[Breitbart] Mike Cain was hitchhiking near his retirement center in Lake San Marcos when he ran into real estate agent Richard Farmer, NBC 4 Los Angeles reported.
"I paused, and I was like, ’Is that guy hitchhiking?’ So, I made a U-turn, immediately went back and asked him if he was OK," Farmer said.
It turns out that Cain was trying to get a lift to go to the 99 Cents Only Store that was 1.5 miles away from his retirement center to buy Hershey’s chocolate bars for his sweetheart, Do Jerman.
Cain has been eating chocolate with Jerman nearly every night for almost 20 years and was not about to let the coronavirus pandemic stop that tradition.
"We don’t eat the whole bar — just a couple pieces," Cain said.
Cain and Farmer developed a kinship, and Cain later called up Farmer to ask if he could take him grocery shopping.
"He’s very unique," Cain said of Farmer. "I’ve gotten rides before like that, but they take me and drop me off. But that Rich — he does it 100%."
Farmer said he was amazed at how much Cain was in love with this girl.
And in the process invents a new class of firearms: the "large rifle", which presumably is much more lethal than a teeny-tiny rifle.
A black lawmaker came to Michigan’s capitol with an escort of armed black citizens on Wednesday, days after white protesters with guns staged a volatile protest inside the state house, comparing the Democratic governor’s public health orders to "tyranny".
While early reports focused on three black men with large rifles escorting Anthony, there were six participants, including two women, and some of them were armed with handguns,
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Which illustrates two key points:
1) The left is fine with guns as long they're the only ones that have them.
2) The left has guns.
Which the "Hurdurr, we have all teh gunzz!" crowd on the Right needs to grasp.
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I won't be betting on leftie black if the SHTF.
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Not necessary to have all the guns (you never do) nor even the most (though we on the right do) You do need to have the best organized and deployed guns. This was a big story exactly because it's not the norm on the left. Tupperware knee and elbow pads just ain't gonna get it.
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If it shows anything, the armed left is as concerned about their own version of tacticool as some on the right are. If you are trying to stay alive, avoid that crowd.
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Optics, optics, especially for a set piece.
I can almost hear the commercial introduction voice-over for Old Navy, "In these unprecedented times..."
#7
And it was not about intimidation (which is good, because it's actually more like laughable) No, sir. Only far right Charlotte neo nazis and white people who just want to go back to work are intimidators.
(But remember, forever quarantine crowd also calls people who just want to go back to work "childish.")
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I note with approval that everyone in the photo has their index finger carefully laid alongside their weapon instead of on the trigger, making all those in the vicinity that much safer. Three cheers for that particular bit of tacticool behaviour.
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Doin' the job white folks won't do to her satisfaction.
State Rep. Sarah Anthony must be very proud of herself.
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The race peddler crowd never has a self esteem problem.
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Concern Troll of the Year Award goes to this hypocrite who says - you can imagine the Jussie Smollett teary breaking voice - "The thing that keeps me up at night is the fear that we are becoming more polarized, more angry... My fear is that we are creating an environment that is a powder keg, and I don’t want to see citizens of all stripes getting hurt.”
= I want to see citizens of the wrong 'stripes' getting hurt.
Right. Got it.
So that explains why this 'llawmaker' who weeps over how 'polarized' and 'angry' we white folk have all become has decided to improve situation by "[coming] to Michigan’s capitol with an escort of armed black citizens."
[Garden and Gun] The late Doc Watson was one of American traditional music’s most influential torchbearers. Blind from a young age, the North Carolina native won seven Grammy awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004), mentored up-and-coming pickers, and established the beloved MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1988 in honor of his late son, guitarist Eddie "Merle" Watson. But Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, a new release from Smithsonian Folkways, predates all of that: The album, recorded over two concerts in New York City in 1962, finds a young Watson and his father-in-law, Gaither Carlton, playing their first-ever headlining gigs outside the South.
[IsraelTimes] The Asian giant hornets found in Washington state that grabbed headlines this week aren’t big killers of humans, although it does happen on rare occasions. But the world’s largest hornets do decapitate entire hives of honeybees, and that crucial food pollinator is already in big trouble.
Numerous bug experts told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that what they call hornet "hype" reminds them of the 1970s public scare when Africanized honeybees, nicknamed "killer bees," started moving north from South America. While these more aggressive bees did make it up to Texas and the Southwest, they didn’t live up to the horror-movie moniker. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... they also do kill people in rare situations.
This time it’s hornets with the homicidal nickname, which bug experts want to ditch.
"They are not ’murder hornets.’ They are just hornets," said Washington Agriculture Department entomologist Chris Looney, who is working on the state’s search for these large hornets.
The facts are, experts said, two dead hornets were found in Washington last December, a lone Canadian live nest was found and wiped out last September and no live hornets have yet been seen this year Crap! And I just bought my supply hoard of Murder Hornets TP
BLUF:
[Lawfirms.com] Members Claim They are Unbiased
When prompted with questions pertaining to their financial connections with pharmaceutical companies, most ACIP members claim they are able to remain unbiased despite the rewards they receive every time a new vaccination is recommended to the public. In numerous instances, vaccines released to the market are later removed after serious side effects are documented. The rotavirus vaccine was one such example; it was pulled from the market in 1999, a year after its initial approval. In 2001, the House Government Reform Committee found that four out of the eight ACIP members who voted to approve the vaccine had direct financial ties to one or more of the pharmaceutical companies who produced the vaccine for public use. Similar situations involving many other vaccinations have been independently documented over the course of nearly 20 years.
[MAIL] A California physician says a rheumatoid arthritis drug could be an effective treatment for coronavirus.
Dr Imran Sharief, a pulmonologist based in Santa Ana, told Fox News that he treated COVID-19 patients on ventilators with tocilizumab, sold under the brand names RoAcemtra and Actemra,
Within 72 hours, their conditions began to improve and, after five days, he was able to extubate patients and move them out of the ICU.
With no approved treatments specifically for the virus, there is a pressing need to test both existing medicines and experimental therapies to stop the disease - which has killed more than 74,000 Americans - in its tracks.
Tocilizumab belongs to a class of drugs called interleukin-6 inhibitors that could help mitigate a dangerous overreaction to the virus by the body's immune system called a cytokine storm.
These so-called storms occur when the body doesn't just fight off the virus but also attacks its own cells and tissues.
Federal officials withdrew approval for more than 60 manufacturers in China to export N95-style masks to the U.S. after finding what they said were a large number of low-quality products from those companies.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it had cut the number of mask makers in China approved to make N95-style masks for use in the U.S. to 14, from around 80. That reversed an April 3 decision to allow imports from manufacturers whose masks hadn’t been tested by U.S. authorities if they met standards set by some other nations or were reviewed by an independent laboratory.
Courtesy of Abu Uluque:
Federal agency delays medical mask shipments in California's $1 billion contract with Chinese company
[SFChronicle] Delivery of many of the medical masks that Gov. Gavin Newsom secured in a nearly $1 billion deal with a Chinese company has been delayed because a federal agency, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has yet to certify they meet safety standards, according to documents released Wednesday night.
The situation led California to seek repayment of half the $495 million that it paid upfront to manufacturer BYD for N95 particulate-filtering respirators intended to protect medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. It will have to pay the money if and when the company wins federal approval for the masks.
BYD is still sending the state millions of lower-grade surgical masks every week under the deal that Newsom announced last month, according to contract documents released by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Those masks offer protection against droplets, not particulates, and don’t require federal safety certification.
In the city, there are more than 7,500 positive cases and more than 600 deaths — about a quarter of the national total — though health authorities suspect the real number of infections is much higher. People are falling sick, dying, and being cremated often before families receive test results, if they come at all.
Mexico has extremely limited testing compared to other countries, which makes experts believe the country's infections are much higher. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said recently the city was performing only about 700 tests per day. The government has defended its limited testing of only people meeting a list of criteria, but it has left a growing number of families unsure of what killed their loved ones.
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'It's their own fault': HHS Secretary Alex Azar says meat processing workers' 'home and social conditions' are to blame for rapid spread of coronavirus - not their working conditions
#12
How dare the cheap labor imported illegal alien illiterate hired help make us look bad! Bidness Rountable and Chamber of Communism stamp their tiny wingtip clad feet. Remaining Krotch brother smiles his denture smile.
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Frank, The USA should have enough food for itself and if we stop using corn in our gas tanks we should be able to help other nations. Has anyone mentioned that models also predicted global warming.
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I'm actually not worried about our food supply
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Weather is definitely a sign of global warming.
Spring snow is not unheard of in the north, but I can't help wondering of all the cold, clear weather we've been having fits in with Valentina Zharkova's predictions for Grand Solar Minimum.
[FoxNews] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday prohibiting members of Russia's armed forces from carrying smartphones and other electronic devices in an effort to prevent the exposure of military operations.
Officials said the move was necessary to prevent sensitive information from getting into the hands of foreign intelligence services, Radio Free Europe reported. Russian military service members have been warned in the past about sharing information online and on their social media posts.
The decree bans devices that can track locations and transmit audio recordings and photos.
A similar law bans Russian military personnel from carrying devices that can connect to the Internet.
In recent years, Russian military operations in Syria and eastern Ukraine -- where Ukrainian forces have been waging battles with Moscow-backed separatists since 2014 -- have been inadvertently exposed through social media posts. Some of the posts have contradicted Russian accounts of its presence in various conflicts.
Other posts have revealed information about troop movements and equipment. In addition, videos of hazing among Russian military recruits have also been uploaded online.
#breaking North Korea calls South Korean military drills ‘reckless’ & harmful provocation. NK says drills "awakened us...to the obvious fact...enemies remain, enemies, all the time...everything is now going back to the starting point before the north-south summit meeting in 2018”
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So design testing is complete.
Now they need an assembly area next to the airport.
So they can fly them to Iran, I suppose.
Paid for in gold from Venezuela.
[IsraelTimes] Tel Aviv-based Check Point says Aria-body, by hacker group tied to Chinese military, is highly advanced and hard to detect.
An Israeli cybersecurity firm has identified a new and highly dangerous Chinese cyber-espionage tool that it says has been used to target governments around the world, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Thursday.
Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies says that the tool, dubbed Aria-body, has recently been used in cyberattacks against Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other regional nations by Naikon, a hacking group linked to the Chinese military.
It was discovered after it was used to target a worker in Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office.
Naikon has been described by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky as having conducted "at least five years of high volume, high profile, geo-political attack activity" targeting "top-level government agencies and civil and military organizations" in countries around the South China Sea.
Check Point’s Lotem Finkelstein told The Times: "The Naikon group has been running a longstanding operation, during which it has updated its new cyberweapon time and time again, built an extensive offensive infrastructure and worked to penetrate many governments across Asia and the Pacific."
According to Check Point, Aria-body, which gains access to targets by piggybacking on Microsoft Word documents and other innocuous files, allows its users to remotely operate victims’ computers, searching for files and sending back data undetected. It also contains a key-logger which allows hackers to read what a computer user is writing in real-time. Aria-body can also be remotely configured to change its appearance between attacks.
"Throughout our research we found that the group adjusted its signature weapon to search for specific files by names within the compromised ministries," Finkelstein said.
"This fact alone strengthens the understanding that there was a significant, well-thought infrastructure and pre-operation intelligence collection."
Many Western nations have expressed strong opposition to China’s aggressive hacking, which has led to widespread suspicion of technology firms operating out of the authoritarian country.
Relations between China and Australia have been strained by Australia’s outlawing of covert foreign interference in politics and institutions. China is particularly angry that Australia has banned Chinese communications giant Huawei from involvement in critical infrastructure on security grounds. Huawei has become the target of US security concerns because of its ties to the Chinese government.
In January, Check Point announced that it had found flaws in the popular Chinese social media app TikTok which left it vulnerable to hacking attacks that could expose personal details.
That app, which is popular worldwide, had previously been banned by Israel’s Border Police, which warned that officers uploading videos to the app from police installations or operations could compromise Israel’s security. In December 2019, the US Army banned TikTok following warnings by the Pentagon and US politicians. The US Navy did the same two weeks earlier.
[Zero] Recall, it was just weeks ago that we pointed out how a crash in used car prices could be putting significant pressure on the rental car industry. That is, obviously, in addition to the fact that nobody is traveling.
Since then, it has been rumored that Hertz has hired advisors to consider a bankruptcy and the auto industry has placed a major bet on incentives to try and move inventory off of their lots.
But automakers are about the feel the brunt of the chaos in the rental car industry, as both Hertz and Avis have put stops on purchases and, in some cases, re-directed purchases they've already made to additional parking lots, according to Bloomberg.
This has left GM and Hyundai taking back cars that it had agreed to sell to Hertz, Avis and Enterprise. Last month, Fiat underwent efforts to try and redirect almost 30,000 vehicles these companies had purchased, but was unable to transfer them.
The chaos continued this month when Avis had to sell $500 million in junk bonds and Hertz was granted a last-minute concession from its lenders to narrowly avoid bankruptcy.
Rental car sales fell 77% in April and Fiat was the hardest hit with loss of total fleet sales, according to Cox Automotive.
[Aljazeera] An Indian train ran over migrant workers sleeping on the track on Friday, killing at least 14 of the group, who were apparently on their way to their home villages, the railway ministry and media said on Friday.
Tens of thousands of people have been walking home from India's key cities after losing their jobs because of a lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus since late March.
The driver tried to stop the freight train when he saw the labourers on the tracks in the western state of Maharashtra, the railway ministry said, adding it had ordered an inquiry.
Fourteen people were killed and five were injured, said a railway spokesman, CH Rakesh.
#5
RJ - I've had to take Roadway Worker Safety Training annually for about 20 yrs to work in the RR Right-of-way (Both BNSF/Coaster and local trolley). It's a myth that you will always hear a train in time if it's traveling at high speed. Likewise the vibration.
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They were trying to avoid the police on the roads.
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Starship + Super Heavy propellant mass is 4800 tons (78% O2 & 22% CH4). I think we can get propellant cost down to ~$100/ton in volume, so ~$500k/flight. With high flight rate, probably below $1.5M fully burdened cost for 150 tons to orbit or ~$10/kg.
[ScienceAlert] A type of rocket engine once thought impossible has just been fired up in the lab. Engineers have built and successfully tested what is known as a rotating detonation engine, which generates thrust via a self-sustaining wave of detonations that travel around a circular channel.
As this engine requires far less fuel than the combustion engines currently used to power rockets, it could eventually mean a more efficient and much lighter means of getting our ships into space.
"The study presents, for the first time, experimental evidence of a safe and functioning hydrogen and oxygen propellant detonation in a rotating detonation rocket engine," said aerospace engineer Kareem Ahmed of the University of Central Florida.
The idea of the rotating detonation engine goes back to the 1950s. It consists of a ring-shaped - annular - thrust chamber created by two cylinders of different diameters stacked inside one another, creating a gap in between.
Gas fuel and oxidiser are then injected into this chamber through small holes and ignited. This creates the first detonation, which produces a supersonic shockwave that bounces around the chamber. That shockwave ignites the next detonation, which ignites the next, and so forth, producing an ongoing supersonic shockwave to generate thrust.
This should produce more energy for less fuel compared to combustion, which is why the US Military is investigating and funding it; this new research was funded by the US Air Force, and it's not the only such project the military are looking into. Much more at the link.
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Cool concept, I can think of several other uses for this technology.
#6
Quality is a cultural thing in some ways. People who spit everywhere they go and eat things the rest of us walk around or otherwise avoid have a different idea of quality.
As they say in Texas "We know quality when we step in it..."
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True but I've been around some crude MF'ers (even more than me) that did exceptional work, technical and manual,- that did their work the way they did because it gave them pleasure to do it well. Which is a work ethic that has to be taught by example, not lecture.
At my retirement party (from my first, but not last, job, my two sons agreed on what they remember most about my work? "He got up at 3:50AM or 9 PM, or whatever hour, but he went to work, every day". That felt good
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This thread reminds me of the old saying , "Variety is the spice of life, but monotony brings home the bacon. "
#7
But the models aren't pure speculation. Just adulterated, not particularly pure speculation.
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Imagine if epidemiological "projections" had to cleave to SEC rules for stock prospectuses. The horror.
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Past performance (there is none) is no indicator of future results.
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Heh - might be a good requirement to add that, but Journos and Agendas don't care
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Would probably be deemed "childish..."
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Mueller's Ratchet
I think what they mean is that the longer a virus hangs around, the more likely it is to mutate away from being deadly and more toward the loss of ability to continue to reproduce. In other words, if we wait it out it will eventually burn itself out.
Wikipedia: offspring at least bear the same mutational load as their parents. [this] results in accumulation of deleterious mutations (harmful mutations) in an irreversible manner.Since deleterious mutations are harmful by definition, accumulation of them would result in loss of individuals and a smaller population size. Small populations are more susceptible to the ratchet effect and more deleterious mutations would be fixed as a result of genetic drift. This creates a positive feed-back loop which accelerates extinction of small populations.
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...maybe, maybe not. I live in Black Plague country. It still kills. However, if you follow common sense protocols, you avoid any personal experience with it.
[Jpost] "Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans."
A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new 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... spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year, scientists said on Wednesday.
Scientists at University College London's Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads.
"Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans," the research team, co-led by Francois Balloux, wrote in a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution.
Balloux said the analysis also found that the virus was and is mutating, as normally happens with viruses, and that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of the virus causing COVID-19 was found in all of the hardest-hit countries.
That suggests SARS-CoV-2 was being transmitted extensively around the world from early on in the epidemic, he said.
"All viruses naturally mutate. Mutations in themselves are not a bad thing and there is nothing to suggest SARS-CoV-2 is mutating faster or slower than expected," he said. "So far, we cannot say whether SARS-CoV-2 is becoming more or less lethal and contagious."
In a second study also published on Wednesday, scientists at Britannia's University of Glasgow who also analyzed SARS-CoV-2 virus samples said their findings showed that previous work suggesting there were two different strains was inaccurate.
JUST ONE VIRUS TYPE CIRCULATING
A preliminary study by Chinese scientists in March had suggested there may have been two strains of the new coronavirus causing infections there, with more of them more "aggressive" than the other.
But, publishing their analysis in the journal Virus Evolution, the Glasgow team said only one type of the virus was circulating.
More than 3.71 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 258,186 have died, according to a Rooters tally.
Cases have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since they were first identified in China in December 2019.
The genetic studies offer "fascinating" insights into the evolution of the virus, and emphasize that it is "a moving target with an unknown evolutionary destination," said Jonathan Stoye, head of the division of virology at Britannia's Francis Crick Institute.
"All the evidence is entirely consistent with an origin towards the end of last year, and there's no reason to question that in any way," Stoye said.
A study by French scientists published earlier this week found a man in La Belle France was infected with COVID-19 as early as Dec. 27, nearly a month before authorities there confirmed the first cases.
The World Health Organization said the French case was "not surprising" and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases.
Balloux's team screened the genomes of more than 7,500 viruses from infected patients around the world. Their results add to a growing body of evidence that SARS-CoV-2 viruses share a common ancestor from late 2019, suggesting this was when the virus jumped from a previous animal host into people.
The UCL researchers also found almost 200 small genetic changes, or mutations, in the coronavirus genomes they analyzed - findings Balloux said offered helpful clues for researchers seeking to develop drugs and vaccines.
[Jpost] The ousted director of a US agency responsible for developing drugs to fight 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... pandemic filed a whistleblower's complaint on Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's administration of retaliating when he raised concerns.
Rick Bright says in the complaint filed with a government watchdog that he warned about the virus in January and was met with hostility from Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and other high-ranking officials in the agency.
"Dr. Bright acted with urgency to begin to address this pandemic but encountered resistance from HHS leadership, including Secretary Azar, who appeared intent on downplaying this catastrophic threat," reads the complaint, which was filed with the US Office of Special Counsel.
Bright's lawyers argue that his removal as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of HHS, violated a federal law protecting government whistleblowers.
HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement that Bright was transferred to a job where he was entrusted to spend around $1 billion to develop diagnostic testing.
"We are deeply disappointed that he has not shown up to work on behalf of the American people and lead on this critical endeavor," Oakley said.
He disagreed with one effort, then refused to put his skills to work on what he did agree with? Not many are tasked with spending $1 billion effectively.
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.
[Breitbart] Mike Cain was hitchhiking near his retirement center in Lake San Marcos when he ran into real estate agent Richard Farmer, NBC 4 Los Angeles reported.
[Garden and Gun] The late Doc Watson was one of American traditional music’s most influential torchbearers. Blind from a young age, the North Carolina native won seven Grammy awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004), mentored up-and-coming pickers, and established the beloved MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in 1988 in honor of his late son, guitarist Eddie "Merle" Watson. But Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton, a new release from Smithsonian Folkways, predates all of that: The album, recorded over two concerts in New York City in 1962, finds a young Watson and his father-in-law, Gaither Carlton, playing their first-ever headlining gigs outside the South. 
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] 
[Aljazeera] An Indian train ran over migrant workers sleeping on the track on Friday, killing at least 14 of the group, who were apparently on their way to their home villages, the railway ministry and media said on Friday.
...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...
...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...
