[NYPOST] An "appalling" Massachusetts man allegedly raped a 74-year-old woman at a senior living facility, according to reports.
Giani Morales, 27, was arraigned Wednesday in a Milford court on charges including sexual assault, home invasion and burglary in Tuesday’s attack at Surfside Apartments in West Haven, the Connecticut Post reported.
The elderly victim — who moved to the complex for seniors and disabled residents just weeks ago — told cops she went to walk her dog when Morales approached her and "began to push up on her" as she waited for an elevator, a police report shows.
The elevator arrived, but a man who was afraid of dogs was inside, prompting the woman to wait for the next one, police said.
Morales then allegedly exposed himself while standing beside the woman, leading her to retreat to her apartment. He then barged into the residence as she opened the door, police said.
The woman told detectives that Morales proceeded to rape her inside her apartment after she tried to fight him off, according to the police report.
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[NYPOST] Cops in Illinois fatally shot a man who jacked a car at a gas station and tried to drive away — slamming the vehicle into reverse and dragging officers with him, police bodycam video shows.
The footage, released Wednesday, shows DeShawn Tatum, 25, first running through an alley in Rock Island before stealing a bystander' car at a Chicken Shack gas station and dragging two officers as he crashes into a building on April 1.
"Get out of the f—king car!" one officer yells just before Tatum slams into reverse. The cops then open fire as one officer opens the driver' door as Tatum tries to drive off, according to the footage.
"Gun, gun!" one officer yells.
Tatum tries to grab one officer' weapon as the car is in reverse and the weapon fires, shattering the passenger' window and grazing another cop' head, according to the Quad City Times.
Tatum, who had outstanding felony warrants, had been earlier spotted running through a nearby cemetery and ignored commands to stop and to drop the gun he had been carrying, the clip shows.
One officer also picked up a bag Tatum had dropped during the foot chase. The backpack had a Glock 9mm magazine, 9mm Luger cartridges, other ammo, suspected marijuana and unidentified pills, according to a report by State's Attorney Dora Villarreal.
A loaded Glock 9mm with an extended magazine was recovered by cops that Tatum dropped during the foot chase prior to arriving at the gas station, Villarreal said.
Tatum later pegged outshrugged off the mortal coil died at a hospital from gunshot wounds to the head and chest, the Quad City Times reported. He will continue to vote Democrat
The four officers involved in the shooting, who were put on administrative leave following the incident, will not face criminal charges, Villarreal said.
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If we could do this 150 times a day the country would be a much better place.
It sounds more like there is plenty of chicken, but not enough people working to process the parts for sale.
[MSN] It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: "A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING," blared the headline of one trade publication in early February.
But it turned out to be so much worse.
Bloomberg News, on Thursday: "Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry."
In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet about their tenders: "we’re experiencing a system-wide shortage :( But they will be back soon!"
It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores’ struggles to stock enough chicken — nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes — to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans.
"Demand for the new sandwich has been so strong that, coupled with general tightening in domestic chicken supply, our main challenge has been keeping up with that demand," said David Gibbs, CEO of Yum Brands, whose KFC restaurants recently rolled out a new fried-chicken sandwich.
Charles R. Morrison, chairman and CEO of Wingstop, said this week that "Suppliers are struggling, just as many in our industry are, to hire people to process chicken, thus placing unexpected pressure on the amount of birds that can be processed and negatively affecting supply of all parts of the chicken in the U.S., not just wings."
Chicken has for years been the most popular meat in the United States and experts and analysts have cited several reasons for the current deficit. Some are related to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... — pandemic-spurred disruptions in the market and supply chain and an increased demand for a comfort food that is takeout- or delivery-friendly. Others, industry watchers say, include increased competition, volatile feed prices and even the deadly winter storms that swept over the South in February, halting the work of chicken processors.
And then there’s the proliferation of the fried chicken sandwich. The Washington Post dubbed 2019 the Year of the Chicken Sandwich — and for good reason. Popeyes kicked things off that August, releasing a new chicken sandwich that quickly took over the Internet. Then the virality hit the streets, with eager customers queuing up for blocks to buy a sandwich. Just over two weeks after the new menu item dropped, Popeyes announced it had sold out.
Even now, the craze persists, with Popeyes continuing to duke it out with Chick-fil-A for sandwich supremacy and KFC and McDonald’s entering the fray with new offerings.
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This explain the teaching indoctrination of Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism in the Cali school system? Asking for friend who works at the Soylent Corporation.
[Epoch Times] Twitter’s stock dropped about 13 percent on Friday to $56.74 per share after the firm issued weak second-quarter guidance on revenue growth while its user numbers fell short of expectations.
The San Francisco-based tech giant said its average monetizable daily active users increased 20 percent year-over-year to 199 million. Some analysts had expected the number to exceed 200 million.
CFO Ned Segal said Twitter’s results were a "solid start" to the year and said that app promotion and brand advertising increased.
"Advertisers continue to benefit from updated ad formats, improved measurement, and new brand safety controls, contributing to 32 percent year-over-year growth in ad revenue in [the first quarter]," he said in an earnings call.
Segal said that revenue growth was down in the United States was because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mods - please change the title to "Twitter Stock Bombs" to agree with the graphic.
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Gotcha Bobby
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Segal said that revenue growth was down in the United States was because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Are you sure Ned it isn't because you guys had been trying to sway elections by censoring and other means? People are going to other social media?
#4
so force everyone to stay at home for months on end, where they have little to do except waste time on the internet and Twitter, and you still can't make a buck with a service that is based entirely on the internet?
#5
...after the firm issued weak second-quarter guidance on revenue growth while its user numbers fell short of expectations.
Two surefire hits on the bullshit meter there, as they avoid talking about the key concepts of earnings and profitability. Here's a blurb that I found when typing into Bing 'Is Twitter a profitable company':
After losing money for years, Twitter has now posted five straight quarters of profits, even though its revenue growth has slowed. The financial performance was marred by a drop in Twitter users for a third consecutive quarter. The company said it had 321 million users in the fourth quarter, down from 326 million in the previous quarter.
If you're looking for a dividend, look elsewhere. ExxonMobil just reinstated their dividend, and at least their stock price isn't a three digit multiple of earnings they don't have, like Twitter's is.
#6
Individual economies must evolve their own national social media platforms, encourage citizens to shift base gradually. And the importance of accountability for posts cannot be stressed enough.
Wherever possible, governments must harass such companies constantly, with blocks and arbitrary regulations... reduce their usage to only a minority who can use VPNs and proxies.
Make a nation conscious platform, with accountability part of the online culture, and arm twist the entertainment industry, the media and celebrities into promoting it.
#3
Tourism, from US and EU, provides a huge number of jobs to the area and has been crushed by the covid lockdowns. I look for a 'global' (US) aid package, combined with continued restrictions on activities that 'waste' oil, generate CO2, and 'abuse' other cultures.
Eight ex-commanders of Colombia’s now-defunct FARC rebel group formally admitted to accusations of kidnappings as a policy within their ranks and other crimes against humanity https://t.co/IjdEgYFBz6pic.twitter.com/KPRr80mDxj
#3
Preventing conservative and normal Americans from leaving the USSA for a country where free speech is not suppressed, the European heritage is not slandered, and whites are not trashed as the Class Enemy.
It's a measure of how low this country has sunk that there is more freedom and more respect for our civilization' values and achievements in Putin's Russia than in Woke America
#4
A good idea to get the idiots with expired visas to go home --- Putin's underlings might feel like manufacturing some kangaroo trials of (quote) foreign spies and 'wreckers' among us (un-quote).
#5
Essential sponsored personnel (operatives) stay, but their dependents leave with courier bundles in their household goods. Some mad rush to get the goods.
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[SpaceNews] China launched the first module for its space station into orbit late Wednesday, but the mission launcher also reached orbit and is slowly and unpredictably heading back to Earth.
The Long March 5B, a variant of China’s largest rocket, successfully launched the 22.5-metric-ton Tianhe module from Wenchang Thursday local time. Tianhe separated from the core stage of the launcher after 492 seconds of flight, directly entering its planned initial orbit.
Designed specifically to launch space station modules into low Earth orbit, the Long March 5B uniquely uses a core stage and four side boosters to place its payload directly into low Earth orbit.
However this core stage is now also in orbit and is likely to make an uncontrolled reentry over the next days or week as growing interaction with the atmosphere drags it to Earth. If so, it will be one of the largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area.
Most expendable rocket first stages do not reach orbital velocity and reenter the atmosphere and land in a pre-defined reentry zone. Some other larger, second stages perform deorbit burns to lower altitude to reduce time in orbit and lower chances of collisions with other spacecraft or to immediately reenter the atmosphere.
There had been speculation that the Long March 5B core would perform an active maneuver to deorbit itself, but that appears not to have happened. At a Wenchang press conference Thursday, Wang Jue, Commander-in-Chief of Long March 5B launch vehicle, stated (Chinese) that this second Long March 5B had seen improvements over the first launch, but a possible deorbit maneuver was not stated.
Ground based radars used by the U.S. military to track spacecraft and other objects in space have detected an object and catalogued it as the Long March 5B rocket body. Now designated 2021-035B, the roughly 30-meter-long, five-meter-wide Long March 5 core stage is in a 170 by 372-kilometer altitude orbit traveling at more than seven kilometers per second.
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The Long March 5B core stage’s orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees means the rocket body passes a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand, and could make its reentry at any point within this area.
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I always thought it was a pity to deorbit resources, and the booster could be used for something in the future, that cost so much to lift into orbit...
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Wonderful.
I'm reminded of a proposal to preserve the Shuttle hydrogen tanks stored in a collection of reconditioned or emergency habitats at a Lagrange point.
"Off MISSION!" I was loudly told.
"Orbital MAINTENANCE!" Uhm, deorbit burns...to L4/5?
"Toxic RESIDUAL!" More toxic than empty SPACE?
The conversation ended with:
"Hey MAC! Have you got a spot for this guy?"
"Yeah, we'll send him on a walkabout to watch launches."
[Ay Pee, via WHKRadio (Cleveland), and the Dallas Morning News] Powered by consumers and fueled by government aid, the U.S. economy is achieving a remarkably fast recovery from the recession that ripped through the nation last year on the heels of the coronavirus and cost tens of millions of Americans their jobs and businesses. A small sacrifice to be rid of the mean tweets! The economy grew last quarter at a vigorous 6.4% annual rate, the government said Thursday, and expectations are that the current quarter will be even better. The number of people seeking unemployment aid — a rough reflection of layoffs — last week reached its lowest point since the pandemic struck. Has it beat the previous administration's low unemployment numbers yet?
Economists say that widespread Operation Warp Speed vaccinations and declining viral cases, the reopening of more businesses, a huge infusion of federal aid and healthy job gains should help sustain steady growth. For 2021 as a whole, they expect the economy to expand around 7%, which would mark the fastest calendar-year growth since 1984. Wow, and the latest government 'stimulus' hasn't even hit the streets yet! Other than the $1400 per person, legal and illegal.
As American consumers have stepped up their spending in recent months, they have consumed physical goods far more than they have services, like haircuts, airline tickets and restaurant meals: Spending on goods accelerated at an annual pace of nearly 24% last quarter; services spending rose at a rate below 5%. Blowing the money we saved on vacations last year -- consumer goods and services.
Online sites that have capitalized on goods purchases during the pandemic — from Amazon to Etsy to eBay — are under pressure to show they can sustain accelerating growth even as consumers look more toward services and less on goods. So far, Amazon, the dominant site by far, is hardly showing signs of slowing down. On Thursday, it reported that its first-quarter profit more than tripled from a year ago, fueled by online shopping. I use Amazon to review my options, then purchase somewhere else.
The renewed strength in the United States — the largest economy — is helping lead the developed world out of recession. In Europe, for instance, a recovery has lagged because of smaller government aid and slower vaccination rollouts that have prolonged lockdowns. Economists at Berenberg Bank estimate that the 19 countries that use the euro currency actually contracted in the first quarter. Perhaps they won't be bankrupt as quickly as the U.S.
For all the U.S. economy’s gains, it still has a long way to go. More than 8 million jobs remain lost to the pandemic. And the recovery remains sharply uneven: Most college-educated and white collar employees have been able to work from home over the past year. Many have even built up savings and expanded their wealth from rising home values and a record-setting stock market, which has rocketed more than 80% from March of last year. Homes and the market are - at this point - paper gains. If you sell your house in some places, you can't even find another one to replace it.
By contrast, job cuts have fallen heavily on low-wage workers, racial minorities and people without college educations. In addition, many women, especially working mothers, have had to leave the workforce to care for children. Fortunately, Uncle Sugar will help them out of their pit of despair. A major reason for the brightening expectations is the record-level federal spending that is poised to flow into the economy. A $1.9 trillion package that President Joe Biden got through Congress in March provided, among other rescue aid, $1,400 stimulus payments to most adults. On top of that, Biden is proposing two additional huge spending plans: a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package and a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that the president promoted Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress. Cementing his legacy as his mentor failed to do in his first two terms.
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time for another lockdown
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Thank you President Trump. There would be no recovery if not for your leadership.
As Barack Hussein said, "Never underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up."
#7
Oxygen and other equipment is starting to arrive in India from the outside world. Death numbers should start dropping. And our beloved president’s people, for whom he is a figurehead, are universally fools.
#10
And since "no culture is better than any other" (except maybe white conservatives in the US, who are the worst) it can't possibly have anything to do with that, in India or South America.
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How about sending some of the millions of vaccine doses America bought and is not using?
#12
This isn't as simple as it appears. Most of the business class that visits the US are right leaning, anti-Left, hardworking hindus. They are a threat to the islamics, and migrants from shitholes who would rather have those opportunities that go to the Indian. I'll bet there are people lobbying in the DNC for according more greencards and visas to Pakis and other islamics coming in through the UK.
The media blitz by the BBC and affiliated sources on what is a country's usual struggle with the calamity of the day has done its job. All the video clips about mass cremations and people dragging bodies on roads, could be just another Sunday in this 1.39 billion large nation with huge income disparities.
But it would serve India well too, if our skilled and educated can't just scoot off for greener pastures as soon as they can.
[UPI] Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space late Wednesday, deploying its payload of 60 Starlink Internet network satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The two-stage, 70-meter rocket lifted off at 11:44 p.m. EDT as scheduled from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
#3
^ And what is AI but a set of programmed postulates to actuate activity, based on statistical data? That too is already a reality. Society is being driven like a Tesla car.
#5
No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "What are your preferred pronouns?" And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "You are triggering me!" And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vistx to your preferred gender."
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.
[NYPOST] An "appalling" Massachusetts man allegedly raped a 74-year-old woman at a senior living facility, according to reports.
[NYPOST] Cops in Illinois fatally shot a man who jacked a car at a gas station and tried to drive away — slamming the vehicle into reverse and dragging officers with him, police bodycam video shows.
[MSN] It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: "A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING," blared the headline of one trade publication in early February.
It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores’ struggles to stock enough chicken — nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes — to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
And then there’s the proliferation of the fried chicken sandwich. The Washington Post dubbed 2019 the Year of the Chicken Sandwich — and for good reason. Popeyes kicked things off that August, releasing a new chicken sandwich that quickly took over the Internet. Then the virality hit the streets, with eager customers queuing up for blocks to buy a sandwich. Just over two weeks after the new menu item dropped, Popeyes announced it had sold out.
[Epoch Times] Twitter’s stock dropped about 13 percent on Friday to $56.74 per share after the firm issued weak second-quarter guidance on revenue growth while its user numbers fell short of expectations.
The economy grew last quarter at a vigorous 6.4% annual rate, the government said Thursday, and expectations are that the current quarter will be even better. The number of people seeking unemployment aid — a rough reflection of layoffs — last week reached its lowest point since the pandemic struck. 
A major reason for the brightening expectations is the record-level federal spending that is poised to flow into the economy. A $1.9 trillion package that President Joe Biden got through Congress in March provided, among other rescue aid, $1,400 stimulus payments to most adults. On top of that, Biden is proposing two additional huge spending plans: a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package and a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that the president promoted Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress.
[UPI] Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space late Wednesday, deploying its payload of 60 Starlink Internet network satellites into low-Earth orbit.
