[Sun Sentinal] Flight cancellations by Spirit Airlines due to labor issues with the carrier's pilot's union led to chaos among irate passengers Monday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. You racist bastids! I have to be to work somewhere dimmit !
Video posted to social media showed upset passengers confronting airline employees as Broward Sheriff's deputies were on hand attempting to keep order in the terminal after at least nine flights were canceled.
Miramar-based Spirit blamed the flight cancellations on labor negotiations with its pilots.
"We are shocked and saddened to see the videos of what took place at Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport this evening," Spirit said in a statement.
"This is a result of unlawful labor activity by some Spirit pilots designed to disrupt Spirit operations for our customers, by canceling multiple flights across our network," the statement said.
Funny you should mention that. My parents (both in their 80s) want to come visit us - they're in Cleveland, we're in Columbia, SC - and it would take at a minimum 22 hours.
There is no return trip possible by ANY route.
Mike
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[WFMZ] Ten people were shot, two fatally, in a "brazen act of gang violence" in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Sunday, police say.
The shooting victims had been taking part in a memorial for another person killed in a gang-related murder in the same neighborhood earlier in the day, First Deputy Superintendent of Police Kevin Navarro told news hounds.
Two people came out of an alleyway and opened fire with assault rifles on the service, which was being held in Brighton Park, at approximately 5:15 p.m. CDT, Navarro said.
Deputy Chief Kevin Ryan said police were "flooding the area" with additional gang, situation and tactical teams.
"We have a fairly good idea who we're looking for. We have a fairly good idea of the conflict involved and where we need to be deployed," Ryan said. "Right now we're trying to saturate the area and make sure that nothing else happens tonight."
Community plea
Alderman Raymond Lopez told news hounds that it was the second time in a week that they had gathered to talk about assault weapons being used in the community.
"Last week, we've seen assault rifles used on police, today they're used on gang members in the Brighton Park community in broad daylight, on a Sunday," he said.
"It's time for each and every one of us to start looking at what's going on on our blocks -- identifying who is the gang member, who are the drug pushers and who is supporting them in our community."
Lopez said that if criminals continued to be harbored in the community, innocent lives would be lost.
"We must stand together to put an end to this nonsense in our neighborhoods," he said. "We are not going to have a summer of pressers talking about the dozens upon dozens of assault rifle casings found on our streets."
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Those danged "assault weapons" sprouting legs and running around shooting people per the Dims...
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Don't you just hate it when you go to a funeral for somebody killed by gangbangers and they come back to finish the rest of your gang off or avenge the hit on your fellow Crips or Bloods wannabe? That really sucks!
Blogger Bob Owens, the founder and editor of the pro-gun news website "Bearing Arms," has been found dead in North Carolina in an apparent suicide, local officials say. He was 46 years old. (more)
The incident happened at about 10:54 a.m. on Monday when officers received a report of a gunshot victim near a stop sign at the intersection of Sequoia Ridge Drive and Judd Parkway in Fuquay-Varina. A firearm was found near the man, who was later identified as Owens.
Just minutes before Owens' body was found, at 10:51 a.m., a brief note was posted on his Facebook account. "In the end, it turns out that I'm not strong. I'm a coward, and a selfish son of a bitch. I'm sorry," the message said.
Police in Fuquay-Varina, a town about 16 miles southwest of Raleigh, said the death could be a suicide but added that an investigation is still underway. The Medical Examiner's Office and the Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification will both assist in the investigation.
Owens, who began blogging in 2004 as a North Carolina native in New York, later became the founder and editor of "Bearing Arms," which covers news about firearms and has a following of more than 2 million people on Facebook.
"He was a dedicated hoplophile, an avid shooter and a fierce supporter of the right to keep and bear arms," Dan Zimmerman, of "The Truth About Guns" website, said in a post. "Our condolences go out to his family, friends and co-workers. He will be missed."
Owens also made a number of controversial statements over the years. In a 2015 post, Owens warned the "radical left wing" of the Democratic Party that an attempt to confiscate firearms would lead to civil war in which "they will be utterly destroyed" by armed citizens.
"This is where the survivors of the Democrat rebellion will meet their end," Owens wrote below a photo of gallows.
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No one will like this, but here goes. The man absolutely felt some things have to be done a certain way, or it was a sign you are a raging idiot. He said as much all the time in his writings. Lack of flexibility explains a lot...
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The notion that "the machine" had this guy assassinated is bizarre. People who really think that should avoid carrying at stop signs themselves...
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Bang switch is up there with calling every change you make to anything a "hack." Scrambled egg hack. Wall painting hack. Comon. Switch implies electricity. Bang switch is stupid calling itself stupid.
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When trouble runs over the gunnel
And current flows into a funnel,
Sit tight in your britches
And trust to the switches.
Alight at the end of the tunnel.
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Bang switch is up there with calling every change you make to anything a "hack." Scrambled egg hack. Wall painting hack. Comon. Switch implies electricity. Bang switch is stupid calling itself stupid.
I would put Skid's knowledge of firearms up against anyone any day.
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Perhaps la Murcek is unfamiliar with mechanical switches.
He may be more comfortable with "turned out the light". It has electricity.
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Going to stand with what I said. I'll bet the negative commenters haven't ridden over a railroad switch in years or ever unless they ride the Acela corridor or NYC / NJ or Chi cosmo rails. OTOH, Brits call a vacuum tube a "valve" so there is room for disagreement. Bang switch still dumb phraseology.
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Trying to imagine an USAF or USN jet pilot talking about the "go faster thingee." Failing to envision it.
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Perhaps la Murcek is unfamiliar with mechanical switches
Quite familiar with. As I'm German / Slovak ancestry, not sure what "la" is about tho. That said, I do speak French as a second language.
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And we all know what the prescription for dealing with the coming mini-ice age will be, as they claim they'd predicted it all along by calling it climate change instead of global warming, right? May God damn them to the deepest circle of Hell alongside the traitors for bringing science into disrepute.
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The general assumption is the climate only changes slowly. 12,000 or so years ago during the period called the Younger Dryas, the climate cooled very rapidly. Perhaps as much as 5C in little more than a decade, and no one knows why.
Global warming might have been a problem in some places. Global cooling will be an unimaginable catastrophe.
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We have developed short-season, cool climate varieties of grains and other food crops, just as we have long-season, hot climate varieties. Come the change, we can switch, though the changeover will lead to shortages for a few years, just as floods and droughts lead to temporary shortages now. In previous cycles, when the local farmers only had access to local traditional varieties, the prospects were considerably worse -- and Russia will have a new, and very profitable, export commodity that isn't oil.
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's opposition has ruled out discussions with President Nicloas Maduro on his plan for an elected assembly to draw up a new constitution, vowing instead to continue protests for early elections.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles formally announced on Sunday that the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) would boycott a meeting with Maduro at the presidential palace on Monday.
"We cannot take part in a fraudulent process," Capriles said, appearing at a news conference with other MUD leaders.
"We have a constitution, and the government cannot repeal it by act of force."
The opposition maintains that Maduro, whose leadership is rejected by seven out of every 10 Venezuelans, according to polls, is trying to avoid a general election - the main demand of the opposition protests since April 1.
Some analysts, however, said they fear the opposition is leaving the way open for Maduro to change the constitution at will, possibly cementing his grip on power.
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Some analysts, however, said they fear the opposition is leaving the way open for Maduro to change the constitution at will, possibly cementing his grip on power.
because he's been so moderate and restrained up til now?
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[AnNahar] Germany has granted political asylum to numerous Turkish military personnel and their families holding diplomatic passports, German media reported Monday, amid strained relations between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies.
The German interior ministry was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" but according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily and public broadcasters WDR and NDR, authorities confirmed that Germany gave positive responses to the asylum petitions of these Turkish nationals.
The interior ministry said last month that it had received 262 applications for political asylum from Turkish nationals holding diplomatic passports, but it did not say how many of the requests came from Turkish military personnel stationed at NATO bases.
Since the July 2016 failed coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , 414 military personnel, diplomats, judges and other high-ranking Turkish officials have sought political asylum in Germany, according to interior ministry figures published by the three German media. That number also includes family members.
The wave of asylum requests followed the attempted coup against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and a subsequent crackdown, which has seen more than 100,000 people fired, suspended from their jobs, or detained over alleged links to the plotters or to Kurdish Death Eaters.
Last week, Turkey announced the sacking of over 100 judges and prosecutors. The weekend before, it had dismissed nearly 4,000 public officials under the state of emergency while over 9,100 police were suspended on April 26.
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I was asking myself, "Why Germany?"
Then I was thinking, "Growing industrial economy" when this struck me, "enrolling language and tactics advisory personnel in the military."
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Turks have been in Germany for quite a while now - I was amazed at how many riffraff of them I saw milling about in the local subways. At least military personnel are a few cuts above that.
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Turkey and Germany have longstanding ties dating not only to WWI, but to Prussia's de facto alliance with the Ottomans in the Austro-Turkish War in the late eighteenth century.
They're better off without each other, but they can't seem to learn.
[AlAhram] A hundred and forty-one people were jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in Gay Paree after trouble flared overnight following Emmanuel Macron's victory in La Belle France's presidential election, police said on Monday.
Those detained in Menilmontant, a north-eastern district of Gay Paree, were accused of offences ranging from throwing missiles at the police to damaging property.
The demonstrators were protesting both against Macron - criticised by many on La Belle France's far left as a member of a discredited elite in thrall to global capitalism - and against his defeated far-right nationalist rival, Marine Le Pen.
Oh, it's the far left. This is what they do instead of voting.
Macron beat Le Pen by 66 percent to 34 on a platform of market-friendly reform and closer European integration.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... an abstention rate of over 25 percent, and the fact that more than 11 percent of those who turned out chose neither candidate, pointed to a high degree of disillusionment with the choices on offer in the runoff.
The hardline leftist CGT labour union planned a demonstration in the capital later in the day against the kind of liberal economic policies that Macron espouses
[DAWN] An Indian woman named Uzma who went 'missing' from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad last week appeared before a lower court in the capital on Monday, stating that she was forced to marry her Pak husband at gunpoint and was subjected to abuse by him.
Twenty-year-old Indian national Uzma met Tahir Ali, a resident of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , while the latter was working as a taxi driver in Malaysia eight months ago. The two were married in early May. A few days after their marriage, they had approached the Indian High Commission -- reportedly to secure Indian visas -- after which Uzma had 'gone missing'.
An embassy official said that Uzma had actually "sought refuge" at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. According to the Indian High Commission, she claimed to have married Ali and alleged that she later came to know he was already married and had four children.
She reportedly sought legal help from the Indian High Commission to be repatriated to India.
The Indian High Commission then arranged an attorney for Uzma and provided her with transportation and security to appear before the court for today's hearing.
In court today, Uzma alleged that Ali had forced her to enter a Nikkah contract at gunpoint and subsequently subjected her to physical and sexual abuse. He also confiscated her documents, she claimed.
She maintained in court that she was not under any sort of pressure while recording her statement.
Judicial Magistrate Haider Ali Shah ordered respondents Tahir Ali, the holy man who solemnised the marriage, as well as other witnesses to the marriage to submit a reply.
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[DAWN] India launched a communications satellite on Friday for its smaller neighbours to share, part of its efforts to build goodwill in the region and counter Chinese influence, but arch-rival Pakistain said it would stay away from the project.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to office promising to strengthen ties with neighbours such as Sri Lanka, Nepal and even Pakistain, has called the satellite a gift to south Asia.
"The successful launch of South Asia Satellite is a historic moment. It opens up new horizons of engagement," he said soon after an Indian-made rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India.
So far Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have signed up to make use of the satellite. Pakistain said it was working on its own satellite and did not join.
The South Asia Satellite will offer participating countries television services and communications technology for bank ATMs and e-governance, and may even serve as a backup for cellular networks, especially in places where the terrestrial connectivity is weak, the Indian foreign ministry said.
India is trying to push back against China's expanding involvement in infrastructure building across south Asia, by offering financial and technical aid of its own.
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Paks have always been more comfortable casting their lot with the Chinese. Good luck with that.
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[DAWN] On account of strong economic growth and reduction in fiscal deficits, credit rating agency Moody's, in its annual credit analysis of Pakistain, gave the government a B3 rating with a stable outlook. B3 is considered "Highly speculative," aka "Junk."
"Strong growth performance, fiscal deficit reduction and improved inflation dynamics underpin the Government of Pakistain's B3 rating with a stable outlook," says Moody's Investors Service.
"Credit challenges include a relatively high general government debt burden, weak physical and social infrastructure, a fragile external payments position, and high political risk," added the report casting attention on the negative aspects.
The government's very narrow revenue base weighs on debt affordability, it said and added that exports and remittance inflows have slowed and capital goods imports have risen, resulting in renewed pressure on the external account.
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That bond rating is about as stable as a warp core breach.
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.
[WFMZ] Ten people were shot, two fatally, in a "brazen act of gang violence" in 
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's opposition has ruled out discussions with President Nicloas Maduro on his plan for an elected assembly to draw up a new constitution, vowing instead to continue protests for early elections.
[DAWN] India launched a communications satellite on Friday for its smaller neighbours to share, part of its efforts to build goodwill in the region and counter Chinese influence, but arch-rival Pakistain said it would stay away from the project.
