[FoxNews] A Colorado man accused of killing a 9-year-old girl with chloroform in an attempt to sexually assault her last month died Monday after being found unresponsive in his jail cell.
The cause of death for Jeffrey Beagley, 34, was not immediately known. Authorities were awaiting the results of toxicology tests and said their investigation was continuing.
[PJ Media] Much more on his career. I remember most that he was a BURR under EVERYBODY'S SADDLE. On the Pac Coast, I caught his show on MSNBC then FBN while getting ready for work. His work for Kids With Cancer was outstanding. God Bless and RIP, I-Man, you flawed acerbic asshole...like me
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Big smile here despite the bad news. Had Imus on in the corner every weekday morning for years, though I was often catching him at the other end of the day. More of a nightowl thing in Central, probably. Been feeling progressively more nostalgic for that these past few years, though I can't remember the last time I heard his voice. Gawd, if he was self-conscious and articulate to anywhere near the end, it's gonna be a blast catching up with what he thought of his... legacy? Triumph?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Tri-City Herald reports that Maj. Gen. Jim Mattis was the guest at the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce's monthly membership luncheon and shared the story in front of nearly 1,000 attendees.
Mattis, a famed Marine who once led the 1st Division, spent the event speaking about leadership and his time in the military.
While Mattis was surprised by the email, he admitted that it exemplified traits, like initiative and aggressiveness, that the organization wanted to foster within its ranks.
'Great initiative, not the best judgment. A private first class does not want to see a two-star general,' he said.
Mattis said such a move would have serious consequences at a higher rank, but it's important to recognize the difference between a mistake and a lack of discipline.
'He was young enough to make a mistake like that, which would have been an ethical mistake up above... he got punished by being assigned to my personal staff,' the 69-year-old joked.
Was up all night with SpaceX team working on Starship tank dome production (most difficult part of primary structure). Dawn arrives … pic.twitter.com/SzyDSYUYOu
[The Hill] A federal judge on Friday rejected an attempt to restore 98,000 people to Georgia's voter rolls following a recent purge of more than 300,000 voters.
Judge Steve Jones determined that the plaintiffs did not show that the cancellations violated the U.S. constitution, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The 309,000 purged voters' registrations were canceled because they had moved away or had not participated in elections, although 22,000 of them were reinstated because they contacted election officials during a certain time period.
The Journal-Constitution reported that the 98,000 people affected by Friday's decision had not participated in elections since 2012, but either voted or made contact with election officials during the two years prior to that.
The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger praised Jones's decision in a Friday statement.
"Today Judge Jones upheld Georgia's decision to continue to maintain clean voter rolls," the statement said. "Despite activists' efforts and lawsuits that only waste taxpayer dollars, Georgia is continuing to ensure every eligible voter can vote and voter lists remain accurate."
The suit was brought by voting rights group Fair Fight Action, which is tied to former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey "Tank" Abrams (D).
Fair Fight Action CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo, in a statement carried by the Journal-Constitution, urged Raffensperger to reinstate the canceled voters.
"The court expressed its serious concern that there needs to be an immediate and accurate interpretation by the state court" Groh-Wargo said, referring to an interpretation of Georgia’s voter registration cancellation law.
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^^^ don't mention that shit. I live in Ga and will have too see that gap tooth bitch all over the TV again.
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Why does that walking lard pile get so much attention. Delusional loud and obnoxious doesn’t seem to great job skills and being a black woman doesnt excuse being the other stuff.
Former U.S. Navy TOPGUN Instructor and F/A-18 pilot Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello provides an in-depth look at the various scenes of Paramount's latest Top Gun: Maverick trailer
Mav flies during a sequence in the movie. It looks very SR-72-ish. May be mistaken, but the P51 might actually be Cruise's personal P51 (he owns and flies).
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Videos fixed. Also, I pasted one of the video URLs into the Source box, Elmens Cloter4496, so now Rantburg doesn’t think your post is a duplicate — it reads all submissions without a link in the Source box as duplicates.
[MAIL] A senior U.S. State Department official criticized the government of Zambia on Thursday after the Trump administration called its ambassador back to Washington amid a fight over gay rights.
Zambia's high court sentenced two men this month to 15 years in prison for engaging in a sexual relationship 'against the order of nature,' a euphemism for gay sex.
Ambassador Daniel Foote was openly critical of Edgar Lungu's government in Lusaka, saying he was 'personally horrified' by the imprisonment. Lungu shoved back publicly, saying he wanted Foote to leave.
'We don’t want such people in our midst. We want him gone,' Lungu said in a public speech at a revival tent-style church fundraiser, broadcast by the state-owned TV network ZNBC. He also thanked churches in Zambia 'for voicing out against unchristian values such as homosexuality.'
Tibor Nagy, the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs, tweeted Thursday that he was '[d]ismayed by the Zambian government’s decision requiring our Ambassador Daniel Foote’s departure from the country.'
[Axios] Wages for nonsupervisory employees ‐ who make up 82% of the workforce ‐ are rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Why it matters: It indicates that the benefits of a tightening labor market and a time of historically low unemployment rates are finally being passed along to most workers.
The big picture: Workers at the bottom of the pay scale have been feeling positive effects on their wages at the end of 2019 ‐ especially when compared to those at the top.
Pay rates the bottom 25% of wage earners rose 4.5% in November from a year earlier, while wages for the top 25% of earners rose only 2.9%, per data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The bank also found that the rate of pay rises for low-skilled workers matched those for high-skilled workers last month for the first time since 2010.
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Who the fck cares if about a paltry pay increase? Medical expenses far exceeds anything on the income part to bear the brunt for the cost of living. 4-%5 increase in income is not going to make a dent in the %10 annual increase in insurance rates/medical costs. I have been an RN for 35 years and even I believe that affordable care is going to mean a more a socialized and even rationalized health system. American medical care is among the best in the world, if you can afford it.
[Breitbart] American companies have brought $1 trillion back to the United States since the passage of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in 2017, according to new U.S. Department of Commerce data.
Bloomberg News reported the repatriation figure since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 took effect last year, though noting that it was short of the $4 trillion that Trump had initially promised:
Investment banks and think tanks have estimated that American corporations held $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion in offshore cash at the time the law was enacted. Before the overhaul, companies were incentivized to keep profits overseas because they owed a 35% tax when bringing it back and could defer payment by keeping funds offshore. The law set a one-time 15.5% tax rate on cash and 8% on non-cash or illiquid assets.
As the Tax Foundation has noted, the tax on past overseas profits is payable over eight years, whether or not the funds are repatriated. Going forward, companies will only be taxed on earnings in the U.S.
The repatriation rate is somewhat slower than initially expected, the Wall Street Journal reported last year, because the U.S. tax rate is only one factor in companies’ decision to keep profits abroad:
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uh huh....can it maneuver and stay intact?
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One huge heat target incoming. You think you aren't generating heat traveling through the atmosphere? And its not maneuvering, so just put up a wall of crap for it the hit along the way.
[JPost] - The Philippines has banned two US lawmakers from visiting and will introduce tighter entry restrictions for U.S. citizens should Washington enforce sanctions over the detention of a top government critic, the president's spokesman said on Friday.
President Rodrigo Duterte will impose a requirement on US nationals to get visas should any Philippine officials involved in the incarceration of Senator Leila de Lima be denied entry to the United States, as sought by US senators Richard Durbin and Patrick Leahy. Leaky and Dick. Hmmmm
Duterte's move comes after the US Congress approved a 2020 budget that contains a provision introduced by the senators against anyone involved in holding de Lima, who was charged with drug offences in early 2017 after she led an investigation into mass killings during Duterte's notorious anti-drugs crackdown.
[AnNahar] An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the country's only nuclear power plant, monitors said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.1 magnitude quake struck 44 kilometers (27 miles) from the southwestern city of Borazjan and at a depth of 38 kilometers.
Its reported epicenter is 45 kilometers east of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, on the southwest Gulf coast.
The Iranian Seismological Center said in a preliminary report on its website that the strength of the quake was 4.9 magnitude and that its depth was 10 kilometers.
The quake jolted villages near Kalameh city, the semi-official ISNA news agency said, adding there were no reports of any casualties or damage.
"Based on the assessments of teams in the field, fortunately this earthquake has caused no damage," the head of the province's crisis center, Jahangir Dehghani, said on state television.
"The Ahram-Kalameh road was blocked by a landslide and it is currently being cleared," he added.
Buildings in nearby towns and villages had some "cracked walls but nothing has collapsed."
Photographs published by Iranian news agencies showed bulldozers clearing a road and damage done to the walls of a historical castle in Bushehr.
The Bushehr plant, which produces 1,000 megawatts of power, was completed by Russia after years of delay and officially handed over in September 2013.
In 2016, Russian and Iranian firms began building two additional 1,000-megawatt reactors at Bushehr. Their construction was expected to take 10 years.
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Iran's Gulf Arab neighbors have often raised concerns about the reliability of the Bushehr facility and the risk of radioactive leaks in case of a major earthquake.
There were no immediate reports of damage to the facility.
The Islamic republic is seeking to reduce its reliance on oil and gas with 20 nuclear power plants planned over the coming years.
Its nuclear program is at the center of a dispute with the United States, which suspects Iran is trying to obtain a nuclear weapons capability, something the Islamic republic vehemently denies.
Tensions have escalated since May last year when US President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark 2015 accord.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, gave Iran relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program.
Iran sits on top of major tectonic plates and sees frequent seismic activity.
In November 2017, a 7.3-magnitude quake in the western province of Kermanshah killed 620 people.
In 2003, a 6.6-magnitude quake in southeastern Iran decimated the ancient mud-brick city of Bam and killed at least 31,000 people.
Iran's deadliest quake was a 7.4-magnitude tremor in 1990 that killed 40,000 people in northern Iran, injured 300,000 and left half a million homeless.
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.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[MAIL] A senior U.S. State Department official criticized the government of Zambia on Thursday after the Trump administration called its ambassador back to Washington amid a fight over gay rights.
[Axios] Wages for nonsupervisory employees ‐ who make up 82% of the workforce ‐ are rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade, the Wall Street Journal reports.
[AnNahar] An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the country's only nuclear power plant, monitors said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.
