[Huffpoo] A former Waffle House waitress is behind bars after cops say she put methamphetamine in her co-worker's drink, leaving him comatose.
Sonserea Dawn Evans, 43, was arrested Friday after authorities say surveillance video captured her with the man's drink inside the north Georgia restaurant on Dec. 23, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. According to CBS46, the alleged victim is Brian Mikeals, age 37.
[INSIDER.FOXNEWS] A decorated U.S. Marine who was beaten and robbed at a Washington D.C. McDonald's said this morning that the attack was a "hate crime."
Veteran Marine Sgt. Christopher Marquez, who earned a Bronze Star for his heroism in Iraq, spoke out today in an exclusive Fox and Friends interview.
Marquez said that four or five males - along with at least one female - asked him if "black lives mattered" to him as he was eating last Friday.
He said at first he ignored the group, thinking they were just teens being rowdy.
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Maybe you've been fighting wrong terrorists, sgt?
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The video makes it very clear he was attacked from behind by the first black kid and went down hard, then the next two kicked him repeatedly while another knelt down to take wallet or watch and yet another black hero kicked him again while hopping like he just made a basket. Pure race hatred crime.
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Re #9: no, it sounds more like a bash and grab by a bunch of mouthy young punks.
Re #10: why yes, I was wondering that myself.
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If it was a bash and grab steve, why all the comments inside the McDonalds first about Black Lives Matter. Most common street muggings lack the racial baiting preview!
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] U.S. Republican Senator Rob Portman on Wednesday asked an independent watchdog to look into "deeply disturbing" allegations of poor care and conflicts of interest at a Veterans Affairs hospital in his home state of Ohio.
The allegations are the latest problem for a scandal-plagued agency that has become a punching bag in the Nov. 8 presidential election campaign, particularly for Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
In a letter to the department's Inspector General, Portman urged a "swift and independent" probe after a report showed 34 current and former employees had blown the whistle about problems at the VA hospital in Cincinnati.
"These allegations are deeply disturbing. Those who have served their country in uniform are entitled to the best possible medical care," wrote Portman, who is up for reelection in November congressional elections.
The House of Representatives' Veterans Affairs committee is also investigating the allegations, said Republican Representative Brad Wenstrup from Ohio, a member of the panel who said he was "appalled" at the allegations.
"We will continue to investigate these troubling claims and hold the VA accountable," Wenstrup said.
The politicians were responding to an investigative report published on Tuesday by Scripps' Washington bureau and WCPO, the ABC affiliate in Cincinnati.
The report found surgeries and specialist care at the hospital, which treats 40,000 veterans, had been cut to save money, and described surgical instruments delivered to operating rooms contaminated with blood and bone debris from previous surgeries.
The report also alleged a top hospital official was improperly drawing two salaries and had prescribed controlled pain medication to the spouse of the regional director without a valid license.
The Department of Veterans Affairs declined to comment directly on the allegations. But on Saturday, an official said oversight of the clinic would be "temporarily realigned" to a VA regional office in Pittsburgh as it looked into the allegations.
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Until you start real firings 'pour encourager les autres', it's all showboating.
Short video at link which includes an "after" picture of the thief.
Boxer David West, 25, was visiting his girlfriend at a Florida Walgreen's when the incident occurred.
Something to consider when General Winter comes to town.
U.S. Marine Corps tankers, currently in Norway for a NATO exercise, are learning techniques in driving in snow and icy conditions. The result is like something out of a very slidey drift racing video--that is, one featuring 70 ton race cars.
In the video, U.S. Marine M1A1 Abrams crews from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade practice turns that briefly leave their tanks out of control. The video also shows Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks of the Norwegian Army's Telemark battalion take the same course--evidently with a lot more practice.
One curious detail: the Abrams tank doesn't have any crew markings. Marine Corps tanks often have individual names stenciled on the barrel, names such as "Nacho Libre", "Dante's Inferno", and so on. That's because these are not the tankers' regular vehicles. These are tanks that have been sitting dormant in caves just south of the Arctic Circle, ready to roll.
Unknown to many, the Marine Corps stores equipment for an entire combat brigade in enormous caves in Norway. The program, called Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway, can fully equip a 15,000 man marine brigade, complete with 30 days' worth of ammunition and supplies. The goal is to assist Norway--which shares a 121 mile border with Russia--in case of attack.
M1A1 Abrams tanks, LAV-25 reconnaissance vehicles, Humvees and equipment of all kinds are stored in temperature-controlled caves, guarded and maintained by the Norwegian Army. US Marines are occasionally airlifted to Norway, draw gear identical to what was left stateside, and participate in military exercises.
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First winter driving experience at Ft Knox was never drive over the flat spots in the snow when cross country, particularly not at speed in a 65 ton vehicle. Ice usually has some liquid water under it and tank recovery ops in 3 ft of frozen pond really sucks.
I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Also these tanks shows what these idiots in their SUVs do when driving in Colorado mountain winters. Once you lose traction, Sir Newton takes over and inertia is a bitch.
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Is the USMC sure their Abrams + other AFVS are pointing at the correct country, given ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Sputnik News] NATO WARNS TURKEY IT WON'T SUPPORT ANKARA [Turkey] IN CASE OF [Turkey-started/provoked]MILITARY CONFLICT WID RUSSIA.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the Russians or the Turks ...
* TOPIX > [SCMP]"CHINA SHOULD FIRE SHOTS AT US WARSHIPS NEAR DISPUTED ISLANDS, OR EVEN RAM THEM TO TEACH THEM A LESSON". GETTING TOUGH WID [Foreign Nation = read, US-Allies] TRESPASSERS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA WOULD BE GOOD FOR PEACE IN THE DISPUTED REGION, SAYS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MOUTHPIECE [People's Daily Online].
"Whitey" must be sunk or shot down in the name of peace-n-decency???
* FYI RELATED SAME > CHINA MAY SEND ANTI-SHIP MISSLES TO DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA TO BEEF UP DEFENCE: ANALYSTS. | CHINA "MUST PREPARE FOR WAR OVER NORTH KOREA ROCKET LAUNCH AND NUCLEAR TESTS".
* TOPIX > [ABC NEWS = Aussie BC] AUSTRALIA: LABOR PARTY VOWS TO SEND WARSHIPS WIDIN 12-NAUTICAL MILES OF DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS, iff it wins political power in upcoming elections.
Looks like AUSTRALIA = ANTI-US US POTUS OBAMA = desires to PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY COVERTLY RECOGNIZE CHINA'S SCS CLAIMS WHILE PRETENDING TO ORDINARY AUSSIES + WORLD THAT IT ISN'T???
* MANILA TIMES > VIOLENCE IN HONG KONG
"INEVITABLE" - ACTIVISTS.
So-called Beijing-labelled "Localists" Activists including but not limited to those whom support an INDEPENDENT HONG KONG AS A DE FACTO SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [VOA News] US HAS NO INTENTION OF RESUMING SIX-PARTY NUKE TALKS WID NORTH KOREA.
IOW, Pudgy = Reunification-Now! NOKOR will get its Nukes just as Iran will???
THE POWERS THAT BE WANT THE "STATUS QUO" IN NE ASIA + ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA TO
"ASYMETRICALLY" CHANGE PER THEIR COUNTRY-PECIFIC GEOPOL REASONS + INTERESTS, ETC. + TO DO SO SOONER THAN LATER OR ASAP AMAP ALAP.
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Get the gear! Captain Higgins is clearly trying to turn himself into a brand, and you can buy items including baseball caps and shot glasses from his site
The fact that he's trying to make a 'brand' for himself makes me wonder how serious this really is....
[Iran Press TV] Uganda's main opposition candidate in the presidential election has been briefly detained on the day of voting.
An aide to Kizza Besigye said the opposition leader was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! earlier on Thursday as he was investigating alleged ballot-stuffing in a house run by the intelligence agencies in Naguru, a suburb of the capital Kampala.
Shawn Mubiru said Besigye was taken to an unknown location and police did not respond to questions about the detention.
According to Besigye's lawyer, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi, he was later "released without charge and taken home," in line with a previous trend of detention and release.
Besigye was incumbent Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's main challenger in the election which was marred by accusations that the government deliberately delayed the transfer of voting materials to polling stations in a bid to frustrate pro-Besigye voters.
Polling stations either opened late or never opened on Thursday due to the late arrival voting papers with officials saying those closed centers will be opened Friday.
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I wonder if the Clintons are paying attention - Trump, or Cruz or whoever might want to watch out.
Looks like we need more pictures of Trump since he doesn't seem to be going away. Maybe we could use this image until then. ;-)
The Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago has agreed to hear a lawsuit on Sen. Ted Cruz's eligibility for president -- virtually ensuring that the issue dominates the news in the runup to the South Carolina primary. Funny graphic, unless it's that time of year.
Cruz was born in Canada to a US citizen mother and a noncitizen father. The Constitution requires presidents be "natural-born citizens," but what exactly that requires hasn't been settled in court.
Now, perhaps, it will be. The lawsuit in Illinois aims to resolve the question by challenging Cruz's eligibility for the presidency. It was filed by Lawrence Joyce, an attorney who has told local media that he supports Dr. Ben Carson and has had no connection with the Trump campaign.
"Joyce said his concern is that the eligibility issue lie unresolved during Republican primaries, thus letting the Democrats take advantage of it after a potential Cruz nomination, when it'd be too late," reports the Washington Examiner.
When this question initially came up, the conventional wisdom among constitutional lawyers was that it was a nonissue: Cruz was obviously eligible. But as the debate has heated up among candidates (with Donald Trump, in particular, fanning the flames), it's also begun to heat up among constitutional law scholars.
The issue is actually twofold: whether Ted Cruz should be considered a natural-born citizen, and whether Cruz's own preferred school of constitutional interpretation would see it that way.
Much more at the link. Note to posters -- these should be trimmed way back. Interested readers can hit the link.
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Excuse your fellow citizens who may be confused after being indoctrinated that anchor babies are American citizens with trying to figure out how someone born in another country might not be in the legit category.
The 'born' provision cited in the 14th Amendment was intended to prevent states from disqualifying the newly liberated blacks as citizens. Everything else is 'interpreted'.
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Cruz already went through this show in one of the midwest states a month or so ago. He won, so it got no media play. I suspect they'll continue in state after state until they get a lefty-enough judge or they've muddied the waters enough that less-informed voters abandon him.
To be honest its just as well this happens now rather than in the big race.
[DAWN] Lockheed Martin, a premier defence technologies company from the United States (US), on Thursday said it is ready start manufacturing F-16 fighter jets in India, in support of 'Make in India' initiative launched by the incumbent Narendra Modi government, reported The Times of India. Having gobbled up nearly all the defense tech companies in the country, Lockheed made itself a single point of failure. If the plane can be built in India it can be built in China or Russia or Pakistain.
The defence company also supported the ongoing talks between the two countries for the setting up of Lockheed Martin's manufacturing plant in India, one of the largest projects under the 'Make in India' initiative.
"We are ready to manufacture F-16 aircraft in India and support the Make in India initiative," Phil Shaw, chief executive of Lockheed Martin India told news hounds at the Singapore Airshow 2016.
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It wouldn't be such a problem with such an old design, but the insatiable appetite for gee whiz tech and gold plating has made its replacements too expensive to field in viable numbers to make it an easy sale.
[DAWN] PML-N MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwami on Wednesday won the support of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights for amending the Hindu Marriage Bill already cleared by a National Assembly committee.
Dr Ramesh had been demanding removal of a clause in the draft Hindu Marriage Bill which stated that a marriage would be dissolved if any of the spouses converted to another religion.
"The clause can be misused to forcefully convert married Hindu women the same way maidens of tender years have been kidnapped and forced to convert to other religions," he pleaded with the Senate committee.
Clause 12 of the bill hit the basic human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... of the Hindus living in Pakistain, he said.
Senator Farhatullah Babar supported annulling 'the repressive' clause. "It amounts to promoting forced conversions not only of young unmarried girls but also of married Hindu women. It is a grave human right violation of the Hindus," said the PPP senator.
Senate committee chairperson Nasreen Jalil of MQM and some others, including senators Sitara Ayaz and Mir Kabir Ahmed Muhammad Shahi, also found the clause repugnant.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... most committee members were reluctant to accept Dr Ramesh's proposal that bride and groom must be 18 years of age. His argument was that fixing the age limit would stop kidnapping and conversion of Hindu girls as young as 12. In any case, he added, Hindu boys and girls cannot marry a co-religionist or outside their religion until they are 18. "That is the age the custodianship of their parents ends," said Dr Kumar.
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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.
[Huffpoo] A former Waffle House waitress is behind bars after cops say she put methamphetamine in her co-worker's drink, leaving him comatose.
[DAWN] Lockheed Martin, a premier defence technologies company from the United States (US), on Thursday said it is ready start manufacturing F-16 fighter jets in India, in support of 'Make in India' initiative launched by the incumbent Narendra Modi government, reported The Times of India.
