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BLM activist claimed in ultra-viral tweet that racist messages were left on his car. Video shows he placed them there himself
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
1-year-old boy dead after being shot at NYC cookout
[NYPOST] The 1-year-old boy who was shot in the stomach during a cookout at a Brooklyn park has died of his injuries, cops confirmed Monday.The baby, in addition to three men, was shot around 11:35 p.m. Sunday in front of Raymond Bush Playground at Madison Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police sources said.

As many as three suspects drove up in a dark SUV and parked in front of the victims. They hopped out of the vehicle and opened fire, sources said.

The baby was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was initially expected to survive. He was pronounced dead just after 2:30 a.m., according to sources.



Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Settlers?
Posted by: Pliny Glusock8362 || 07/14/2020 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Maxine Waters to the blood covered courtsey phone! Maxine Waters....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/14/2020 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Marcus Garvey Boulevard

Something apropos about that.
Posted by: Clem || 07/14/2020 2:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Only 1? I'm sure governor Cuomo can write it off as a postnatal abortion.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||

#5  I won't hold my breath for the protest marches. Just another life that doesn't matter.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/14/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||

#6  I've been to a bunch of cookouts ranging from a few people in the back yard to neighborhood block parties. Don't recall anyone ever getting shot.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/14/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  11:30 at night.
Sunday night.
Out with a 1 year old.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Hi,haiku! I like you. ;-)
Posted by: Enver Chineter7070 || 07/14/2020 20:29 Comments || Top||


Terre Haute gurney ride scheduled for Monday night
[CBS News] The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday overturned a lower court ruling staying the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee. The execution, scheduled for Monday in Indiana, would be the first federal execution in 17 years.

"The plaintiffs' APA claim lacks any arguable legal basis and is therefore frivolous," the court said in its Sunday ruling.

Lee, 47, is a former white supremacist who in 1996 robbed and murdered a family of three, including their 8-year-old daughter. The family of Lee's victims filed a petition to delay the execution because they wanted to attend, but feared traveling to Indiana during the coronavirus pandemic. A judge on Friday had granted the petition, but Sunday's ruling overturned the stay.

The family said they will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

"The federal government has put this family in the untenable position of choosing between their right to witness Danny Lee's execution and their own health and safety," Baker Kurrus, an attorney representing the family, said in a statement.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This AM: Supreme Court clears way for resumption of federal executions

Cleared that shit up.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Time to shop another judge and spin the wheel again...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Got my pretzels and a fresh twelve pack ready.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Daniel Lewis Lee is first federal inmate executed in 17 years

Say hello to Satan, you POS
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||


#6  Pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper. || 07/14/2020 22:53 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Scooby-Doo's Velma was 'explicitly gay' in script for 2002 film starring but studio blocked it, reveals James Gunn
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Funny thing, that. I always had Velma and Shaggy pegged as the heteros. Daphne seemed to spend a lot of time checking out Velma's bosom. I can't remember the name of the nonentity handsome guy character. I'm pretty sure he's asexual. But I'm sure that when all the phony ghosts are unmasked, and Daphne and Whatsisname are off to the malt shoppe, Velma and Shaggy are rockin' the old Scooby Van while Scoobs is taking pictures to post on Reddit.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2020 02:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IIRR James Gunn has some twitter skeletons..
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/14/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#2  They're just upset the adult video community already has it down. I guess you could do a parody of a parody, but it lacks a certain continuity.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated series I found quite clever, and that Velma/Shaggy relationship was a minor plot point.

But then its left at that; all kid friendly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  and I would have gayed away with it if it weren't for you darn kids
Posted by: lord garth || 07/14/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  But who did Scooby, do?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, sure, like the hottest character will be gay! If Daphne and Wilma were lip locking ...


I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/14/2020 20:03 Comments || Top||


St. Louis couple who aimed guns at protesters had run-ins with local synagogue
Not a judgement, just to help us get a better sense of the McCloskeys as people.
[IsraelTimes] Mark McCloskey reportedly destroyed beehives whose honey was set to be harvested for Rosh Hashanah; community rabbi: ’The children were crying’.

A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety last month for brandishing guns at Black Lives Matters protesters passing in front of their mansion have been reported to have previously clashed with a synagogue next door.

According an extensive report about Patricia and Mark McCloskey’s in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Jewish Central Reform Congregation in the Missouri city has been a target of the couple’s many legal battles with neighbors and acquaintances.

Mark McCloskey reportedly "destroyed beehives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees."

"The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah," the report said.

"The children were crying in school... It was part of our curriculum," Rabbi Susan Talve of the congregation told the local paper.

The report included a photo of the note threatening legal action that McCloskey left after destroying the hives.

McCloskey has previously sued his employer, his neighbors and his siblings, according to the story.
Apparently he is a bit of a curmudgeon, which changes his right to bear arms not a bit.
Central Reform Congregation has played a role in previous protests over racial injustice.

In 2014, the synagogue offered itself as a sanctuary for people protesting the police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black 18-year-old, in nearby Ferguson, Missouri. The extended protests in Ferguson represented a breakout moment for the then-inchoate Black Lives Matter movement.

When protests erupted after an officer was acquitted of murder charges in a different case in 2017, the synagogue again offered refuge to protesters.
Both of which stupidities should have endeared the synagogue to the McCloskeys rather than otherwise — they claimed in interviews to support BLM, just not on their street.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mark McCloskey reportedly "destroyed beehives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees."

OK, I can guess why he did it - and so can anybody ever been near to a beehive.

"The children were crying in school... It was part of our curriculum," Rabbi Susan Talve of the congregation told the local paper.

(a) I'm sure they were quickly pacified with store bought honey.
(b) Rabbi Susan Talve.

In 2014, the synagogue offered itself as a sanctuary for people protesting the police killing of Michael Brown

Words fail.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||

#2  You could pretty well stop reading at 'Rabbi Susan...'.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/14/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  So he's a putz. BFD. What TW said.

This is obviously aimed at changing the normals' opinion of them. If not maskirova, then a publicity campaign against defending yourself.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/14/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  This is an expansion on the local hit piece mentioned the other day.

Doesn't matter.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  So he's an ass, he's a lawyer, of course he is an ass. But these are separate instances. His home was invaded, they tore down the get leading into his yard. The thugs were not there to sell Amway, they were there to do damage and hurt them. His threat was very real, very justified. Did the mob get arrested as well??? Kinda doubt it.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/14/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  If he'd have been a living saint, the Soros-backed Circuit Attorney would still be after him, so, yeah, these new revelations don't move the dial in any significant way.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/14/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#7  And the character assassination begins ...
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/14/2020 20:00 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Two US marine bases in Japan are locked down over soaring coronavirus cases as nearly 100 personnel test positive
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • There are tens of thousands of US servicemen stationed on the Japanese island

  • Okinawa has recorded roughly 150 COVID-19 infections among its civillians

  • Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Monday that 63 cases have been detected in recent days among US force

US military's coronavirus cases are growing at TWICE the rate of the national average with more than 4,100 new infections in July - a 33% increase in 10 days
  • The military's number of coronavirus cases is rising at twice the national rate seeing a 33% spike from July 1 to 10

  • The national case growth rate was 16% for that same time period

  • Since July 1 over 4,100 service members have tested positive for coronavirus

  • In total there are over 18,016 COVID-19 cases in the military with 396 hospitalized and three deaths, as of Monday data

  • As of Monday the Army has the highest number of cases at 5,802 infections, followed by the Navy with 4,956 cases and the Air Force with 2,599 cases

Okinawa's governor is 'shocked' after Marines report 61 new cases of coronavirus at military bases and demands greater prevention efforts and more accountability from U.S.
  • Gov. Denny Tamaki says local officials were told of 61 cases among Marines at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and Camp Hansen in Okinawa

  • Officials say the bases are now in lockdown

  • Tamaki is demanding better disease prevention measures, a halt of new military personal from the U.S., sealed off bases and more accountability

  • ' It is extremely regrettable that the infections are rapidly spreading among U.S personnel when we Okinawans are doing our utmost to contain the infections'
Dozens of US Marines in Japan's Okinawa get coronavirus


Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  New in town GI Marine? [cough]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Okinawan Natives (who are not, repeat Not, ethnic Japanese) want the US bases closed so they can farm there -- the Commie Sympathizers in Organized Labor and Local Government want them gone for idealogical reasons. At one time about 30% of Okinawa was a US base after WW2.... So this is an ongoing story.
Posted by: magpie || 07/14/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Video footage of Azerbaijani forces attacking on Armenian military
Whatever caused them to erupt this time? Or is this a continuation of some previous adventure?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did Azerbaijan ever let up since the USSR broke up?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/14/2020 2:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm rooting for both sides to lose.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/14/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  What did Armenians ever did to you?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||


Economy
Boycott Goya Fails Spectacularly
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 04:43 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  ...but, but, that's not what the fake polls say!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2020 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  When I need beans next, I'm definitely getting Goya.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/14/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Always been happy with Goya.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/14/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  It's almost as if the Twitter mobs are actually quite small.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/14/2020 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  "Almost," #5 Rob? :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/14/2020 14:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Wish I like that kind of food so I could break the boycott.

Tell them to boycott Rib-eyes next...or maybe lobster.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/14/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||

#8  It'll be a great day when folks provoke cancel culture knowing conservatives will help them more than cancel culture hurts them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/14/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||

#9  rjs, do you think the reverse will happen with the NFL, NBA and NASCAR?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/14/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||

#10  If NASCAR attacks conservatives they won't pick up liberal viewers.

NBA already has support from the left and wouldn't gain any more.

I don't know about NFL. We'll see when games start again and half the players kneel to the national anthem but stand for the black national anthem. I suspect they'll try to hide that from the cameras but everyone has a cell phone with camera so they can't actually hide.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/14/2020 20:36 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Israel: In the battle against COVID-19, where’s the data?
[Jpost] "We need to be much more sophisticated than just analyzing the number of new cases, severe cases and deaths," said Nadav Davidovitch.

Even after extensive effort by the Health Ministry, researchers and health professionals often do not have enough access to complete, raw data sets to make important decisions during 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...
crisis, according to Nadav Davidovitch, director of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2020 02:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's why analysis was passed to military intelligence. However, the political branch doesn't like their recommendations.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  You cannot have data in something that is still significantly unknown.

Probably everyone will enter in contact with the virus.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 07/14/2020 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3  The data was destroyed in China.
Let us all remember that. They cost us months as we learn everything the hard way.
China is asshole.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/14/2020 20:37 Comments || Top||


German study finds no evidence coronavirus spreads in schools
[Telegraph] Scientists say children may act as a "brake" on the spread of the virus.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I didn't research the scientists involved, but I wonder if they have ever had children in school themselves. Our experience was that the kids brought home, and shared, an inordinate number of colds and digestive bugs.
Posted by: James || 07/14/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  That's my experience with children and grandchildren, James. However, this is a novel coronavirus. If it can be uncommonly bad, it could also be uncommonly not-so-bad.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/14/2020 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  #1,2 In Israel we opened before Germany - including schools. And by the end of the month we had thousands of cases: both students and teachers, and student families - Google it.
The reason to the above results is that Germans run a con. Instead of checking for viral RNA, they checked for antibodies. But it's too early for antibodies - give it a couple of weeks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  p.s. Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom got coronavirus. One of them died
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||


#6  Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported
Positivity rates have been skyrocketing at various Florida labs, raising concerns of misreporting.

Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||





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Tue 2020-07-14
  BLM activist claimed in ultra-viral tweet that racist messages were left on his car. Video shows he placed them there himself
Mon 2020-07-13
  Florida man crashes into Catholic Church,
sets it on fire with worshipers inside
Sun 2020-07-12
  Turkish military seizes strategic summit in Iraqi-Kurdistan
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  Turkey issues presidential decree to convert Hagia Sophia back into mosque
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  Latest explosions in Tehran reportedly hit warehouses of rockets that belong to the IRGC
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  Yemen's Ansarallah forces threaten to target Saudi palaces
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