[PEHAL News] It has been so a few years since Florida’s Baker County had a homicide that Sheriff Scotty Rhoden says he can’t keep in mind the final one.
He now has two, nevertheless, and the surprising particulars are terrifying folks in this sparsely populated county of about 30,000.
Two males had been found shot to death Monday, Aug. 1, at a rural home outdoors of Macclenny and the crime scene was grisly, Rhoden stated at a news conference. Macclenny is about 30 miles west of Jacksonville.
"Autopsies were performed. ... We can say that these two victims were brutally murdered and may have been targeted," Rhoden stated.
"Let’s make no mistake about it: This was an execution-style murder."
Much in regards to the case stays a thriller, with no recognized suspects and no recognized motive.
The victims have been recognized as David "Daniel" Sigers, 54, and James Michael "Bo" Thomas, 49, in accordance with a information launch.
Investigators believed they had been shot over the weekend.
The killings had been found at 11:25 a.m. Monday, when the Baker County Sheriff’s Office bought a report of our bodies in a home on Sawtooth Road, not removed from the Georgia state line.
"Deputies entered the residence and found two adult males in different parts of the house deceased from what appear to be gunshot wounds," the sheriff’s workplace stated.
A $5,000 reward is being supplied for suggestions resulting in an arrest of the suspects, however the sheriff’s workplace has been tight-lipped about particulars.
Among the main points not revealed: what number of instances the boys had been shot, why investigators consider they had been focused, and why the crime scene is described as "brutal."
What Rhoden did say is that there is no such thing as a proof the killings are drug associated.
Sigers had no prison historical past and Thomas solely had "some minor misdemeanor offenses" on his report, officers say.
Investigators are asking neighbors to report in the event that they noticed any unusual or uncommon exercise over the weekend. "There’s nothing that’s too small," Rhoden says.
An obituary reviews it occurred at Sigers’ home, the place he maintained "a quiet, private life." He "was a lifelong resident of Baker County," who performed nostril guard for the Baker High Wildcats soccer staff and served in the U.S. Army, the obituary says.
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Been reading Florida crime literature, both true crime and fiction, since I got here. It's actually rather typical of the type of violent crime that occurs in small communities here.
Familiarity does breed contempt.
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Friend raised in rural eastern Oklahoma talked about a family that were the exemplars of 'Poor White Trash'. Anything got stolen, new source of marijuana or whatever and the county sheriff would go out and pay them a visit. Finally to no local's surprise they were found dead from multiple shotgun wounds... Some things are just natural end results.
[News4 Jax] BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida’s busiest interstate while drunk, according to an arrest report.
The 58-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night on the shoulder of Interstate 95. She is now facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication in a public place and resisting an officer without violence.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a semi-truck driver spotted the woman driving in the golf cart in the center lane of Interstate 95 in Brevard County, which is the heart of Florida’s Space Coast. The truck driver "advised she observed the driver of the golf cart passing out while driving," the report said.
The truck driver used her semi to steer the golf cart to the shoulder of the interstate, troopers said.
[NYPOST] The shooting that left a Brooklyn McDonald’s worker clinging to life could have easily been avoided – if the customer was just given hot fries, a relative of one of the suspects told The Post Wednesday. What about the idea, silly as it may seem, that Sonny shouldn't have whipped out his rosco and plugged him.
Michael Morgan, 20, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot the 23-year-old worker outside the Bedford-Stuyvesant eatery when his mom got into a heated spat with the employee over her cold order, police and law enforcement sources said.
His girlfriend, Camellia Dunlap, 18, was also slapped with weapons charges over the Monday night shooting after allegedly handing her beau the gun, sources added.
“I think it would have been solved if one they just gave the lady some hot French fries and let her been on her way,” Dunlap’s 66-year-old grandmother, Debra Dunlap, told The Post.
“That would have been solved right there.” Grandmoms' attitude is another reason Fatherless youts are POS. Vibrant and diverse
The ordeal erupted after Morgan allegedly stormed into the restaurant when his mom, Lisa Fulmore, started arguing with the worker – identified as Matthew Jeremiah Webb – over the cold fries, sources said.
Fulmore told The Post in an exclusive interview that the employees had laughed at her when she tried to speak to a manager.
“Why were they laughing at her? Why didn’t they just give her hot French fries? That’s why we go in there to spend our money,” Dunlap’s grandmother said.
“She went back a second time for French fries… and they didn’t give her [hot] French fries again? No one goes into a restaurant wanting cold food when you’re paying your money,” she continued, referring to the worker’s alleged attempt to cover up the cold side by topping it off with a few crispy fries.
“Give people what they ask for,” she added. “If I want some hot fries, I want some hot fries.”
The grandmother conceded that Morgan’s mother could have also called cops to sort out the fast-food spat instead of getting her son involved, who has a lengthy criminal record.
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Gee, I thought NYC had some of the strictest (and unconstitutional) laws on gun ownership too. Was the gun legally procured and the bearer properly licensed? Would it had happen if the perp hadn't been carrying illegally?
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"Michael Morgan, 20, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot the 23-year-old worker..."
I thought it was 21 to have a Pistol.
So was Thug Morgan ILLEGALLY carrying a Firearm in NYC? A city where they have STRICT Gun Laws making it near impossible for Joe/Jane/I, Honest Citizen to have a carry permit?
Question: Does NYC WOKE/BLM Immunity extend to Firearm Violations also?
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SouthernMinn as of twenty minutes ago: Jason A. Jones, 42, who has lived across the street from one of the victims since 2019, was arrested and charged with ten felony counts including four first degree murders and arsons. The idiot left his receipts for gas canisters, gasoline, and a gun at one of the sites. When arrested at his house at 2:30 this morning, he was found to be so badly burnt they had to airlift him to the hospital in Lincoln.
He was found guilty back in April 2022 by the Biden-Coup DOJ US DC Court for the theft of $80,000 in public funds.
Carter had been employed as director of operations in Rep. Brad Schneider’s (D-Ill.) office.
His sentencing was July 28th 2022 by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols who sentenced Carter to nine months in prison for stealing $80,000 in public funds after he pleaded guilty to the charge.
Hick, I'd do 9 months for $80K which is a $8.8K a month salary with room and board included.
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Reminds me of P.J. O'Rourke
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The picture is Rep. Brad Schneider. Poor journalism.
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"He was also found to have raised his own salary significantly by forging signatures and submitting unauthorized documents"
Deniability.... I'm sure he's been doing dirty tricks for some time and getting compensated for it every step of the way.
[ArmyTimes] The Army Tactical Brassiere is a product undergoing testing at the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center.
In the fall, the Soldier Center’s Design Pattern Prototype Team is expected to present an initial evaluation to the Army Uniform Board, which would establish the Army Tactical Brassiere as an official program of record.
“If the AUB makes it a program of record, we would want to promote that as a [Soldier Center] accomplishment and win for female Soldiers across the Army,” wrote Jeff Sisto, a public affairs officer with Soldier Center, in an email to Army Times.
The bra’s development began with a survey given to female soldiers on what type of functionality and preferences should be considered during initial design. It has been labeled a “tactical rather than sportswear item,” according to Soldier Touchpoints.
It’s meant to integrate into existing body armor and give an added level of protection to female soldiers.
“This means that designers are evaluating options such as the inclusion of flame-retardant fabrics and expertly layered compression, structural and protective materials while also taking into account the importance of accurate sizing, reliable comfort, moisture management and breathability,” Touchpoints noted.
“The overall goal is to produce garments that not only protect the user, but reduce the cognitive burden on the female Soldier caused by discomfort and ill fit,” said Ashley Cushon, clothing designer and project lead for the ATB at the DEVCOM Soldier Center. “Achieving this will improve the Soldier’s overall readiness and performance levels, allowing them to focus on their mission,” she explained.
This effort is part of an ongoing campaign to tailor military uniform options to diverse body types. And there are currently four prototype models. Concepts A and B are pullover sports bras with padding and structured seams and a shelf style, respectively. Concept C is a compression bra with cross-back straps. Concept D has a zippered front closure with contoured seams and adjustable cross back straps.
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Well meaning idiots — they seek the Holy Grail. They won’t find it, sadly, and if they come out with their own product instead of sending female soldiers to the nearest Nordstrom with $200 and orders to be properly fitted before they purchase anything — around two thirds of women do not realize they are wearing the wrong size bra, which is why they’re so often so uncomfortable — I guarantee that about 90% of the women will end up in something actively painful because it neither fits nor meets their needs.
Only small busted women (A to B cup) can or should wear a pull-over shelf bra. Anything bigger than that — for physically active women — needs an encapsulation bra, with or without underwires, that is individually fitted to take into account not just cup size and chest diameter, but half a dozen factors altogether. Ignoring any of those factors will result in something that is not only uncomfortable to wear but can cause painful sores. Different bra designers orient their products to this or that combination of factors, such that, for instance, none of the five females that passed through the wife household were comfortable in the same size/brand of bra, and their sizes changed with weight gain/loss and muscularity gain/loss, though I drew the line at purchasing several sizes at once to accommodate time of the month. It was frustrating to discover how often we needed to go back to be properly fitted for the stupid things.
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So the judge ruled on the Supreme Court ruling that an employer can't discriminate on the sex of a person. Except Medicaid isn't an employer. Combined with other SC ruling I expect this to get reversed on the higher courts.
[BridgeMI] What started as a fight over an LGBTQ-themed graphic novel may end with the closure of a west Michigan public library.
Voters in Jamestown Township, a politically conservative community in Ottawa County, rejected renewal Tuesday of a millage that would support the Patmos Library. That vote guts the library’s operating budget in 2023 — 84 percent of the library’s $245,000 budget comes from property taxes collected through a millage.
Without a millage, the library is likely to run out of money sometime late next year, said Larry Walton, library board president.
“I wasn’t expecting anything like this,” Walton told Bridge Michigan Tuesday. “The library is the center of the community. For individuals to be short sighted to close that down over opposing LGBTQ is very disappointing.”
There have been protests at other Michigan public libraries and at school board meetings about books with LGBTQ themes. But Tuesday may be the first time a community voted, in effect, to close its library rather than have it remain open with books some consider to be “indoctrinating” children.
Voters on Tuesday rejected the millage renewal by a 25-point margin — 62 percent to 37 percent — on the same day voters approved millages for road improvements and the fire department.
Ten years earlier, a library millage at a slightly lower rate was approved by 37 percentage points.
For the average home with a market value of $250,000, the new millage, if approved, would have increased taxes about $24.
Debbie Mikula, executive director of the Michigan Library Association, said Wednesday there were about 40 public library millages on ballots across the state Tuesday, and all but a handful passed. No others that failed appeared to be due to cultural issues like with the Patmos millage, she said.
The difference, according to voters who spoke to Bridge Tuesday: Books in the adult and young adult section of the Patmos Library that depict, in some cases in detail, same-sex relationships.
Earlier this year, a parent raised concerns about the graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” located in the adult graphic novel section. The book tells the story of the author’s coming of age as nonbinary, and includes illustrations of sex acts.
As many as 50 people attended several library board meetings this spring, meetings that typically draw only a handful of residents. At those meetings, residents demanded the book be pulled from the shelves. The library board moved the book behind the counter, where children couldn’t happen upon it by accident.
Complaints were filed about several other books, including “Spinning,” a graphic novel about a teen girl and her attraction to other girls, and “Kiss Number 8,” a graphic novel with similar themes. Those books remain on the shelves of the young adult (high-school age) graphic novels section.
Library Director Amber McLain resigned this spring, telling Bridge she had been harassed online and accused of indoctrinating children. Interim director Matthew Lawrence resigned later. Hey Groomers!
When the Patmos staff and elected board of directors declined to remove the books from the library’s collection, some upset residents organized an effort to defeat the library’s millage renewal.
The group, called Jamestown Conservatives, passed out flyers at the town’s Memorial Day parade that referenced “Gender Queer: a Memoir,” a Pride Month display at the library and a director who, in the group’s words, “promoted the LGBTQ ideology.”
“Pray that we can make changes and make the Patmos Library a safe and neutral place for our children,” the flyer said.
Jamestown Township, population just under 10,000, is politically conservative even for conservative Ottawa County. The township voted for Donald Trump for president by a margin of 76-21 percent in 2020. About 92 percent of residents are white, and the median income of $81,000 is 37 percent higher than that of the state median household income of $59,000.
Ensing, who helped organize the no campaign, said she hoped the millage rejection would be a “wake-up call” that would encourage library officials to remove books from shelves that community members find objectionable.
If that’s done, “they can ask for a millage again,” she said.
But Walton didn’t appear ready to compromise Tuesday. He said he didn’t believe the library needed a wake-up call and shouldn’t remove books.
“A wake-up call to what? To take LGBTQ books off the shelf and then they will give us money? What do you call that? Ransom?
“We stand behind the fact that our community is made up of a very diverse group of individuals, and we as a library cater to the diversity of our community,” he said.
Walton could not be reached Wednesday.
Mikula of the library association said the Patmos Library could still get a millage on the November ballot, if ballot language is given to the Ottawa County clerk’s office by Aug. 16.
But after having just lost by 25 points, turning around public sentiment in less than three months might be difficult without concessions by the library, which Mikula said is difficult because public libraries must follow its “collection development policies. If patrons have challenged (books) and the library board has made a decision to keep them, then … the First Amendment protects the process.”
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Look. My degree is English Lit. I have spent a lot of time in libraries. Small community libraries are obsolete now, and if they are going to make grooming materials the hill they wish to die on, then die they must.
The money would be better spent on upgrading water lines and sewers.
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It's not a FREE speech 1st Amendment issue if its taxpayer funded. Somehow the usual suspects forget who works for who.
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When I moved from PeeAye, I had a whole spare bedroom with actual stacks in it. Several thousand books. I could not give them away to libraries let alone sell them. Nobody was interested. The libraries all said, "We don't have someone to take them in and evaluate them." In other words, they cried poor.
Don't tell me about the noble mission of the community library.
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The libraries all said, "We don't have someone to take them in and evaluate them."
The public libraries here happily accept donations — not to put on shelves but to sell at the twice yearly sale that is their major fundraiser. No evaluation required, and people come to buy bags of books at a dollar each, both the thousands donated and those books from library stocks that have become too worn to keep on the shelves.
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Well there you go. PeeAye is very damaged. Ohio is just barely better.
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My mother worked in a library for 30 years. The last librarian she worked for was against having books in the library as opposed to on-line research material. I don't think that librarian was a deep thinker.
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[Gateway] A series on the Showtime network called ’The First Lady’ that was based on Michelle Obama has been cancelled after just one season.
This is somewhat surprising, when you consider the way Ms. Obama is covered by the media. According to them, she is one of the most beloved and popular figures in the country.
If that’s true, why didn’t the show last? Weren’t people watching it? This made my morning
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...Because the only people watching it were the ones telling us how beloved and popular she is.
True story - when Barack was running the first time, Michelle came to Georgetown SC (where we lived at the time) to visit an aunt and do a bit of handshaking. Now, Georgetown is like a lot of places on the SC coast - large African American populations who live on land given to them in 1865 by a certain William T. Sherman during his stroll up the coast from Savannah that year.
These people are fiercely proud of their history and their heritage, and rightfully so. In '08, Michelle was one of their own, coming back to show how far they had come. The media was out in force, as to be expected.
And they outnumbered - by some considerable distance - the people who were there to see her. Should have been a clue then.
[DailyWire] Several people have been transported to local hospitals and are in critical condition after getting struck by lightning outside the White House.
The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said that four people were critically injured in Lafayette Park by the lightning strike.
First responders “transported 2 adult males & 2 adult females to area hospitals,” the department said on Twitter. “All had critical life threatening injuries.”
Fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo told The Washington Post that the four adults were found approximately 100 feet away from the statue of Andrew Jackson.
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Precip comes when it does. Only the morons at the Weathertainment™ channels are surprised.
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I need to overseed my lawn. The "experts" say we will get decent rain every day for the next 5 days. I won't actually go out to seed the lawn until the rain starts, and then only if there's no serious lightning.
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Most places in Arizona, including Phoenix, do not have storm sewers (because why?)
So if you do get a heavy rain, which does happen once in a blue moon, there is flooding.
However, since Arizona is so, well, arid, the floodwaters dry up pretty quickly, and an hour later it's dry again.
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1 No more communication btwn military theatre leaders
2 No more Ministries of Defence working meetings
3 No more maritime security dialogues
4 No more illegal migrant repatriation
5 No more criminal justice assistance
6 No more climate talks
7 No more cooperation on tackling transnational crimes
8 No more cooperation on anti-drugs measures
s noted by some, the Chinese statement says they have "cancelled" three of the items — theatre leaders' communication; MoD working meetings; "Military Maritime Consultative Agreement" meetings — as well as "suspended" the others
China’s new 8 measures against US:
1 No more communication btwn military theatre leaders 2 No more Ministries of Defence working meetings 3 No more maritime security dialogues 4 No more illegal migrant repatriation 5 No more criminal justice assistance 6 No more climate talks pic.twitter.com/SNZLk93B0x
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I'm in favor of public beatings for people who protest the cost of plastic lawn chairs.
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Yawn. Wake me when they stop sending their cargo ships to US ports. I'll have a bottle of champagne chilling in the refrigerator for that day. I still say this is all for show to make Biden and Pelosi look like they're tough on China when the fact is neither one of them ever do anything without Xi Jinping's blessing. A few weeks from now, or maybe after the election, all of this will be forgotten.
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We need a policy of strategic ambiguity with China, a nice-speak blather-storm as we carefully decouple from their manufacturing base and shut down their university and research spy operations. Strict border enforcement to stop their surreptitious fentanyl chemical weapons warfare and a gradual financial markets squeeze on their banking connections. Oh, and perhaps an expedited semi-Star Chamber process for the American elected/political luminaries who speak out against these actions. Skilled financial forensics will find the CCP money behind virtually all of them.
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“The police have registered license plates and will still take action against people, so that will have a tail in the context of criminal law,”
Farmers and Canadian truckers need to get up on tech. Start doxxing the addresses of police and government workers and contractors who engage in 'suppression'. Let their neighbors know who they really are.
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American style drive thru car wash. Rotating brushes replaced with rotating truncheons. Push the woke cops on thru, on metal boots welded to the chain that s l o w l y moves thru.
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In Canada they introduced non-local cops for the beat-down phase. The globalists have probably picked a reliable agency for muscle.
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Well, if it continues, don't be surprised if the cops wind up hog tied, branded and castrated. Ready for butchering and serving to the elites advocating cannibalism.
[Daily Wire] Researchers in Israel have created the world’s first "synthetic embryos" in a landmark study, without using sperm or egg cells.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, were able to make stem cells taken from mice form early embryo-like structures, including a gastrointestinal tract, a beating heart, and the early stages of a brain. The embryos are considered "synthetic" because they were not derived from a fertilized egg — but preliminary results suggest that "synthetic embryos" are fairly similar to natural embryos.
"Remarkably, we show that embryonic stem cells generate whole synthetic embryos, meaning this includes the placenta and yolk sac surrounding the embryo," said Dr. Jacob Hanna, who headed the study. "We are truly excited about this work and its implications."
Researchers believe that this breakthrough could offer alternatives to animal experimentation and pave the way for new stem cell growth for human transplants. Skin cells could be potentially transformed into bone marrow stem cells, for example, to help treat patients suffering from leukemia. The demand for donated organs often outstrips the supply, and the immune system naturally attacks foreign cells, requiring already weakened patients to take immunosuppressant drugs after a transplant. Being able to grow tissues from a patient’s DNA could bypass many of the compatibility issues current transplants face and greatly increase the availability of the treatment.
The synthetic embryos are not thought to have the potential to develop into fully-formed animals, and only 0.5% of the observed stem cells combined to grow distinctive tissue, although those tissues seemed fully functional and "95%" similar to natural tissues in basic structure.
Synthetic embryos failed to develop further when they were implanted into female mice. Human experimentation is purely hypothetical at this stage, although Hanna is optimistic about prospects for future research.
"In Israel and many other countries, such as the US and the UK, it is legal and we have ethical approval to do this with human-induced pluripotent stem cells. This is providing an ethical and technical alternative to the use of embryos," Hanna said.
Other researchers are more uncertain about the practical and ethical prospects of future experimentation.
"Synthetic human embryos are not an immediate prospect. We know less about human embryos than mouse embryos and the inefficiency of the mouse synthetic embryos suggests that translating the findings to human requires further development," Dr. James Briscoe, a researcher at London’s Francis Crick Institute, said to The Guardian. "Now is a good time to consider the best legal and ethical framework to regulate research and use of human synthetic embryos and to update the current regulations."
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.
[Daily Wire] Researchers in Israel have created the world’s first "synthetic embryos" in a landmark study, without using sperm or egg cells.
