intervention in Libya, which Farrakhan strongly opposed due to his own support for Muammar Gaddafi."
Posted by: Secret Master || 03/08/2015 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  So, is it against the law to urge people to desert from the military? I know it's against the law to urge people to commit a violent act, like, say, to riot, but is it against the law to urge people to commit a crime in general? Desertion is certainly a crime.

Not that I expect him to actually be arrested, but I'm just interested in knowing if what he is doing is actually illegal or not.
Posted by: dlr || 03/08/2015 13:25 Comments || Top||

#8  This raises an uncomfortable question:

What would happen if white American troops deserted en masse because they no longer wish to shield a society that gives succor to the likes of Calypso Louie or the various neon-haired Twitter SJWs out there?
Posted by: charger || 03/08/2015 14:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Talk is cheap, and there are a lot of punks of various ages making all sorts of noises. Anyone who actually deserts is a different category.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2015 22:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Again, iff the OWG Globies are correct, + US-N-Only-The-US strategic self-retreat or pullback from around the World = WORLD PEACE [finally], THEN WHY THE NEED FOR THESE KINDS OF STATEMENTS FROM HIGH-PROFILE PUBLIC OR POLITICAL PERSONAGES, OR THE NEED TO SINK OR DESTROY GUAM + OTHER IMPORTANT PACIFIC ISLANDS IN ORDER TO PCORRECTLY DENY THEIR MILPOL UTILITY TO GEOPOL RIVALS, I.E. FELLOW OWG GLOBALIST BFF NATIONS-STATES???

Iff the OWG Co-Superpower USA, i.e. the "Tip-of-the-Spear in setting up OWG-NWO = Space Govt-Order, is ITSELF NOT SAFE from the threat of Secession + Civil War + National Break-up, WHY SHOULD WE EXPECT ITS LAND TO BE SAFE FROM SINKING.

OWG CO-SUPERPOWERISM = PARITY WID THE US, NOT INFERIORITY AGZ THE USA = RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? WILL MORE LIKELY THAN NOT ALSO GET LAND-SINKING/DESTROYING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" + RELATED TECHS, E.G. [Militarized/Weaponized] FRACKING.

Think it can't happen? Like ....

* WAFF > [Daily Telegraph] WIKILEAKS CABLES: US AGREES TO TELL RUSSIA BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR SECRETS.

Dats Britain, aka the UK, aka the US' "Mother/
Parent Country".

D *** NG IT, AMERIKA SURRENDERED/BETRAYED ITS OWN MOTHER!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/08/2015 23:16 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Baldia factory fire owners, other suspects to be indicted on 21st
[DAWN] A sessions court on Saturday fixed March 21 for the indictment of suspects on different charges in the Baldia garment factory fire case.

Owner of the industrial unit Abdul Aziz Bhaila, his two sons Arshad Bhaila and Shahid Bhaila, factory general manager Mansoor and three gatekeepers were booked in the 2012 fire incident that left 258 workers dead.

During the previous hearing, the court had issued a warrant for the arrest of police investigating officer Jahanzeb over his absence.

When the case came up for hearing before additional district and sessions judge (west) Naushaba Kazi on Saturday, a police brass hat produced the IO in court. The IO through a written apology stated that he could not attend the previous hearing due to his poor health and also submitted a report on the statements of the prosecution witnesses recorded under Section 161 of the criminal procedure code.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Murder convict re-arrested after jail escape
[DAWN] The Fede­ral Investigation Agency has incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in Ecuador a Pak convicted by a British court in Feb 2004 for murdering a man in the United Kingdom.

The interior ministry said on Saturday that other culprits in the case had already been arrested in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistain.

Rizwan Habib Alvi, a model agency executive, had been awarded a life sentence at the Old Bailey for beating to death the son of a Pak tycoon on Dec 16, 2001, dumping his body in a river in Surrey and stealing his identity documents.

Alvi and his gang then went on a spending spree in Las Vegas, running up bills of thousands of pounds on the victim's credit cards before heading to Australia, Dubai and Canada.

The gang also tried to transfer 260,000 pounds from the victim's bank accounts but could not succeed because he had changed his password days before his death.

The British police then tracked Alvi down. He was arrested in Canada and deported to the UK.

Under an agreement signed with the UK in 2010, he and the accomplices were to complete the rest of their sentences in Pakistain, but were fraudulently released days after being brought to the country.

On the orders of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
, employees of his ministry and Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

police who helped in the illegal release of the convicts were arrested later. The agreement on exchange of prisoners was abolished by the UK in 2012 after the fraudulent release of the convicts, but it has been restored after the measures taken by the minister.

Alvi's latest arrest has been made possible with the help of Interpol.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan



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