[Wash Times] The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is weighing plans to put additional agents to Chicago in an effort to curb the Windy City’s violent crime surge, a senior agent acknowledged Saturday.
"ATF is exploring various options as we are committed to furthering law enforcement efforts in Chicago," David Coulson, a senior agent at the ATF’s Chicago field office, told USA Today.
"One of those options is to send additional agents to Chicago on permanent transfers," he added, though no plans yet yet to be finalized, the newspaper reported.
The agent’s acknowledgment came on the heels of CNN reporting Friday that the ATF plans to deploy approximately 20 agents to Chicago in a bid to "beef up" the federal presence there, citing two federal law enforcement officials familiar with the plans.
"We have received no word from the federal government to confirm these reports, but it would be welcome news if the administration has indeed agreed to one of Mayor Emanuel’s requests for federal resources," Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office told CNN on Friday.
#1
Yet another 'more people - more money' gov't solution.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives" are NOT the problem. Aberrant attitudes, lawless behavior, drugs, and a permissive legal system are the problem. It's the people, not the guns.
Here's some ideas: Most of the killing happens during the hours of darkness. How about a dusk to dawn curfew? Work permits... (shouldn't need more than a dozen or so). Armed patrols. Stop and frisk. Dogs, lots of drug dogs.
#2
"We have received no word from the federal government to confirm these reports, but it would be welcome news if the administration has indeed agreed to one of Mayor Emanuel’s requests for federal resources," Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office told CNN on Friday.
..I suspect, however, that the last thing Hizzoner really wants is agents of this Federal Gummint wandering around Chitown. Had it been President Clinton making that call, no probs for him - things would be Understood. But with DJT at the top there's way too many things to find that could be...problematic.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
02/05/2017 7:09 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Maybe a little harder to get off the gun felony charges in Federal court?
[NYPOST] A Florida woman recorded herself performing oral sex in a courthouse -- just before she was about to face a judge on drug-related charges, according to reports. Well, don't that suck?
The woman posted the graphic Jan. 31 video -- taken in an empty hallway of the Duval County Courthouse -- to Twitter, with the caption, "Just found a way to get out of trouble," Action News in Jacksonville reported.
The woman, identified by the Daily Mail as 26-year-old Brittney Jones, also wrote, "That damn tongue got me in trouble again lol."
Officials said the man in the 34-second video, which was caught on courthouse surveillance, may be a security guard there.
Jones isn’t facing charges in the sex-act incident but the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Integrity Unit is investigating.
The video has since been deleted.
Jones was in court for an arraignment stemming from her Jan. 19 arrest on possession of drug paraphernalia charges, the Florida Times-Union reported.
She pleaded no contest and was sentenced to time served, which amounted to two days in jail.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11122 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Was this her oral argument??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy ||
02/05/2017 0:53 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Fire anyone involved with her alleged security.
[BREITBART] Vandals have struck a banana yellow car blamed for ruining visitors’ photos of a famous English village.
"Move," someone scratched into the hood of Peter Maddox’s car in the Cotswolds village of Bibury as part of a January rampage that caused around 6,000 pounds ($8,000) in damages.
For the past three years, the 84-year-old widower has parked his Vauxhall Corsa outside his retirement cottage on Arlington Row in Bibury. The grey-stone 14th century homes are among the oldest inhabited dwellings in Britannia and feature in the artwork of British passports.
With locals’ public backing, the retired dentist says he won’t have his style dictated by tourists. Told by mechanics that his car was probably an insurance write-off, Maddox says he plans to buy a replacement -- in lime green.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Withlocals’ public backing, the retired dentist says he won’t have his style dictated by tourists.
A word from the National Trust might do the trick. Try the nearby car park.
[MYSANANTONIO] A San Antonio man who was freed from life in prison by President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... is back behind bars after allegedly crashing his vehicle into another motorist and undercover police cars while fleeing from a drug deal Thursday.
Robert M. Gill, 68, whose life sentence for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy was commuted by Obama and expired in 2015, was profiled last year in the Express-News about his readjustment to life on the outside.
Jailed from the time of his arrest in 1990, Gill earned a legal education inside prison libraries and successfully petitioned the then-president for a second chance after his court appeals were exhausted.
He was taken to federal court Friday, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad ordered him held without bond pending a bail hearing on Feb. 16. Gill is charged with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
He again faces a potential sentence with a mandatory minimum, five years, and could get up to 40.
Gill was one of about 1,700 federal inmates whose sentences Obama commuted as part of a broader campaign to give relief to nonviolent offenders serving long prison terms that dated to a frenzied period in the nation’s war on drugs.
Obama wrote in a signed notification that he granted Gill’s application "because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. ... Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity."
In interviews last year, Gill said he sustained hope even as his three co-defendants died behind bars.
"I believed there were people in government with rational minds who sooner or later would realize that the sentence wasn’t fair," Gill said last year. "Yes, you have the thought that you’re going to die in prison -- that’s a human reaction. But there’s always the possibility that they’ll acknowledge the injustice."
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
In interviews last year, Gill said he sustained hope even as his three co-defendants died behind bars.
#4
#3 You mean Gill or Obama, Mike?
Posted by: AlanC 2017-02-05 08:22
AlanC,
Yes. ;)
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
02/05/2017 8:35 Comments ||
Top||
#5
current box score:
1 dead( in michigan)
1 re-arrested ( have to assume there have been more, just under-reported)
all w/in first month, stats will climb
only (about) 1698 to go
Ol' Jugears can really pick winners, huh?
[An Nahar] Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said.
For nearly two weeks, fires have raged across seven regions in south and central Chile, devastating more than 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres), Bachelet said in her latest update on the tragedy.
She added that 43 people were tossed into the calaboose "for their possible responsibility in the forest fires."
Most of the suspects were apprehended in the hardest-hit regions of O'Higgins, Maule and Biobio. They could face a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Of the 130 active forest fires, 50 are under control while 66 others are still being battled, officials said.
The Chilean government is distributing aid to those affected by the blaze, most of whom are farmers and ranchers whose homes, animals and land has been destroyed.
More than 11,000 people are working to extinguish the fires, including members of the military, police, public officials and residents.
Of these, more than a half have come from abroad to help with what Chile has called the largest emergency operation in its history.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
Apart from rough seas and winds of between 75km and 80km an hour across the UAE, there was rare snowfall Feb 3
on Jebel Jais, a mountain in Ras al-Khaimah emirate about 26 degrees N Lat which is the same as Brownsville, TX.
The met office said there was a depth of 10cm centimetres of snow in some places on the 2,000m mountain.
The mercury fell to minus -2C.
Posted by: lord garth ||
02/05/2017 08:28 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
where's AlGore?
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/05/2017 11:21 Comments ||
Top||
#2
AlGore, patron saint of Ice Ages? Like Gawd, He is everywhere and (totally) nowhere at the same time.
#5
They tried to auto-circumcise the vehicle before escape stage. Only the holy must leave earth, see ? Japan designed a single stage system to jettison the tip itself , before escape.
Abject failure.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Just as the United States is undergoing a political transition of its own, Venezuela's dubious regime has taken the provocative step of empowering an anti-U.S. hardliner with ties to narcotraffickers and Middle Eastern terrorism.
Many Americans may consider Venezuela's collapsing economy, food shortages, and political upheaval as none of our business. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the recent power grab of reputed drug kingpin and Hezbollah ally, Tareck el-Aissami, as Venezuela's vice president poses a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and its neighbors.
President Trump's foreign policy team can convert a potential crisis into an early victory by working with key neighbors to fashion a multilateral rescue of Venezuela, backed up by targeted sanctions against El-Aissami and other corrupt leaders who traffic in drugs and abet international terrorism.
It would be a better, longer-term victory (a fair bit callous, I admit) to let Venezuela collapse thoroughly and completely on its own. Go in now to rescue it and the socialists will claim for the next hundred years that the mess there was all the fault of American imperialists...
Courageous Venezuelans are struggling to save their country through democratic means; but they are confronting a ruthless regime that is micromanaged by Cuba and propped up by sweetheart deals with Russia and China. Senior Venezuelan officials have conspired with Colombian narco-guerrillas and Hezbollah snuffies to amass illicit fortunes and advance anti-U.S. operations. All of these forces benefit from keeping a lawless government in power in Caracas, even as the Venezuelan economy crumbles and a humanitarian crisis grows.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#1
Make Soros Pay for it. Then run through the list starting with the Tide Foundation...
#3
Leave Venezuela alone to rot in its own filth. Doing anything to them just helps their paranoid narrative of "USA OUT TO GET US ZOMG".
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 ||
02/05/2017 4:32 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Venezuela's dubious regime has taken the provocative step of empowering an anti-U.S. hardliner with ties to narcotraffickers and Middle Eastern terrorism.
And no, good Venezuelans are doing pretty much jackshit to change the situation. The MUD (opposition unity party) is naught but Well meaning talking, farcical negotiations and an inability to rally the pueblo, who are too busy standing in line to be rallied.
A screwed up mess that will solve itself, tho not likely for the better.
[An Nahar] The top military official of a self-proclaimed separatist republic in eastern Ukraine was killed by boom-mobile Saturday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local media reported.
Oleg Anashchenko, head of the military department of the Lugansk People's Republic, died in a car kaboom, the pro-Russian rebels' news agency said.
The blast, which took place in the rebels' de facto capital of Lugansk, was "a terrorist act" that also took the life of another one person, the report said.
It accused Ukrainian forces of killing Anashchenko in a claim denied by Kiev.
The latest incident echoed a similar one in August when the same republic's leader Igor Plotnitsky was injured in a suspected boom-mobileing.
Lugansk is the smaller of two breakaway pro-Russian provinces that have been fighting Ukrainian government forces for 33 months.
Senior Donetsk rebel officials have also been killed in an apparent power struggle.
The latest blast coincided with a surge in fighting between Ukrainian troops and those from the neighbouring self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk which has killed 35 people since Sunday.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
[OMANTRIBUNE] The invisibility cloak in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may soon become a reality if engineers from the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, United States can develop the near-perfect broadband absorber that they have invented further.
This thin, flexible and light-weight material can cool your room on hot sunny days, may give you stealth features by blocking thermal detection and absorb light from every angle.
The absorber can be theoretically customised to absorb certain wavelengths of light while letting others pass through.
"This material offers broadband, yet selective absorption that could be tuned to distinct parts of the electromagnetic spectrum," said Zhaowei Liu, Professor at UC San Diego in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Although material that can absorb light already exists,
#2
This thin, flexible and light-weight material can cool your room on hot sunny days, may give you stealth features by blocking thermal detection and absorb light from every angle
New Shimmer™. it's also a floor wax AND a dessert topping!
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/05/2017 7:35 Comments ||
Top||
#3
So, basically what they've discovered is that if you hide under a blanket people can't see you.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
02/05/2017 13:18 Comments ||
Top||
That headline is quite a stretch. It might seem timely, but it’s not breaking news that French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi had at one time pitched the idea of a massive, draped sculpture holding a torch that would act as a lighthouse as the entrance to the Suez Canal.
That project obviously fell through, but Bartholdi held on to the idea and successfully re-pitched it -- hardly proof that the Statue of Liberty was "originally intended" to be a Muslim woman. It was a nice try, though.
[An Nahar] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... will on Friday move to roll back key reforms enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, in what the White House sees as an effort to cut damaging red tape.
Officials say Trump will sign two executive actions asking the Treasury and the Labor Department to look into ways of reforming rules that were designed to make markets safer and give consumers more protection.
One order will ask the Treasury Department to identify possible changes to a package of financial reforms -- know as Dodd-Frank -- enacted in 2010 by president Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... .
Among other things, the legislation created the consumer financial protection bureau and required banks to keep more capital on hand to prevent over-leveraging.
The review will also target the so-called "Volcker Rule," which curbs some speculative investments.
"(We) believe that Dodd-Frank in many respects was a piece of massive government overreach," said a senior administration official, previewing the orders Trump will sign later Friday.
"It imposed hundreds of new regulations on financial institutions, it established an enormous amount of work and effort for financial firms," the official said.
Republicans have made no secret of their dislike for the consumer financial protections bureau, which looks set to be targeted in the review.
Any substantial repeal of Dodd-Frank would require congressional action, but the Trump White House is keen to send a signal that it is ready to slash red tape.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/05/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11122 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
The one essential is to eliminate the concept of 'too big to fail' - whether by letting even the biggest fail, whatever the consequences, or by breaking them up into smaller pieces that can fail without severe consequences.
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] A Florida woman recorded herself performing oral sex in a courthouse -- just before she was about to face a judge on drug-related charges, according to reports.
[BREITBART] Vandals have struck a banana yellow car blamed for ruining visitors’ photos of a famous English village.
[MYSANANTONIO] A San Antonio man who was freed from life in prison by President 
[An Nahar] Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Just as the United States is undergoing a political transition of its own, Venezuela's dubious regime has taken the provocative step of empowering an anti-U.S. hardliner with ties to narcotraffickers and Middle Eastern terrorism.
That headline is quite a stretch. It might seem timely, but it’s not breaking news that French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi had at one time pitched the idea of a massive, draped sculpture holding a torch that would act as a lighthouse as the entrance to the Suez Canal.
[An Nahar] President 
