[Washington Examiner] Narly a dozen people were shot in New Orleans early Sunday morning in the bustling French Quarter, according to police.
The shooting took place around 3:30 a.m. hours after the conclusion of the Bayou Bowl, a football game between Grambling State and Southern University that was played at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Authorities originally believed only 10 were injured in the shooting but adjusted the count to 11 after an additional victim brought themselves to the hospital. Two of the victims were reported to have critical injuries.
No arrests have been made for the shooting, but authorities do have one person of interest in custody. It is unclear how many gunmen participated in the shooting or what motivated the violence. New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said authorities were quick to get to the scene because of the increased security at the stadium.
This is the second mass shooting to take place on the weekend of the Bayou Bowl in recent years. A fight between two men in 2016 ended in gunfire that injured nine and killed one.
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I'm shocked. After Southern and Grambling,
Drum majors and quarterbacks scrambling?
Post Bayou Bowl Classic?
Why, this is fantastic!
What next? Busting Rick's place for gambling?
And speaking of weeping at the state of journalism (among other things)...
They say that the surveillance includes recordings of privileged conversations Mr. Assange had with his lawyers and doctors, and proves that he cannot receive a fair trial in the United States.https://t.co/v8ZGhA4e84
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What will they charge Assange with? So far as I can tell, he has not committed any crime, he only POed a few people though, but that itself is not a crime.
[Guardian] A man in Maine died on Thanksgiving after being shot by his own booby trap at home, authorities said.
Ronald Cyr, 65, called 911 early Thursday evening, telling operators that he had been shot, the Van Buren Police Department said on Facebook.
Police and medics went to the scene and gave Cyr medical assistance. "Regretfully, Mr. Cyr succumbed to the injuries he sustained from the gunshot," authorities said.
Officers learned that the front door of Cyr’s home was "outfitted with a device designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door."
They discovered "other unknown devices" and subsequently called Maine state police bomb squad.
The agencies investigated Cyr’s home into the early morning hours of 29 November; authorities determined that he was shot "as the result of the unintentional discharge of one of his homemade devices".
Two people reached by the Guardian, who said they were family members, claimed their brother’s home had long been targeted by burglars and voiced frustration toward authorities.
Mark and Lorraine, who identified themselves as two of Ronald’s siblings, said Ronald had long complained that items such as tools and car painting supplies had gone missing. They alleged that Ronald Cyr complained to authorities, but police treated him "like he was senile", Mark claimed.
The police department could not be reached for additional comment.
He was afraid," Mark said. "The cops wouldn’t do nothing so he took matters [into his own hands.]"
The pair said Ronald had tried using fences and security cameras to protect his home, but he eventually turned to traps a few years ago.
"We were not in favor of him doing that because he wasn’t used to guns ‐ really, that was not his forte ‐ but he was so frustrated," Lorraine said.
Van Buren, population 2,171, is situated across from Saint-Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada. The town is approximately 320 miles from Portland, Maine.
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Let me see if I got this straight. The guy was bothered by petty theft (possibly imaginary). So he sets lethal traps. And his family, who knew about it, kept mum until he whacked himself by walking into one.
And, since it's Maine, we can't even make jokes about inbred hillbillies.
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The South Asian Macaque, these beasts can be very dangerous. Their numbers need to be dramatically reduced, especially in urban areas.
I had an inadvertent run in with a small troupe that could have been disastrous, I was very lucky. People here might joke, but people have been killed by these animals.
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My brother and I, he a 40 kilo bull terrier and I a wiry young kungfool once fought off a posse of about a dozen of 'em. Their leader had fallen in my yard my brother was on him immediately. I warded of the posse with a stick. I caught a glimpse of the bastards long teeth as he opened his mouth to bite my brother. And I jabbed one end of the stick in its mouth. I kept the thing pinned, while Ninja (my bro) tore him asunder at the waist. My brother was lacerated all over his head, neck, shoulders... and we were bathed in blood when we got to the vet.
The news was broadcast on local radio an' all. You can imagine the cred.
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People here are averse to killing animals for any reason. The refrain is, we encroached on their habitats, it's only just we adjust with them as they have with us. Plus, there's a strong hindu sentiment for the monkey god who's a sidekick to the primary deity, Ram.
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"NEW DELHI — The first interloper stepped in front of her on the sidewalk and silently held up his hand. The second appeared behind her and beckoned for her bag. Maeve O’Connor was trapped.
Resistance would have been dangerous, so Ms. O’Connor handed it over. The two then sauntered arrogantly away. The whole encounter lasted no more than 15 seconds — just one more coordinated mugging by rhesus monkeys in a city increasingly plagued by them.
“I had other bags with me, but they knew the bag that had the fresh bread in it,” Ms. O’Connor said.
“They were totally silent, very quick and highly effective.”
The monkey population of Delhi has grown so large and aggressive that overwhelmed city officials have petitioned India’s Supreme Court to relieve them of the task of monkey control.
“We have trapped 13,013 monkeys since 2007,” said R. B. S. Tyagi, director of veterinary services for Delhi’s principal city government. Nonetheless, Delhi’s monkey population has only increased. The reason is simple: People feed them. Monkeys are the living representatives of the cherished Hindu god Hanuman, and Hindu tradition calls for feeding monkeys on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Dr. Tyagi expressed impatience with residents who feed the monkeys one day, then complain to the city when the monkeys steal their clothes on another day.
Dr. Tyagi’s agency has asked the city’s wildlife agency for help, but wildlife officials claim that the monkeys — a scourge of the city for years as urbanization has encroached on their original habitat — are no longer wild and are thus not their responsibility.
“This problem will never be solved” as long as Hindus feed monkeys regularly, said R. M. Shukla, the city’s chief wildlife warden. “We’ve issued many ads asking people not to feed monkeys in public places.”
In 2007, a Delhi deputy mayor died when he fell from his terrace after being attacked by monkeys, a widely publicized episode that spurred the city to step up its efforts to move monkeys to safer environments. Yet such attacks continue. This month a 14-year-old girl was seriously injured when she fell from the roof of a five-story residential building after monkeys pursued her.
“Monkeys do commonly bite people, and their bite wounds can be extensive,” Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., wrote in an e-mail. “They are smart enough to often attack the face of the person.” While monkey bites can lead to rabies or a fatal form of the herpes virus, documented cases are “close to nonexistent,” Dr. Fauci wrote. Skin bacterial infections from bites are common, however. They are treatable with antibiotics. Stories abound in Delhi of monkeys’ entering homes, ripping out wiring, stealing clothes and biting those who surprise them. They treat the Indian Parliament building as a playground, have invaded the prime minister’s office and Defense Ministry, sometimes ride buses and subway trains, and chase diplomats from their well-tended gardens.
Roopi Saran, a Delhi resident, has seen monkeys steal candy from the hands of her children. And tribes of monkeys often take over her yard, preventing her and her children from venturing outside."
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Road Song of the Bandar-Log
R. Kipling
Here we go in a flung festoon,
Half-way up to the jealous moon!
Don’t you envy our pranceful bands?
Don’t you wish you had extra hands?
Wouldn’t you like if your tails were–so–
Curved in the shape of a Cupid’s bow?
Now you’re angry, but–never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two–
Something noble and wise and good,
Done by merely wishing we could.
We’ve forgotten, but–never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
All the talk we ever have heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird–
Hide or fin or scale or feather–
Jabber it quickly and all together!
Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!
Now we are talking just like men!
Let’s pretend we are ... never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind.
Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines,
That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,
Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things!
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Are they using China's human face scan ID software?
(Just curious if the same software works for both.)
You could. One of the hot new things in Artificial Intelligence is Transfer Learning. Basically, you take a neural network that is trained on one problem domain, like classifying pix of dogs vs cats, and use it as the basis for a second classification network. The idea is that the lower layers of the neural network have already learned to identify basic features and therefore need less training.
Given that Chinamen look alike and monkeys look alike, this should totally work.
(Oh, stop it! I've had multiple Asian friends (Japanese, Korean and Chinese) confess that when they first came to America, they thought all white people looked alike. This has more to do with limited sample size than racism. With more samples, your brainal network learns better recognition skills)
Seriously, since we are talking about recognizing primate faces (you took biology, right?), the problems are similar.
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SteveS -> same assumptions that's why I asked.
2 stories on the same day about a different use for facial recognition for purposes of controlling the face owners suggest similar software at some point.
[MSN] If you thought Thanksgiving Day was unusually cold this year in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , you were correct. In fact, it tied a century-old record.
The high temperature in the city on Thursday was forty-eight degrees. That tied a record high temperature for the coldest date for San Francisco in the month of November. That record had stood unchallenged since November 27th, 1896, when it last happened.
According to the National Weather Service, the coldest high-temperature day ever in San Francisco was a freezing thirty-five degrees on December 11th, 1932. That day also holds the distinction for the coldest record low temperature ever recorded in the city, which is twenty-seven degrees.
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This was a result of the thk giving day storm which brought a cold pool of arctic air to the coast. The storm left a lot of cold air near the surface. Some of it was damned up against the Sierra and yesterday for a time Reno (at 4700') was getting snow while South Lake Tahoe (at 6200')was getting rain.
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[Mil.com] JACKSONVILLE, Florida -- Glenn Pitts lived a quiet life after World War II, but a friend's tip led to the 94-year-old receiving the Legion of Honor for his part in liberating France.
Glenn Pitts has been a laundry manager, a building contractor and a Jacksonville landlord.
On Nov. 22, the French government named him a knight of the Legion of Honor, its highest distinction, for his part in liberating France from Nazi occupation 75 years ago.
"We know what we owe you and your brothers," Laurent Gallissot, France's consul general in Miami, told the 94-year-old Army veteran during a ceremony at Jacksonville City Hall.
Pitts, the diplomat said, was "a true hero and a great soldier."
The 40-person audience filled less than half of the City Council chambers, but praise for the veteran was heartfelt.
"I think we should all be forever grateful," Council Vice President Tommy Hazouri told Pitts, who lives in the Westside's Woodstock Park area.
France decided in 2004 -- the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing -- to award the medal to any U.S. veteran who had fought on French soil and requested the honor.
France decided in 2004 -- the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing -- to award the medal to any U.S. veteran who had fought on French soil and requested the honor.
Gallissot said his office has presented maybe 2,000 since then, some to men whose own families know very little about their experiences in the war.
Combat veterans all experienced some trauma, Gallissot said, and some just prefer not to share those memories. Like Pitts.
"We lost a lot of people, so I don't talk about it that much," Pitts told an audience that included people dressed to represent veterans’ groups.
The broad strokes of his war service were interesting enough.
Drafted when he was 18, the Eastman, Georgia, native learned to operate a water-cooled .30-cal. machine gun that could fire hundreds of rounds per minute. He was a private in the Army's 63rd Infantry Division when he was deployed to the French Mediterranean port of Marseilles in December 1944.
Of the five months that followed, he said Thursday, 120 days were spent "on the line," in combat zones that by February 1945 had advanced to the German border at the Saar River.
By the time troops crossed the river on a rope bridge, he was a 19-year-old squad leader. He would have still been a private, but his squad leader had been wounded and he became the replacement, jumping the ranks to sergeant in one step.
He was still in Germany when the Nazi government surrendered in May 1945 and was reassigned to a Signal Corps unit where he finished out his service.
Back in civilian life, he got a job, raised a family and built houses. He still rents some of his houses, one of them to the friend who helped him apply for the award after reading about another Legion of Honor recipient. He and Pitts' family clapped hard to see the quiet man being honored.
"I'm so overjoyed to see him getting this," said his daughter, Susan Wallace. "He did what he had to, he kept his head down and he got back home."
[ToloNews] Globally, the number of HIV-infected people steadily rises, but the number of newly-affected people has decreased by 40% since 1998.
Approximately 7,200 people in Afghanistan are estimated to be HIV positive, according to numbers by the World Health Organization (WHO), published on Sunday to mark World AIDS Day.
The WHO called for a broader public awareness campaign in Afghanistan to deal with the issue.
But the Afghan Ministry of Public Health said that it registered only 2,883 cases of HIV in the country.
"According to our statistics, there are 2,883 cases of HIV registered in the country. The 7,200 cases reported by the World Health Organization are only an estimate," said Fida Mohammad Paikan, deputy minister of public health.
Referring to factors behind the spread of the virus, Paikan said: "Last year the Ministry of Public Health registered 183 cases of HIV, and the figure has decreased to 150 new cases this year. But we need to undertake a comprehensive study to determine the exact number of those suffering from the disease."
Victims complain of social discrimination:
Mohammad Idris, who contracted the disease from an infected needle during a drug injection, said:
"We are facing a lot of problems because we cannot share about our illness with others," said Idris.
Omar, who is also infected by HIV, said: "If we go to hospitals and tell them that we have HIV Aids, they don’t treat us."
According to global health institutions, the number of people newly infected with HIV each year has decreased 40% since 1998. Nearly 3 million people were newly infected in 1998. In 2018, new infections stood at 1.7 million, which corresponds to around 5,000 per day. Roughly 61% of these new infections were in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The number of people living with HIV worldwide has risen steadily from 7.9 million in 1990, to 37.9 million today. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... thanks to increased HIV treatment coverage, deaths have decreased from 1.7 million in 2005, to 770,000 in 2018. About 23 million people (61% of people living with HIV) accessed HIV treatment in 2018, according to the World Health Organization.
[Guardian] Gideon Mendel’s powerful, water-damaged image from 1980s Johannesburg speaks to the deterioration of memory.
In 1990, when the photographer Gideon Mendel left his native South Africa for London, he deposited a number of boxes in his friend’s garage in Johannesburg for safekeeping. These boxes contained, among other things, negatives and transparencies from Mendel’s harrowing first few years as a photojournalist during the struggle against apartheid in the mid-80s.
Over the next three decades, Mendel became renowned for his intimate, socially engaged photography, documenting the effects of the HIV/Aids crisis and climate breakdown. For one project, from his Drowning World series, he has gathered nearly 2,000 water-damaged family photographs picked up on his journeys through flooded communities in the US, India and elsewhere.
Jou geliefde redder (your beloved savior) Mandela was a murdering ANC terrorist, convicted bomb maker, and communist. His massive clenched fist statues in Pretoria and Bloemfountein should be pulled down.
THE ANC'S VICTIMS WERE MOSTLY CIVILIANS:
1981 – 2 car bombs at Durban showrooms
1983 – Church Street Bomb (killed 19, wounded 217)
1984 – Durban car bomb (killed 5, wounded 27)
1985-1987 – At least 150 landmines on farm roads (killed 125)
1985 – Amanzimtoti Sanlam shopping centre bomb Dec 23 (killed 2 white women and 3 white children)
1986 – Magoo’s Bar bomb (killed 3, wounded 69)
1986 – Newcastle Court bomb (wounded 24)
1987 – Johannesburg Court bomb (killed 3, wounded 10)
1987 – Wits command centre car bomb (killed 1, wounded 68)
1988 – Johannesburg video arcade (killed 1 unborn baby, wounded 10)
1988 – Roodepoort bank bomb (killed 4, wounded 18)
1988 – Pretoria Police housing unit, 2 bombs (wounded 3)
1988 – Magistrate’s Court bomb (killed 3)
1988 – Benoni Wimpy Bar bomb (killed 1, wounded 56)
1988 – Witbank shopping centre bomb (killed 2, wounded 42)
1988 – Ellis Park Rugby Stadium car bomb (killed 2, wounded 37)
Late 1980s – numerous Wimpy Restaurant bombs (killed many, wounded many)
The ANC also made explosives disguised as children's toys.
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Mandela should have been abducted and fed to hungry sharks after priming them with buckets of chum. Unfortunately, he was merely arrested, imprisoned and added to the list of secular saints of whom no ill shall be spoken or heard.
#3
Third world nations are third world because of corruption and tribalism. Until the world acknowledges that (instead of blaming colonialism) they will never improve.
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The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence. Martin Meredith Paperback – Recommended reading . Mandela was a good African leader after apartheid. The current African leaders are no different than the Biden’s and other current US politicians.
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1). How would you describe the relationship between China and Russia? Some say strategic alliance; some say marriage of convenience… What would you call it and how did you coin the term Dragonbear?
2). At what point do you feel the Chinese and Russian relationship shifted from competition to “friendship”? Have they overcome their historical hostilities?
3). Many analysts characterize Russia as the junior partner in this partnership, others say it’s symbiotic in that Moscow brings the muscle and Beijing brings the money, how would you address the dynamics?
4). To what extent does pushing back against what both Russia and China have described as a US-led world order and motivation for a multipolar scene motivate their relationship? Can they succeed in challenging Washington’s global hegemony?
5) Do you foresee this relationship blossoming in the near future? Will economic agreements match their military cooperation? Could there ever be a defensive alliance between these two powers, are they doomed to compete or is the status quo acceptable on both ends?
6). Europe is in a difficult spot, facing internal crises and a US that doesn’t necessarily share the same values. Do you see the Belt and Road Initiative and Eurasian Economic Union developing into an enticing alternative? Can the US undermine this and how?
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Peel Russia off of China.
Russia has far to gain from containing China than from feeding this crocodile.
This shortsighted deal is the next step in the Chinese annexation of the Russian Far East + half of Siberia.
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Part of a 30 year deal MOU shall see 40 b cubic meters of natural gas delivered annually from Kvytkin, Chayadin to north and eastern China. Full service shall pick up in 2022, and the MOU will be revisited every ten years. It's expected to provide China with over 1/5th of their total gas need till 2047.
It’s important to be clear on what is important to you.
[IsraelTimes] The Belgian city of Aalst near the capital Brussels has pulled its annual carnival from the UNESCO world heritage list, after an uproar from Jewish groups and the EU, the mayor said on Sunday.
The row erupted in March after Mayor Christoph D’Haese defended a deliberately anti-Semitic carnival float depicting puppets of hook-nosed Orthodox Jews with rats sitting on money bags.
The carnival attracts tens of thousands of people over the three days leading to the Catholic holiday of Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. It takes pride in its no-holds barred sense of humor and provocation.
D’Haese on Sunday said he made the decision as he expected UNESCO to strip his city of the designation later this month after both sides failed to find a compromise.
"The citizens of Aalst have suffered grotesque accusations," the mayor said in a blurb sent to TV Oost Nieuws, according to Belga news agency.
"We are neither anti-Semitic nor racist. All those who support this are acting in bad faith. Aalst will always remain the capital of mockery and satire," he said.
Since 2010, the carnival has been inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage list, but the Gay Paree-based UN agency said organizers had gone too far.
The head of the Brussels-based Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Jewish Association said Aalst officials were "jumping before they were pushed," according to a statement.
"Despite the widespread criticism, despite the clear grotesque anti-Semitic imagery, despite the opportunity to at least acknowledge the wrong and hurt caused, the Mayor of Aalst has consistently remained defiant and mocking," said EJA president Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
UNESCO said in March it would be "vigilant and uncompromising regarding such occurrences" and expectations were high that the carnival was to be pulled from the list at a meeting on December 12.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch police say on Sunday they have found no indications of a terrorist motive after arresting a homeless man for stabbing three teenagers in The Hague.
Left unanswered is whether he was a native Dutch homeless man or a homeless colonist, Moslem or otherwise.
The 35-year-old man was detained on Saturday after the assault, which happened as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains in the city’s main commercial street.
"The precise circumstances of the stabbing incident are still unclear. No indications have yet been found to show that there was a terrorist motive," police say on Twitter.
"The motive for the stabbing incident is still being investigated."
Police say the suspect had no fixed abode and was "arrested at a homeless shelter in the center of The Hague" before being taken to a cop shoppe for questioning.
They had previously said they were investigating "several scenarios."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied the Justice Department’s request to overturn a lower court decision that temporarily stalled plans by President Donald Trump’s administration to resume executions of prisoners convicted of certain federal crimes after a 16-year hiatus.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the administration had "not satisfied the stringent requirements" to stay the lower court’s ruling. The administration had planned to resume executions of federal death row inmates starting on Dec. 9.
The ruling follows a Nov. 21 decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan A Jamaican, not American, appointed by O
to stay the planned executions of four federal death row inmates until a long-running legal challenge to the Justice Department's lethal injection protocol can be resolved.
The lawsuits, the first of which was filed in 2005, challenged the protocol on the grounds that it violated the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment by carrying a risk of severe pain. The suits also said the protocol violated a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act because it was written in secret without public input.
I don't understand this fascination with the pain involved. You're gonna kill somebody bad enough to warrant killing him. 'Ya, but killing him shouldn't hurt him.' If you're that concerned, how about a shot to the head ? You ain't running out of those downers any time soon.
The case fell dormant during President Barack Obama's tenure after the federal government was forced to halt executions and abandon its previous three-drug protocol due to a shortage of one of the drugs, an anesthetic called sodium thiopental.
But the case was revived in July, after U.S. Attorney General William Barr, appointed by Trump earlier in the year, scheduled the execution of five federal death row inmates and unveiled a new protocol that calls for using a single drug, pentobarbital, for the lethal injection.
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Did any of them worry about the pain they would cause?
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The aristocracy dictates!
5th Amendment -
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amending the Constitution without following the Article 5 process. They sit for life and are unaccountable to the people.
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Force them to watch "The View"
Now we're getting into war crimes territory! Personally, if someone has done something so heinous that we totally don't want them around anymore, I'm OK with any method that isn't excessively cruel and doesn't make a mess for the cleaning crew.
[The News (Pak)] KARACHI: A maiden of tender years was kidnapped at gunpoint in the posh locality of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's District South allegedly by armed kidnappers on a car who also shot and seriously maimed her male friend.
This was the second major incident of kidnapping of a girl in Defence Housing Authority as earlier another maiden of tender years, B* was kidnapped in the same manner in May this year and was later released after her family paid a handsome ransom to the kidnappers. The tragic incident took place at Bukhari Commercial, also known as Bara Bukhari in DHA within the limits of Darakhshan Police Station on early hours of Sunday.
The victim's friend namely Haris Soomro who was maimed in the incident was initially taken to the National Medical Center on Korangi Road but later moved to the Aga Khan University Hospital.
Senior police officials, including district South Operations and Investigations SSPs, also reached the scene of the crime to investigate about the kidnapping.
The District South police chief SSP Sheraz Nazeer told The News that the police have only one witness in this case and they are also trying to obtain the CCTV footage of the scene to trace and arrest the suspected kidnappers.
The injured person in his initial statement told the police that they were on their way to Bara Bukhari when four men in a car kidnapped his friend, D* and fled after shooting him. SSP Nazeer said the boy was shot in the neck which penetrated into the chest.
The doctors were trying to save his life while the parents of both the youngsters have been informed about the incident. The police were also looking for recording the statements of the families and friends for any possible clue about the abductors.
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I'm supposed to believe the ChiComs put something on the dark side of the moon, where nobody can see it, and nobody but them can communicate with it?
Must be nice to have a real space agency.
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Would need a satellite in orbit to relay com signal no?
h/t Instapundit
Evanston aldermen on Monday approved directing all sales tax revenue collected from recreational marijuana purchases to a fund that will establish a local reparations program.
Officials say the program will help the city’s black population stay in Evanston while also providing training for jobs and other benefits.
"We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston," said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, 5th Ward, who proposed the reparations bill.
While Evanston officials have voted to permit, tax and appropriate money from recreational marijuana sales, many other suburbs have voted not to allow recreational marijuana dispensaries to open when the businesses become legal next year under state law.
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...And I'll bet ya dollars to doobies that the nice people in Evanston have already assumed that money will be there and made plans accordingly, only to be gobsmacked when it doesn't show up.
Mike
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With all the proposed taxes, the illegal stuff will be cheaper.
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What Mullah Richard said. Legal marijuana isn't working in California because the illegal stuff is cheaper. The stuff can be grown almost anywhere. If you know what you're doing you can grow it in a closet inside your house. How can the government ever hope to tax it? Plus, graft.
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Legal is a buzzkill
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#7 What Mullah Richard said. Legal marijuana isn't working in California because the illegal stuff is cheaper. The stuff can be grown almost anywhere. If you know what you're doing you can grow it in a closet inside your house. How can the government ever hope to tax it? Plus, graft.
Exactly - and the respective governments are going to get that money if it's the last thing they do, so look for CA in particular to come up with some kind of packaging that will be required for legal weed, and God help you if you can't show that package.
Or put another way - if you think that the War on Drugs was bad before, wait till you see how ugly it gets now that it's legal.
Mike
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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.
[Washington Examiner] Narly a dozen people were shot in New Orleans early Sunday morning in the bustling French Quarter, according to police.
[MSN] If you thought Thanksgiving Day was unusually cold this year in 
[Mil.com] JACKSONVILLE, Florida -- Glenn Pitts lived a quiet life after World War II, but a friend's tip led to the 94-year-old receiving the Legion of Honor for his part in liberating France.
[Guardian] Gideon Mendel’s powerful, water-damaged image from 1980s Johannesburg speaks to the deterioration of memory.
Update and iconic foto for Gideon. 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
