[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A shooter has been 'neutralized' after trying to break into a Wisconsin middle school.
The unidentified intruder was taken down Wednesday morning after trying to enter Mount Horeb Area Middle School in Wisconsin.
Cops have yet to offer further detail, including whether the suspect was injured or killed, how old they were and if they were connected to the school.
The Mount Horeb Area School District said on Facebook: 'Community members, there has been an active shooter at our middle school this morning.
'The individual did not breach entryway. Police department is helping to scope out our building to ensure the safety of our students and staff. I will keep you posted.'
The district later added that the 'threat has been neutralized outside of the building.'
No injuries have been reported at the middle school in Mount Horeb, which is about a half-hour driver from Madison.
Mount Horeb police potted a student suspect who they said brought a gun to Mount Horeb Middle School.
The student was killed before he could enter the school, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday evening in a news conference. Kaul declined to identify the student or give his age, aside from saying the suspect was a minor and a male.
The shooting sent the middle school and four other Mount Horeb Area School District schools into lockdown late Wednesday morning, affecting 2,500 children. Several of the schools remained locked down into the evening.
The Mount Horeb coppers who were involved are on leave, Kaul said. No officers were maimed, he said.
Kaul didn't say how many officers were involved, or how exactly the student was killed. In response to a news hound's question about how many officers fired their guns, he said he did not know and it was something being investigated.
Kaul also did not provide information about whether the student fired shots at officers, or whether the student indicated he would bring a gun to school. Kaul also declined to discuss any prior interactions the student had with law enforcement.
"The physical security of the school" appears to have played a role in preventing the student from entering the school, Kaul said.
One of the officers involved was a school resource officer, Kaul said. The officers were wearing body cameras.
An emergency alert sent to area residents' phones said the suspect was "armed with a rifle and should be considered dangerous."
"Due to safety precautions taken by our Schools, the shooter was never able to enter the building," Mount Horeb Village president Ryan Czyzewski and Mount Horeb Chamber Board chair Kara Brandemuehl said in a joint statement. "The collaboration and coordination between our community's first responders and School District exemplified the highest standards of professionalism and dedication."
[Red State] "The View" moderator and co-host Whoopi Goldberg ...born Caryn Elaine Johnson, a homely American cultural icon on the same tier of significance as Alfalfa, Lupe Velez, or Pia Zadora, only without Alfalfa's singing voice, Zadora's lovely butt, or Velez' Mexican Spitfiree personality. She pontificates regularly on national television, spewing lefty blather and utttering gaffes at nearly the same rate as Joe Biden, whom she purports to admire. She was once married to some white guy, but he appeared in blackface once and was never heard from again... lost her stuff over Donald Trump on Wednesday's episode of the absurd yet amusing show. Yes, Whoopi and the rest of the TDS-riddled panel lose their stuff over Trump daily, but Whoopi's latest effort was as laughable as it was patently incorrect.
At issue for the visibly angered Goldberg was a recent comment Trump made about race in today's America. As she glared into the camera, she snarled:
Please file under Holocaust Denials and Extraterrestrial Invasions.
[Business Insider] A retired judge has alleged that she was subject to racial discrimination while flying first class with American Airlines.
Pamela Hill-Veal was traveling with her family from Chicago to Phoenix back in February. In a complaint seen by NPR, she said that after she visited the bathroom, a flight attendant stopped her and accused her of slamming the door.
"He began to berate me by pointing his finger at me towards my face and saying, 'I told you not to slam the door ... so from now on, you are to use the restroom in the back of the plane' while he pointed in the direction of the restroom in coach," she told NPR.
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Probably complaining and being loud the whole trip too; the Phelps method of creating an unbearable situation, causing a reaction, then framing the reaction as instigating (desired story).
Bet NPR had a time slot opened before baggage claim.
[ZERO] A whistleblower at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems died Tuesday morning following a struggle with a 'sudden, fast-spreading infection,' the Seattle Times reports.
45-year-old Joshua Dean, a former mechanical engineer and quality auditor from Wichita, Kansas, alleged that Spirit leadership ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, including 'mechanics improperly drilling holes in the aft pressure bulkhead of the MAX.' When he brought this up with management, he said that nothing was done about it. So he filed a safety complaint with the FAA - and said that Spirit had used him as a scapegoat while they lied to the agency about the defects.
"After I was fired, Spirit AeroSystems [initially] did nothing to inform the FAA, and the public" regarding the bulkhead defects, said Dean in his complaint.
In November, the FAA suggested to Dean in a letter that his claims had merit, writing "The investigation determined that your allegations were appropriately addressed under an FAA-approved safety program," adding "However, due to the privacy provisions of those programs, specific details cannot be released."
Dean also gave a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit.
[PJ] Inflation has finally caught up to millions of people's morning routine — that half-double decaffeinated half-caf frappuccino with a twist of lemon concoction from their corner Starbucks.
Financial analysis firm The Kobeissi Letter looked at the Seattle-based purveyor of caffeinated treats (I hesitate to use the word "coffee") and found themselves asking, "What happened to Starbucks?"
Second-quarter results are now coming out, and Starbucks reported that "North America and U.S. comparable store sales declined 3%, driven by a 7% decline in comparable transactions." the company reported. The average ticket was slightly higher — but stick a pin in that thought because I'll come back to it in a moment.
Things were even worse in China, where "same-store sales plunged 11% with an 8% decline in the average order." China is Starbucks' second-largest market by sales volume after the U.S.
Starbucks shares were down as much as 15% today on the news.
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For the price of 2 SB Grande coffees, I can purchase a Wally World <$12.95, small 2 cup coffee maker and a small can of coffee.
BTW: Anyone else noticed, the New 2019+ ground coffee in cans has a lot of color variations now? Like filler is being added.
However, given "Ingredients" listed on the coffee can usually just say "Coffee". Does non-Coffee Beans parts of the plant also count as coffee, under USDA listing rules?
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7-11 and McDonalds have better tasting, and brew more consistent coffees. Consistency is important to branding.
I drink my coffee black and I have not received a decent cup of starbucks coffee since before they started serving breakfast. All the coffee shops have similar tasting black-no-sugar coffee anymore.
My theory is that burnt coffee has a bigger coffee flavor profile in those mixed sugary coffee drinks, and the sugar mellows burnt flavor down a few degrees to more palatable. That answers my why.
Anyways. Am not a fan of combo coffee and breakfast joints because the coffee always seems to decline as they refocus on foods, and once your black coffee flavor profile declines, there's no sugar or other crap that can hide it.
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[Regnum] The draft resolution at the UN on the massacre in Bosnian Srebrenica in 1995, which was initiated by Western countries, is aimed at all ethnic Serbs and their statehood. It even violates the Dayton Accords, which initially limited Serbian sovereignty in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This assessment was voiced by IA Regnum, director of the Institute for Systemic Political Research and Humanitarian Projects Anatoly Gagarin.
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[ET via ZERO] U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned.
CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some of the deaths, according to an internal file obtained by The Epoch Times.
Myocarditis was also described as being caused by vaccination in a subset of the deaths.
In other cases, the CDC workers found that deaths met the agency’s definition for myocarditis, that the patients started showing symptoms within 42 days of a vaccine dose, and that the deceased displayed no virus-related symptoms. Officials say that after 42 days, a possible link between the vaccine and symptoms becomes tenuous, and they list post-vaccination deaths as unrelated if they can find any possible alternative causes.
[FoxNews] Delegates also voted to remove mandatory penalties for conducting same-sex marriages.
United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of controversy around the issue. Past General Conferences of the United Methodist Church had steadily reinforced the ban and related penalties amid debate and protests, but many of the conservatives who had previously upheld the ban have left the denomination in recent years, and this General Conference has moved in a solidly progressive direction.
Applause broke out in parts of the convention hall Wednesday after the vote. A group of observers from LGBTQ advocacy groups embraced, some in tears. "Thanks be to God," said one.
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[Regnum] China has scheduled the launch of the Chang'e-6 probe to the far side of the Moon on May 3, the China National Space Administration ( CNSA ) announced on May 1.
“The Chang’e-6 mission, the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, is scheduled to launch on May 3,” the department said.
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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.
...born Caryn Elaine Johnson, a homely American cultural icon on the same tier of significance as Alfalfa, Lupe Velez, or Pia Zadora, only without Alfalfa's singing voice, Zadora's lovely butt, or Velez' Mexican Spitfiree personality. She pontificates regularly on national television, spewing lefty blather and utttering gaffes at nearly the same rate as Joe Biden, whom she purports to admire. She was once married to some white guy, but he appeared in blackface once and was never heard from again...
[ET via ZERO] U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths, The Epoch Times has learned.
