[Miami Herald] LOS ANGELES - A brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of possessing child pornography, authorities said Wednesday.
The arrest of Bruce Paddock was confirmed by a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Bruce Paddock is not considered a suspect in the Las Vegas shooting. The child porn case predated the Oct. 1 shooting, the official said. It wasn't immediately known if he has an attorney.
Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds more were wounded Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel tower. Stephen Paddock was found dead.
Another brother, Eric Paddock, spoke to media following the shooting but Bruce Paddock did not.
The potential for this incident to become even uglier is certainly a possibility.
[ABCNews] A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned. Paddock removed the drive shortly after he shot himself in the back of the head
[ABC] Two men were fatally shot early Wednesday morning on the campus of Grambling State University in northern Louisiana, authorities said.
The suspect fled the scene, according to the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Department, which said it doesn't believe the suspect was a GSU student. The suspect has not been apprehended.
Police said they believe there was an altercation in a dorm room on campus, which led up to the shooting in a courtyard outside.
Grambling State University Director of University Communications Will Sutton said the victims were Earl Andrews, a senior at GSU, and Monquiarious Caldwell, who was not a student. Both men were 23 years old and from Farmerville, Louisiana.
[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] According to a multinational experiment, researchers in England and the Netherlands found that consuming a small amount of alcohol made it easier for someone to speak in another language. The study followed 50 German students studying abroad in the Netherlands and had them communicate with a native person in Dutch. I hope they didn't spend too much money on a study validating what linguists and polyglots have known for years. Adults don't want to appear foolish when they speak, so they concentrate on things like grammar and proper intonation, instead of on communicating.
The researchers found that the students who had been given a dose of “Dutch courage” before the conversation scored better in the eyes of their Dutch partners. Although the drinkers themselves said they didn’t notice an improvement, their Dutch observers added that the drinkers’ pronunciation of their language was better compared to the students who had not been given alcohol.
“One possible mechanism could be the anxiety-reducing effect of alcohol,” Dr. Jessica Werthmann of Maastricht University said in a press release.
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The three colleges involved also added that alcohol’s ability to increase feelings of self-confidence could play a role in the improved language skills.
The research team cautioned that the benefits were limited to small amounts of alcohol and that getting fully drunk won’t turn a novice into an experienced speaker.
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Didn't read the whole thing, but I wonder how much alcohol the Dutch "observers" consumed before the testing.
Hat tip: gCaptain. Check picture at link. Nice pic of ship's anchor fluke spearing a torpedo. Serious pucker factor.
A pretty scary situation in the southern England last Friday as a tanker pulled up an old test torpedo when it raised its anchor in Portland.
A diving unit was dispatched to the scene where they immediately evacuated the majority of the crew from the Maltese-flagged MT Skaw Provider. However, six crew members including the Master remained on board the vessel to respond in case it had detonated.
A photo of the torpedo shows that the old ordnance pierced by the fluke of the anchor after it had been dragged up from a depth of around a 15-meters.
The tanker was carrying approximately 1000 tonnes of fuel or oil, according to the Officer in Charge of the Portsmouth-based Southern Diving Unit, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Campbell.
"The fuel cargo was pumped into the aftermost possible tanks to reduce the effects of any explosion, and fire hoses were charged and ready to deploy if needed," said Campbell. "We directed the ship to use her other anchor to steady her, before lowering the fouled anchor, and the torpedo, to several metres below the waterline."
Royal Navy divers, who are Explosive Ordnance Device (EOD) Specialists, had to then approach the torpedo and remove it in a safe manner.
"EOD Operators are obliged to treat these items as ‘live' and hazardous until it can be disproved otherwise," said Lt Cdr Campbell. "The entire job was conducted in this way.
"Working parts inside the torpedo could be seen from where the anchor fluke had ruptured it. The entire bomb disposal team were professional and got on with the job in hand," Campbell said.
Once the torpedo was released, the team then took it to a safe area, lowered it to the seabed and destroyed it, the Royal Navy said.
The entire operation took about seven hours from start to finish, and the ship was released at around 5 p.m. on the same day.
"They were thoroughly relieved to be separated from their unwelcome burden," said Campbell.
The Royal Navy said the torpedo was a British made device believed to have come from a test range that existed for Portland until the 1980s and had so far remained undetected. "While they vary in the type of hazard they represent test torpedo can contain highly flammable propellant," the Royal Navy noted.
The 4,279 dwt Skaw Provider was built in 2005.
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[THECUT] Now that everybody's been rescued from the hurricanes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts, it's time to stop dragging knuckles and being cisgendered and admit that Harvey Weinstein is us.
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“I wasn’t doing really terrible things, but I also wasn’t being the most ideal Stephen I could be,” he says.
[DAILYCALLER] A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate "white privilege" because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.
But that isn’t the professor’s only complaint. She also believes that evaluations for math proficiency perpetuates discrimination against minority students, if they do worse than their white counterparts.
Rochelle Gutierrez argues in a newly published math education book for teachers that they must be aware of the identity politics surrounding the subject of mathematics.
"On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness," she argues with complete sincerity, according to Campus Reform. "Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White."
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This 'white privilege' must be why I flunked calculus my freshman year at UNH.
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A pointless and derivative argument. Is there no limit to their stupidity?
As Barbie said, "Math is hard". But it's good exercise for your brain and you really can't be an educated person without a smattering of algebra and geometry.
Worth noting is that Gutierrez is a professor of Mathematics Education which is not the same as professor of Mathematics. Imputations that education courses are the weak sauce of the academic world are left as an exercise for the Reader.
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Mathematics is learned through 'critical thinking', something no longer taught, nor learned through experience, in the inner cities (or most public schools).
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Is there no limit to their stupidity?
SteveS, the answer of course is NO, there is absolutely no limit to their stupidity.
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#10 This is a very dangerous reasoning if it catches on in liberal communities.
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Not only has it already caught on, this "white privilege" nonsense is widespread among academics and leftists generally and is well on its way to being (in their eyes, anyway) beyond question.
They absolutely refuse to accept the possibility that black lives are being destroyed by ghetto youth culture, with its violence, gangs, anti-white and anti-cop hatred, drugs, teenage pregnancy and absentee fathers; instead, they blame this thing they've concocted called "white privilege."
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They absolutely refuse to accept the possibility that black lives are being destroyed by ghetto youth culture, with its violence, gangs, anti-white and anti-cop hatred, drugs, teenage pregnancy and absentee fathers; instead, they blame this thing they've concocted called "white privilege."
Obviously, for every white person that gives up their privilege, one person at a disadvantage will step up to fill to their rightful place and make the world a better place.
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Her student's love her too:
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1211409
"This professor is a disgrace to the teaching community. Pushes her own pathetic political views as opposed to focusing on objectively teaching the subject."
"Says things like: On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness, Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively. So you think gravity is a "white construct", or that if you just want it badly enough, your bridge will stand any load? Until 1+1 3, there are some truths that definitely aren't relative."
"Dr. G professes social justice as a constant practice, and stemming from the understanding of other's circumstances. She repeatedly holds us after class ends, making rude comments to the students who leave, including insulting a student who had to leave class to go to her job. She takes student suggestions but is condescending while practicing them"
"Rochelle basically turns lectures into discussion. Instead of taking the time to prepare a PowerPoint or basic points on that weeks readings that we had trouble with, she has the students lead a discussion and even has them be the ones to write on the board. She gets payed to have students do her work basically. A lot of readings and no clarity..."
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From deep in this Mexican's mandala,
A peep of awareness: "Nepantla!"
The lesion societal --
see Nezahualcoyotl --
Enlightens the pious panhandler.
[PRESSTV] Kenyan police have clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi as calls increase on the country’s Supreme Court to delay a controversial rerun of presidential election, which is slated for October 26.
Police officials said on Tuesday that they fired tear gas to disperse a small group of people who were protesting in downtown Nairobi.
The officials said the confrontation, which occurred amid bustling traffic, was not serious and that coppers fired blanks. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... clouds of tear gas forced some city workers and passers-by to hurry away from the area.
There was no report of potential casualties. Rights group say some 67 people have been rubbed out by police forces since the results of the August 8 presidential election were declared. President Uhuru Kenyatta won that vote but Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the results over irregularities in the electronic vote process. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who had challenged the original vote, has called on his followers to boycott a rerun set for Thursday, saying irregularities still persist and people who helped the government tamper with the results have not been sacked from the election watchdog.
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[Al Jazeera] Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... was never officially asked to become a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organization (WHO), his front man has claimed, adding Zim-bob-we's president would have turned down the role anyway.
The UN's health agency on Sunday said it was reversing a decision to appoint Zim-bob-we's 93-year-old leader to the largely ceremonial post to help in the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa.
The move came after widespread criticism by WHO member states and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups who noted that the health system in Zim-bob-we has suffered from severe challenges under Mugabe's decades-long leadership.
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That's a huge difference between Obama and Trump. Obama clearly did not give a flying fuck about free enterprise, whereas Trump knows it's the way back to national prosperity.
My second thought on this - the article states a $14 billion deal and 70K jobs created (I'm taking that second number with a huge grain of salt) and no mention on the number of planes to be delivered, but what still astounds me to this day - the two new Air Force Ones waiting in the wings, where Trump talked Boeing down $1 billion on the eventual price tag with essentially a single tweet and an hour long phone call.
Third thought - too bad nobody's concerned with the annual deficit - didn't we just ring up another $660 billion last fiscal year?
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and replacement $ to Boeing for the lost Iran deal
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People on the left don't get it at all... Boeing employs 140,000 people with blue collar and higher jobs. They have hundreds of thousands of vendors that provide all the parts, thus touching millions of peoples income directly. Then you look at Boeing stock, its doing well, as it should. EVERY 401k in America has Boeing stock in it. Every single American that has a 401K is touched by this deal. Trump understanding this and helping has probably put more money in the American tax payers pockets than anything else he has done, or any other president in the last 15 years as well.
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I think O did give a f-ck about free enterprise: he hated it.
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...the man who said "you didn't build that" failed to explain where the government got its money to do anything.
[PRESSTV] Lawmakers in the European Parliament have called for an external investigation into growing claims that the chamber has become a hotbed for sexual harassment.
The call for the external probe by five MEPs came on Tuesday following a report by the British newspaper Sunday Times, which said that female staffers working in the European chamber had been subject to widespread sex abuse by European politicians.
The five MPs also called on a special committee set up to investigate sexual harassment claims in the legislative body to help the alleged victims and bring those responsible for the tragedy to justice.
The Times newspaper cited serious allegations about MEPs committing harassment against female workers. It kept the names of the alleged perpetrators secret, although it did mention Yves Cochet, a former French environment minister and Green party MEP.
The report said the European Parliament had become a "hotbed of sex harassment," citing widespread instances of MEPs groping their assistants from behind or taking photos from them and sending them at night.
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[DAWN] A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured by her teenage neighbour in Jacoboabad on Monday, police said.
District Superintendent Police Arbab Ali Soomro said that police had rushed to the site of an under-construction higher secondary school, located in Mubarakpur town in Jacobabad's Thull district, after receiving information that a five-year-old girl was lying there unconscious.
The police shifted the minor to Civil Hospital Jacobabad for medical treatment, DSP Soomro said. After receiving medical attention, the girl recorded her statement with the police at the hospital in her parent's presence, the DSP added.
The girl alleged that she was sexually assaulted by her 16-year-old neighbour. She added that the boy had tortured her when she resisted, causing severe injuries and torture marks on her face, the DSP added.
DSP Soomro said that under the directions of the senior superintendent police, multiple raids had been conducted and the accused was jugged Please don't kill me! . The teenager was then taken to an unknown place for further investigation which was currently underway.
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A lack of diversity within the Trump administration is weakening national security and damaging U.S. credibility in the international community, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said today.
Cardin, who serves as ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, contrasted racial and gender diversity of the Obama administration with the Trump administration while speaking at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
Citing Office of Management and Budget data on mid-level political jobs, Cardin noted that Trump has appointed 88 percent white individuals and 62 percent male. Obama, in comparison, appointed 67 percent white individuals and 47 percent male. But how many of Obama appointments could pass an Algebra test?
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A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll released Tuesday from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"If you apply for a job, they seem to give the blacks the first crack at it," said 68-year-old Tim Hershman of Akron, Ohio, "and, basically, you know, if you want any help from the government, if you're white, you don't get it. If you're black, you get it."
Do you guys have any idea how long I've been waiting to use that headline? Do you?
[LawNewz] Another woman said Tuesday that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her. Mimi Haleyi, represented by attorney Gloria Allred, said he lured her to a SoHo loft in 2006, where he backed her into what seemed to be a children’s bedroom, and forcibly performed oral sex on her. She was on her period at the time, and he pulled out her tampon during the sexual assault, she said.
According to Haleyi, he asked her, "’Don’t you feel we’re so much closer to each other now?’ To which I replied, ’No.'"
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I think the author confuses cause and effect - first Harvey became poor & powerless, and then...
Mind you, he's getting what he deserves (not because of sex).
That's gonna piss off some social justice warriors and the jerkoffs at Deadspin - I can't wait!
[WeaselZipper] The Miami Dolphins have signed free agent quarterback David Fales to the roster.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the news Tuesday morning in a series of tweets.
Things are about to get lit on the internet. A white, free agent quarterback who has no career accomplishments, just got signed before Colin Kaepernick. People are going to flip, and it’s going to be so much fun to watch.
They’ll ignore the fact that Fales is familiar with the offense, that he cares such little about name recognition that nobody will care much and that he isn’t expected to even play. Most importantly, they’ll ignore the fact Miami has a strong Cuban population, and Kaepernick has praised deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Bringing him in would be a horrible business decision.
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In other Kaepernick non-hiring news, AZ Cardinals (starter Carson Palmer's arm is broken - probably done for the season) will go with 2 QB's for now.
[RedState] I think my colleague Jen may have been a little premature in declaring Suddenly Kathy Griffin Isn’t So Annoying.
Kathy Griffin The Pride of Oak Brook, Illinois
is indeed so annoying.
She is on a stand-up comedy tour in Australia and she told the talk show The Project that Donald Trump is a Nazi.
"I am going to call him a moron and Nazi ... Americans are skittish about calling him a Nazi but he is one," Griffin told The Project on Tuesday night.
"There’s a Nazi in the Oval Office.
"He’s a big liar and everybody should get rid of him soon, not violently. Vote him out."
Like the words "racism" or "hate," the far left is robbing the word "Nazi" of all meaning. I think the nomination of Donald Trump by the GOP is possibly the biggest political blunder of my lifetime, but calling him a Nazi is ridiculous and only diminishes the real historical evil that was the Nazi party.
Going halfway around the world to call the President a Nazi is pretty cowardly to boot.
This is a woman who thought photographing herself holding the bloody severed head of a sitting President of the United States was a good idea that wouldn’t have any negative consequences. She acts as if she is surprised that Trump’s supporters attacked her on social media afterward.
People lost their jobs during the last administration just for wearing a mask that looked like Obama. Holding Trump’s severed head is distasteful in itself but also a crass mockery of islamofascist execution videos. If anyone deserves the title "moron" it’s someone who pulled that stunt and managed to be shocked at the backlash.
It’s very courageous and edgy to run down the POTUS on foreign soil. Everyone knows that the secret to good comedy is that it is based on a kernel of truth, and there are plenty of kernels available on which to build jokes about Trump, but Griffin lacks any sense of proportion and comes off like some psychotic Code Pink protester. She’s not funny.
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This is true - according to the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), the Republicans nominate a Nazi for President every four years.
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.
[Miami Herald] LOS ANGELES - A brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of possessing child pornography, authorities said Wednesday.
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[DAILYCALLER] A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate "white privilege" because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.
[PRESSTV] Lawmakers in the European Parliament have called for an external investigation into growing claims that the chamber has become a hotbed for sexual harassment.
