fugitive = Illegal Alien
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling in Boulevard (east San Diego County)
this week discovered one of three people they had arrested was wanted for kidnapping in Mexico.
On Tuesday, agents on patrol near the border arrested three individuals on suspicion of illegal entry into the United States and transported them to a nearby station for processing.
A check of records at the station revealed that one of the men had an outstanding warrant originating from Mexico and was a fugitive wanted for aggravated kidnapping.
U.S. Border Patrol, in coordination with the Mexican Attorney General, San Diego Attaché Office, turned over the man to Mexican authorities.
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[Townhall] A federal judge has ruled the FBI must turn over memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about a meeting with President Trump. The decision comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, which has been seeking the documents for months.
The FBI has been ordered to turn over the documents by January 18, which is next week.
"The court, in seeking to review the documents, shows it doesn’t trust the FBI or Justice Department’s representations about the infamous Comey memos. We hope now that Americans are one step closer to knowing the facts about these memos, which were written and leaked for pernicious purposes to target a sitting president with a criminal investigation," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "It’s high time they begin to see the light of day. We’re glad the court followed up on our specific suggestion that it review the documents directly."
Department of Justice attorneys, who are defending the FBI in the lawsuit, asked the court for the case to be dismissed. That request has been denied and Comey's memos must be turned over for review.
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I'm sure if the US Marshall service needs some extra people, they can borrow some Texas Rangers. Then when the FBI refuses to turn them over, they can be arrested like the scum they are.
The Chicago Tribune reported that Aaron Goldstein, 42, and members of his campaign team were approached by three men in their early 20s. One of the men had a handgun and demanded Goldstein and the campaign aides turn over the camera equipment and other personal belongings, including their cell phones, which they did.
According to the Tribune, law enforcement sources confirmed that they had no one in custody and did not release a description of the suspects.
Goldstein’s campaign manager Robert Murphy, who was not with the candidate at the time, explained that he was taking promotional campaign photos with an “in-the-neighborhood kind of” message, according to the Tribune. The incident took place in Albany Park.
[NYPOST] Transnational street gang MS-13 has better organizational structure than some corporations.
As part of an investigation into the violent group’s illicit activities on Long Island, authorities identified "cliques" ‐ or local cells ‐ of MS-13 operating in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Texas.
"Cliques are sub-groups of MS-13," officials said in a blurb announcing the indictment of a dozen high-ranking MS-13 members on Thursday.
"All cliques are MS-13 gang members, and each clique operates individually under their own rules, yet is still under the greater rules of the entire organization."
The gang demands that cliques "respect each other and their territories," according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
"Any issues or conflicts between cliques that require resolution or punishment are handled by MS-13 big shotship," prosecutors said.
Trump is only telling the truth about MS-13
Two cliques in Long Island, called "Hollywood" and "Sailors," reported directly to gang leaders in El Salvador ‐ and sent them the proceeds of their nefarious activities, authorities said.
"Based on the evidence acquired during this investigation, the gang also has affiliates operating around the world in places such as Mexico, Colombia, South Korea, La Belle France, Australia, Peru, Egypt, Ecuador and Cuba," officials said.
Members agreed to kill and punish disloyal members who cooperated with law enforcement or tried to leave the gang, according to authorities.
The would also commit "ruthless acts of violence" ‐ including murdering rivals and punishing members who didn’t follow gang protocols, officials charged.
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[ChicagoTribune] An anti-violence worker was arrested and charged with possessing two AR-15-style rifles and a .38-caliber pistol-grip long-barrel gun after an overnight raid of his Englewood home, according to police.
The arrest happened Tuesday night in the 6300 block of South Sangamon Street.
Tyree Girdon, 42, was charged with four counts of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon — one count for each gun and one for the ammunition, according to police.
He was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail in a hearing Wednesday, according to court records.
Girdon works for Cure Violence — sometimes called CeaseFire. The group relies on “credible messengers” to reach those most likely to commit acts of violence and dissuade them from taking that path.
Girdon's most recent felony conviction was for a charge of aggravated battery to a police officer in 2004. He was sentenced to probation in that case.
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So the "anti-violence" worker, who's on probation for aggravated battery of a police officer, had his home searched (guessing that there's a warrant there, they don't specify). and the law finds two AR15's and a cut down M1 carbine.
Hmmm.
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[FundedJustice] We're suing Google on behalf of workers & work applicants who have been discriminated against. Google is a $700 billion corporation, and we need YOUR financial support to fund this lawsuit. These funds are for the case, not for the individual plaintiffs!
[WBTV] CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) -
The man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend in west Charlotte is dead after an officer-involved shooting at CMPD headquarters Thursday night.
A police source says the man wanted in the deadly shooting is 23-year-old Jonathan Bennett. Bennett was wanted in connection with the deadly shooting of his girlfriend and mother of his child, 24-year-old Brittany White.
Police said they were briefing in the parking lot between the law enforcement center and the CMPD parking deck, when they were shot at multiple times. Several officers returned fire, police said.
"He ambushed us, he shot at us," CMPD Police Chief Chief Putney said in a press briefing early Friday morning.
An officer was shot and injured in the shooting at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Law Enforcement Center. The officer was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The officer’s identity has not been released.
"Its obvious he knew we were looking for him. Here's what I'll tell you, times like this make you appreciate people who voluntary put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Unfortunately some use that against us," Chief Putney said.
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[Zim Herald] President Mnangagwa yesterday narrated how he escaped the clutches of people who wanted to eliminate him, including his tortuous journey through landmine territory in neighbouring Mozambique before landing in South Africa.
The Head of State and Government opened up on the previously unknown details of his "great escape" while addressing Zimbabweans resident in Angola yesterday. He also took the opportunity to announce that he no longer has traces of poison in his body after his doctors gave him a clean bill of health last week.
Chronicling how he escaped into Mozambique after he was warned of a plot to eliminate him, the President said he had to walk for long hours, in some cases taking precautions to avoid possible landmines.
He said there was an attempt by security details at the border in Mutare to shoot him, but that this was foiled by his sons.
"I was fired at 4pm and left the office and by 6.30 pm, one of the security guys came to inform me that he must be part of a group that had a mission to eliminate me," he said.
"I didn’t think it was pleasurable to wait to be eliminated. I left within four hours of being fired for the Mozambican border. I arrived at the border and our side of the border stamped my passport, but before they could lift the boom for me to cross into Mozambique, it was closed. The message came that I was not allowed to leave Zimbabwe. I said in that case there was no need, I (will) go back. They said again I was not allowed to go back into Zimbabwe but I said ’you can’t stop me’. What case have I committed? As I was walking away, they tried to fire (at me) but I have one young man, one of my twin sons, was there. He is an officer and was able to grab the weapon and I was not shot."
The President went on: "Then you know for many years I operated in Mozambique in the department of security. I know the area and it’s infested with land mines. Those things are still there, you walk in-between strings to avoid landmines. I did (that) from about 9 pm until about 7.30 the next day. I arrived in Mozambique and we had a lift back to the border to have my passport stamped again on the Mozambican side. Then I phoned a colleague from South Africa that I was on my way to Beira. By the time we arrived in Beira, a small plane had arrived from South Africa to pick me up and I went to South Africa."
He said he informed South African authorities that he was in their country through Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete.
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Corruption, potential revenge, poverty, exile, political harassment - there just might be a convenient, slightly off-color word that can describe such a place...
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*skinner*
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Trou = hole
Ah — French is not one of my languages, g(r)omgoru, though I had learnt to ask for three chocolates when we lived in Brussels. I was thinking in terms of the slangy “dropped trou[sers]”.
Starving Venezuelans desperate for food reportedly mobbed a field and slaughtered cattle -- a stunning illustration of the socialist country's troubles.
Western Venezuela has experienced two days of protests and looting due to food shortages that have left at least three people dead and 16 others injured. The mayor of Arapuey in the state of Merida told El Universal newspaper the dead include a 17-year-old shot during a demonstration Wednesday and two others hit by gunfire Thursday at a business where people had formed a line for food.
Stealing has been on the rise in the country since Christmas due to food shortages and inflation, Reuters reported. The country has the world’s highest inflation. President Nicolas Maduro's regime has largely been blamed for the recession. Opposition lawmakers claim Maduro's “failed economic policies and rampant corruption are to blame for the meltdown in the once-booming country home to the world’s largest crude reserves,” Reuters reported.
Last week, authorities forced 200 supermarkets to cut prices so citizens could buy food, but employees said they were unsure if the empty shelves would be restocked.
[Breitbart] Across Hawaii, residents got an ominous message on their phones’ Emergency Alert System (EAS) telling them to "seek immediate shelter" from a "ballistic missile threat."
White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters later implied the false warning stemmed from a state, rather than federal, mishap. "The President has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise. This was purely a state exercise," he said in a statement
According to the Associated Press (AP), Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Repoza confirmed a false alarm.
"Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Repoza said it was a false alarm and the agency is trying to determine what happened.," the AP reports.
The message, initially thought authentic, spread quickly on social media, prompting some panic, as Fox News reported Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) estimated over one million Hawaiians received the erroneous alert. The EAS protocol should only be available to government officials.
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"The EAS protocol should only be available to government officials."
So what I assumed was correct. If they knew, they wouldn't warn the rest of us. They'd be too busy running.
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Had those last 8 years of Obama worked out for you?
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Nice work! Next time when it is a real alert, people will just roll their eyes and say "Not again!". Just like in that fable, "The Boy Who Cried Incoming".
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It's a government system, meaning it's available for Russian, Chinese, Nork and well, just about anybody in the world with a little computer skills.
Government and computer security apparently does not go hand in hand.
[Linkedin] As we enter 2018 it’s become clear that the jobs landscape in the United States is changing. How people are thinking about their careers and how they define success is changing. The rise of technology across every industry has created a flurry of new jobs and associated skills (and these aren’t necessarily all tech roles). While we all may take a different approach to reach our own definition of success, we’ve compiled a list of the most promising jobs and in-demand skills, plus a few stand-out trends, to help you get there.
The Trends
You don’t need to be technical to be successful. Despite the prominence of technical jobs and skills, soft skills like management, leadership, and strategy are equally as important. The proof is in the data: we surveyed 2,000 business leaders who told us the soft skills most in-demand are leadership, communication, collaboration, and time management. In fact, 57% of them said these soft skills are more important than hard skills. List follows.
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the soft skills most in-demand are leadership, communication, collaboration, and time management. In fact, 57% of them said these soft skills are more important than hard skills.
Employment recruiters just need to park themselves at the base/post Separation Transfer Point if they want people with a record in delivering those skills in a real world environment.
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After 30+ years as one of those "technical experts" I decided that the rarest skill is figuring out what the right this is to do then communicating it to the techies so they can figure out how to do it.
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The skills most employers are looking for show up regular, sober and shut up and do as your told. I have a coffee cup with the phase "Get to work. You're not being paid to believe in the power of your dreams"
[CNBC] Walmart's workers will soon reap the benefits of the recent tax law changes, as the world's largest private employer raises its starting wage, creates new benefits and distributes bonuses to eligible workers.
The big-box retailer announced Thursday it will increase its starting wage rate for hourly employees in the U.S. to $11, and expand maternity and parental leave benefits. Currently, Walmart's starting wage is $9 until workers complete a training program. Then, they receive $10.
Walmart will also pay a one-time cash bonus to eligible employees of as much as $1,000. The payouts, which should total roughly $400 million, will result in a one-time charge that the company will take in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The bonuses will be determined by an employee's length of service. Those workers with more than 20 years of experience will qualify to receive the full $1,000. However, workers with less than two years of experience will receive $200, a Walmart spokesman told CNBC.
[NationalPost] When the Trump administration issued an immigration ban on citizens of seven majority Muslim countries a year ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent out an unambiguous tweet about Canada’s stance on refugees and asylum seekers.
"To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength," Trudeau wrote on Jan. 28.
But when U.S. Homeland Security announced this week that it was withdrawing Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 200,000 Salvadorans, giving them 18 months to sort out their immigration status permanently or face deportation, the reaction from the Canadian government was more muted.
Fearing an influx of newcomers crossing "irregularly" into Canada from the United States, the Canadian government has embarked on an information campaign to discourage Salvadorans from trekking north, as thousands of Haitians did when threatened with a loss of protected status last summer.
The government announced that it was planning to send Pablo Rodriguez, a Spanish-speaking member of Parliament, to California in the coming days to speak to community groups, lawyers and Spanish-language media. His message is simple: If you don’t qualify for refugee or asylum status, don’t try to cross into Canada.
"Canada has a robust and structured immigration system that must be respected," Argentina-born Rodriguez told La Presse newspaper in a French-language interview. "Before leaving your job, pulling your child from school and selling your house to come to Canada, make sure you understand the rules and the laws. Because if you don’t fill these criteria, chances are you’ll be returned, not to the U.S. but to your native country."
The government also says there are plans for a "targeted digital campaign" aimed at TPS-affected communities. Continues.
Leave it to a New York real estate investor to know when and how to outsource.
"Other than the facts, the tweet was accurate and truthy"
An MSNBC producer and the official MSNBC Twitter account incorrectly claimed earlier Friday that the U.S. ambassador to Panama was resigning over Trump's "s**thole" comments.
Mary Emily O'Hara, a segment producer for MSNBC, said that John Feeley was resigning over allegations that Trump referred to Haiti and African countries as "shitty countries."
"Feeley is the first US diplomat to resign over the president's comments," O'Hara wrote. O’Hara deleted her initial tweet and addressed her error in a follow-up, blaming the first tweet on "phrasing."
The Ambassador informed leadership of his resignation December 27th.Oops
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The Ambassador informed leadership of his resignation December 27th.
[Washington Examiner] Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., revealed on Friday that he does not plan to attend President Trump’s first State of the Union address at the end of the month.
"I cannot in all the conscience be in a room with what he has said about so many Americans," Lewis told MSNBC host Katy Tur when explaining why he will not attend. "I just cannot do it. I wouldn’t be honest with myself."
Lewis’ comments come just a day after it was reported that Trump called some nations "shithole countries" during a White House meeting with lawmakers Thursday. As the lawmakers and Trump discussed a potential bipartisan immigration deal, Trump started to discuss immigration from African nations and asked why the U.S. is "having all these people from shithole countries come here?"
Lewis, who was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr., said the civil rights leader would tell Trump he must "wake up."
"You need to do what is right; you need to do what is fair," Lewis said when Tur asked what King would say to Trump. "You need to be a little more human and respect the dignity and worth of every human being and stop putting people down because of their race, their color, or their nationality."
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 15 and the State of the Union Address will be held on Jan. 30.
Sorry to break it to you Johnny boy but a) those countries ARE $#itholes b) it was a private statement and c) you and your boys call America worse things.
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You cannot solve problems unless you show up for work and contribute to the solution of a problem. It is sad to say if we paid these people to stay home, the world would be a better place.
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Aaannnnd.....The average room IQ goes up ten points
Maybe 0.01 points.
It just gets better and better. Average room IQ now up to room temperature
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...Wanna watch some heads explode? Have DJT point out that there is no Constitutional requirement that he march up Capitol Hill and provide a stage for people who don't agree with him. Therefore, in keeping with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and many other Presidents (including Jimmy Carter), he is sending a written address to the Congress, and saving the money in logistics and security otherwise spent.
Mike
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*Raises hand*
Can I take his spot? I even know Georgia isn't a Gulf Coast State! I love southern food, don't mind the Atlanta airport. I'll even punch myself in the face a couple times to match his scowl.
[Rolling Stone] When President Obama called Mitt Romney a "bullshitter" in the pages of Rolling Stone earlier this year, it set off a brief firestorm. Defenders of the Republican candidate were shocked ‐ shocked! ‐ that the man holding the highest office in the land would resort to such language. In truth, the halls of the White House (like nearly every other house in the country, with the apparent exception of Romney's) have heard no shortage of profanity over the decades. It's a dirty job, leading the free world. Sometimes it takes a few dirty words. Read on for a brief history of presidential (and vice-presidential, and presidential candidate) profanity.
Honest Abe evidently loved a good off-color joke. In Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis bends the ears of an anxious telegraph crew with one of the president's favorite shaggy-dog tales, recounting the tale of Ethan Allen encountering a portrait of George Washington in an outhouse in England after the Revolutionary War. His hosts were eager to see the reaction of their visitor, who stumped them by approving: "There is nothing to make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of General George Washington."
Our 44th president has a very vivid vocabulary. Obama famously called Kanye West a "jackass," and on the audiobook version of his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, you can hear the future president mimicking an old high-school friend who evidently knew his Richard Pryor: "You know that guy ain't shit. Sorry-ass motherfucker ain't got nothing on me." But it was in the pages of Rolling Stone that Obama really drew the ire of the pious, calling opponent Mitt Romney a "bullshitter." Sometimes the dirty word is the most precise.
[GEO.TV] Assistant Commissioner Nisha Ishtiaq recorded her statement in the Islamabad High Court on Friday as enquiry into Taiba torture case expedited after orders from the Supreme Court.
Ishtiaq is the assistant commissioner whom child domestic help Taiba told that she had been tortured by Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali and his wife.
She recorded her statement on behalf of the prosecution.
During the hearing on Friday, Ishtiaq told the court she personally recorded Taiba’s statement and signed on the document.
Raja Khurram was also present in the court with his counsel, Raja Rizwan Abbasi.
The next date of hearing was fixed for January 19, when three witnesses, constables Naseem, Mariam and Ghulam Hussain have been summoned.
On January 9, a three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, expressed dissatisfaction over prosecutor's performance and ordered completion of the trial by February 15.
During the hearing, the chief justice enquired the prosecutor on the number of days it would take to complete the trial. To this, the advocate general told the court that witnesses' statements were being recorded and the proceedings will be completed in the end of February.
The apex court also discarded an appeal filed by judge Raja Khurram, challenging the high court's rejection of a compromise with parents of the tortured minor girl.
The case In late December 2016, Taiba, a 10-year-old domestic help, was recovered from the house of Raja Khurram after receiving complaints of torture from neighbours.
The minor girl, whose face and hands bore torture marks, had initially denied being hurt by her employers. She told the police that she got a wound to her eye after falling from stairs, while her hand was also burnt accidentally.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the poor girl narrated her ordeal after being politely inquired by a female magistrate later. She stated before the magistrate that she was beaten and her hand burnt on the stove for losing the broom.
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[GEO.TV] DNA tests results have confirmed that the same culprit carried out the horrific rapes and murders of eight children in Kasur, including seven-year-old Zainab Amin, police said on Friday.
"One thing that is very clear [from DNA tests] is that in seven previous cases, and this is the eighth case, in which the same culprit carried out these horrific crimes," Inspector-General of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police (IGP) Arif Nawaz Khan told Geo News.
He said that police has not been able to match that DNA to any of the suspects interrogated so far.
"We investigated almost 227 people, of which we narrowed down 67 suspects and carried out their DNA tests. But none of these results match those of the culprit," said the provincial police chief.
The bigwig said that it was difficult to identify the suspect from CCTV video footage due to its low image quality.
"The resolution of the CCTV was not very clear. We have improved the resolution, but still it is not 100% identifiable. We are trying to improve it further," he said.
He said that he would share more details with the public in case of any breakthrough in the investigation. "We are making efforts and, God willing, we will work out this case soon."
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[UPI] Nearly half of U.S. women have at least a mild deficiency in the nutrient iodine, and new research suggests it could impair their fertility.
..."The Western diet has changed in the last few decades and the adoption of vegetarian and vegan diets have led to a reduction in dietary iodine consumption," noted Dr. Tomer Singer, who directs reproductive endocrinology and infertility care at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Think of it as evolution in action
Way back when, they used to spike iodine in commercial bread for 'the children'. Then the food nazis who campaign against salt, apples, et al demanded 'natural'.
ORLANDO, Florida‐Amid continuing signs of a significant upswing in U.S. hypersonic research and development, Boeing has revealed first details of a reusable Mach 5-plus demonstrator vehicle design that could pave the way for a future high-speed strike and reconnaissance ...
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Here we are barely three weeks out from the Super Bowl and NBC has yet to sell all its ads. Same for the ensuing Winter Olympics. The network is predicting a half-billion dollars revenue from the big game pitting who-knows-who against who-knows-who in who-cares-where.
And another $900 million from ad sales during the Winter Olympics in South Korea immediately after, assuming no war. It’s the first time these two major sports events occur so close to each other on the same network.
It’s an immense economic gamble for NBC, which has committed to live-sports programming but now finds live-sports ratings tumbling for events like the National Football League and Olympics. NBC is paying $12 billion to those old guys on the Olympic Committee through 2032.
While the kneeling crap has contributed to this mess, the big problem is the massive multi-year contracts NBC (and other networks) have signed with the sports leagues, which was all well and fine when viewership and ad rates were going up like gangbusters. When the shit started to hit the fan a few years back and accelerated this year, they're left holding the bag because the contracts are fixed and can't legally be renegotiated. I suppose they'll try, but the leagues can always say no. At least it's not my mess.
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The NFL basically shit on San Diego by letting the Spanos family move the Chargers to LA. Now they aren't getting ratings in LA OR SD
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Frank G - that Chargers move had to be the dumbest franchise move in history and 100% predictable. Anyone with familiarity about L.A. sports could have told you that there's never been any pro football support, and Spanos wants to flip the bird to you and the other Chargers fans (I'm assuming you at least follow them) while lowering the value of his own franchise at the same time. Amazing! How Goodell managed to get a massive 5 year extension as commissioner after so many dumb & destructive moves is simply astounding to me.
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I heard Bed Bath & Beyond was up 10% last year, attributed solely to NFL bed shitting.
Winter Olympics....gettattaherewidatshit. They have been soft-hyping it for a few weeks, with televised ice shuffleboard tournys and tryouts, some gay ice dancing competition, and profiles of attractive participants. I might catch hockey just to see if Jamir Jagr is still playing and if Costas gets over-botoxed again.
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#3 - LOVED the SD Chargers - since '67 (I was 8). My Dad was a big fan, watched them in Balboa Stadium. We won tickets at SD Stadium opening season and had Season tix til Dad died in '95 and when the cost got above $1500/yr/seat. I still love individual players (Rivers/Gates) but if the rest are dead to me. I root for their opponents
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Chief fan here. We love Rivers too.
Saw 2 games this year; opener vs. NE but only because person had the game on. To me, still baseball season. Second was the playoff loss, but not sure what happened because I kept falling asleep. Apparently the refs ate some bad sushi and didn't get out of bed in time.
Guess there were games on today. Dunno. Was putting shelves together, teaching the boy lefty-loosey and all that.
h/t Instapundit
[DailyWire] The Environmental Protection Agency is on track to slash 47% of its total staff by the end of President Trump’s first term, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. After just one year, EPA chief Scott Pruitt has reduced his staff to levels unseen since the Reagan administration. If just those federal employees set to retire by 2021 do indeed leave, Pruitt will have cut more than 7,000 bureaucrats.
...With the exception of Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Interior, all Cabinet departments by September had fewer permanent staff than the day Trump took office. In addition, Trump’s proposed spending cuts triggered a spending slowdown across agencies despite the absence of a 2017 budget from Congress.
...Before his death in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia observed that unaccountable, overgrown executive agencies posed the greatest threat to American liberty. If President Trump can reduce bureaucracy to Reagan era levels within a year, Americans might hope to press on to Coolidge era numbers by his second term. For an administration that promises to make America great again, at least it’s a good start.
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So sad. Not enough staff left over to go fuc& with 85 year old farmers by trying to take over the use of their land because the EPA says the farmers have "changed" how they use their land because they have to leave their fields to lay fallow every now and then.
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The really fun part? Unless these hacks go to an equivalent state bureaucracy, they're in for a very, very tough time trying to find work (real work, that is) in the dreaded private sector. Believe me, I know - it may have been the most difficult thing I did professionally.
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The really fun part? Unless these hacks go to an equivalent state bureaucracy, they're in for a very, very tough time trying to find work (real work, that is)
Very true, IT systems engineer being one of the possible exceptions.
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This will be a painful transition for many, but it is necessary for the survival of the nation. It is called "culling the herd."
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Just remember they had no problem 'downsizing' the military by the tens of thousands. Circa 1940 - A million plus man Army. Circa 1993 - 750,000, Today sub 500,000. What missions demands/commitments have been reduced? Now, see if the other bureaucracies can do the same.
The link has the Free Software Foundation's short description of the Intel Management Engine and mentions AMD's PSP (Platform Security Processor)
This is security information you should be aware of.
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.
[NYPOST] Transnational street gang MS-13 has better organizational structure than some corporations.
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[Zim Herald] President Mnangagwa yesterday narrated how he escaped the clutches of people who wanted to eliminate him, including his tortuous journey through landmine territory in neighbouring Mozambique before landing in South Africa.
[Washington Examiner] Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., revealed on Friday that he does not plan to attend President Trump’s first State of the Union address at the end of the month.
Since we're paying their wages.....how about showing up for work ? 
[Rolling Stone] When President Obama called Mitt Romney a "bullshitter" in the pages of Rolling Stone earlier this year, it set off a brief firestorm. Defenders of the Republican candidate were shocked ‐ shocked! ‐ that the man holding the highest office in the land would resort to such language. In truth, the halls of the White House (like nearly every other house in the country, with the apparent exception of Romney's) have heard no shortage of profanity over the decades. It's a dirty job, leading the free world. Sometimes it takes a few dirty words. Read on for a brief history of presidential (and vice-presidential, and presidential candidate) profanity.
[GEO.TV] DNA tests results have confirmed that the same culprit carried out the horrific rapes and murders of eight children in Kasur, including seven-year-old Zainab Amin, police said on Friday.
