Ryan Scott Malek’s was four times the legal alcohol limit when police found him in a questionable position with a parked car on May 1. Officers tried to get him to stop, but persistent Malek, from Newton, Kansas, US, kept going.
Malek was reportedly ’oblivious’ to what he was doing, so police decided to Taser him, according to the Smoking Gun. It appears Malek had an audience of six other witnesses watching him at the time, court documents revealed. The 24-year-old was taken to hospital and given a chance to sober up.
He later pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious behaviour and was put on probation for one year. According to police arrest logs, Malek was arrested for aggravated assault and use of a deadly weapon in February.
Woohoo! She's 1/32 Native American! I guess that's about how much her that her cheekbones make up.
[DailyCaller] Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides "strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations, an unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday in an effort to defuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years. She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results as she aimed for widespread attention. After months of not revealing that she was going to have her DNA checked, a very high-risk maneuver, even more than Trump was willing to take!
The analysis of Warren’s DNA was done by Carlos D. Bustamante, a Stanford University professor and expert in the field who won a 2010 MacArthur fellowship, also known as a genius grant, for his work on tracking population migration via DNA analysis.
He concluded that "the vast majority" of Warren’s ancestry is European, but he added that "the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor." Well now she can just run right down and sign up to be a member of her long-forgotten tribe and claim benefits! Don't forget to say hi to your fourth cousing eight times removed while you're there!
Bustamante calculated that Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears in her family tree "in the range of 6-10 generations ago." That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.
Smith was born in the late 1700s. She identified as white in historical documents, though at the time Indians faced discrimination, and Smith would have had strong incentives to call herself white if possible.
The inherent imprecision of the six-page DNA analysis could provide fodder for Warren’s critics. If her great-great-great-grandmother was Native American, that puts her at 1/32nd American Indian. But the report includes the possibility that she’s just 1/1024th Native American if the ancestor is 10 generations back. Maybe one of her earbones is Native American then.
Undergoing the test and releasing the results reveal how seriously Warren is taking the attacks from Trump, who has been able to effectively caricature and diminish his national foes via nicknames and conspiracy theories. Trump pushed then President Barack Obama into releasing the long form of his birth certificate to prove what most knew was already true: He was born in America. In our 58th state, Kenya.
The move is also another indication of how seriously Warren is considering running for president. And while it’s unclear whether the test will convince Trump and his die-hard supporters, Warren will be able to point to it with other, more open-minded voters. Once Obama produced his birth certificate in 2011, the racist "birther’’ movement, which thrived on the Internet and was stoked by Trump, largely evaporated.
Warren is seeking reelection in Massachusetts and is expected to easily win a second term. She has said that she will take a "hard look" at running for the Democratic nomination for president once the midterm elections are over. She’s already released 10 years worth of her tax returns and made her personnel files available to The Boston Globe, showing that ethnicity was not a factor in her rise in law.
By taking a DNA test, Warren is showing that if she runs for president, she plans to be a very different candidate than Hillary Clinton was. The 2016 Democratic nominee for president chafed at releasing personal information and was dogged throughout her campaign by her use of a private server while she was secretary of state. Indeed. It proves at least that Warren is at least 1/1024th honest, which is far better than Hillary can claim.
Warren provided a sample of her DNA to a private lab in Georgia in August, according to one of the senator’s aides. The data from that test was sent to Bustamante and his team for analysis. Warren received the report last week.
Warren didn’t use a commercial service, but Bustamante is on the scientific advisory board for Ancestry, which provides commercial DNA tests. He’s also consulted on a project for 23andMe, another major DNA testing company.
Warren said she was committed to releasing the report regardless of the results. However, Warren’s aides would not say whether she or any of her three siblings had previously done a commercial DNA test that would have provided them with some assurance about Bustamante’s analysis.
There were five parts of Warren’s DNA that signaled she had a Native American ancestor, according to the report. The largest piece of Native American DNA was found on her 10th chromosome, according to the report. Each human has 23 pairs of chromosomes. Except Warren, who has 24.
"It really stood out," said Bustamante in an interview. "We found five segments, and that long segment was pretty significant. It tells us about one ancestor, and we can’t rule out more ancestors."
Detecting DNA for Native Americans is particularly tricky because there is an absence of Native American DNA available for comparison. This is in part because Native American leaders have asked tribal members not to participate in genetic databases.
"The tribes have felt they have been exploited," explained Lawrence Brody, a senior investigator with the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch at the National Institutes of Health. "The amount of genetic data that is available from Native Americans is sparse."
To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American. That’s because scientists believe that the groups Americans refer to as Native American came to this land via the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago and settled in what’s now America but also migrated further south. His report explained that the use of reference populations whose genetic material has been fully sequenced was designed "for maximal accuracy."
Bustamante said he can tease out the markers that these South Americans would have in common with Native Americans on the North American continent.
Bustamante also compared Warren’s DNA to white populations in Utah and Great Britain to determine if the amounts of Native American markers in Warren’s sample were significant or just background noise.
Warren has 12 times more Native American blood than a white person from Great Britain and 10 times more than a white person from Utah, the report found. And half as much more than Trump has.
Warren has come under blistering attacks from Trump for making claims of Native American heritage. His taunts of her as "Pocahontas" have become part of his standard rally monologue. That's Fauxcahontas.
Earlier this month at rally in Iowa, Trump said he hoped Warren would run for president because it would allow him to find out "whether or not she has Indian blood." Well, it's good to hear she has blood anyway.
In July, during a rally in Montana, Trump imagined debating Warren during the 2020 presidential election and said that he’d try to make her take a DNA test by throwing it at her onstage. "We have to do it gently, because we’re in the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very gentle," Trump said.
He also offered to provide $1 million to her charity of choice if she takes the test.
Warren’s Senate campaign has used clips from Trump and his spokeswoman Sarah Sanders attacking her for making the Native American claims in a slickly produced video it planned to distribute Monday morning. It includes a scene of Warren and her three older brothers discussing the issue. And clips of Warren smoking a peace pipe.
There’s even footage of Warren calling Bustamante to get the results of her DNA test.
"The president likes to call my mom a liar. What do the facts say?" asks Warren, sitting at a desk by behind a Macintosh laptop.
"The facts suggest that you absolutely have Native American ancestry in your pedigree," replies Bustamante, who was also captured on film by Warren’s team. "So now can I get my money?"
Bustamante is considered one of the leading DNA analysts in the world. When several DNA experts were asked by the Globe, earlier this year, how they’d recommend Warren go about taking a DNA test, his name came up repeatedly.
He has never donated to Warren’s campaigns. (A different California professor with the same name donated $200 to Obama in 2008, federal records show.)
Questions over Warren’s ethnicity have dogged her since her 2012 Senate campaign. That’s when GOP operatives found archival stories in the Harvard Crimson of a Harvard Law School spokesman referring to her as a Native American as a way to show the school had a diverse faculty.
During her academic career as a law professor, she had her ethnicity changed from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught from 1987 to 1995, and at Harvard University Law School, where she was a tenured faculty member starting in 1995. (She was a visiting professor at Harvard during the 1992-1993 academic year.) When she had even more American Blood in her.
In an interview with the Globe published last month, Warren explained that she identified herself as Native American in the late 1980s and early 1990s as many of the matriarchs of her family were dying and she began to feel that her family stories and history were becoming lost. Yeah. Like not remembered for generations.
Ivy League universities, like the ones where Warren taught, were under great pressure to show they had diverse staffs. Well, here's an Indian that isn't an Indian. Beat that!
The University of Pennsylvania filled out a document explaining why it hired a white woman over minority candidates ‐ clear evidence it didn’t view her as a Native American addition. And the Globe interviewed 31 Harvard Law School faculty members who voted on her appointment there, and all said her heritage was not a factor. Damn. Liberal Memory Disorder strikes again.
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Not even 1/32. And the DNA her's was compared to was Mexican, Columbian, and Peruvian. She's more like 1/2024. Less than most white Americans. 1/1024 "Native American" indirectly derived from South American genetic markers is "proof" of Native heritage? Which means she's more Hispanic than Beto.
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So, she supports the old South African Apartheid 'one drop' rule in defining race?
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Clearly she is nowhere near the levels that would cause discrimination which was the entire reason for favoritism in university entrance and grant policies. She gamed the system as everyone already knew.
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Some of the lefties on twitter are so butthurt about this they should probably go to the emergency room.
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Bustamante also compared Warren’s DNA to white populations in Utah and Great Britain
Why Utah and not Oklahoma which is where Warren's was born? Why not compare her to the general white
population of the US?
Also one should expect the statistical genetic makeup of Utah's white population to be somewhat different from the makeup of the general white population of the US due to a couple of generations of practiced polygamy in the 19th century.
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Listening to the BBC at lunch, they ran the story like this:
Trump insults woman over claims of Native American ancestry; demands a DNA test
Woman gets DNA test which *proves* she has Native American DNA; In yer face, Trump!
No mention of any numbers whatsoever
I understand that modern non-African humans have something in the neighborhood of 1-2% Neanderthal DNA. Judging by the rather dubious numbers (0.1 to 1.6%) being tossed around, Warren is more caveman than Cherokee.
[Al Ahram] 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... is sincere and really means to abandon nuclear weapons, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told a French newspaper, adding that the international community needed to reward him for that.
Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pledged at a landmark summit in Singapore in June to work towards denuclearisation. But the agreement was short on specifics and talks have made little headway since, with the North refusing to declare its nuclear weapons and facilities or agree to a concrete timeline.
"This year I have discussed in depth with Kim for hours. These meetings have convinced me that he has taken the strategic decision to abandon his nuclear weapon," Moon told Le Figaro in an interview before a state visit to Gay Paree.
Moon is to meet President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.
While Pyongyang has stopped nuclear and missile tests this year, it failed to keep its promise to allow international inspections of its dismantling of the Punggye-ri site in May, stirring criticism that the move could be reversed.
But Moon said Kim was "sincere, calm and polite" and "felt frustrated by the international community's continuing mistrust".
"It is now time to respond to these efforts that were hard to agree to," Moon said. "We need to assure Kim Jong-un that he took the right decision in deciding to denuclearise and we need to accompany him in his wish for a durable and solid peace."
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Sincere.
It's October, so we have Kim Johg-un and The Great Pumpkin. It's a two-fer!
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The State Department must be furious. Without NK, how are they going to keep US troops in Korea? The Norks are very useful as a source of tension in the region.
Plus, if NK disarms then it's a huge victory for Trump. Look for them to work overtime behind the scenes to sabotage everything they can.
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And don't forget, Moon is basically a commie.
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Multi-million pound stealth jet was destroyed after bursting into flames at base
Second jet damaged by fire after technician accidentally fired from third fighter
Stealth plane was fired on from jet parked in hanger as maintenance carried out
Two workers at Florennes base in Belgium suffer hearing damage after accident
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I'm curious as to how something like this happens.
Don't recall the type, but I've read of a fighter with a powerful air search radar in the nose that was equipped with a safety interlock that kept the radar off when there was weight on the nose wheel so as not to microwave the maintenance guys. I would assume something similar exists for guns.
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I would assume something similar exists for guns.
It does. It's called the weight on gear switch. However,
if it is faulty or installed wrong it woun't interrupt the firing circuits. Then BAD things happen.
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I would assume something similar exists for guns.
It does. There are 'safety pins' (clips with numbered tags) that keep everything that needs to not work from working. (Weapons, landing gear, radar, ejection seat,...) The crew chief normally pulls them and hands them to the pilot right before take off. The pilot counts them and then stows them.
The problem arises when you do maintenance on something. Some one has to take the safety pin out. There's supposed to be a 'double check' program in place to make sure it's OK to remove the pin.
Of late, the Air Force has been failing safety checks at an ominous rate. (Generals have been loosing their jobs...)
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please do not forget 1988 nimitz fire: va-147 intentionally disabled safety circuits on an A-7 so they could do maintenance on a liaded gun using the engine rather than hydraulic genny. blew my KA6D up and started a helluva fire. killed 2.
147’s name was argonauts, we called them arsonauts.
their co made captain at next board.
pictures on the intertube
[IsraelTimes] Air force completes inspections of planes to ensure they didn’t have fuel line problem that caused malfunction in US Marine Corps F-35B jet in South Carolina.
[SpaceNews] Defense officials have been sounding alarms about what they describe as a glaring national security vulnerability — a new class of ultrafast weapons being developed by China and Russia that would overpower U.S. missile defenses.
Detecting and tracking hypersonic missiles is a tough problem the Pentagon is trying to figure out how to tackle. A network of ground radars, satellites and interceptors defends the United States and allies from ballistic missiles from countries such as North Korea. But the system would be ineffective against non-ballistic weapons like hypersonic vehicles that fly at several times the speed of sound and maneuver in unpredictable directions.
The current ballistic missile defense shield is a layered architecture designed to provide multiple opportunities to destroy missiles and their warheads before they can reach their targets. The system includes space- and ground-based sensors, and sea-based radars for target detection and tracking. Ground- and sea-based interceptors, connected by a battle-management network, are positioned in key locations around the globe to fire against incoming missiles.
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— a new class of ultrafast weapons being developed by China and Russia that would overpower U.S. missile defenses
Only need defense against a rouge outfit. The best defense against Russia and China is someone in the office who'll use the 'football' and them actually believing it.
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Detecting and tracking hypersonic missiles is a tough problem the Pentagon is trying to figure out how to tackle.
Really? Heat... They may be, possibly, able to mitigate the radar spectrum using stealth features, but this thing will be incandescently hot as it plows through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. It will also leave a hot contrail in its wake.
[FrontPageMagazine] The Freedom Center’s comprehensive and innovative online encyclopedia of the Left, DiscoverTheNetworks.org, has just completed an extensive revision and update. The new DTN is faster and easier to use, its contents more accessible and more pertinent to breaking news, its networks easier to visualize, and its look more appealing.
DTN now has a constantly updated "In The News" feature that uses its encyclopedic contents to add background context to the day’s latest stories. The new and more powerful search engine is front and center, as are a series of five select profiles on timely and trending topics and individuals. A search on a particular topic will bring up not only the entry on that subject but also a linked list of the "known connections" among other leftist organizations and individuals. For instance, a search for the anti-Israel terror group Hamas shows a total of 209 connected profiles including Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Muslim Students Association.
For over a decade, DTN has been far and away the best resource for information about the left and how its organizations, individuals and causes collaborate in an assault on American institutions. The producers of Sean Hannity, Lauran Ingraham and other radio and TV shows have referenced it regularly, as have a variety of authors and journalists, legislators and policy makers, students and ordinary citizens anxious to understand the nature of the left and how its juggernaut operates in the political, cultural and social arenas.
DTN is a one stop destination for people who want to discover the truth about the individuals, organizations, and topics that comprise and fuel the left; subjects such as the origins of Black Lives Matter, the background and beliefs of old leftists like Saul Alinsky and new ones like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the sinister operations of George Soros’ "charities" and the unholy alliance between campus leftists and backers of Islamic terror groups. It is the one place a reader or researcher can go to see the links between the people, issues, and groups of the left and understand how these networks combine to make the left a vast conspiracy.
"Discoverthenetworks.org is the brain stem of the Freedom Center," said David Horowitz, founder of the Freedom Center. "The political and cultural issues that are our daily battlegrounds come and go. But the left itself is always with us and has been since the French Revolution. DTN is at the core of our mission: understanding the left’s personality and agendas and how its networks make sure that its sinister ends always justify its sinister means."
The David Horowitz Freedom Center, founded in 1988, is a not-for-profit organization located in Sherman Oaks, California. The Center’s mission is to defend free societies like America and Israel, which are under attack by totalitarians both religious and secular, domestic and foreign.
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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.
North Korea
