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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Golden State Killer will be spared the death penalty if he pleads guilty to 13 murders and kidnappings in deal that calls for the ex-cop to admit up to 62 rapes
[DailyMail]
  • California's 'Golden State Killer' is expected to plead guilty on Monday to 13 murdres and kidnapping-related charges

  • James DeAngelo Jr. will be spared the death penalty in exchange for his plea

  • He is expected to admit up to 62 rapes that he can not be charged with because the statue of limitations has expired

  • DeAngelo terrorized California by breaking into couples' homes at night, binding the men and raping the women
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  California hasn’t executed anyone in over 15 years and the appeals process for felony murder conviction is timed out to take over 20 years by anti death penalty specialist who make a career out of the game. Plus, death row has better cells with less crowding than general population lifers. So why give up trips to court and visiting lawyers to break up the monotony?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/29/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The leading cause of death on California's death row is old age. Debating the death penalty for this old fart seems rather pointless.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 06/29/2020 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Hang him. Besides, more fuel to the fire for the protestors/rioters. "If it had been a black cop...."
Posted by: Clem || 06/29/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||


Couple points guns at protesters who marched to Mayor Krewson's home Sunday
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- Hundreds of protesters chanted and marched to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's home Sunday night calling for her resignation.
Husband and Wife Personal Injury Lawyers confront potential future clients? They must be nearing retirement.
The protesters, chanting "resign Lyda, take the cops with you," marched after Krewson read the names and addresses of demonstrators calling for police reform during a Friday afternoon Facebook Live video.

During the protest, a couple at a nearby home stepped outside with guns. Images and videos showed the woman pointing a handgun at the crowd. A man was seen holding a rifle.

The images and videos were shared thousands of times on social media Sunday night.

Protesters painted RESIGN on the street in front of Krewson's house Later in the night, protesters painted RESIGN on the street in front of the mayor's house.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 06:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's in the brick colonial five houses up on right. Now keep moving you SOB's and stay off of my zeon zoysa !
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, there's two of those 300 million guns out there Dron was asking about.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 06/29/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||


#4  Gated community, its trespassing.

Should have added - "Sir, kindly move away from those white boys so I can have a clear shot at them"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Portland Place is a tony, upscale community. I can see where a couple might want to make a show of force and draw some boundaries if they feel their lives are threatened. Things can be a little dicey at this point.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  If you've pondered how the 'burbs get red-pilled, I got your answer right here.

Never interrupt an enemy who's making a mistake.
Posted by: Nero || 06/29/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Saw the inside of the mansion they are protecting, quite a lavish mansion. You can clearly see why they are zealous in protecting their property and have every right to do so. The fundamental basis of civilization is the right to property and the root motives of all socialism is the abolishment of that.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/29/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Frankly, that lady is under armed. An AR-15 with a 10.5" barrel (optional pink) looks stylish and shows she fully supports her man.
Posted by: Grineter Elmavirt6492 || 06/29/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  She looks hearty enough to handle a 12 gauge pump.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||

#10  See, threatening bodily harm.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Pic is too small to see if he's got his finger on/off the pow button.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/29/2020 18:13 Comments || Top||


Virginia couple charged in $1.5M coronavirus fraud scheme
[NYPOST] A married Virginia couple was busted trying to flee the country after they illegally received nearly $1.5 million in federal funds meant for struggling businesses during the pandemic, prosecutors said.

Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42, were arrested at JFK Airport in New York for the alleged scam earlier this month after buying one-way tickets to Poland, according to US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia.

Prosecutors allege the pair filed 18 different loan applications under the federal Paycheck Protection Program, using bogus IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
forms to claim they were supporting dozens of employees.

They were ultimately approved for four loans totaling more than $1.4 million, prosecutors said.

But an investigation revealed the businesses didn’t really exist, according to an affidavit filed by the Small Business Administration.

The couple bought the plane tickets after officers contacted them for an interview, prosecutors said.

Most of the funds were frozen but prosecutors said Jaafar was able to withdraw at least $30,000 in cash.

Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42

An interesting combination.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Jaworska from Jaafar? And they even used her middle name...you just know she is naughty when someone gets the "middle name treatment".
Posted by: Clem || 06/29/2020 6:10 Comments || Top||


1-year-old Sincere Gaston among 14 fatally shot in Chicago weekend shootings
[ABC7CHICAGO] For a second straight weekend, violence in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
has impacted the lives of dozens of people.

As of Sunday evening, 52 people have been shot this weekend. Four of those victims were minors, police said.

On Sunday, some business owners united to help catch those responsible.

The 1-year-old boy shot and killed while riding home from the laundromat with his mother has been identified as Sincere Gaston.

The shooting happened in the Englewood neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

"This is our community, and we refused to let crime take over the narrative of our community. I often say this: I am proud to be the daughter of Englewood because good is in Englewood and we are changing the narrative," said Alderman Stephanie Coleman, 16th Ward.

There is a growing reward for the arrest and conviction of the boy's killer. The newly formed reward group "I'm Telling, Don't Shoot" is putting up $25,000.

Among the victims was a 20-month-old baby, a 10-year-old girl, and a 17-year-old boy, who were fatally shot in separate instances in weekend violence.

"This is a group of business owners that are pretty much fed up as it relates to the gun violence in our communities," said Early Walker, a philanthropist and business owner.

"I want to urge anybody that know something, say something. This could be you," said Tiffany Henyard, a business owner.

Hours after the shooting of Gaston, a 10-year-old girl was shot and killed. Police said the child was hit in the head by a stray bullet that came through a window of her Logan Square apartment.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fourteen people shot... I hope none of them were black because black lives matter, you know.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/29/2020 2:17 Comments || Top||



#4  BLM and Antifa are going to riot in Chicago in 10, 9, 8, ...never. Black on black crime doesn't count. Black lives don't seem to matter much among the communist-aligned groups.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#5  A ten-year-old caught a stray round yesterday.

No marches are scheduled.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/29/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||


Jesse Watters' interview of NASCAR's Bubba Wallace is not what was expected
I watched it. Softball indeed.

With apologies to Freud, "Sometimes a door pull is just a door pull."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bubba Wallace, the Kaepernick of NASCAR.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  FauxNews. The new softball team of hard news.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Worst PR stunt since right-turn Patrick had her knockers thrown about.

'Man paid millions to drive a car has no idea how a garage operates.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/29/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Another product of our inferior education system, can't tell the difference between a loop and a noose.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#5  can't tell the difference between a loop and a noose.

Probably wasn't a Boy Scout. No idea what Scouting is like today, but used to be you'd pick up useful bits like common knots and when you might use one instead of another.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/29/2020 21:18 Comments || Top||

#6  I just figured he had a really tiny head.
Posted by: Grineter Elmavirt6492 || 06/29/2020 22:18 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Margot Robbie to star in female-led ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
[NYPOST] Margot Robbie will star in a female-led version of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Disney with "Birds of Prey" writer Christina Hodson on board to write the script.

Disney is in early development of the untitled project. The Robbie-Hodson collaboration is being developed separately from another "Pirates of the Caribbean" reboot that was unveiled in October with franchise veteran Ted Elliott and "Chernobyl" creator Craig Mazin hired to develop a story.

Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced all five "Pirates" movies, is attached to produce both the Elliot/Mazin and the Robbie/Hodson projects.

The previous "Pirates" movies, all starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, grossed $1.5 billion domestically and $3.07 billion internationally, with the North American market representing a progressively smaller share. The domestic total for 2017’s "Dead Men Tell No Tales" hit $172 million, while foreign markets delivered $622 million.

Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember Geena Davis in Cuththroat Island(1995)? On second thought, try to forget that disaster.
Posted by: magpie || 06/29/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  An all-female Pirates of the Caribbean remake could do well at the box office if there was sufficient T&A to overcome the drag of "all-female remake".
Posted by: SteveS || 06/29/2020 2:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The remakes are coming faster.
Posted by: Grunter || 06/29/2020 3:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I wanna see a movie about an all white NBA team.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 3:15 Comments || Top||

#5  I was trying to figure out a sex reversed remake of “Some like it hot” but it just got too complicated.
Posted by: Grunter || 06/29/2020 3:23 Comments || Top||

#6  I wanna see a movie about an all white NBA team.

Hoosiers
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank Congress for allowing Hollyweird to write off stuff like this on their balance sheet. If they were made to 'eat it', there'd be a lot fewer vanity and virtue signaling gigs from the bubble (less of course, those financed in total by the Chinese).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#8  a female-led version of "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Disney

Pandering only to women? Sounds like another Hollywood stillborn.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 1954
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 06/29/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Birds of Prey; didn't that flop harder than a one winged turkey dropped from a helicopter?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/29/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ They had to change the title after it was already out in theaters
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Because the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters worked so well.
Posted by: TZSenator || 06/29/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Kung Fu Mama...

The winner takes all..
Posted by: crazyhorse || 06/29/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronaplague Roundup
Florida records over 8,500 new coronavirus cases in a single day
[NYPOST] Florida continued to record high 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...
numbers Sunday — adding more than 8,500 new cases to its statewide tally, according to a report.

The Sunshine State logged 8,530 new infections, bringing its total to 141,075 COVID-19 cases, NBC Miami reported.

Sunday’s tally comes just one day after the state set a daily record for new cases with 9,585 infections.

It marked the third day in a row that the state had seen more than 8,500 cases.

Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 43,784 new cases — which accounts for more than 30 percent of the state’s patients since the pandemic began, the outlet reported.



Thousands head outside as COVID cases spike
[Daily Mail] Floridians pack the beaches before they close for July 4th while Texans go tubing after Gov. Abbot shut the bars as only TWO states - Connecticut and Rhode Island - report a drop in infections
Poster: Skidmark

Governor Newsom immediately closes ALL bars in LA and six other California counties
[Daily Mail]- just two weeks after they reopened - to stop the spread of COVID after Texas and Florida shut their nightspots
Poster: Skidmark
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How come Saudia has so many CV19 cases and "Palestine" so little?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Palestinians don't count?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||




#6  Numbers for the US I gathered this morning:
2,549,069 COVID cases
0.770% Percent of citizens
130 - Risk - one per #

128,438 Deaths
5.039% Percent of cases
0.039% Percent of Citizens
2,577 - Risk - one per #

15,825 Serious or critical
0.621% Percent of cases
0.005% Percent of citizens
20,916 - Risk - one per #

You are on your own for analysis of these facts, including comparisons to other risks - like living in certain neighborhoods of Chicago.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/29/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
The mystery of the San Fernando Valley orgasm whisperer: Former personal trainer gains fame as 'the O-Man' as dozens of women swear his work is 'life changing'- and his trick is fixing their posture
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The O-Man, not the G-spot man?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  There are soooo many possible snarks for this item.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/29/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#3  So now there are two of us?!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/29/2020 21:29 Comments || Top||


Indiana Free Handgun Carry Permit Goes into Effect on 1 July, 2020
[GetZone] On April 26, 2019, a new bill in Indiana was a major reform of the previous firearm arm carry laws, Indiana HB 1284 became Public Law 107. Included in this reform is a free five-year permit for carrying handguns in Indiana, slated to go into effect on July 1st, 2020 while the other reforms went into effect immediately. They included:

A voter registration form from law enforcement offices was required to be given whenever a person applied for a license to carry a handgun.

Those who justifiably defended themselves from harm or threat with force, in certain cases, were given immunity from a civil lawsuit.

The restriction on carrying/possessing guns on school property was removed for those attending worship services/religious ceremonies on school property as an employee or volunteer of a house of worship that is located on school property.
Duration of all handgun carry licenses was changed to five years from the previous four.

The removal of the application fee will be starting July 1, 2020. If you are newly seeking a lifetime license the application fee is $50. If you currently hold a five-year license, the application fee for a lifetime license is $40:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 06:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Always liked this little Walther. Those who justifiably defended themselves from harm or threat with force, in certain cases, were given immunity from a civil lawsuit.

"Justifiably defended themselves" is a key phrase.

Lifetime carry permits are cost-effective for younger people. For older people, you are rolling the dice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Someplaces, a whack on the head with a pistol is self-defense. Others, it's assault with a deadly weapon, excessive force, premeditated, attempted murder, hate crime and in extreme judgements, WMD.

Need a national law standard.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 17:06 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Charting the $1.7B Transfer of Military Equipment to Police Departments
Posted by: Clem || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My police got a dump truck and a popcorn machine for the board meetings.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/28/2020 17:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Do they use the dump truck to haul away all the bullscrit that gets spouted at the board meetings?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  < 800 people.
It's used to fill potholes and pickup roadkill.
Mostly coyotes, armadillos and hippies.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Skid, the priorities are reversed.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd like to know more about that 'non-lethal firing device'. What is that?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/29/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  How much of this stuff has been used on ActualFa and their black tools?

How much will be used on normies who dare to defend themselves?
Posted by: charger || 06/29/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Mine got a rock
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/29/2020 17:06 Comments || Top||

#8  /s/ Charles Brown, Chief of Police (lol)
Posted by: Clem || 06/29/2020 19:01 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population
[AP] The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.

While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of "demographic genocide."

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.

The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.

After Gulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, had her third child, the government ordered her to get an IUD inserted. Two years later, in January 2018, four officials in military camouflage came knocking at her door anyway. They gave Omirzakh, the penniless wife of a detained vegetable trader, three days to pay a $2,685 fine for having more than two children.

If she didn’t, they warned, she would join her husband and a million other ethnic minorities locked up in internment camps ¬— often for having too many children.

"God bequeaths children on you. To prevent people from having children is wrong," said Omirzakh, who tears up even now thinking back to that day. "They want to destroy us as a people."

The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 05:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Easier than opening a 'wet market' I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  They weren't satisfied with the number the Wuhan-WHO virus has done on the world?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Again, a bad mix of religion and biology.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||


Chinese military reveals rifle-sized railgun prototypes
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has miniaturized an electromagnetic railgun and developed pistol- and rifle-sized synchronous induction coilgun prototypes. These weapons’ technical capabilities were recently revealed to the general public for the first time in a demonstration session.

Developed by the PLA Army Logistics University, the weapons, named Small Synchronous Induction Coilguns, come with pistol-sized, rifle-sized and land robot-mounted variants, according to a report by Chinese military news website js7tv.cn last week.

The coilguns are essentially miniaturized, portable electromagnetic railguns so they can be used by single foot soldiers, the report said. To deal with complicated battlefield situations, they can also be mounted on small land robots and conduct armed reconnaissance missions.

According to the performance demonstration video, the coilguns use bullets stored in reloadable magazines just like a conventional gun, and they also handle like one. The coilguns can easily penetrate multiple wood plates and thin steel plates at a relatively close distance.

Unlike a conventional firearm that uses the ignition of gunpowder to push a bullet slug out of a gun barrel at high velocity, a coilgun or railgun uses electromagnetic force to accelerate a projectile as it travels along the gun barrel before leaving it at an even higher velocity, military observers said.

Judging from the video, the coilguns have shown a high penetration capability and did not make much sound, making them good choices for special operations like behind-enemy-line infiltration missions, a military expert who asked not to be identified told the Global Times on Sunday.

It is obvious that these weapons are still in the prototype stage, as their range and impact are not optimum, very likely due to the guns’ limited battery or capacitor capacity to store and release energy, the expert said. But once this technical problem is solved, the coilguns will become much more powerful and could replace the firearms of today.
Posted by: Fred || 06/29/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Expect major cancers in soldiers using these. An EMF pulse that near a body is not good.
One time in mission might be okay but soldiers need to train and practice...
Posted by: 3dc || 06/29/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  It is the 21st century.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 2:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "I need some extension cords...like 5 miles long?"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/29/2020 6:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Unmanned, robotics. The future of conflict management. Even space travel. To bulky and waist full to warehouse humans. The Borg collective of robotics. Central AI controls with a minimal influence of human oversight due to emotional variables.
Posted by: Dale || 06/29/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Too, oh such a little thing.
Posted by: Dale || 06/29/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Chinese; yes, humans are merely blades of grass.
Posted by: Dale || 06/29/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||

#7  1,800-Kg battery pack?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/29/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#8  The coilguns can easily penetrate multiple wood plates and thin steel plates at a relatively close distance.

I have a CO2 BB gun that will puncture a empty Coke can.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#9  At last a weapon for the Chinese Fap army.
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 06/29/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#10  "Judging from the video, the coilguns have shown a high penetration capability and did not make much sound, making them good choices for special operations like behind-enemy-line infiltration missions, a military expert who asked not to be identified told the Global Times on Sunday."

Snipers most likely. The kind of folks that set up a nest and get comfortable.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/29/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Limited firing rate. One shot per battery pack? 1-3 shots per day, absent a lot of loud generators.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/29/2020 20:42 Comments || Top||

#12  The Chinese still haven't learned the magic of Logistics. The magic magnets will not work after they lose their power sources. Not very mobile. And immobile targets are easier to counter.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/29/2020 20:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Hoping the capacitors are dollar-store quality Made in China.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/29/2020 21:43 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Hotel customers will be able to use their smartphones as door keys thanks to new app that will prevent need for post-lockdown reception queues
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Open door hack in ...
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  So if you don't have a smartphone you can't go to a hotel now. Got it.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, first thought was credit card skimmers at gas pumps.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/29/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||


Down Under
China accuses Australia of installing wire taps in its embassy in Canberra and feeding 'fake news' to local media
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Projection....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/29/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure every embassy i China is tapped
Posted by: Chris || 06/29/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#3  All over the Aussie's not wanting China's shitty masks.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/29/2020 18:08 Comments || Top||


Terrifying Amusing moment a beach-goer is swept into the ocean by a freak wave and VANISHES as bystanders watch on in horror
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should have sheltered in place.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/29/2020 19:49 Comments || Top||


Economy
Delta to warn over 2,500 pilots about potential furloughs
[The Hill] Delta Air Lines reportedly plans to warn over 2,500 of its pilots that furloughs could be coming, as the airline company struggles to regain its footing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

While Delta and the labor union that represents the company's 14,000 pilots have reached an agreement for an early retirement package, airline officials signaled that it won't be enough to prevent additional furloughs from occurring.

"As we’ve communicated previously, early retirements alone likely won’t be enough to avoid pilot furloughs altogether," Delta’s senior vice president of flight operations John Laughter said in a memo obtained by CNBC on Friday.

He added: "With that in mind and given that we won’t know the results of the early-out for a few weeks, we must continue to move ahead to address pilot overstaffing. In an effort to best prepare our pilots, we will send notices to 2,558 pilots as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ["WARN Act"] next week to let them know of a possible furlough."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 01:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Checking their licenses?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell them their "Buddy Passes" will only be good for middle seats in coach on red eyes. They'll be leaving voluntarily.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Less chance to loose my luggage though, although I haven't checked my bags for a domestic flight in over 10 years.

I do so love changing planes in both Detroit and Atlanta for a flight to the west coast. (/sarc)

And I generally don't fly Delta (unless someone else booked that flight for me).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/29/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
Eiffel Tower Reopens In Paris After A 3-Month Shutdown
[NPR] The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors Thursday morning after having been shut down for more than three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the Paris landmark's longest closure since World War II.

The reopening is a dramatic sign of people reclaiming public spaces in France following more than 100 days of restrictions. But the tower's highest point is still not open — and for now, visitors will need to take the stairs.

The stairs-only rule is one of several restrictions at the site, which draws millions of tourists during a normal year. Face masks are compulsory for all visitors over the age of 11, and physical distancing markers are in place.

To keep people from crossing paths on the stairs, visitors will ascend on the Eiffel Tower's east pillar and descend on the west pillar, according to the Eiffel Tower website.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/29/2020 06:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Shocking moment dancer is brutally kicked and sent flying 'because of her provocative moves' in Pakistan
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not shocking in Pakistain.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2020 14:55 Comments || Top||

#2  He was shocked that his pants were stirring and there wasn't a 10 year old boy in sight.
Posted by: Grineter Elmavirt6492 || 06/29/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Lesson to take take away from this: Women shouldn't dance in front of gay pedos in Pakistan. They will kick in your womanly chest area and then go home and brag about to their friends.
Posted by: jpal || 06/29/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||

#4  As I keep telling my 'Woke' acquaintances, women are little more than chattel in a mooselimb society. Of course the wailing and gnashing of teeth ensues because 'I'm so wrong'.

They ought to spend some time there.

And try dancing in public.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/29/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  ^And for selling low quality rugs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/29/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Plus those green curly toed slippers you only get to wear at Christmas or St. Patrick's Day.
Posted by: jpal || 06/29/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||


Professor, 45, at church-owned university in Utah 'sexually abused a student during meetings in his office where he gave a "priesthood blessing" and said she needed to practice how to be a good wife'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Montana man is arrested after tearing down Ten Commandments monument on courthouse grounds with a chain and a pickup truck
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 08:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The intolerance of a few against the many has been going on for a long time and sanctioned by the state. You call that a 'republic'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The hubris, sense of entitlement and over-reach of the few is astounding.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/29/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  It's all orangemanbad at the moment, but you have to wonder if this particular brand of toothpaste goes back in the tube, ever.
Posted by: Cesare || 06/29/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Well in his defense, they are kind of inhibiting.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/29/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he was angered at the insulting irony of having them in front of a courthouse.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/29/2020 14:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Going to guess this guy is no stranger to the courthouse, and not because he's in the recorder of deeds office a lot.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/29/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say
Demonetizing what makes the leftwing internet corporations so incredibly profitable. OR Hoist by their own petards!
[AlAhram] Organizers of a Facebook Inc advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase pressure on the social media company to remove hate speech.

Since the campaign launched earlier this month, more than 160 companies, including Verizon Communications and Unilever Plc, have signed on to stop buying ads on the world’s largest social media platform for the month of July.
The "Stop Hate for Profit" campaign will begin calling on major companies in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to join the boycott, Jim Steyer, chief executive of Common Sense Media, said in an interview with Rooters on Saturday. Since the campaign launched earlier this month, more than 160 companies, including Verizon Communications and Unilever Plc, have signed on to stop buying ads on the world’s largest social media platform for the month of July.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/29/2020 00:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Zuckerberg Jewish? Someone explain to him what BDS means? or show him their Facebook pages.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/29/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  And who is it that gets to define HATE speech?

Are they going to publish rules and regs?

Is the first one "Anything by or supportive of Donald Trump"?

Don't trust any of these slugs.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/29/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Why, Hate Speech is anything that makes me feel bad, threatened or diminished. Ah'l know it when I hear it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/29/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||



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