[BLAZE] A man allegedly trying to rob a Georgia store with a gun slipped on an icy patch and hit himself on the head before being arrested, police said.
The Gainesville Police Department said in a statement that they were called to an unidentified store on the 400 block of the Atlanta Highway in Gainesville in the early morning hours of Christmas Day at about 1:00 a.m.
There they found 30-year-old Luis Sajbocho-Ordonez injured on the ground.
An investigation found that Sajbocho-Ordonez had hid behind the business until an employee came out and he confronted him with a gun, demanding he hand over money.
The employee got into a physical altercation with the suspect. When a second employee exited the back of the business, Sajbocho-Ordonez was startled and fired off a shot from his gun.
Sajbocho-Ordonez then tried to run away, but he instead slipped on ice, fell down, and hit his head on the ground. Witnesses at the scene were able to take two guns from the injured man and hold him until police arrived. He was treated at the scene for his injuries.
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Luis, you’re as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice our love
You never take advice
Someday you'll pay the price, I know
I've seen it before, it happens all the time
You're closing the door, you leave the world behind
You're digging for gold, you're throwing away
A fortune in feelings, but someday you'll pay
You're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice our love
You want paradise
But someday you'll pay the price, I know
I've seen it before, it happens all the time
You're closing the door, you leave the world behind
You're digging for gold, you're throwing away
A fortune in feelings, but someday you'll pay
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The picture says "he just fell."
Oh, for sure. Definitely. No question...
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[US Naval Institute] Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Areas Theater during World War II, but his contributions to victory have been obscured by his modest leadership style. An "accommodating" and "nurturing" nature—well described by historians Craig L. Symonds and E. B. Potter—meant that Nimitz was content to see his subordinates receive accolades for battlefield successes while he remained in the background.1 But Nimitz’s style belied the extent of his skills. He used an aggressive theory of combat to overcome the inherent uncertainty of war and shape the conflict in the Pacific. Nimitz had an artistic ability to seize emerging opportunities, impose his command’s will on the enemy, and bring the war to a successful, and surprisingly rapid, conclusion.
Skid ..sounds like you're implying something here..
How about we DNA sample them and have them sign an organ donor sheet. Need the DNA to ID them. Otherwise deported... Just thinking out loud
The death toll from heavy rains and floods in the Philippines soared to 25 while a search for 26 missing people is ongoing, authorities said on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/wE7ntRJ3V8
The tropical storm, which has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers (59 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 160 kph (99.4 mph), made landfall in the eastern Catanduanes province early on Saturday.
An average of 20 tropical storms hit the Philippines annually.
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The ones from October were already dead and couldn't be counted again.
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In 100 years the death toll from that storm is going to be very scary.
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[BBC] Felix Pangibitan runs his hands through what is left of his precious rice crop.
The stalks in nearly two-thirds of the field are bent double; most are flattened, others have been snapped at the neck by strong typhoon winds which reached more than 150mph (241km/h).
"It looks so pitiful," he says in a video which has now gone viral across the Philippines.
"It's a waste. It's so hard to be a farmer." Farmin B. Hard nods in agreement
It's a loss both Felix and the country can ill afford - especially this year, as food costs have soared to alarming levels.
His farm in Nueva Ecija on the main island of Luzon was one of thousands in the path of a powerful storm which hit the country's so-called "Rice Bowl". More than $22m (£18.2m) worth of crops were destroyed in 24 hours.
"I can't remember all the typhoons and their names but this has been the most heartbreaking one yet," he told us.
His simple heartfelt videos struck a chord across the Philippines, especially among the poorest communities which have been hit by multiple crises.
As in much of the world, the price of food, fuel and fertiliser have all increased here since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.
But the Philippines is particularly vulnerable. It has to import food - including rice and all cereals such as wheat - to feed its growing population, making it one of the most food-insecure countries in Asia.
Etc. But this is an ongoing problem of multiple decades, only made worse this year because of the shortage of petroleum products leading to reduced production worldwide. The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.
[Viet Memorial Fund] On Veterans Day 1996, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) unveiled a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed to travel to communities throughout the United States. Since its dedication, The Wall That Heals has been displayed at nearly 700 communities throughout the nation, spreading the Memorial’s healing legacy to millions.
Bringing The Wall home to communities throughout our country allows the souls enshrined on the Memorial to exist once more among family and friends in the peace and comfort of familiar surroundings. The traveling exhibit provides thousands of veterans who have been unable to cope with the prospect of facing The Wall to find the strength and courage to do so within their own communities, thus allowing the healing process to begin.
The main components of The Wall That Heals are The Wall replica and the mobile Education Center.
The Wall That Heals exhibit was on the road for more than 13,000 miles and visited 26 communities from coast to coast during its 2021 season. We were escorted by more than 3,000 vehicles into those communities, and we were able to spread The Wall’s healing legacy to nearly 200,000 visitors. Guided tours of the exhibit were provided to more than 12,000 students.
#2
When I first read a description of what the Wall would look like, I thought it was a dumb idea. But when I saw it in person, the effect was incredibly real and vivid. A great monument.
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When I first saw the Wall in DC, it was fairly new. People would leave flowers and mementos near the names of loved ones. Someone who apparently had not brought flowers stuck a dandelion in the Wall. That was OK, it was all they had.
What enraged me was that there was an Oriental family who looked at the flower and LAUGHED! I so wanted to punch them.
For the record, I personally knew two of the people on the Wall: Frank Suvara was a high school classmate of mine. He was KIA in Nam. Lee Schaaf was a classmate of my sister's. Lee was badly wounded in Nam, and died years later from his wounds.
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#1 Bulldog has the look of a warrior who was locked and loaded.
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/\ Irishman from Orange, NJ. Banged up pretty bad after that foto. Guy ahead of him stepped on a mine. He was the real deal. One of his last assignments was as the Commander, Berlin Det.
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Re #5: M Murcek, to be honest, I don't remember exactly - it was probably 1983 or 84. Probably not Vietnamese or Laotian. If I had to guess, probably Japanese.
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Not trying to jump on you, Rambler.
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/\ I finally restored your Hoppin' John recipe Merc. My bad.
#12
I consider trying to comment on a site from my phone a masochistic adventure. I can well imagine what site administration must be like on a phone.
I'm a coward. I'd get some kind of tablet...
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Moderating tasks can be done on the phone — it just requires a little more care. I don’t know if Fred’s code enabled it or if it’s inherent in the phone OS, but I am glad to have alternatives when I am out of the house or a battery needs recharging.
On the other hand, I imagine my fingers are smaller than Besoeker’s, which makes such things easier. ;-) (Yes, yes, I saw what I did there, too. We are all so very clever.)
[Breitbart] The United Nations prepared a troubling report on the insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, warning that the conflict is intensifying and putting more civilians, including children, at risk of abduction, rape, and torture. Unfortunately for the Congolese, the international community turns a blind eye to much of what happens in the eastern Congo because it is the world’s primary source of cobalt, which is in heavy demand by the almighty electric vehicle industry.
Voice of America News (VOA) saw the 21-page document on Tuesday, although it has not been officially released yet. The report included interviews with over 230 sources, and U.N. investigators visited the DRC’s conflict-torn North Kivu province.
There are many armed factions fighting for turf in the Congo, but as VOA noted, the most abusive and dangerous of them is the March 23 Movement or M23, a vicious insurgency with roots stretching back into the bloody regional tribal conflicts of the 1990s.
M23 emerged from a decade of relative dormancy in 2021 and began seizing territory in the eastern DRC, quickly supplanting the Islamic State and its affiliates as the worst regional security threat.
The U.N. report noted M23 is extraordinarily brutal toward civilians in the towns it controls, especially when the paranoid insurgency thinks they might be cooperating with its enemies:
Compared to what? In the absence of the rule of law, this is simply the 'old' normal. Perhaps a vandalized US shopping mall graphic would assist the understanding ?
[AT] In an effort to preserve the families of those who may perish or be injured in armed conflict, the Russian government is taking steps to supply free access to sperm cryobanks for troops called up to fight in Ukraine.
Russian news agency TASS reported that Igor Trunov, president of the Russian Union of Lawyers, stated that the Russian Health Ministry responded to his plan to finance the effort to allow Special Military Operations (SVO) troops the chance to freeze their sperm.
According to Trunov, those mobilized "will receive a free quota for infertility treatment and storage of biomaterial in a cryobank."
This, Trunov notes, marks a departure from the current compulsory medical services offered to troops.
"The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation determined the possibility of financial support from the federal budget for the free conservation and storage of germ cells (spermatozoa) for citizens mobilized to participate in SVO for 2022-2024," Trunov is reported as saying.
The unorthodox move comes as 300,000 additional conscripts have been called up to serve in Ukraine, doubling the 150,000 troops President Vladimir Putin initially sent to carry out the mission, which is rapidly approaching its first anniversary on Feb. 23.
The cryobanks would ensure that married men injured or killed in the line of duty would still be able to have children with their wives. OR they get knocked up by the Russian version of Jody
"Andrei Ivanov from the city’s Mariinsky hospital said men preparing for the draft had come forward, as well as those who were planning to leave Russia," the BBC reported.
#7
Could this be to preserve sperm before exposure to nuclear or biological weapons?
I hope this isn't a clue to Russia's future plans
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They are killing off the flower of the generation at a time when the population has been falling for a while. If they don’t get at least some sperm out of them, the process will accelerate.
#4
We probably all picked D.C. Hmm..wondering if the alphabet agencies - you know who I mean - have their fingers in this site to identify potential domestic terrorists. What say you Deep State trolls?
[NavalNews] Japanese MoD Releases Further Details About Its Future BMD Destroyers
On Dec. 23, Japan's Ministry of Defense announced its fiscal year 2023 budget request, in which we may learn more about Japan's future ballistic missile defense (BMD) destroyers, commonly known as ASEVs (Aegis system-equipped vessels).
For the record, as Naval News previously reported, the ASEV is a vessel that has been decided to be built as an asset to defend Japan from the threat of ballistic missile attacks, mainly by North Korea, as an alternative to the Aegis Ashore, which has been canceled its deployment in 2020.
In Japan, especially since 2016, the threat of ballistic missiles by North Korea has been widely recognized, and since then, Aegis destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) have been deployed in the Sea of Japan at all times to be on the alert for ballistic missile launches by North Korea.
[BBC] In 1944, the USS Johnston sank after a battle against the world's largest battleship. More than 75 years later, her wreck was finally located, 6km (3.7 miles) below the waves.
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Interesting BBC article on several fronts: WWII history, shipwreck naval history, exploration of the last frontier, the submarine world, and an interesting Cabrillo like explorer, Victor Vescovo.
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.
[US Naval Institute] Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Areas Theater during World War II, but his contributions to victory have been obscured by his modest leadership style. An "accommodating" and "nurturing" nature—well described by historians Craig L. Symonds and E. B. Potter—meant that Nimitz was content to see his subordinates receive accolades for battlefield successes while he remained in the background.1 But Nimitz’s style belied the extent of his skills. He used an aggressive theory of combat to overcome the inherent uncertainty of war and shape the conflict in the Pacific. Nimitz had an artistic ability to seize emerging opportunities, impose his command’s will on the enemy, and bring the war to a successful, and surprisingly rapid, conclusion.
Ref #1: A museum and town well worth the visit. Fredricksburg 'Sunday House' photo. 
In memory of 'Bulldog' (1942-2008) my boss, mentor, and friend. 
