[LA Times] A gunman killed five people in back-to-back shootings in Bakersfield on Wednesday evening before turning the gun on himself when he was confronted by a deputy, authorities said.
The violence began about 5:20 p.m., when the man showed up to a trucking business with his wife and confronted another man, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told reporters. The husband shot and killed his wife and the man.
When a third man showed up, the gunman chased him to the nearby Bear Mountain Sports shop and fatally shot him. The gunman, who was not identified, then went to a home nearby and shot and killed two more people.
Youngblood said the gunman then carjacked a woman who had a child in her vehicle. Both victims were able to escape as the gunman drove to Edison Highway, where he was spotted by a deputy.
The man pulled into a lot and when the deputy approached, the man shot himself in the chest.
[NYDAILYNEWS] In a twist of irony so devious it would have turned Agatha Christie green with envy, Oregon chef Daniel Brophy was found shot to death nearly seven years after his wife of 27 years penned an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband."
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, the writer of sensuous mysteries such as "Hell on the Heart" and "The Wrong Husband," was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for murder on Sept. 5 ‐ more than three months after the death of her spouse.
"Dan was one of the very few people I’ve known that knew exactly what he wanted in life and loved doing it," she said at a candlelight vigil two days after Daniel’s demise.
Police responded to a shooting at the Oregon Culinary Institute, Brophy's place of employment, June 2. Students were just beginning to arrive when they found the 63-year-old chef bleeding in the kitchen, according to KATU2 news. Brophy died at the scene.
His wife, Crampton-Brophy, is a self-published author of several books, including "The Wrong Husband" and "The Girl Most Likely To." She also penned a blog post entitled "How To Murder Your Husband" in November 2011. The blog has since been made private.
In "How to Murder Your Husband," Crampton-Brophy described motives and possible murder weapons she would choose from if her character were to kill a husband in a romance novel, according to The Washington Post. She even offered advice to readers, such as not using a hitman or poison to commit the murder.
Her other works also dealt with murder. In "The Wrong Husband," a woman tries to leave an abusive spouse by faking her death and in "The Wrong Cop" she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasizing about killing” her husband.
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Maybe she should have written "How to Murder Your Husband and Get Away With It".
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"I'm a wonderful wife. What a trophy!
He don't understand me, the oaf."
She reversed on the shelf,
Once he'd murdered himself,
"How to Drive Your Man Nuts," Crampton-Brophy.
How many people will they have to pay to make the crowd size look good? No one reads these fucking books anyway...
[Yahoo News] - NEW YORK (AP) ‐ Michelle Obama will visit 10 cities to promote her memoir "Becoming," a tour featuring arenas and other performing centers to accommodate crowds far too big for any bookstore.
The former first lady will begin at the United Center in her native Chicago on Nov. 13, the book's release date. She will finish at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Dec. 17, Live Nation and the Crown Publishing Group announced Wednesday. In between, appearances will include Barclays Center in New York City, the Pepsi Center Arena in Denver and The Forum in Los Angeles. Hmmm... - Nov. 24th, the day after Thanksgiving (?), Boston's TD Garden, eh? I don't care how many people she pays off to show up, she's not filling even 1/4 of that place (17,565). $10 says they move it to the Orpheum (2,700) at the last minute. Ima hoping someone shows up in a wookie costume just to bust her chops.
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Democrat party will buy up enough books to put it on the best seller lists for a few weeks and they'll give out books to donors. Also $20 cover price is cheap for the amount of virtue signaling that can be done with that book on your coffee table.
[The Mail] A solar observatory in New Mexico was mysteriously evacuated last week and remains shut down until further notice, even as a geomagnetic storm bears down on Earth’s atmosphere.
According to local media, the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM has been closed since last Thursday, along with the nearby post office, and employees affected have no idea why.
The FBI has since showed up to the site and Blackhawk helicopters have been seen circling overhead, but officials remain tight-lipped as to what’s going on, saying only that they are ’addressing a security issue.’
The mysterious activity has sparked conspiracy theories across the internet given its alignment with with this week's solar storm.
The facility is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and has been vacant since September 6.
It’s been nearly a week since the initial evacuation, but no details have been released.
Last week, a spokesperson for AURA told the Alamogordo Daily News that they evacuated as a ’precautionary measure.’
Otero County Sheriff Benny House revealed that even local law enforcement has been kept in the dark, despite being told to stand by.
’The FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on,’ House told Alamogordo Daily News.
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*Hmmm* What was there? On all accounts if you wanted to do something "private" at a place that all types of odd parcels could be shipped -- why not a place like this? I remember the Chemistry Department at the old University noticed that a little used chemistry lab room (third floor, dusty, way, way back there in the cobwebs and spiders) had been turned into a Meth production lab by a cash-hungry Graduate Assistant...
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Doubt its about the sun as there are many solar observatories around the world. Too many eyes and mouths to suppress information concerning solar activity. So, it probably is an local event.
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Bond, after the Folies Bergère:
"They never will know I was there,
For I carried some Sartre
With me to Montmartre,
And tried very hard not to stare."
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But then, at the end, the alarm,
And things got a bit warm, but no harm,
As I fled from the scene
With some snaps for the Queen
Midst the dogs and a swarm of gendarmes.
Though I wonder sometimes, I confess...
Am I really so tough to arrest?
It was almost too easy...
And it wasn't that sleazy...
Oh, I say, Moneypenny! Nice dress!
[News24] The British owners of the Nieuwe Sion farm, David and Elaine Potter, recently astounded their 150 farmworkers when they handed over keys ‐ and title deeds ‐ to a R30m architect-designed village, complete with a crèche, aftercare and entertainment centre in the Western Cape.
The 22 state-of-the-art homes sit on four hectares of farmland and include modern finishes and features.
"For us as farmworkers, it's not possible to own a house so we are very thankful to the owner of the farm for this initiative," Hennie Lekay told News24.
[MSN] The two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack appeared on Russia’s state-funded TV station RT on Thursday, claiming they had visited the "wonderful" English city as tourists to see its cathedral.
The pair, who said their names were Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, appeared to resemble men shown in stills from CCTV cameras released by British police investigating the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a Russian ex-spy who passed information to the British.
British police say that the names used by the men are aliases and that there is evidence that they are Russian military intelligence agents.
In the interview the men said they had both been in Salisbury and were the people identified in the CCTV stills.
"Our friends had been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town," the man identified as Alexander Petrov said.
Boshirov added that the two had gone to visit Salisbury Cathedral, noting its high spire.
He said: "There’s the famous Salisbury Cathedral, famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world. It’s famous for its 123-metre spire, it’s famous for its clock, the first one [of its kind] ever created in the world, which is still working."
An anchor said the station would air more of the interview later during the show, but written highlights of the interview were posted online by RT before the video was released.
In the interview, Boshirov said that while they walked around Salisbury, the two men "maybe approached Skripal’s house, but we didn’t know where it was located".
The interview appeared to show that Russia was not planning to deny the veracity of video evidence released by Scotland Yard, but just to argue it had been misinterpreted.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin called for the two men to speak with the media during an economic conference in Vladivostok. He said the two men were innocent and "civilians", apparently contradicting accusations by Scotland Yard that they were agents of Russian military intelligence.
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They confirmed they visited Salisbury twice, on 3 and 4 March. British police say the first, brief, visit was designed to stake out the city in advance of the attack. Petrov said that they turned back because it was cold.
Yeah right. Russians turning back because it was cold.
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*snort* EC!
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It's out of the Russian playbook:
1. Message to gullible domestic audience: "Look how the West is treating innocent Russian tourists!"
2. Message to dissidents: "Of course we did it and there's nothing you can do about it."
3. Bonus: Should the attackers become a problem and turn into Norwegian Parrots, the British did it.
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"We LOVE synagogues"
They have "Cathedrals"
"Cathedrals"
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"it’s famous for its clock, the first one [of its kind] ever created in the world, which is still working."
And you know that Russians don't take a dump without a plan clock!
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[BBC] Two men named as suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the UK have said they were merely tourists.
The men, named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, told the RT channel that they went sightseeing in Salisbury but returned to London within an hour.
They are accused by the UK of trying to kill Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.
The UK has described them as agents of Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU.
"The town was covered by this slush. We got wet, took the nearest train and came back" to London, they told RT, Russia's state-run international broadcaster.
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"The town was covered by this slush"
The horror. That would never happen in Moscow in early spring.
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In Salisbury, slushy and dank,
We were victimized -- yes! -- as we drank
By a man in mustache
Who employed us with cash
For performance of innocent prank!
#6
But professionals see past the surface.
Must verify! Yes, we are nervous.
And so he makes statement
That he is an agent
Of foreign intelligence service.
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All this is from video evident:
We send it post-haste to the rezident
And press correspondents,
For Russians have conscience
Although it may work to our detriment.
[American Thinker] Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a public health issue, with sufferers of this new form of mass hysteria manifesting both a danger to society with violent aggression and extreme self-destructive behavior.
Yesterday, we noted the alleged attempted assassination of GOP congressional candidate Rudy Peters by a man named Farzad Fazeli, who behaved in a deranged manner with an inept and disorganized assassination attempt:
According to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, 35-year old Castro Valley resident Farzad Fazeli walked past Peters info booth making disparaging and profanity laden political remarks about Donald Trump. Fazeli then became aggressive and reached for a concealed switchblade to stab Peters while making threats.
Now, details are emerging about sociology professor emeritus Mark J. Bird, who shot himself on August 28 in a bathroom at the College of Southern Nevada, on the first day of class at that community college. Rob Lacanlale of the Las Vegas Review-Journal revealed that Professor Bird:
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…was charged last month with discharging a gun within a prohibited structure, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property, court records show.
Maybe the thing to do is to create "safe spaces" for such activities.
Ohfergawdsake. In a clip posted online by Right Wing Watch, he asked followers to “put a hand out toward the Atlantic” and repeat an incantation.
“In the name of Jesus, you Hurricane Florence, we speak to you in the name of Jesus, and we command the storm to cease its forward motion and go harmlessly into the Atlantic. Go up north away from land and veer off in the name of Jesus. We declare in the name of the lord that you shall go no farther, you shall do no damage in this area.”
He also declared a “shield of protection” over the Virginia area in which he was speaking and around “innocent people” in the storm’s path. The old charlatan never hesitates to make himself look foolish. The shade of Simon Magus is please. My apologies to anyone who takes him seriously (Pat Robertson, not Simon Magus).
Perhaps it’s the trench thingy. By the next war, Mr. Wife’s Uncle Bill was comfortable being militantly atheist in his very Catholic family. But he fought far from any trenches, so science would say that there’s the correlation.
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latest computer models show the storm slowing down as it nears the coast
http://weather.unisys.com/forecasts?source=6
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Agreed, the latest prediction from the NHC shows the storm veering westward and sparing Virginia. Hummm.
Never fear, it will turn North towards the Ohio River Valley and wash out my driveway and bridge.
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as of now storm moving very slowly off the coast
and the vortex has ingested dry air and weakened to a minimal category 2
still lots and lots of precip though
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I think the moral of the story is Pat Robertson got lucky. (Better lucky than good).
On the other hand, I got 6" from Gordon and now I suppose I will get as much from Florence, thanks to Robertson.
Cheers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa’s southern coast represents what archaeologists on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing.
The abstract design, vaguely resembling a hashtag, was drawn by hunter-gatherers who periodically dwelled in Blombos Cave overlooking the Indian Ocean, roughly 190 miles (300 km) east of Cape Town, the researchers said. It predates the previous oldest-known drawings by at least 30,000 years.
While the design appears rudimentary, the fact that it was sketched so long ago is significant, suggesting the existence of modern cognitive abilities in our species, Homo sapiens, during a time known as the Middle Stone Age, the researchers said.
[FoxNews] Evergreen State College enrollment plummeted after fallout from the controversial "Day of Absence" in May 2017 when all white people were asked to leave the campus.
The publicly funded college – committed to social justice – became the poster child of a campus overrun by hyper-political correctness when students shut down the campus and shouted down then-evolutionary biology professor Bret Weinstein for merely questioning the event kicking white people off campus.
Weinstein, who describes himself as "deeply progressive," ultimately lost his job and was labeled a "racist" and "white supremacist."
Although just estimates, a representative from Evergreen said they expect around 350 freshman this fall, with a total of 3,000-3,100 total enrollment, both of which "do represent significant decreases as compared to before the 2017 unrest."
More at link
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the controversial "Day of Absence" in May 2017 when all white people were asked to leave the campus
I can't help wondering - what if all white people left for a month?
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The really hilarious part is that Bret Weinstein is far left. He thought his stellar left-wing credentials would protect him. Big mistake. He got tarred as a racist just like anyone else. Oh, I laughed for days after that.
Now he's an outcast, a member of the Intellectual Dark Web, reduced to making Youtube appearances on other people's shows. He had it all, and it didn't matter to the SJWs.
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Oh, wow. Haven't thought about Rachel Corrie in forever. She's right up there with Cindy Sheehan and Ward Churchill in useful idiots the Left used and discarded.
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(Rachel Corey) is right up there with Cindy Sheehan and Ward Churchill in useful idiots the Left used and discarded.
All leftists are two-dimensional caricatures, but some are more two-dimensional than others.
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A drop in enrollments, cuts in the budget, and a loss of 20 faculty resulted in this racist and childish stunt. IMO, pretty damned selfish on the part of the lefties who did this.
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Agreed. But an expeption, perhaps, to try the rule?
Two martyrs in Heaven were kvetchin'
Regardin' which saint was more fetchin',
The flatter or fatter?
The winner? The thinner:
They settled on Speedbump the Chechen.
I don't get why this psychopath's work would be removed, but not her, but then I'm no egghead.
Paper is more easily dealt with than tenure.
[Breitbart] New York University Professor Avital Ronell, who been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with young men on more than one occasion, is now facing a backlash against her scholarly work.
Ronell is the recent subject of a Title IX investigation at NYU after a former student accused her of inappropriate behavior. The student, Nimrod Reitman, gave investigators dozens of emails that revealed Ronell’s injection of romance into their scholarly relationship. She referred to Reitman, a gay man, by pet names like “baby love,” “my sacred,” and “most honey bunny.” Reitman also claimed that he had been subjected to unwanted kissing and touching.
This wasn’t the first accusation of inappropriate sexual misconduct against Ronell. In a passage from the authoritative biography on famous postmodern philosopher Jacques Derrida, Ronell, who claims to be gay, is said to have engaged in a romantic relationship with the philosopher’s underage son. At the time, Ronell was 27 and the young Derrida was only 16.
Now, instructors around the country are considering whether or not they should drop Ronell’s work from their syllabi. And her loudest critics don’t want to stop there. Mount Allison University sociologist Ardath Whynacht has started a campaign to remove the works of Ronell’s supporters from syllabi. This would include the works of famed feminists like Judith Butler, who is often featured in liberal arts classes around the country. Butler led a campaign in defense of Ronell. Her main defense of Ronell focused on features of her identity, such as the fact that she’s a woman and a feminist. Leaving out the sexual predator part.
A longer exposition on Ronell can be found here
Following the pattern of their beloved Soviet Union, all who blaspheme will be blotted out.
[DallasNews] "GREAT NEWS," he tweeted. "State Board signals it will keep reference to 'heroic' Alamo defenders in Texas history curriculum. They died fighting for Texas independence. That is the epitome of heroic. Thanks to all Texas patriots who weighed in."
Commissioner Bush balked at the possibility that he overestimated the issue's importance.
"I hardly think that the Commissioner, as Guardian of the Alamo, has overblown the issue," Texas General Land Office press secretary Karina Erickson told The News. "Bush's quote speaks best: 'The Alamo defenders and their highest values must stay in the Texas history curriculum. Period.' "
MOSES AND MORE
While the Alamo and Travis letter took up much of the debate Tuesday, members of the public also weighed in on the thousands of other proposed changes to the state's social studies standards.
The State Board of Education last updated the standards in 2010, approving several requirements pushed by the board's most conservative members, including teaching Texas high schoolers that Moses "informed the American founding documents."
The board also decided that students should have to "compare and contrast" the First Amendment clause barring establishment of a state religion with the doctrine of the separation of church and state.
Now, the board will consider axing the 2010 standards and amending several others, like moving "slavery" to the head of a list of the causes of the Civil War. Currently, slavery comes in the middle of a the list that also includes states' rights, sectionalism and protective tariffs.
"I appreciate history is complicated," Emile Lester, a political science professor from the University of Mary Washington, told the board when he spoke in favor of removing the reference to Moses. "But sometimes right is right and wrong is wrong."
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One day, while Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of the priest of Midian came. They drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s sheep. But some shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses got up, came to their defense, and then watered their sheep.
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.
[NYDAILYNEWS] In a twist of irony so devious it would have turned Agatha Christie green with envy, Oregon chef Daniel Brophy was found shot to death nearly seven years after his wife of 27 years penned an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband."
In a clip posted online by Right Wing Watch, he asked followers to “put a hand out toward the Atlantic” and repeat an incantation.
Missing Virginia is it ? 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa’s southern coast represents what archaeologists on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing.
[FoxNews] Evergreen State College enrollment plummeted after fallout from the controversial "Day of Absence" in May 2017 when all white people were asked to leave the campus.
[DallasNews] "GREAT NEWS," he tweeted. "State Board signals it will keep reference to 'heroic' Alamo defenders in Texas history curriculum. They died fighting for Texas independence. That is the epitome of heroic. Thanks to all Texas patriots who weighed in."
