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21 suspects held by Lebanon for spying on Hezbollah, in what has become ‘nightmare’ for terror group — report
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The US states where doctors are most likely to bungle your surgery
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 08:51 || Comments || Link || [113 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is it because they have more medical errors, or is it because it's easier to sue there?
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/18/2025 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Easier to sue, ed, fewer limits on insurance payouts, more willing to take on complex cases. Possibly more errors as well — the article didn’t say in the section I read.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2025 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Specifically, New York — which has the most practicing doctors and healthcare workers, at 35,000 — is also one of 21 states that does not cap the level of payment for medical malpractice claims

Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Its a curse on both houses, lawyers and doctors. The medical establishment is basically absent in policing its own ranks. Professional courtesy? That leaves the lawyers to feast as the remaining means of redress.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2025 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4 
This is why it is called "Practicing Medicine".

I would like to see data on the number that lost their medical practice license also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2025 15:35 Comments || Top||

#5  As my grandfather once told me, "Doctors bury their mistakes."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/18/2025 17:45 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
'Black Fatigue' Goes Viral: Everyone Including Blacks Is Tired Of Ghetto Behavior
[ZERO] The progressive ideal is largely to blame for the monstrous creation that is ghetto culture. The idea that racial narcissism among blacks should not only be tolerated but celebrated has led to a surge in open animosity for societal rules and standards within the US. Far more than any other group, the black community makes up the largest share of physical crime according to their percentage of the population. This includes robbery, aggravated assault, and homicides.

For example, black Americans make up only 13% of the population but commit around 52% of all homicides according to FBI statistics. The recent case of Karmelo Anthony comes to mind, a black teen who admitted to stabbing a white teen and killing him because the white teen allegedly "pushed him" (which he argues was a threat that made deadly force justifiable).

The concept of "disrespect" as an offense that justifies murder is only one problem. There is an identifiable trend of theatrical sociopathy within the black community that goes far beyond the norm. The prevailing theory is that this is predominantly cultural - Black Americans have the highest rate of single parent households in the country (50% of black homes compared to 20% of white homes in 2023). Most of these households are run by single mothers. Single mother homes are a notorious indicator of future criminality among juveniles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 07:07 || Comments || Link || [196 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For example, black Americans make up only 13% of the population

But are featured in nearly 85% of all television commercials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey Jackass
2025 Race of Victim/Assailant
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  You're gonna need to update your Black and White TV, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Based on the homicide solve rate in our cities, I don’t know how much we know about assailants.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  The only way this shit stops is if the black community gets sick of it and actively pushes back against it. Stop promoting it, thinking it is special and making it a live goal. Shame and ostracize it and turn offenders in for long jail times.

THEN shit will turn around.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2025 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  ..single parent households in the country (50% of black homes compared to 20% of white homes in 2023)

In 1960, the difference was much smaller. Then the Great Society was initiated and government became the 'provider'. When the feminist indoctrinated females say 'who needs men', one only has to look to the anarchy of the inner city to see why. It's easier for the civilized to act barbarian than for a barbarian to act civilized.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2025 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ An LBJ (Great Society) Dem vote buying scheme that worked magnificently. There's an LBJ quote attributed to that fact that I will not post.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  You get more of what you subsidize.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/18/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||

#9  ref#8 Sadly, it turns out he was absolutely right.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/18/2025 14:31 Comments || Top||

#10  They came here to avoid lawlessness and tyranny such as this. Unfortunately, it followed them.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 18:26 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
LASD-Another Los Angeles Dumpster Fire
[RedState] LA County Sheriff Luna Highlights His Rancid Leadership at Hearing, Gutting Department by 24 Percent

It is no secret now that California is hostile towards law enforcement. Their soft-on-crime policies and laws have made it incredibly hard to do the job, let alone live in the state, without worrying about getting victimized. But now, with recent numbers being publicly disclosed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is admitting that they have a problem. At Thursday's Civilian Oversight Committee hearing, Assistant Sheriff Jason Skeen reported to the committee that the department has 4,166 vacancies on the department.

Skeen laid it out plain for the Committee: things are not okay:

“For every three people, they have to do the duties of one additional person,” Skeen said.

Sheriff Robert Luna is quite literally killing his department, throwing his deputies under the bus, putting bogus and/or embellished cases on them; some families would even say that his policies and poor leadership led to the suicides of some, and murders of others.

Since Luna took the reins on the department, there have been 12 current or former deputies and custody assistants who have committed suicide; Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer was murdered in an ambush killing outside of his patrol station. Additionally, Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores was tragically killed in a mobile range explosion that was arguably preventable. The range that blew up was over 20 years old and had been retired, but was put back into service because the department lacked the money to fix the newer one.

These are just some of the glaring examples of Luna's rancid leadership, and after today, the numbers do not lie. The LASD is running at roughly 75 percent staffing levels, and every employee is doing double, if not triple, the amount of work. Overtime levels are off the charts; some deputies are working 2, 3, sometimes 4 shifts of overtime every single week. If you add that up, these deputies are working at least one additional week's worth of shifts a month.

My local Sheriff's station has roughly 135 patrol deputy positions, with only 90 of them being filled. And speaking with an LAPD officer on the condition of anonymity, they say that by year's end, the department is on pace to drop to 8,400 officers or fewer. These are numbers not seen since the '80s.

To be clear, a department that, when fully staffed, is just over 17,000 people, with 8,000-10,000 of those being sworn personnel, is now running at under 13,000 people; there is a huge problem. Most of those vacancies are sworn staff, and those people have either been willingly quitting or retiring early, or have been forcibly removed, either by firing or taking medical retirement. Deputies do not want to work for Luna or any of his people anymore. The leadership is beyond toxic, and it is displaying plainly now.

Sheriff Luna is not showing any signs of remorse, regret, or any other emotion that would tell his people that he may have made some mistakes. No, he seems to think he is doing just fine, and lies openly and proudly to his deputies that he supports them. Luna is the anti-cop; he pleases and serves his masters on the LA County Board of Supervisors first and foremost. He has taken a stance that every deputy sheriff fears: he fires them first and then asks for forgiveness.

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [123 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Police enforce private property.
Noo police means no private property.
The entire end-goal of Marxism.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 05/18/2025 4:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

~ A phrase published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in support of a "sharing economy."

Danish author and socialist Ida Auken
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Is a promotion in store for Luna?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2025 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Luna was elected in 2022.
He defeated Alex Villanueva who served from 2018.

Villanueva was the first Democrat to be county Sheriff.

That's how quickly the Democrats can ruin things.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/18/2025 16:07 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Study finds the far left has embraced ‘assassination culture,’ believing it achieves a political end
Quantifying the modern American Jacobin.
[LawEnforcementToday] While leftist politicians, activists, and media mouthpieces like to claim that it is the right that is violent, citing the so-called "insurrection" at the US Capitol on January 6. What the left ignores is the vast amount of violence undertaken by those on the political left, such as the 2020 "summer of love," up to the more recent attack on everything Tesla. What leftists are doing is called "projecting," or transferring their own attributes to others, in this case, the conservative right.

Research, however, clearly disputes the contention that violence comes from the right or is even embraced by the right.

Research conducted jointly by Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI (which tracks digital threats), confirms that fact, according to the New American.

In the study, titled "Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence," Rugers and NCRI post the following introduction:

"Political violence targeting figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk is becoming increasingly normalized, particularly among politically left-leaning segments of the population. Following the attempted assassination of President Trump on July 13, 2024, tolerance and even advocacy for such violence seem to have surged.
So, I wonder who the Left's next targets will be, and what will the created reason that LSD MSM will try to spin?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [123 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Far Left?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/18/2025 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The Left doesn't believe in tolerating intolerance.
They come right out and say that movements from the right must be eliminated at the moment of thought while movements from the left be granted unlimited tolerance, including violence.
They're consistent.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 05/18/2025 4:44 Comments || Top||


#4  ‘assassination culture’
Young Dems blame Biden and their own party for losing in 2024 as they distance themselves from the old-guard
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2025 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Well if it was good enough for St Hillary...
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/18/2025 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  In the land of 350 million guns, its really not that smart to start something that you won't finish.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2025 11:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AG Pam Bondi is reportedly poised to charge Alejandro Mayorkas with treason for deliberately allowing 20 million illegals to flood our nation
[X]
This is a parody account — see discussion below.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 4:20 p.m.EDT
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [266 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's always just about to happen.
And it always will be.
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 05/18/2025 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  [deadpan] I can hardly wait.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/18/2025 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The story does not end with Mayorkas. Please proceed with discovery.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 6:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Calculate the death and destruction carried out by those he let in should be enough to qualify for 'aiding and abetting' foreign interests.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Pam has a lot of poise; maybe four years with.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2025 7:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Come on, Tulsi, knock off the juvenile click bait (or whatever it's called) b.s. questions "do you approve?"

Of course, I hope Bondi can find the time as she's still going through a truckload of Epstein "files".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2025 7:59 Comments || Top||

#7  That's a clickbait account??
Posted by: Snakes Hupeque9325 || 05/18/2025 12:46 Comments || Top||

#8  A shame the Autopen forgot to give this swine blanket immunity.
Posted by: Regular joe || 05/18/2025 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Also for every murder and crime these shitbags did charge him as an accessory.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2025 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Mr. Mayorkas was following orders. If they go after him, they should go after those who told him to do so.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2025 14:05 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Indeed he was.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 14:41 Comments || Top||

#12  ^^^^^^^

If they do, they will find the Lightbringer far deeper in the plot than known so far. Are we ready for the violent reaction when they attempt to arrest him?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/18/2025 14:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Something tells me Pom Pom Pam won't make it the full four years.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2025 14:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Whatever Mayorkas did, it isn't treason. Treason is defined in the Constitution.
Posted by: Rambler || 05/18/2025 15:01 Comments || Top||

#15  It's a parody account on X
Posted by: European Conservative || 05/18/2025 15:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Parody account? Moved to Page 4: Opinion. Thank you Snakes Hupeque9325 for asking the question, and European Conservative for answering it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2025 16:18 Comments || Top||

#17  /\ If I miss a day of the Burg, I miss a day of learning.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2025 18:20 Comments || Top||



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  21 suspects held by Lebanon for spying on Hezbollah, in what has become ‘nightmare’ for terror group — report
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