[Chicago Tribune] Thirteen people were shot in Chicago over 11 hours between Wednesday evening and early Thursday, including two triple-shootings on the West Side, according to police.
A man between 45 and 50 was found shot to death in the 11100 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Morgan Park neighborhood around 5 a.m. Thursday, police said. He had been shot several times and pronounced dead on the scene, a vacant lot on a residential street.
In the Pilsen neighborhood, a 41-year-old man was seriously wounded about 1 a.m. Thursday in the 1900 block of South Peoria Street, police said.
A woman, who did not want to be identified, woke up early Thursday to the sound of gunshots. She looked outside, saw a man on the sidewalk and called 911. After police arrived, she went outside and gave the man a glass of water after he said he was thirsty.
Paramedics lifted the man, who had been shot in the chest, and placed him on a stretcher. He held onto his cellphone as the paramedics put into the ambulance. He was taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital.
A man who had been with the victim declined to comment.
On the West Side, there were two triple shootings within four hours Wednesday.
Three men were shot about 11:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Avers Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood.
A 38-year-old man was shot in the left shoulder, and another 38-year-old man was shot in the right arm, police said. A 33-year-old man was shot in the right foot. Their conditions were stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.
[NYPOST] This duo picked the wrong pub to knock off.
Joseph McInnis III, 21, and 22-year-old Tyree McCoy robbed a Maryland bar filled with dozens of off-duty officers there for a cop retirement party, WBAL-TV reported. Ooh! I seen dis movie!
The armed crooks entered the take-out portion of Monaghan’s Pub in Woodlawn on Tuesday night and held up an employee at gunpoint before running off with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said, according to the news outlet.
"At that time, the person who had been behind the counter knew that there was a retirement party for a police officer happening, so they went into the other portion and alerted the officers to the fact that they had just been involved in an armed robbery," Baltimore County Police Officer Jennifer Peach said.
Off-duty officers at the shindig quickly ran out and took the men into custody.
They were charged with armed robbery and possession of a handgun and were being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center, according to the report.
"I’m sure that they weren’t planning on there being a large room filled with coppers," Peach said.
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Long ago, I remember reading about a couple of would-be burglars diligently breaking into the backdoor of an all-night donut, coffee and sandwich shop. When they finally made their way in, there were a bunch of cops sitting there. Nearly all criminals are not criminal geniuses.
[FoxNews] John Roberts, a 27-year-old from Clarksville, Tennessee, testified Wednesday that he didn’t know the equipment he received was stolen.
“I didn’t try to hide anything,” Roberts said Wednesday. “That’s why I filed taxes on everything I sold on eBay. I thought it was okay.”
The equipment – some of which was resold to buyers in Russia, China, Mexico, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and Ukraine – included machine gun and rifle parts, helmets, guns, medical equipment, gun sights, body army and more.
Roberts said soldiers from Fort Campbell told him the equipment was legally purchased from other soldiers, or that the Army was throwing the equipment out, The Tennessean reported. He also said he didn’t know that he needed to have a license to export certain items overseas.
But a former business partner of Roberts’, Cory Wilson, testified that the two would find soldiers selling military items through classified ads or on Facebook, and ask them for more expensive or harder-to-find items.
Wilson and Roberts shared a warehouse in Clarksville where they stored the equipment, but Roberts said they were not sharing funds. Roberts said the two just had a shared interest in selling things on eBay.
The men removed packaging on the equipment that identified it as government property and used fake descriptions on shipping labels to avoid suspicion, Wilson said.
Wilson pleaded guilty to buying and selling stolen military equipment, wire fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act.
Michael Barlow, a former Fort Campbell platoon sergeant who pleaded guilty to theft of government property and conspiracy, testified that they started small, but eventually escalated to truckloads of military equipment. He said Roberts even gave him a “Christmas list” of items he wanted the soldiers to steal in Afghanistan and bring back to the United States.
The scheme allegedly operated from 2013 until 2016.
Roberts is being tried in Nashville on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to steal and sell government property and violating the Arms Export Control Act. Six soldiers and his civilian business partner made plea deals in exchange for their testimony.
A 14-member jury will hear closing arguments and begin deliberations in the case on Thursday.
[NYTimes] Modern Family star Sofia Vergara has been locked in a bitter custody dispute with Nick Loeb over frozen embryos she and her former fiancé had made when they were together for years, but she recently picked up a major legal victory in the public battle. Since the two split up, Loeb has aggressively tried to acquire custody of the frozen embryos. In his latest legal bid to obtain legal custody, Loeb filed an unusual right-to-live lawsuit against Vergara in Louisiana, the only state where frozen embryos have legal rights. He named the two embryos "Emma" and "Isabella" in court documents, and even went so far as to set up trust funds for them.
Loeb brought the lawsuit back in December and last week a judge threw out the case on the basis that it was filed outside the proper jurisdiction, given that the embryos were created in California. In court documents obtained by TMZ, the judge even kept up the theme Loeb started in the lawsuit, ruling that "Emma" and "Isabella" are "citizens of California."
Nice one, your honor. But, in spite of being citizens, they are not human and can be aborted at any time during gestation. I'm trying to get a handle on that. It seems contradictory to me.
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Seems to be an interstate conflict here. Guess where that's going to go.
[One reason the judiciary believes they're overworked is because they believe everything is the object of judicial review]
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Funny story. Nick Loeb-- I believe his father was an ambassador (to Israel?) of some kind during the Reagan administration-- was in my class at high school. He was a total putz then as he is now. Not very well liked. Not many friends. Gravitated towards the misfits and outcasts of the school more than anyone else. Kind of seemed to have a superiority complex in that he generally carried himself as if he was inherently better than the rest of his peers around him. In other words, a total jerk.
Ever since he started dating Sofia Vergara, myself and the classmates that I keep in touch with could not for the life of us understand what in the hell she saw in him or was doing with him. Eventually, it appears she caught on and kicked him to the curb. Good for her but I still can't believe it took her as long as it did.
His efforts at asserting custody over her frozen embryos pretty much tells you all you need to know about the guy.
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Florence, the asteroid is large enough to end life as we know it if it hits. Who says besides NASA? It would seem the differences between the masses of the asteroid and Earth are quite large.
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At our scale it'll miss by quite a bit - solar scale it is pretty close - but nowhere close as the bus-sized asteroid that missed by 30K miles last month.
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correction on #5 - Chixlub was estimated at 6-9 miles in diameter so Florence is 1/2 to 1/3 as big - but still big enough to give cockroaches the elbow room they need to become the dominant species on Earth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House has prepared a request to Congress for an initial $5.9 billion package in Harvey recovery aid, a first down payment to make sure recovery efforts over the next few weeks are adequately funded.
The Trump proposal, which is being finalized pending White House consultations with key Republicans, promises to represent just a fraction of an eventual Harvey recovery package that could rival the $100-billion-plus in taxpayer-financed help for victims of 2005′s Hurricane Katrina.
A senior administration official said the plan will be sent to Congress on Friday and House and Senate votes appear likely next week. The official was not authorized to release the information publicly before a final decision is made and spoke on condition of anonymity.
House GOP leaders have signaled they are aiming to act fast on Harvey aid. Much larger future installments will be required but the initial package, to replenish Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster coffers through Sept. 30, shouldn’t be controversial.
FEMA is spending existing disaster aid reserves -- just $2.1 billion as of Thursday -- at a high rate.
The initial aid money would be a down payment for immediate recovery efforts, to be followed by larger packages later, said White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert. It will take weeks or months to assess the full extent of the damage and need.
[Think Progress News Site] What happens when a federal disaster relief program is a disaster?
As days of devastating rain over Houston begins to break, residents will begin returning to their homes to assess the damage wrought by catastrophic flooding. When all is said and done, Hurricane Harvey and its associated flooding may have caused as much as $30 billion in damages for homeowners -- a dizzying total made worse by the fact that the federal flood insurance program, meant to offer relief for homeowners in the face of a natural disaster, is itself underwater and facing an uncertain future.
The National Flood Insurance Program -- administered by FEMA -- is currently roughly $25 billion in debt. That, according to flood experts, is because the program does not charge rates that actually reflect the risk associated with building homes in floodplains. Combine those low premiums with a series of devastating flood events in recent years, throw in the fact that flood insurance goes more toward rebuilding in flood-prone areas than helping people move to safer regions, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster aid that, itself, is a disaster.
"What’s happening around Hurricane Harvey, it just exposes all of the open sores that cover the flood insurance program," Rob Moore, a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Water Program, told ThinkProgress.
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How about after the 2nd or 3rd time you've been flooded out in a ten year period, the new carpet, drywall, and furniture are on YOU and not the taxpayers ?
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not sure how you can fund a program like that effectively - Natural disasters have huge infrastructure and personal property impacts 100's of Billions - have to get rid of welfare or defense or medicare/medicaid to fund it.
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But I read that only 15% of the flooded homes were covered by NFIP.
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Yeah, because they know the hurricane victims won't fight back.
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The French Neo-Nazis were defeated at the battle of Puebla by the Mexicans. They have been getting their arses kicked by everyone else around the world ever since. Their mouths are always getting them in trouble.
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When you play the "hey look at me, I say a$$hole stuff" game, you are just signaling you are desperate and shallow. Of course, since they are French, pseudo intellectuals will assume it's actually deep thought.
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No, the real issue is they know Texans won't show up to cut their heads off and blow them up. Sorry you fing frenchies but you aren't worth the bullets or wear and tear on a knife to kill. Go O/D in a gutter like most of your ilk do.
[THECOLLEGEFIX] Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple with balancing the books.
In an Aug. 28 memo to the campus community titled "Enrollment and Budget Update," officials report that fall 2017-18 registration is down about 5 percent, from 3,922 students to 3,713. But the problem is nearly all of the students they lost are nonresidents, who traditionally pay a much higher tuition to attend, officials explained in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.
Combined with a shortfall in funding from state coffers to shoulder a mandatory cost-of-living salary increase and a rise in the general cost of operations, and the school must find a way to resolve a $2.1 million shortfall for the fiscal year that began July 1, according to the memo.
"This creates the need for significant budget cuts in the immediate future," the memo states, adding that the university late last month already handed out temporary layoff notices to 17 facilities staff members.
"Some notices were rescinded as we try to use scarce local dollars to keep people employed," the memo states. "... However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... if the capital budget crisis at the state level continues indefinitely, layoffs will become impossible to avoid."
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Evergreen State ought to be sued for fraud. The grounds would be that they are providing B.S. left-wing radical indoctrination and representing it as education. Looks like the problem will take care of itself.
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Recipe for fiscal disaster: free ride minority scholarships keep coming and full cost + out-of-state extra feespaid students pick another college. Can you say ♫Negative Cash Flow♫
[Al Ahram] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has urged Washington not to use force against North Korea, as tensions surged after the latest missile test by Pyongyang.
In a phone call late Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Lavrov "underscored... the need to refrain from any military steps that could have unpredictable consequences," the foreign ministry in Moscow said.
Russia's lead diplomat said any attempts to toughen sanctions against North Korea would be "counterproductive and dangerous" while condemning Pyongyang's firing of a missile over Japan as a "gross violation" of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... resolutions.
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Diplomatic steps seem to have unpredictable consequences as well. In fact, many people would instead call those consequences very predictable. So what is your solution, Lavrov?
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There is a cafeteria of petitions to sign at the Whitehouse site. I have doubted that they have an any effect but who knows. A couple I found interesting were Publish Climate Science Report without Political Interference and Censorship and Release FBI Documents Withheld Due to "Lack of Public Interest" and Declare George Soros a terrorist and seize all of his related organizations' assets under RICO and NDAA law.
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A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday to publicly release previously unseen documents related to the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg ordered the FBI to produce uncensored court documents describing the grand jury subpoenas issued to force Clinton’s internet service providers to turn over information related to her private server use, according to a statement released by Cause of Action Institute.
The ruling was made in response to a motion filed in June as part of a suit brought by Cause of Action Institute and Judicial Watch. The organizations claim the Department of State violated the Federal Records Act by failing to maintain records related to Clinton’s handling of classified information.
[PJMedia] On Tuesday evening, Google sent a conservative website an ultimatum: remove one of your articles, or lose the ability to make ad revenue on your website. The website was strong-armed into removing the content, and then warned that the page was "just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website."
"Yesterday morning, we received a very bizarre letter from Google issuing us an ultimatum," Shane Trejo, media relations director of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Michigan, wrote on The Liberty Conservative. "Either we were to remove a particular article or see all of our ad revenues choked off in an instant. This is the newest method that Big Brother is using to enforce thought control." So Google is now the ministry of truth.
The ultimatum came in the form of an email from Google's ad placement service AdSense. The email specifically listed an article on The Liberty Conservative's site, stating that the article violated AdSense's policies.
"As stated in our program policies, Google ads may not be placed on pages that contain content that: Threatens or advocates harm on oneself or others; Harasses, intimidates or bullies an individual or group of individuals; Incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization," the email stated. But Antifa and BLM websites are a-OK right? Just want to make it clear what is what.
The email warned The Liberty Conservative that it must either remove ads from that page, or "modify or remove the violating content to meet our AdSense policies."
"Please be aware that if additional violations are accrued, ad serving may be disabled to the website listed above," the AdSense email warned. "Please be aware that the URL above is just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website or other sites that you own." Translation: Big Brother is watching you!
I have to wonder of the people placing the Ads is aware that Google is doing this.
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President Trump sent a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday announcing his intention to cut pay raises for civilian government workers.
In the letter, Trump cited his authority in times of "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare" to make adjustments to the 2018 pay schedule for federal employees.
Under the previous plan, workers were scheduled for a 1.9 percent bump. Trump will use his authority to lower that to 1.4 percent.
"We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a sustainable fiscal course," Trump wrote.
"A pay increase of this magnitude is not warranted, and Federal agency budgets could not accommodate such an increase while still maintaining support for key Federal priorities such as those that advance the safety and security of the American people."
Pay raises for government workers outside of Washington, D.C., will average only 0.5 percent and will be specified in a coming executive order, Trump said.
[Daily Caller] A new report on diversity among library employees at America’s four-year colleges and universities has concluded that there are entirely too many white librarians.
Ithaka S+R, an academic research firm, released the "Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity" report on Wednesday.
As a group, librarians "are over three quarters white and nearly 90 percent white in leadership roles," the Ithaka S+R report reveals.
The lack of "library employees of color" is a "shortcoming" in the academic library industry, the report also says.
"The library community considers diversity to be a core value. But the academic library sector has struggled with addressing equity, diversity and inclusion."
Academic libraries have struggled with an excess of white employees for decades, notes Inside Higher Ed.
A co-author of the library diversity report, Roger C. Schonfeld, noted that the small percentage of minority employees who work in academic libraries tend to work in secondary roles such as technical services and acquisitions. These jobs are disappearing at libraries as holdings become more and more digital.
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"The library community considers diversity to be a core value. But the academic library sector has struggled with addressing equity, diversity and inclusion."
Does that diversity include Trunks, conservatives, or people who voted for Trump? Didn't think so.
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Perhaps a diversity survey of those actually visiting libraries is in order. If libraries turn out to be little more than privileged sanctuaries, shutter them and march the racist librarians off to re-education centers !
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..more likely the homeless, not seeking enlightenment but shelter, marking the way for re-utilization of public facilities. End 'credentialed' welfare.
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Over 75% white? That's totally racist. Wait a minute. How much of the US pop is white?
White - 72.4%
Black or African American - 12.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian - 4.8%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander - 0.2%
Two or more races - 2.9%
Some other race - 6.2%
Damn, math be hard! But it does look the the percentage of librarian whiteness tracks with the gen pop percentages.
Note: these are raw pop stats and say nothing about the percentages that are functionally illiterate because they went to crappy big-city schools.
[Wash Times] The Trump administration moved Wednesday to reimpose work requirements for Americans on welfare, revoking an Obama-era policy that had urged states to apply for waivers exempting the poor from having to show they were either getting job training or looking for work.
Requiring work was a key part of the 1996 welfare reform law enacted by a GOP-led Congress and signed by then-President Bill Clinton, and Mr. Trump’s move restores the law as written.
"The waiver option offered by the Obama administration is being replaced today by an expectation that work should always be encouraged as a condition for receiving welfare," said Steven Wagner, the Health and Human Services Department’s acting assistant secretary for children and families.
The 2012 Obama policy didn’t outright gut the welfare law. Instead, it pushed states to consider applying for waivers that would let them still pay benefits to people even if they weren’t actively seeking work, job training or meeting other criteria.
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.
[Think Progress News Site] What happens when a federal disaster relief program is a disaster?
[THECOLLEGEFIX] Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple with balancing the books.
North Korea
