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Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Criminal complaint cops used to handcuff paralyzed Jacob Blake to his hospital bed
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The three count criminal complaint filed on July 6, 2020 in Kenosha County, Wisconsin against Jacob Blake includes:

  1. Criminal trespass, domestic abuse a Class A misdemeanor, and if convicted faces a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than 9 months or both.

  2. Third Degree Sexual assault, Domestic Abuse a Class G Felony and if convicted faces a fine of not more than $25,000.00 or imprisoned not more than r 10 years, or both.

  3. Disorderly Conduct, Domestic Abuse, a Class B Misdemeanor and if convicted faces a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both.

According to the probable cause statement on May 3, 2020 a Kenosha police officer responded to the very same address where Blake was shot at on August 24, 2020 for a report that an ex-boyfriend had broken into the residence and stole vehicle keys, a vehicle debit card before fleeing.

The complainant is listed in the report only by initials met with officers, crying, visible shaken and dressed only in a nightgown.

The victim explained to police the previous evening she had left at approximately 8pm to aDomesticttend a party in Milwaukee and had rented a vehicle for the weekend because she didn't think her vehicle would make it up there and back because of mechanical issues.

The victim said she had her sister spend the night and watch her kids when she was gone.

She said she returned back home at about 4.11am, her sister was sleeping in the living room on the couch with numerous children. She said she took her son with her into the first bedroom down the hallway and went to sleep.

The report states at about 6am the victim was woken up by Jacob Blake.

Blake was standing over her saying, 'I want my sh*t.' As the victim laid on her back, Blake, 'suddenly and without warning, reached his hand between her legs, penetrated her vaginally with a finger, pull it out and sniffed it, and said, ''Smells like you've been with other men.''

The officer noted in the report the victim had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant (Blake) assaulted her and then the defendant immediately left the bedroom.

She told the police being penetrated digitally caused her pain and humiliation and was done without consent.
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bravo headlining DM, just bravo.

So those kids are suddenly his, even though the entire article demonstrates the mom and aunt are raising them. Surprised they didn't just straight libel mom of breaking quarantine guidelines.

Dude broke into the house at 6am, stuck his finger up his crotch, yelled at the kids, and robbed them.

I have to wonder, if she rented the car knowing that if her car was gone JakeTheRape would notice and do something instead of noticing a strange car in the driveway and hoping to catch some dude.

And a childraper.

Real piece of shit.

I hope every sportsballer, virtue signaller, and big corporate bobblehead hitch their wagon to this guy, with two tongues. In fact, I greatly anticipate the first interview.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:52 Comments || Top||


4 teens, including juvenile, arrested in connection with White Raleigh girl's murder outside Bojangles'
[MSN] (WNCN) - Four teens, including a juvenile, have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was found dead in a car outside a Raleigh Bojangle’s last weekend.

olice said Tuesday night that three teens, Keyshara Michelle Deans, 19, Nezyiha Zamir Collins, 19, and Tyreek Qumay Rogers, 18, were all arrested and charged with accessory after the fact to murder.

Authorities were still looking for 17-year-old Devin Cordell Jones. A juvenile petition and secure custody order for the murder of Veronica Lee Baker were being sought for Jones. On Wednesday morning, the teen was taken into custody and charged with Baker’s murder.

Devin Cordell Jones, 17, in a previous mugshot, Keyshara Michelle Deans, 19, Tyreek Qumay Rogers, 18, Nezyiha Zamir Collins, 19.

Deans, Collins, and Rogers were all taken to the Wake County Detention Center. Collins and Rogers are being held on $500,000 secured bonds each. According to warrants, Collins and Rogers left North Carolina with Jones in an attempt to evade capture.

Deans is being held on a $1,015,000 secured bond for multiple charges, some of which date back to June and don’t appear to be related to Baker’s murder, according to arrest records. Deans’ arrest warrant says that she drove Jones from the scene of the murder in order for him to evade capture.

Just after 8:15 p.m. Saturday, a caller reported finding a girl lying inside a car in the parking lot of the Bojangles’ at 3920 Jones Sausage Road.

"She’s not breathing. I tried to shake her and everything else. It’s just not, no response. No nothing," said the caller, adding that the car was running with the lights on, doors open, and a set of keys inside.

A second person heard on the call said the car has been the parking lot for some time, but they initially didn’t realize something was wrong.

"I went on lunch. I went on my break a minutes ago, sir, and when I came back the door was open. I didn’t pay no attention," the person said.

Friends and neighbors described Baker as sweet and lovely. They said she had her whole life ahead of her. Baker graduated from Garner Magnet High School in June.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whatever in the world would make these four, nice young people get involved in something like this ?

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently, the victim was a Cultural Misappropriator. White people don't eat at Bojangles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe they could claim to be BLM protesters? Nah, they're all black so nobody would believe it.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Keyshara Michelle Deans
Nezyiha Zamir Collins
Tyreek Qumay Rogers
Devin Cordell Jones

Oh, so now they provide photos....
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I have eaten at one, Skidmark. It wasn't too bad.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/30/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder how Baker was murdered? Gunshot, beating, knifing? Does Bojangles have any security camera video of the crime? Are the yutes BLM wannabees?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2020 17:28 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
PICTURED: Two members of elite Night Stalkers helicopter unit killed when their Black Hawk crashed on island used to train Navy SEALs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, New Jersey, and Sgt. Tyler M. Shelton, 22, of San Bernardino, California were identified as fatalities in training accident

  • A 15T UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed during what the military says was 'routine training' on San Clemente Island off the Southern California coast

  • Marketta and Shelton were part of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), an elite unit also known as 'Night Stalkers'

  • The 160th SOAR (A) took part and provided cover for special forces in the 2011 mission in Pakistan that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RIP Night Stalkers, your fight is over. A speedy recovery for the rest of the crew. This is the part of the job I don't miss. May God bless their families. NSDQ!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/30/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  This is a hazard of the dangerous missions Night Stalkers do. It is tragic. But Night Stalkers Don't Quit. My condolences go out to the families that lost a loved one.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/30/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#3  From what I've read, nothing about their training is routine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:13 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Prof Michael Levitt: here's what I got wrong [re: COVID]
[Unherd] Professor Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford, was one of our early interviews during the lockdown era. Partly due to that interview, which has been watched over 750,000 times on YouTube, he became one of the best known dissenting scientists, arguing that the trends of Covid-19 were revealed in the numbers, and that they were much less scary than most people thought.

At the end of July, he made a prediction that Covid-19 would be "done" by August 25th. It was shared across Twitter. He agreed, back then, to come in to our new studio once the date had elapsed, to see how his prediction fared…


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Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should've gone into economics - where explaining why your predictions did't pan out is routine. Better still, should've stuck to his own field - biophysics.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/30/2020 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ So he should keep his day job?
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#3  It's actually refreshing to hear a professor admit he's wrong, why he was wrong and what he'll do differently the next time around. This is so rare nowadays.
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2020 14:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan flash floods kill 160, search for bodies continues
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Shaken By Summer Looting In Affluent Neighborhoods, Some Chicagoans Are Moving Away.
[Shitcago Tribloon] Amber, who requested her last name be withheld out of concern for her safety, said she and her husband are actively eyeing a home near the Indiana Dunes National Park, about 50 miles outside of Chicago. The millennial couple, both age 30, currently live in River North, where much of the summer looting has been centered.

"We're just looking for more safety," she said.

Amber's husband also works as a nurse. The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising, Amber said, but living smack dab at the intersection of the downtown unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly difficult.

"I think people forget that people do live here, too -- it's not just the Guccis and the Jimmy Choo stores," she said. "And I completely support it all. You stealing shoes means nothing to me -- that doesn't hurt me at all. It's just the fact that that brings more crime, and that does endanger me."
."It wasn't supposed to happen to meeee! I'm one of the good ones!"
What a pity the census is nearly done. The one in 2030 is going to be really, really interesting.
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising, Amber said, but.....

....we're moving to Indiana to assist in the migration of our communist views.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The internal contradiction is pretty glaring.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  5 miles from Gary, IN is safer?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  ...incapable of learning.

Loggers don't set fire to the forest they work, but tree huggers do by allowing tinder to amass. Law and order types don't set fire to their cities, but the virtue signalers do by allowing crime to amass.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  What is a Jimmy Choo?

*looks it up*

ohfffurfukssake, this is how you identify yourself?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Note to Chicagoans from the suburbs - we don't want you.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/30/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  The pair supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the uprising

Buyer's remorse? Trade it in at Jimmy Choo's!
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#8  So much for the "Summer of Love."
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#9  They go to suburbs and have all sorts of ideas how how to live but they go back as they are unable to convert the backward uneducated to their way of thinking. I have seen this first hand. Wanting low income apartments,raw sewage for gardens and yes and yes but no and no.
Posted by: Dale || 08/30/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Women march through Belarusian capital calling for Lukashenko to step down
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
FBI: Chinese researcher caught trying to fly to China with stolen bio-inspired computer code
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A Chinese military-linked researcher was caught by U.S. authorities at the airport attempting to flee to China with highly advanced computer code he stole from a U.S. university that could be used for underwater robots and aircraft engines, according to the FBI.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Hu Haizhou, a researcher from the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering discovered to also work for a Chinese military-linked university too, before he could board a flight to Qingdao, China, from reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
’s O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday, said an FBI special agent in an 11-page affidavit filed on Friday in federal court in Virginia.

According to the agent, Matthew Rader, CBP Sherlocks questioned Hu and searched his electronic devices, which revealed UVA-research-related files stored on his laptop, including "bio-inspired research simulation software code" developed by "Professor 1." Bio-inspired research relates to studying the complexities of flying and swimming creatures in nature and applying that to manned flight or submersibles — often with military applications.

Hu "did not have lawful, authorized access to this material, and he admitted that Professor 1 would not want him to have it and would be upset to learn that HU possessed it," the FBI said. The professor, who runs the multiuniversity Flow Simulations Group, has been developing this code over the last 17 years and is sponsored by the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. The FBI special agent said that probable cause existed to charge Hu federally with fraud-related illicit computer intrusions and the theft of trade secrets. The Washington Examiner can confirm Hu was arrested.

Hu had worked for the professor from March 2019 through August 2019, and the professor told Sherlocks that Hu had left the university abruptly to return to China without saying goodbye. Hu told Sherlocks that he also works for the Chinese Key Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics at China’s Beihang University, which receives funding from the Chinese government as well as specifically from the Chinese air force. Hu had seen the professor give a lecture on "biomimics in aerodynamics" at the Chinese university in 2017 and had approached the professor to do research for him in the United States, Rader said. Hu had also attended China’s Harbin University, where he worked for its Key Laboratory for Underwater Robot Technology, which he admitted was, "of course," funded by China’s so-called People’s Liberation Army, the affidavit said.

Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  This has been going on for a long time. I, for one, am VERY glad this administration is finally doing something about it. This alone is reason enough for my vote.

https://www.csis.org/programs/technology-policy-program/survey-chinese-linked-espionage-united-states-2000
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 08/30/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of document-burning at ChiCom consulates lately. Rolling up their networks, perhaps?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||


Europe
Thieves make off with €9 million in armed cash heist in Lyon
[France24] Thieves made off with nine million euros in cash in the southeastern French city of Lyon on Friday in an armed attack on an armoured security vehicle, prosecutors said.

The theft is believed to be the biggest such cash heist in France since notorious robber Toni Musulin in 2009 made off with 11.6 million euros ($13.8 million), most of which was subsequently recovered.

The vehicle was attacked at around (9:00 am local time (0700 GMT) by several armed individuals as it came out of a branch of the Bank of France in Lyon.

No one was injured in the attack on the vehicle belonging to the Loomis security company "but the losses amount to nine million euros (about $10.7 million)", prosecutors said in a statement to AFP.

"The perpetrators managed to immediately flee after committing the act."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 03:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, a story of normative behavior in the news!
Posted by: Cesare || 08/30/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  It is a bit refreshing in a way, isn't it?
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I suppose we have to assume it wasn't jihadis, since there was no body count or explosions...
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Now if we really want to get back to normal we can talk about the Fulda Gap.
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Oceans Twelve, anybody?
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves with chains and blades during traditional procession to mark Ashura in Pakistan
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Photos taken on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan show a group of Shiite Muslims completing self-flagellation

  • For Shiite Muslims involved in the ritual, it is believed that self-flagellation washes away all of their sins

  • The procession marked Ashura and commemorates the death of Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad
Distressingly graphic photos at the link.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For Shiite Muslims involved in the ritual, it is believed that self-flagellation washes away all of their sins

Keep flagellating. Not there yet.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Ferrari Roma makes its South African debut
[Wheels24] It's one of the most anticipated cars to be launched in South Africa this year, but the Ferrari Roma finally made its local debut. Albeit in digital form.

As the newest addition to the Ferrari portfolio, the Roma carries all the requirements to make it a true Ferrari in every sense of the word. From the striking design to its award-winning V8 engine, the Roma is ready to continue the rich tradition of groundbreaking 'stallions'.

Ferrari says that the Roma takes inspiration from the erstwhile 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso and 250 GT 2+2, which explains why the car blends past and future in a contemporary package.

From the outside, the Roma draws attention with its new-age design. The grille, the first introduction with the car, is unlike anything Ferrari's done before. A large chrome section with air openings takes center stage, with a purposeful front spoiler underlining the car's intent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 03:14 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ferraris work great when you have an auto mechanic on staff.

Or a second one in your garage for when your primary is in the shop.

High performance, high maintenance.

My '79 1-ton still works fine, but the 'staff maintenance' is me.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/30/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  High performance, high maintenance.

As are many things of beauty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Touché, P2k.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/30/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I think you should fix these two Ferraris first, Enzo. Geez, what a shitshow their season's been.
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||


Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.

"It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," the billionaire entrepreneur said on a webcast.

His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their minds.

Mr. Musk argues such chips could eventually be used to help cure conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and spinal cord injuries.

But the long-term ambition is to usher in an age of what Mr. Musk calls "superhuman cognition", in part to combat artificial intelligence so powerful he says it could destroy the human race.

Gertrude was one of three pigs in pens that took part in Friday’s webcast demo. She took a while to get going, but when she ate and sniffed straw, the activity showed up on a graph tracking her neural activity. She then mostly ignored all the attention around her.

The processor in her brain sends wireless signals, indicating neural activity in her snout when looking for food.

Mr. Musk said the original Neuralink device, revealed just over a year ago, had been simplified and made smaller.

"It actually fits quite nicely in your skull. It could be under your hair and you wouldn’t know."

Founded in 2017, Neuralink has worked hard to recruit scientists, something Mr. Musk was still advertising for on Twitter last month and which he said was the purpose of Friday’s demo.

The device the company is developing consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads thinner than human hair, which can monitor the activity of 1,000 brain neurons.

Ahead of the webcast, Ari Benjamin, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kording Lab, had told BBC News the real stumbling block for the technology could be the sheer complexity of the human brain.
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As seen on TV.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/30/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Should of called her Hillary. More appropriate.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/30/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#4  "chipped pig on toast ?"
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 08/30/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Gertrude then colored her hair blue, got a Twitter account and launched a campaign to get a guy cancelled for a stray remark he made about pigs thirty years ago.

From soo-eee! to Reee! in no time flat!

Success!
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2020 20:51 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
DiBlasio To Axe 22,000 NYC Gov't Employees
Even better (or worse, at least for NYC) - this looks permanent and probably more of it'll happen down the road. Either way, they're fucked...
[Forbes via Insty] - New York City may lay off tens of thousands of municipal workers. Even with this massive downsizing, it won’t be enough to stem the financial hemorrhaging plaguing the city.

The Wall Street Journal reported that roughly 22,000 government workers need to be let go to close a $9 billion deficit that continues to grow.
The $9 billion number's wrong - 9,000,000,000 / 22,000 = $409,090.90 for an average salary in the NYC hackerama. That kinda jumps out, doesn't it?
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said about the dire situation, "Here is a way to think about it—for every hundred million dollars in city budget—that’s about 2,200 city employees, on average." He added, "To close a $1 billion dollar gap would mean laying off 22,000 city employees, which is a staggering number." New York has about 330,000 municipal workers.
That's more like it - $45,454 for an average salary. May I recommend a few courses in B-School for the intrepid journalists here?
For several months, New York City held the unwanted title of America’s epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. Similar to other large cities, businesses were ordered to close and residents told to stay indoors.

New York heavily relies upon its bustling commerce, entertainment and social activities to draw in and keep people. Without restaurants, concerts, museums, sporting events and people commuting into Manhattan from the other boroughs (New York City comprises of five boroughs), the city has quickly changed. Residents have fled the city.

As people ceased commuting into New York, worked remotely, businesses shut their doors and social activities have halted, revenues to companies have plummeted. As businesses of all sizes saw their profits evaporate, the city government received significantly less in tax collection.
Given the rapid pace of events over the previous months, I don't remember for certain if someone else has mentioned this path to the shithole NYC is on. From there, the article explains the additive downward spiraling of one negative thing begetting another, and so on. I don't wish ill on people (except for my asshole cousin and the professional tenant from last year - they can eat shit and die) but maybe now people finally realize that their votes matter and people like DiBlasio and Cuomo Cuomo (not the homo!) don't want to govern, they want to rule, and it's only going to get worse for NYC.
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2020 15:36 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And his wife will ax them not to be mad about it.
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't you start by axing the $2,000,000 worth of city-paid "employees" your WIFE has taking videos of her making cookies, etc., Di-BlahBlah?

Jackass.
Posted by: Barbara || 08/30/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I have no sympathy. Thi# is what they voted for. Haven’t they been listening to him?
Posted by: Cluper and Company4908 || 08/30/2020 17:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Urbanism is a broken model. The dem approved rioting and no bail release of criminals will just hasten the end.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2020 19:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm sure DiBlasio will first layoff police, fire, sanitation, EMS, and other essential workers. The last to go will be all the diversity and inclusion types.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/30/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, cut the meat and bone to save the fat.

See any "government shutdown".
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||



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Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2020-08-30
  Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
Sat 2020-08-29
  Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
after refusing Trump assistance
Fri 2020-08-28
  Antifa and BLM attacking people leaving the Whitehouse after RNC end.
Thu 2020-08-27
  Congo army says Islamist militia kills 20 in east
Wed 2020-08-26
  Kenosha Residents Fire Warning Shots as Rioters Threaten Neighborhoods (video)
Tue 2020-08-25
  Chief: Detroit police prevented 'Seattle zone of lawlessness'
Mon 2020-08-24
  Denver: After attacking police headquarters and a courthouse, antifa black bloc militants go around smashing up businesses
Sun 2020-08-23
  Sudan's Hamdok says government ready to cooperate with ICC over Darfur
Sat 2020-08-22
  PDF about major Soros loss in the Supreme Court.
Fri 2020-08-21
  Ansarallah forces kill high-ranking ISIS leader in Yemen
Thu 2020-08-20
  Mali soldiers promise civilian transition after president's ouster
Wed 2020-08-19
  Ansarallah leader, who has not missed many meals, says negotiations with Saudi Arabia reached dead end, war to continue
Tue 2020-08-18
  Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
Mon 2020-08-17
  Syrian presidency reveals conditions for direct talks with US
Sun 2020-08-16
  Erdogan accused Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority


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