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Thought handguns were all but banned in the UK since the Dunblane school shooting in 1996. Sporting rifles and shotguns have to be licensed.
Like most statistics there are many complexities in the statistics. Suppose that gun deaths in "Blue" cities are compared with those of Trump supporters. How many gun-related deaths are there among legally- owned firearm owners? How many gun deaths are there among concealed carry permit firearm owners? What do ya think you'd get?
[IllegalAlienCrimeReport] McCRACKEN COUNTY, KY (WPSD) – Leonel Vazquez pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an underage, developmentally delayed girl he did not know in a public place. He was first arrested on that charge in June. Now, we’re learning Vazqez, an illegal immigrant, was deported at least twice to Mexico before committing that crime.
I just found out it’s been more than twice. A spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement emailed me just before the 6 p.m. newscast Tuesday to tell me he was “voluntary returned” to Mexico twice in 2000, then convicted of a DUI in 2004 in a Georgia court, then deported twice in 2014. We do not know what other charges he might have faced.
But the big concern for investigators, and the mother of the victim in this case, is that this shouldn’t have even happened. We’ve hidden her identity to protect the victim.
During their stay between moves, it was supposed to be a vacation for Brenda’s family. That vacation was short-lived.
Brenda says, “She ran and beat on the door. We opened the door. You could hear the panic in her voice.”
Vazquez was caught on tape sexually assaulting Brenda’s daughter.
“She said she dropped her money. She bent over to pick up her money, and that’s when he grabbed her,” Brenda says.
But it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. Detective Sarah Martin says: “We found out he’s been deported two other times, so this will be his third time being deported after he’s sentenced.”
Now, Vazquez is in jail, facing five years in prison. But Martin says he may not have to face much prison time if any at all, because once the judge sentences Vazquez, the federal government at any point could deport him back to Mexico.
Vazquez will be sentenced Dec. 4. He pleaded guilty, accepting a plea deal to the maximum five years in prison.
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This underscores the problems we have with border control, enforcement of immigration laws, allowing sanctary cities and people who don't respect American culture. Toss in that holy grail the left pursues so assiduously, the social engineering conept of diversity and wr have a mess.
[RT] A car thief reportedly stole ‐ and almost immediately returned ‐ a Cadillac in Leningrad Region, Russia, when he realized that targeting vehicle made him a kidnapper. The reason for this was that a three-month-old baby was inside the car.
While the thief seems to have disappeared, it is the baby's mother who is now the subject of a criminal case, local police reported this weekend. The woman left the baby unattended in her Cadillac Escalade while she went shopping.
On Friday, the 34-year-old mother called the police, saying her car has disappeared from a store parking lot in the village of Poroshkino near St. Petersburg. Her child was inside the vehicle, the woman said. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when officers arrived at the scene, they found not only the car but also the baby and the woman there, with the latter claiming her Escalade had been returned some 15 minutes after she called the police.
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The baby was helpless and needed to be protected by the mother. She should have taken the baby with her. In Russia, if the car thief took the vehicle and baby at gun point, would she still face charges?
In Georgia, USA, I am told that if you have a weapon in a locked car at your residence and it is stolen and later used in a crime by the thief, the owner of the firearm could be liable for harm caused by the weapon if it is used in a crime if the loss of the firearm is not reported to authorities.
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746, I'm wandering off the topic into the weeds quite a bit but what you say is a good reason not to blow the theft off as bad luck and to report it. Some of these thefts get reported as "Lost Items" by the police rather than felonies--probably to keep down the crime statistics down. Different jurisdictions do it differently depending on a number of things about the theft. IMO there's a slim to none chance of recovering stolen firearms. Homeowner's policies might provide some relieve and the NRA has a firearms policy with membership. However, it doesn't seem right to stick the NRA carrier with the tab for your loss--it didn't have anything to do with them. Meanwhile, one can pray that your stolen firearm does not hurt anyone in a crime.
[RT] Academics are arguing that many people will soon be identifying as "digisexuals" and taking their sexual identity from having sex with robots. Women are too complicated. Your robot doesn't need bought dinner, doesn't have PMS, doesn't ask you to take out the garbage. She never complains about the way you smell, has massive bewbies and buttox, but she doesn't keep house.
While sex robots are currently quite primitive, a new report published in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy argues that before long they will be able to look, speak and act like real people - and will be specifically designed to fulfill a person’s desires. Robots with a Jolly Green Giant Creamed Corn fetish?
The report’s authors, Neil McArthur and Markie L. C. Twist, from the University of Manitoba, Canada, argue that we need to be ready to deal with the phenomenon when it comes to fruition. I can see this will contribute to morality, stability, and setting a good example for the children, if any.
"There is no question, then, that sexbots are coming," McArthur and Twist say. "Our view is that they will represent a different sort of sexual experience from what existing technologies offer. First of all, people will form an intense connection with their robot companions." "X98276, I'm falling in love with you!"
[BZDEEP!]
"These robots will be tailor-made to meet people's desires, and will do things that human partners cannot or will not do. For this reason, significant numbers of people will likely come to use robots as their primary mode of sexual experience." On the other hand: Saudi Arabian robot citizen wants a baby
The pair, who also co-authored the book "Robot Sex: A Book for the Enlightened Sapiosexual," argue that the rise of digisexuality will bring benefits, including potentially saving human relationships. Not saving human population.
They also say that digisexuality will have a positive impact, particularly for people who experienced sexual trauma in the past or for those who have difficulty forming human relationships. So now you can sit in your room alone. All your friends can be digital,
your shopping can be digital, and your love life can be digital. I recommend a healthy slug of digitalis.
However they warn that it will also bring a slew of difficulties and argue that doctors must be prepared to deal with digisexuality and have a framework for how to approach it. No! Re-e-e-e-eally?
Noel Sharkey of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (FRR) recently argued against sex robots being used by the elderly in care homes. "They are being proposed for the elderly in care homes, which I think is controversial.
Given the level of STDs already to be found in nursing homes...
If you have severe Alzheimer’s you can’t really tell the difference. We need to think about as a society what we want to do about it," the researcher said. So no anatomically correct digital love for the geriatric set. I saw another article that people with rape fantasies shouldn't be allowed to rape their robots -- stick with real flesh and blood. There was another one that said pedos shouldn't be allowed to buy robot partners with the bodies of a nine-year-old. Seems to me those are the sort of people who should be encouraged to explore their digital sexuality, while the normal and the near normal should be encouraged to get together for some serious fleshly encounters.
"It’s very sad because it’s going to be a one-way relationship," he continued. "If people bond with robots it’s very worrying. You are loving an artifact that can’t love you back, and the best they can do is fake it." Doh.
I suspect that once the novelty wears off, about the same people will turn to such devices as currently use vibrators and similar aids. The dolls, eventually no doubt available in male as well as female versions, will become the punchline of the same jokes.
... and cost about the same as a new car.
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The real losers will be women. Big-time. They have a ton of power over men by withholding sex. If men can get sex without having to jump through women's hoops, the changes will be earth shaking. Men achieve great things purely to impress women. That's coming to a stop too.
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Sexbots would not eliminate crimes of sexual abuse against others because these crimes involve elements other than mere gratification. Sex gratification is one thing; a loving relationship is something very special and different.
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Short term, perhaps, Harcourt Angoluting9366. But some men go to prostitutes or have affairs while still marrying — it has always been so. How is a pretend woman different?
Some men achieve to impress women, yes. Some achieve to compete with other men, and some simply for their own satisfaction. Mr. Wife is in the third category — I would have been perfectly happy had he remained an engineer all his life, or gone on to something else that made him happier and earnt less, so long as he did it well. I didn’t marry him to live in a big house and have a lavish wardrobe*, and he has always known this. In fact, at one point in his career, when he was desperately unhappy with his management but perfectly willing to stay on to keep us in the lifestyle to which he desired us to continue to be accustomed, I gave him an ultimatum: he had six months to find a new job within or outside the company where he could be happy. I didn’t care which, and would willingly have again followed him far from Cincinnati if necessary, but he was not allowed to be a slave merely to maintain a certain income, even though he was willing. He beat my deadline.
*For the record, I do not have a lavish wardrobe. Mr. Wife has been known to complain about this.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] China is temporarily closing its main road connection with North Korea, an official said on Friday.
Foreign ministry front man Geng Shuang said the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, or China-North Korea Friendship Bridge, across the Yalu River at the Chinese city of Dandong will be closed while North Korea repairs the approach road on its side.
Geng said that "after the maintenance, the bridge will reopen for passage," but gave no date for the reopening or other details.
The bridge closure comes after state-owned airline Air China suspended flights Tuesday between Beijing and North Korea due to a lack of demand, deepening the North's isolation amid mounting UN sanctions.
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Don't know much about this guy except for 24 years in the Corp. Retired Colonel. Artist; sculpts busts of fallen heroes. Little late in the game for a write-in campaign. We will see what the good people of Alabama think.
[Daily Caller] An eco-terrorist responsible for sabotaging an oil pipeline in North Dakota suggested Saturday that shutting down the multi-billion dollar line was necessary to defuse the ticking time bomb of man-made global warming.
Temporarily taking offline a pair of pipelines in Minnesota earlier this year was part of an effort to save the world from fossil fuels, Seattle activist and poet Emily Johnston wrote in an editorial for The Guardian. A judge is allowing her to use a "necessity defense" to justify her actions last year against the Enbridge pipeline.
"As recent months have made clear, climate change is not only an imminent threat; it is an existing catastrophe. It’s going to get worse, and tar sands oil‐the dirtiest oil on Earth‐is one of the reasons," Johnston wrote, referring to a spate of hurricanes that clobbered the U.S. earlier this summer.
Clearwater County District Judge Robert Tiffany gave Johnston ‐ and other activists from anti-oil group, Climate Direct Action ‐ the option of arguing the fear of cataclysmic climate change justifies any action taken to stymie oil production and transport. The judge’s decision allows the group to produce various climate experts to testify about the upcoming climate Armageddon.
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Man-made GW is an unproven concept. Even if it were proven, she would not have the right to harm others by trying to kill the pipeline. The judge is using the bench for a soapbox about GW instead of following the law.
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In the Middle Ages in Europe pogroms were launched against Jews because they were accused of poisoning wells and spreading the Black Death... The Judge seems to be endorsing the same form of lawless hysteria.
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I can reverse that by stating her actions are causing the imminent harm to the workers of the pipeline, the wildlife around it, the poor and fixed income people once prices rise, and my poor mutt that will have to go back to tainted dog food from China.
Makes a good case for rendering this twit carbon neutral and using her for something useful like plant food.
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RICO. Take everything they have. Take everything the church groups that support them have. Take everything Tom Steyer and Al Gore have while they're at it.
They're the people who have been telling us that Property Is Theft for the last fifty years, make them live up to it.
Inside of each meek Catholic Worker,
A barking mad, well-read berserker,
Malicious and moody,
Unmissed by his Judy,
Who'd feed you entire to a shirker.
[RT] Russia’s state space agency Roscosmos and Russia’s S7 airline have agreed to construct an orbital cosmodrome, according to a source in the aerospace industry, as quoted by daily Izvestia.
"We have been successfully cooperating with S7 for a long time and plan to continue this partnership," the source told the media.
The new complex is expected to be used to assemble and fuel space vehicles and launch them into near-earth orbits as well as for Moon and Mars flights. The port is also planned as a refueling and supply point, and other functions related to space projects.
One of the S7 group’s ten subsidiaries is involved in space rocket launches. The company owns Sea Launch, the floating rocket launching system, which uses a mobile maritime launch platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads. S7 purchased the platform in September 2016.
The agreement is unprecedented for the Russian space industry, according to Andrey Ionin, the member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics.
"This is going to be the first big agreement involving a large private investor in the Russian space industry. It is a unique situation not only for Russia but for the whole world as a new stage requiring the creation of new rocket and space systems is coming," he said, as quoted by the media.
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J.Edgar Hoover spied on people and thus held power over others. Blackmail is also having secret information obtained by spying on others. What are the limits to spying on citizens? I thought this was settled in the Bill of Rights?
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ‐ Michael Crabtree apparently came into the game looking for a fight.
Still upset after Denver cornerback Aqib Talib ripped a chain off his neck last season, Crabtree didn’t take long to seek revenge in his first game against the Broncos this season, leading to a full-blown brawl and three ejections on Sunday during Oakland’s 21-14 win over the Broncos.
"I guess his initiative was to come out there and fight today," said Denver cornerback Chris Harris Jr., who said Crabtree "sucker punched" him on the previous play.
"I guess it wasn’t to play football. He came out there, just punched me in the stomach and I lost my breath."
Crabtree has been angry ever since Talib ripped Crabtree’s chain off his neck during the regular-season finale last season. Crabtree sat out the first meeting this season in Denver with a chest injury, but sought retribution Sunday.
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Yeah, but there was nothing racist about the brawl yesterday. It was just two players and two teams who genuinely don't like each other. It was good old smash mouth football played Raider style.
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What the hell is a Aqib Talib.
A former ace cornerback (he's about 33 now), he was with the Patriots for two years, then he signed a big contract with the Broncos four years ago.
[Breitbart] Since the Pentagon lifted the ban on women serving in combat, more than 80 women have gone through training at Fort Benning, Ga., but before that training could begin, the Army had to pay millions for female dorms, security cameras and other renovations, The Associated Press reports.
So far, 22 women have graduated, while 30 others were still undergoing infantry training as of October.
Eighteen of those women graduated in May as part of the first gender-integrated training cycle.
As part of the effort to integrate men and women in combat arms, Fort Benning has also had to develop new laundry policies. Before, laundry was open at any time of night. Now, it’s bracketed off at certain times for women.
Initially, Fort Benning officials wanted to place female living quarters on a separate floor, but the women didn’t care for that arrangement. Instead, the women are housed in one of four main sleeping bays.
Newly installed security cameras keep watch on the bay door and the stairs leading to the bay.
"There’s nothing they dislike more than to be separated," Army Col. Kelly Kendrick, the brigade commander, told The Associated Press. For Kendrick, the women want to "fit in and do the same as everybody else." Colonel Kendrick refuses to be deterred by the facts. He clearly recognizes gender inequality and political will. He gets things done regardless of the known risks. Promote this officer immediately and select for Department of the Army staff level assignments.
Female recruits have had a higher injury rate than their male counterparts. For example, in the last class, hip stress fractures were an issue for six out of seven females injured in Charlie Company.
Slightly more than 36 percent of women have left training, which is twice the male dropout rate.
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Female recruits have had a higher injury rate than their male counterparts. For example, in the last class, hip stress fractures were an issue for six out of seven females injured in Charlie Company.
Obviously no thought given to medical costs, suitability for future assignments, service related disability, medical retirements, and future VA claim costs.
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This is just an extension of the policy over at the Airborne School at Benning, where they have been taking female trainees for a number of years. These are generally female West Point cadets, trying for jump wings, and are referred to by the black hats as 'kids on summer vacation'.
It's actually the jump school class that's the easiest to get through; in ground week, the girls all run up front with the instructors, and nobody has to run faster than the slowest girl.
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I worked on the "Army of One" campaign and we worked at Ft Benning, albeit along time ago in the age of GW, but I met a couple of very impressive female recruits while there and some incredible officers (male) as well!
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We had 2 females in my jumps school class in 1982. One broke her leg and didn't graduate - the other was a hard core little punk rocker - she did great!
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Any Man-made quake is a Blessing in defusing the power of a larger quake.
I expect that is generally true. An Analysis by size of quake would be interesting, but I doubt they have the data to say other than an increase in (small) quakes has occured. That they don't even mention size of quake (in the abstract) suggests agenda to me.
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The real question is would smaller quakes that could be bigger or smaller violate liability?
I say no. You do determine the ground you settle, and seriously, if a plate shift happens and your layer already triggered, you were brought to a lesser amount of damage.
Seriously, they cannot predict a storm 3 hours from your house and they think they can process the crust of the earth?
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I remember working on Duty Rosters paperwork in a old wooden Barrack in California ( never been in a quake before in my life) and suddenly the walls and the ceiling start creaking and dust drops out of the ceiling on my desk and I look out the window at the "Grinder" ( the Drill Field ) which is asphalt and its rippling like its the rubber sheet on a swimming Pool and the cracks in the asphalt are "breathing".
Then it stops and welcome to California. I go outside and the hills around the base have small dirt slides visible.
Yeah, welcome to California. Seen houes with porches on stilts collapse too. But then people will build anywhere in California, they live in California after all. Not too bright or they would have stayed in Kansas. Tornados in Kansas, of course. But , at least, its better than living in Newark or Baltimore.
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The largest temblor in the study was 4.0 in Johnson City in 2015 at 8km depth. Seems like a lot of lateral and vertical offset from the known injection sites, but then they admit it's at preliminary study.
As I recall, the AEC is supposed to have caused a quake swarm in Colorado in the '70's injecting liquid radioactive waste in the Rockies in northern CO.
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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.
[RT] A car thief reportedly stole ‐ and almost immediately returned ‐ a Cadillac in Leningrad Region, Russia, when he realized that targeting vehicle made him a kidnapper. The reason for this was that a three-month-old baby was inside the car.
[RT] Academics are arguing that many people will soon be identifying as "digisexuals" and taking their sexual identity from having sex with robots.
North Korea
[Daily Caller] An eco-terrorist responsible for sabotaging an oil pipeline in North Dakota suggested Saturday that shutting down the multi-billion dollar line was necessary to defuse the ticking time bomb of man-made global warming.
[RT] Russia’s state space agency Roscosmos and Russia’s S7 airline have agreed to construct an orbital cosmodrome, according to a source in the aerospace industry, as quoted by daily Izvestia.
