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Central African Republic sentences ex-president Bozize to life imprisonment (in absentia)
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Yet another What Supremaciss caught in latest shooting in blue heaven Orlando
[WFTV] The Orlando Police Department said they have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection to Friday’s deadly shooting at an apartment complex on Mercy Drive.

Residents at the apartment also told Channel 9 that this started with a fight.

In a social media video, a woman is thrown to the ground before more people engage in the brawl.

Then, nearly 20 rapid gunshots sent dozens of people running and ducking for cover.

After the shooting, police said they were sent on a car chase that ended nearly two miles away on Duncan Place and Old Winter Garden Road.
Lots of photos at the link. None of the suspect, of course.
They said at least three people were inside the black Impala when they stopped it.

One of them with a gunshot wound was taken to the hospital and the others were detained by Orlando police.

Police said three of the people shot in this incident suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators said the suspect, Delray Shundale Duncan Junior, was arrested Friday on charges of attempted homicide and first-degree felony murder related to the shooting.
A photo of the rather startled looking Mr. Duncan, Jr can be seen here, along with the information that he is a convicted felon.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AKA Dindu Nuffin
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2023 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  His timing is bad. A few weeks ago, DeSantis dismissed the second elected black female state prosecutor in Orange County who was working the Soros playbook. Had he done this under either of them, he'd be out of jail and probably facing no charges. The black, male state judge appointed to fill the state attorney slot has been called a racist since taking the job.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Borrowers weigh payment boycott as student loan payments set to resume
[10 News] Let us know how that works for you? Most Americans have no student loans or have paid them off, having real jobs. A reckoning is near
Yes, and the consequences for the stupid will be deservedly ugly.
Student loan repayments are resuming on October 1st, after a protracted legal battle led by the Biden administration. Interest on loans has already started accruing again.

The administration is still providing debt forgiveness to around 800,000 borrowers and installing a new income-driven repayment plan.

But that still leaves the rest of the 43.5 million Americans who will be paying an average of $337 a month to service their loans.

Some economists have warned that this could slow down consumer spending, which has been surprisingly steady amid inflation. It also coincides with other hardships, like major strikes in Hollywood and for Detroit's Big Three automakers.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People seem to think that they are beyond accountability. Its not just antifa or BLM. Its in our millennial culture. Once their credit goes to zero they will learn to pay their bills. Getting a student loan was a choice, so was getting some stupid degree that would not help you in life. Not my problem to bail you out, get a tent, live on the street, loath you life, I have no sympathy.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/24/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  "Nobody told me my Queer Studies degree would be worthless..."

Doesn't change the verbiage of whatever loan papers you signed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 12:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Thinking of the discussion in another thread about suing the vaccine companies despite the gummint indemnification. Seems there's a pretty big class here that should be going after the lenders and the universities for teaming up to make loans on what is basically a defective product. Lots of deep pockets to go after.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  People seem to think that they are beyond accountability.

Betcha they're going to get away with that.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  THey have apparently never heard of garnishing paychecks. Which the IRS is very good at.
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2023 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Most of them have no paycheck to garnish.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 14:48 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 You still haven't grasped that a membership in a privileged group = privileges.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2023 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  If contracts become breakable just to let politicians buy votes, it will be a "privilege" all will come to rue equally.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 15:10 Comments || Top||

#9  "If", "become"?

Don't we have here dayly articles about double system of justice, double standards in every walk of life, etc.?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2023 15:21 Comments || Top||

#10  The problem with messing with debt is it is a market distortion and eventually affects all.

When the cost of borrowing goes up high enough, it will definitely affect the universities, the academics and the communities that depend on those institutions for economic reasons.

There's no way to firewall it so a "privileged class" is unaffected.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 15:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Lo these many years ago, when younger son was of that age, he brought me the paperwork for the student loans. After reading thru, it was basically 'sell your soul'.
He went in the Army instead. He's still in the Army. An E-8, promotable. Got a masters degree along the way, on uncle sugar's dime. He trains people. He says he's in for retirement, they'll have to push him out. Then he'll double dip doing the same training job.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2023 15:37 Comments || Top||

#12  /\ Sounds familiar. Smart lad !
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2023 15:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Son #1 - did 5 yrs in Army. Got his BS degree on GI Bill without my money. Got his first year in Law School on scholarship. I'm paying/paid his last 2 years on my dime so he doesn't exit law school with debt. Fuck these whining assholes

By the way - 2nd Amendment Law protection focus.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2023 16:00 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ Another enterprising young lad. Perhaps there is hope after all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2023 16:11 Comments || Top||

#15  There you go. The people on the GI bill paid up front with service.

The sort that want their loans cancelled now wouldn't have made the cut, most likely.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 16:13 Comments || Top||

#16  There IS hope
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2023 16:27 Comments || Top||

#17  Well, their credit score and physical assets I guess.

And good on your son Frank!
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2023 21:19 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalia cuts external debt significantly
It’s good to know that someone is paying down their debts instead of running them up even faster. Congrats in advance, guys.


Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SOMALIA has better financial management than we do? I never in a million years thought I would see that.
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya: Foundations of UNESCO-listed site of Cyrene inundated after deadly floods
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
South Africa: Using Only Pistols, Local Militia Stops 15 Armed Robbers with AK-47s Who Blew Up Armored Truck
[Gateway] On Thursday, 9/21, local farmer militiamen in South Africa stopped a gang of 15 armed robbers armed with AK-47s who had just robbed an armored car, killing the driver. The local volunteers apprehended the fugitives after a high-speed chase, including a dangerous Mozambican criminal wanted for murder of a police officer.

The robbery took place in Hoedspruit (Hat Springs) outside Polokwane in Limpopo Province, which were named Pietersburg and North Transvaal by the original settlers before the campaign to ethnically cleanse the Afrikaner language and culture from South Africa.

Heavily armed attacks on armored cars are so common in South Africa they are known as Cash-in-Transit heists (CIT).

"15 robbers armed with automatic rifles carried out a CIT heist in Hoedspruit, killing the Fidelity driver," reports YouTuber Willem Petzer.

Try that in a klein dorpie (small town).
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2023 04:51 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, basically you just have to shoot 'em.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/24/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  UAR allows Boer Militias? - I've a bad feeling about this.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2023 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  This guy would be a believable James Bond...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/24/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Kinda tight quarters for a long gun
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Unarmored Buick Riviera doesn't turn on a dime?

On a stick shift no less.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
WATCH: Yom Kippur services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2023 07:42 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Palestinian Arab arrested in Beit Shemesh and shows off impressive halachic expertise
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/24/2023 12:20 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Christian human rights activists ‘briefly detained, tortured’ by police in Faisalabad
[Dawn] Two human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
activists visiting Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
from Bloody Karachi
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Science & Technology
Microsoft plans to power data centers with nuclear Small Modular Reactors to power AI

You know that AI is taking off when...Microsoft plans to power data centers with nuclear reactors: https://t.co/DZJyIsV7TR

— Max Tegmark (@tegmark) September 23, 2023
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2023 12:35 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



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