More fully, “Stay on your meds and don’t eat nobody else.”
[FoxNews] An institutionalized man who confessed to the 2011 killing of a homeless man in Connecticut in which he also ate the victim's body parts in a cemetery was granted a conditional release.
Tyree Smith was granted a conditional release by the Nutmeg State’s Psychiatric Security Review Board on Friday, allowing him to leave Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, although he will remain under supervision and will continue to receive mental health services, according to WFSB.
Smith's doctor said the cannibal killer has been rehabilitated and is taking medications to help with psychosis and voices in his head, the outlet reported. Like that's a problem.
"To quote the director there, he is a joy. He is considered a support to the other people there," forensic psychiatrist Caren Teitelbaum said. "Once he was stable, he was a really calming presence for other patients."
"He has maintained clinical stability. Adhered to the medications and continued to engage in group and substance abuse treatment," Teitelbaum added. "He also denied visual hallucinations and a desire to harm others or himself."
But others, including GOP state Sen. Paul Cicarella, contested that Smith should remain under close watch in a hospital.
"Murder and cannibalism and release in the same sentence. That’s a problem. That's concerning to me," he told WFSB.
[KRQE] According to Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), an incident occurred early Saturday morning that left one person dead and another hospitalized. They say members of the 377th Security Forces Squadron responded to the call at around 2:00 a.m.
Officials say the incident resulted in shots fired and an Airman being struck with a nonfatal gunshot wound to the hand. He was transported to UNM Medical Center. He has since been released.
The other Airman was found dead at the scene. The cause of death and what led up to the death are currently under investigation. The Kirtland Truman Gate Pass office was closed for most of the day Saturday but shortly after 6:00 p.m., the gate was reopened.
This story is developing and News 13 will provide an update when it becomes available.
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[Regnum] During a court hearing in Sri Lanka, gang leader Sanjeeva Kumar Samararatne was killed by a representative of a rival group posing as a lawyer. This was reported by the BBC, citing local police data,
The incident took place in Colombo. Samararatne was accused of several murders and had been under arrest since September 2023. He was brought to the court hearing accompanied by a large number of guards, but this did not save the gang leader. After the assassination attempt, the man was taken to the hospital, but the doctors' efforts were useless.
According to preliminary information, the weapon was given to the fake lawyer by a woman. She carried the revolver in a book. The shooter fled the scene of the crime, but was caught. The identity of his accomplice was found out, the search for the woman continues, a reward was announced for information about her.
In addition, law enforcement officers detained a policeman and a van driver. They are suspected of assisting in the assassination attempt. It is noted that recently a series of murders have occurred in Colombo during the struggle between gangs.
The channel also reported that Sri Lankan authorities are considering changes to court security protocols following Samararatne's murder, including the introduction of armed guards, which had not previously been allowed, according to a report published on February 21.
[FoxNews] Two young police officers in Virginia are dead after a late-night traffic stop ended in a fatal shooting.
Officers Cameron Girvin, 25, and Christopher Reese, 30, were pronounced dead at hospitals after the shooting, according to Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate.
The pair, who were riding together Friday night, pulled over a car for an expired license plate at about 11:27 p.m., Neudigate said during a news conference Saturday.
The traffic stop happened near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Wendfield Drive in Virginia Beach, next to an apartment complex.
Both officers approached the vehicle, and the male driver, later identified as convicted felon John McCoy III, was immediately argumentative and refused to get out of the car.
At some point, he got out of the car, and there was a "tussle" between the officers and McCoy.
McCoy pulled a pistol from his pocket and immediately shot the two officers.
While they were on the ground "defenseless," he shot them each a second time, according to Neudigate.
Officers found McCoy in a shed directly behind the apartment complex with a fatal gunshot wound to the head less than an hour after the shooting.
The gunshot wound appeared to be self-inflicted, according to authorities.
While officials are still sorting out the motive, they said McCoy may have acted because he had a gun, a criminal offense as a felon.
"We do know from his criminal history, he has one felony conviction from 2009, so it's not recent, but it does make him a felon," Neudigate said. "A felon with a firearm would be a new felony charge."
While there was another person in the car with McCoy at the time of the traffic stop, no one else will be charged in the shootings, he said.
[Breitbart] Companies that prefer migrants and H-1B visa workers over Americans will face federal investigations and discrimination lawsuits, says Andrea Lucas, who President Donald Trump picked to serve as acting chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
"The EEOC is putting employers and other covered entities on notice: if you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop," Lucas said in a February 20 notice.
"The law applies to you, and you are not above the law. The EEOC is here to protect all workers from unlawful national origin discrimination, including American workers," she added.
"Guardedly optimistic," civil rights lawyer John Miano responded after Breitbart News asked for his assessment.
If the EEOC follows through, it could force companies to curb their hiring of migrants over Americans, said Miano, who is now suing more than 30 Chicago companies for advertising jobs to foreign H-1B workers, but not to Americans.
The move was also welcomed by Amanda Louise, a Missouri-based former tech worker who has begun filing lawsuits against companies that recruit H-1B workers over Americans.
The policy shift is important because many major companies in the United States have foreign-born managers to fill up many jobs with foreign workers, such as mixed-skill H-1B workers, instead of accomplished American graduates.
Nationwide, roughly 1.6 million professional jobs have been filled with foreign workers carrying H-1B, J-1, TN, L-1, TN, OPT, or CPT documents. There are no caps on these programs, nor any requirements that employers try to hire Americans first.
These foreign workers are recruited by hiring managers, many of whom are themselves migrants. This job selection process is critical for Americans’ careers, yet it has been largely exempt from the nation’s anti-discrimination laws.
Those laws bar discrimination against women, racial minorities, and also against American citizens.
However, many Americans and visa workers have told Breitbart News that hiring managers prefer to award jobs to co-ethnic foreign workers, usually in a deal for kickbacks, such as a percentage of a worker’s salary. This concealed process allows each company’s clique of immigrant managers to profitably sell jobs held by accomplished American graduates, regardless of the damage to their company’s long-term profitability.
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Hey Mexico,
pay attention.
[TWZ] The latest Bamboo Eagle exercise reflects plans for ever-larger air combat exercises as part of preparations for a high-end fight with China.
At least 20 U.S. Air Force tanker aircraft, 10 KC-46s and an equal number of KC-135s, supported the first day of the latest Bamboo Eagle exercise off the California coast, according to online flight tracking data. The first Bamboo Eagle occurred last year, as you can learn more about in this past TWZ feature. The large force exercise series has quickly become one of the most important for the U.S. military, as well as key allies, and has a clear eye on preparing for a future coalition fight in the Pacific with China.
The U.S. Air Force announced the start of Bamboo Eagle 25-1 yesterday. Like all previous iterations, the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center (USAFWC) at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada has been leading the exercise, but units spread across many other bases, predominantly in California, are also participating. U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy units are known to be taking part, but other branches have also been included in past iterations of Bamboo Eagle. Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have also returned, and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has joined the exercise for the first time.
As already noted, online flight tracking data showed a large force of KC-46 and KC-135 tankers supporting day one of Bamboo Eagle 25-1. At least one RAF Voyager, the British name for the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Transport Aircraft (MRTT), was also tracked in the area.
At least a dozen tankers have also been tracked now supporting the second day of Bamboo Eagle 25-1.
U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry and RAAF E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft were also present yesterday. It’s interesting to note here that the U.S. Air Force, the RAF, and NATO are in the process of acquiring Wedgetails to succeed their Sentry fleets.
.. Red Flag is the U.S. Air Force’s premier air combat exercise series and recent iterations have been increasingly focused on operations in the Pacific. This in turn has put new emphasis on the range complexes off the coast of southern California, which offer larger areas in which to train on physically broader and otherwise more complex scenarios, and do so over water.
Red Flag is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and the RAF and RAAF, among other key allies, are often participants. Other aircraft, including Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles and B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, as well as RAAF Growlers, took part in Red Flag 25-1, which flowed directly into Bamboo Eagle 25-1.
#5
If you can't name five productive thingsyou did in 40 hours last week, you should be unemplyed
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Well, I was a computer programming instructor for 40 years. Many of the classes I taught were 1-5 weeks, so all I would say for last week would be something like "Taught Java programming."
I suppose I could split it into 5 bullet points, but really all I did was teach.
Building the coursework plan
Creating and submitting advancement metrics
Reviewing and selecting teaching materials
Building the course and labwork research
Mapping the coursework plan to a calendar schedule
Scheduling, executing and evaluating metrics
Preparing individual improvement plans and metrics
Success activity scoring [grading]
Dragging the thankless little bastards to a qualified endpoint ... priceless.
Update (1118ET): After panic swept through Washington over Elon Musk's email requiring all federal employees to send an email by Monday at midnight with five bullet points explaining what they got done last week, Musk explained the reasoning behind the last minute demand: "immense fraud."
"The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!" Musk wrote on X. "In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud."
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So "ghost employees" are now being flushed out.
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are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!"
Oh! This is analogous to the musician contract that as a final point requires a fresh bowl of M&Ms in the dressing room each night, said bowl to contain no blue M&Ms whatsoever. Not because the musicians care, but if that point is not noticed and acted on by the site managers, who knows what other, much more important, points are also being missed?
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.
