NEWPORT, Ky. (CBS Local) ‐ A woman driving a mobility scooter the wrong way on a busy Kentucky freeway was pulled over by police officers Monday afternoon.
The woman took the scooter from a local Kroger grocery store, according to police in Newport. She allegedly drove it through a maze of traffic, down the exit ramp and onto Interstate 471, heading northbound in the southbound emergency lane.
"She was up against the wall, traveling in the emergency lane," said Lt. Paul Kunkel with the Newport Police Department.
She had made it nearly a mile from the store before she was stopped by officers just south of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge into Cincinnati.
JUST IN: Florida Gov. DeSantis declares state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Dorian, which is forecast to hit the state as a Cat. 3 storm over Labor Day weekend.
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I have friends from where I used to live up north asking me if I'm "getting ready for the hurricane." I tell them of course I'm wary, but if I wet my pants every time the weathertainment idiot on teevee told me to, I'd have drown or died of dehydration by now...
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Florida Man(tm) may not like the after effects of these hurricanes but they're good training for what life is going to be like for everyone when the civil war hits. Florida Man(tm) will be far better prepared and experienced in dealing with extended shortages and outages then big blue urban anti-America.
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Florida man has lots of stored water, several ARs and lots of ammo. He will recognize many of the troublemakers from past trips to the local convenience store (the fact they sell cheap wine is a huge plus). Heeeeere kittykittykitty...
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Now, if we can catch the Ag secretary profiteering, the black cloud will have a platinum lining...
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#3 Alcohol, a natural disinfectant, can reduce microbial activity in water. As a result, it was common for Romans, Greeks and Jews—among other wine-drinking cultures–to drink a mix of 50% water and 50% wine.
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but if I wet my pants every time the weathertainment idiot on teevee told me to, I'd have drown or died of dehydration by now...
Ain't that the truth. We are coming into Fall storm season; though not as vigorous as the Spring season, still need to keep an eye out.
System came through the other week. TV chucklehead made it sound like we should expect to lose 1000 feet of elevation pounded down by volleyball size hail or scooped up by a kaiju class tornado. There was some local heavy stuff, but we didn't wash out into the Ozarks.
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And just to clarify: sales of cheap wine are a good identifier of potential miscreants. Florida Man endorses Wild Turkey 101 for medicinal and palliative purposes during all extreme weather events.
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sales of cheap wine are a good identifier of potential miscreants.
/me looks at the box of cheap Australian plonk sitting on the kitchen counter and wonders if he is sending the wrong message.
[Sudan Tribune] The Speaker of South Sudan’s Maiwut state has dismissed reports claiming he has been impeached and replaced from his parliamentary role, pointing accusing fingers to the incumbent governor.
Legislative Assembly, told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday that reports claiming he was removed from his positions were advancing the activities of the governor and his group whose activities are not based on the constitution and guiding principles.
I would like to say that I am still the speaker of Maiwut state. I am not been removed from my duties. What is circulating on social media are false. False reports are circulating on the media outlets that I have been removed from the position of Speakership, explained Kir.
The top politician explained that what happened last week on Wednesday was the opening of the secession of parliament after the members returned from the recess and the governor opened it.
"What happened last Wednesday was the opening of the second session ceremony whereby Hon. Governor addressed the Assembly and declared the official opening of the Assembly. In the history of South Sudan State Legislative Assembly before and after the Independence of the Republic of South Sudan, there is no business on the day of the opening of Assembly apart from the celebration for the opening function. Removal of Speaker and Deputy Speaker require legal and constitutional procedures", he explained.
Kir explained that the decision of his deputy was unconstitutional and does not consider it valid because the official was purportedly acting on the influence of the governor Bol Ruach Rom.
The deputy speaker, James Ruach Long, believed to have been the person who spearheaded the plot on behalf of the governor, claimed in separate news reports the speaker Kir was impeached by 15 members.
[DAWN] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... maneuvered on Wednesday to give his political opponents even less time to block a no-deal Brexit before the October 31 withdrawal deadline, winning Queen Elizabeth II's approval to suspend Parliament. His critics were outraged.
Though Johnson previously had refused to rule out such a move, the timing of the decision took politicians many of whom are on vacation by surprise.
Lawmakers reacted with fury, including John Bercow, speaker of the lower House of Commons, who was not told in advance of Johnson's plan.
"Shutting down Parliament would be an offense against the democratic process and the rights of parliamentarians as the people's elected representatives," Bercow said. "Surely at this early stage in his premiership, the prime minister should be seeking to establish rather than undermine his democratic credentials and indeed his commitment to Parliamentary democracy."
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"would be an offense against the democratic process and the rights of parliamentarians"
The democratic process already happened. He's just outraged he can't thwart it.
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Yes, the "repeat the process until the proles get the right (desired by the elites) answer" is reminiscent of the last few seconds of a certain bassetbaw game...
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I thought I read this is about as unusual as sunrise, as it's vacation season in the UK and most of the MPs are away anyway.
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In this game of chess, the Queen makes her move.
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In this game of chess, the Queen makes her move.
And while a majority of Brits hope she lives forever, her chilluns and grand chilluns are like the Murdoch boys, ready to go 180 degrees the other way as soon as one of them is in charge...
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What would've been news is if she didn't approve.
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This could backfire in a big way if an irate Parliament gets its act together and passes resolutions in early September Boris won't like.
All this wouldn't have happened had Labour dumped Corbyn months ago.
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had Labour dumped Corbyn months ago.
When he was tapped to lead, he was an outsider. But it’s become his party now — like our Democratic Party, those in the center-left have been silenced and driven out. See, fir example:
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The Liberal Democrats seem to fill the gap in the center now.
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Boris should just pull that sword from the stone and become the rightful King of the Britons. The Queen will be OK with this because it takes her idiot son, Charles, off the board and she can finally retire in peace to raise corgis.
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Not likely. The Kingdom of Arthur didn't include Scotland.
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Long live the Queen.
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"Shutting down Parliament would be an offense against the democratic process and the rights of parliamentarians as the people's elected representatives," Bercow said. "Surely at this early stage in his premiership, the prime minister should be seeking to establish rather than undermine his democratic credentials and indeed his commitment to Parliamentary democracy."
You wanna talk about democracy? How about that election you guys had and the way you parliamentarians have done everything you could to thwart the will of the people ever since then?
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The Kingdom of Arthur didn't include Scotland.
Someone remind me, is having Scotland a good thing? Seems last I looked, it was a bit spongy in term of soaking up money. I suppose one could always acquire it if necessary by any of the usual means.
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The Kingdom of Arthur didn't include Scotland.
But Arthur was indeed a Celt i.e. a Romanised (sp) Briton, and he fought against those Germanic invaders, the Saxons, across the western part of the island.
[Aljazeera] At least 26 people were killed in an arson attack by suspected gang members on a bar in the southeastern Mexican port of Coatzacoalcos late on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, in a fresh blow to his efforts to curb violence.
Calling the attack "horrendous," Lopez Obrador told a regular morning news conference on Wednesday that the deaths occurred after the suspected gang members closed the emergency exits of the bar in Coatzacoalcos and set fire to it.
The attorney general's office of the state of Veracruz said in a statement on Wednesday that 10 women and 16 men died in the fire at the "Caballo Blanco" bar, and 11 people who were injured were being treated at nearby hospitals.
Lopez Obrador said that initial investigations indicated that some suspects behind the attack had been in custody this year and were later released.
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You're right. It was a strip club. It advertised “quality, security and service,” private rooms for $7.50 “all night,” ”sexy girls” and a pole dance contest.
Local cartel operator Ricardo “N” ( alias La Loca, who had recently been captured and released by a corrupt federal court), was extorting the owner. From what I gather on the news, the owner hired muscle to protect the place and La Coca killed everybody and abducted the owner. Maybe the shit will be found lying around somewhere.
Los Zetas, Jalisco New Generation cartel remember them ? The ones who strung up those bodies recently ? and other local gangs are currently fighting for control of the city. The Jalisco New Generation cartel also has a presence in the area and local journalists said “La Loca” is believed to be linked to that group.
[EN.YNA.CO.KR] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... 's rubber-stamp legislature was set to hold a rare second meeting of the year on Thursday, spawning speculation about what message Pyongyang will send to the outside world amid stalled denuclearization talks with the United States.
The Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), the highest organ of state power under the constitution, usually meets once a year to rubber-stamp decisions by the ruling Workers' Party. The North has also used SPA sessions as a major platform to unveil key policy changes or messages.
During this year's first session in April, North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... was reelected as Chairman of the State Affairs Commission, the communist state's highest seat of power and its constitution was revised to make him official head of state.
Kim also delivered a rare policy speech during the meeting, expressing a willingness to hold a third summit with U.S. President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... after their no-deal summit in February and saying that he will wait until year's end for Washington's "courageous" decision.
[Free Beacon] KIEV ‐ U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton warned on Wednesday of the threat of unfair Chinese trade practices during a trip to Kiev and said he had discussed his concerns with officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Asked about a possible acquisition by China of Ukrainian aircraft engine maker Motor Sich, Bolton told reporters he did not want to discuss specific companies or transactions and that such deals were a sovereign matter for Ukraine.
But he made clear Washington disapproved.
"We laid out our concerns about ... unfair Chinese trade practices, threats to national security we've seen in the United States..." he said at a news conference in Kiev.
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Ukraine had too many problems staring at a growing Imperial Russia 2.0™ to worry about China... Just because we see them (rightly, IMO) as a threat doesn't mean everybody has to.
[DAWN] Police in Khanewal on Wednesday stopped the marriage of a 15-year-old girl to a 14-year-old boy and arrested the fathers of the two minors.
A case was registered at the Nawan Shaher cop shoppe in Kabirwala, Khanewal and legal proceedings have been initiated. According to the First Information Report (FIR), the case was registered under Section 6(1) of the Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) 1929. In March 2015, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government enacted the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act, 2015 but instead of repealing the CMRA 1929 it made several amendments to the law.
According to locals in the area, the children were being forcefully married.
Police said they received reports from intelligence agencies that the marriage between the two minors was underway. They raided the location where the wedding ceremony was taking place and on the orders of District Police Officer Umer Saeed Malik, the rukhsathi of the girl was stopped. They arrested both the children's fathers, who are brothers.
The Nikah Khwan (marriage officiator), however, escaped. Police say they are conducting searches for his arrest.
In April, the Senate passed the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which proposed that the legal minimum age of marriage in the country be set at 18. A day after this a similar legislation was introduced in the National Assembly, but only after an intense discussion which exposed cracks within various parties on the issue.
[DAWN] SpaceX test-launched an early prototype of the company's Mars rocket on Tuesday, rattling the nerves of people living near the Texas site and clearing another key hurdle in billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's interplanetary ambitions.
The prototype, dubbed Starhopper, slowly rose about 500 feet (152m) off its launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, and propelled itself some 650 feet (198m) eastward onto an adjacent landing platform, completing a seemingly successful low-altitude test of SpaceXs next-generation Raptor engine.
The Raptor is designed to power Musks forthcoming heavy-lift Starship rocket, a reusable two-stage booster taller than the Statue of Liberty that is expected to play a central role in Musks interplanetary space travel objectives, including missions to Mars.
The prototype "hopper" vehicle, resembling a chrome water tower with four landing legs, was originally slated for its test liftoff on Monday.
But a rather embarrassing wiring issue with the single Raptor engine halted the countdown less than a second before ignition, Musk, the SpaceX founder and chief executive, said on Twitter.
About a dozen people living in the adjacent village of Boca Chica, just over a mile from the test site, had been urged in advance by local authorities to vacate their homes as a precaution at the sound of police sirens that blared minutes before launch.
It almost looked like a cartoon or something, nearby resident Cheryl Stevens told Rooters just after Starhoppers flight. After all the buildup, it was kind of nice to actually see it happen.
The notices, circulated by sheriff's deputies three days in advance, warned of a possible "overpressure event" that could shatter windows and endanger anyone remaining inside their homes in the event of an explosive malfunction.
Maria Pointer, another resident, set up cameras and invited photographers to her home. She said excitement surrounding the launch reminded her of "feeling like youre going on a Ferris wheel.
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Actually most of the residents have become minor celebrities and photographers/video-graphers.
Lots of "Go Fund Me"s for cameras, telescopes and video/internet servers from mounts in their front yards.
The whole money to be made bit. Copyrights galore!!
Whoo!
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Future sci-fy novel: "In a way, Elon Musk did finance the exploration of humanity's home galaxy and beyond. When time travel was invented, the Commission wisely kept it secret and sent operatives back to place standard sports book bets against Musk's 'Starship' ever getting anywhere. The winnings from those bets were invested (with future knowledge of the markets and politics on Earth) and in 2257 the first warp-capable interstellar and intergalactic craft launched on the profits of Musk's scam..."
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Ah'm more curious about the girth of Starhopper.
How many rotary feed cruise missile platforms can one put in that baby? Some desired targets are out of range of a coastline.
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.
NEWPORT, Ky. (CBS Local) ‐ A woman driving a mobility scooter the wrong way on a busy Kentucky freeway was pulled over by police officers Monday afternoon.
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
[EN.YNA.CO.KR] 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[Free Beacon] KIEV ‐ U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton warned on Wednesday of the threat of unfair Chinese trade practices during a trip to Kiev and said he had discussed his concerns with officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
[DAWN] SpaceX test-launched an early prototype of the company's Mars rocket on Tuesday, rattling the nerves of people living near the Texas site and clearing another key hurdle in billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's interplanetary ambitions.
