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He's very lucky he didn't get ventilated. Seems like we have 1-2 of those type stories a week here in Houston. Oh look, another wanna be robber gets smoked by an armed citizen or shopkeeper. You would think they'd learn.
[Reuters] Montrose, Colorado, Jan 11 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is interviewing former employees of a funeral home whose owner runs a side business on the same premises selling human body parts.
An agent with the FBI has interviewed at least four former employees who worked for funeral director and body broker Megan Hess, seeking information about how she operates her businesses, the former workers told Reuters.
The federal inquiry began several months ago, shortly after Reuters interviewed a half-dozen workers who formerly worked for Hess.
One ex-employee, Kari Escher, said she was especially troubled by the practices of Hess's mother, Shirley Koch, who works at the facility. Escher said Koch, who embalmed and dismembered bodies, pulled teeth from some of the corpses to extract the gold in crowns or fillings.
"She showed me her collection of gold teeth one day," said Escher, who helped manage a former cremation-marketing business owned by Hess.
Koch said "she had sold a different batch a year prior, and they took the whole family to Disneyland in California on the gold that they cashed in," Escher said.
Reached by phone at Sunset Mesa, Koch said she did not wish to talk with a Reuters reporter. "I'm not interested. Thank you," she said before ending the call.
The news agency had also sent written questions to Hess and her attorney about Koch's alleged handling of gold teeth. Neither addressed the issue about the teeth.
No federal law prohibits the buying and selling of human body parts to be used in research and education.
In Colorado and most other states, it also is legal for funeral homes to sell items recovered from dead bodies, such as gold dental work. And it is not against the law to operate a so-called body broker firm from the same facility that houses a funeral home and crematory.
But the business arrangement is highly unusual. Reuters could find no other operation active in the United States that houses a funeral home, crematory and body broker in the same facility and under the same ownership.
[USA Today] A three-star defensive tackle prospect from Alabama with scholarship offers from some of America’s most prestigious college football programs was charged with capital murder on Wednesday, according to the Gadsden Times.
Jesse Altman, a 17-year-old junior at Etowah High in Alabama, was charged with capital murder along with four other teenagers in connection with the shooting death of 18-year-old Aaron "A.J." Huff. While police have not made the motive behind the death clear, early reporting indicates that Huff and another of the teenagers charged in his death ‐ Tyler Abbott ‐ were acquainted and engaged in a verbal altercation which preceded the shooting.
Altman is rated as a three-star prospect by both Rivals.com and 247Sports, though it’s clear college coaches think the 6-foot-1, 295-pounder has the potential to achieve far more. He allegedly already holds scholarship offers from the likes of Texas, Texas Tech, West Virginia, TCU, Oregon, Kentucky and Mississippi State, and has received interest from Alabama and Florida State.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Carjacked, thrown to the ground, and driven over with his own car.
The wife of a Baltimore County man who was attacked during a carjacking talks to WJZ about the vicious attack that now has four teens behind bars. Baltimore County police are looking for two other teens still wanted in connection with the carjacking that left a man seriously injured.
Police aren’t saying how they connected the dots, but we now know that a Comcast worker caught the entire incident on video.
The victim, identified as 69-year-old Jim Willinghan, is still recovering at Shock Trauma, but his wife says he will be moved to another facility to undergo six months of rehab for his broken pelvis.
Police aren’t saying how they connected the dots, but we now know that a Comcast worker caught the entire incident on video.
Last Wednesday morning, Baltimore County police say six teens viciously carjacked, assaulted, and drove over Willinghan. "I got a knock on the door that my husband had been carjacked and assaulted," Willinghan’s wife said. "My husband was innocent. It shouldn’t have happened. I come running out, and he’s laying over there on the corner of the sidewalk."
Willinghan went outside to grab something out of their car when the group attacked him. He suffered bruises on his back and other injuries. The most serious was a broken pelvis, which happened when the teens drove over him before taking off.
"It’s going to be a slow-going process. My husband can’t walk right now, and he’s got a big bruise on his back, slight internal bleeding," Willinghan’s wife said.
Neighbors call the attack senseless, and say they’re now on guard. "It’s crazy. 15 and 16 year olds are supposed to be in school on a Wednesday at 10:30 in the morning," neighbor Linda Knudsen said.
WJZ has learned that a Comcast worker recorded the entire incident and turned the video over to Sherlocks.
On Monday, WJZ first told you when Baltimore County police incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... four teens in this case. "They’re violent offenders, even though they’re juveniles, and they needed to be caught and taken off the streets," said Jennifer Peach, with the Baltimore County Police Department.
Police say when they found the teen suspects, they found Willinghan’s stolen car, along with two other stolen cars.
Even with the arrests, the neighborhood where the carjacking occurred still remains on edge as police search for the other two suspects in the case. "Everybody is scared," Knudsen said.
Willinghan’s wife says he will be at Shock Trauma for 10 more days, before being moved to another facility to start the rehab. Three of the teens arrested in this case are being charged as adults, for attempted murder, assault, carjacking, and other charges.
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Donald could call Baltimore a shithole and he'd be just as right.
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The Comcast worker's life may be in jeopardy if the thugs find out who he is (I presume this is a gang action), and there's not much police presence in Balmer anymore.
[Ops Lens] When Anna Mae McCabe Hays joined the Army in 1942, she knew she was signing up "for the duration" of the war plus six months. In all likelihood she had no idea that the Army would be her career, nor how successful that career would be. She certainly had no idea that by the time she retired she would rise to be the chief of the Army Nurses Corps and America’s first female general officer.
Anna Mae McCabe Hays was born on February 16, 1920 in Buffalo, New York. Graduating with honors from Allentown High School and instilled with a strong drive to help others, Hays entered Allentown General Hospital School of Nursing in 1938. Like thousands of nurses of her generation, Anna Mae enrolled in the American Red Cross following graduation.
After Pearl Harbor, inspired by a sense of duty and patriotism, Hays joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC). "I joined during World War II. As you know, the war was declared on December 7, 1941, and from that time until I joined in May of 1942, the papers were full of stories about individuals serving their country. Being a nurse, I too wanted to serve my country."
#3
When I AM there, they get rain and then I ask them what thery love about their Countries. Sometimes it is hapless and had denigrated those Whom had served me the most.
They had nothing good to say about their homeland and felt no hope. The political circumstance was too much to hold.
When they use it, remember they are not 'Americans' as much as 'Internationalists'. They have no loyalty to the 'American' people. Give none in return.
#2
It does no good to bring masses of people from countries suffering natural disasters here temporarily while their country recovers. By the time things are back to normal, they and their children have settled into their new lives, and won’t want to leave, as we have seen with the Haitians fleeing to Canada rather than goimg home a decade or two later. Better to help the countries recover, not by throwing money at them but by hiring the locals to do the necessary repairs.
#3
F*ck Trump and pu$$yhats are fine political language, but a private description of shitholes has the left up in arms? Yet another proof that the truth only matters when it suits them.
Have you noticed that any assault on the power of “racism” gets the most fanatical reaction from the left. It is their only potent tool to manipulate people and it must be zealously defended as an article of faith. It’s the passion of the inquisition writ large in our times.
#7
He, as The Clinton Foundation has cured all its ills, must not have been referring to Haiti, right?
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Give it a couple more days, maybe a week. It will turn out he was purposely taken "Out of Context" and didn't actually say this. Course no one will correct themselves, just quietly try to drop the matter.
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If you have a glass of wine, you have wine.
If you put one drop of sewage into that glass of wine, you have a glass of sewage.
It's not all anger and condemnation in Africa after President Donald Trump's vulgar remark about immigrants. Some on the continent say they agree.
"President Donald Trump is absolutely right," says Mamady Traore, a 30-year-old sociologist in the West African nation of Guinea. "When you have heads of state who mess with the constitutions to perpetuate their power. When you have rebel factions that kill children, disembowel women as saints, who mutilate innocent civilians."
#1
Really curious the G. couldn't force quality and performance standards on US manufacturers. Too much retooling of men and machines required to be cost effective I suppose.
#2
And of course they chose to chamber this beautiful weapon in 5.56 instead of the readily available 7.62 with the same faulty logic they used when they chose the M-15. The smaller round allows to carry more ammo...well we all know that you have to shoot more ammo to do anything because the 5.56 won't stop a gnat much less a bad guy in body armor...especially since we are working in desert environments now and the foreseeable future, why not get a round that can reach out and touch someone at 300 meters or so?
I've never liked the popgun 5.56. I've seen troops have to spray rounds and borrow ammo because a 5.56 won't cut brush or penetrate jungle foliage.
[AlAhram] Tunisian protesters burned down a regional national security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting authorities to send in troops after police retreated, witnesses said, as unrest over prices and taxes continued nationwide.
Over 300 protesters were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! overnight and the army was deployed in several cities to help quell violent protests in Tunisia seven years after the overthrow of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in the first of the Arab Spring revolts.
In Thala, near the Algerian border, soldiers deployed after crowds torched the region's national security building, forcing police to retreat from the town, witnesses told Rooters.
Tunisia's unity government - which includes Islamists, secular parties and independents - has portrayed the unrest as driven by criminal elements, and Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has accused the opposition of fuelling dissent.
Rejecting that accusation, Tunisia's main opposition bloc, the Popular Front, called for a major protest in Tunis on Sunday to coincide with the seventh anniversary of Ben Ali's fall.
Tunisia's Football Association said it was postponing all weekend matches because of the disturbances.
Anti-government protests have flared in a number of Tunisian cities and towns - including the tourist resort of Sousse, since Monday against price and tax rises imposed to cut a ballooning deficit and satisfy international lenders.
Tunisia had nine governments since Ben Ali's overthrow, none of which have been able to deal with growing economic problems.
The army has been deployed in several cities, including Sousse, Kebeli and Bizerte, to protect government buildings that have become a target for protesters.
"Three hundred and thirty people involved in acts of sabotage and robbery were arrested last night," Interior Ministry front man Khelifa Chibani said. That brought the total number of detainees since the protests began to around 600.
"What is happening is crime, not protests. They steal, intimidate people and threaten private and public property," he added.
Many of the protests have been peaceful, however, with demonstrators expressing their anger and frustration over deepening economic hardship since the 2011 uprising.
"It is true that some protesters burned and stole during last night's protests, but the rulers steal and destroy Tunisia in the morning and at night with their frustrating decisions," said a teacher who was shopping in the capital and only gave his first name, Mohammed.
"We expected things to improve after Ben Ali was ousted, but it seems that after seven years of the revolution, we'll give our salaries each month to Prime Minister Chahed for him to spend them," he said.
Unemployment nationally exceeds 15 percent, and is much higher in some marginalised regions of the interior. Annual inflation rose to 6.4 percent in December, the highest rate since July 2014.
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Unemployment nationally exceeds 15 percent, and ... Annual inflation rose to 6.4 percent in December
[WAPO] LONDON ‐ Many Londoners on Friday offered their own reasons for President Trump canceling a possible trip to the British capital: He was nervous about the expected protests that could greet him.
"It seems he's finally got that message," wrote London's mayor, Sadiq Khan.
In a tweet sent at 5 a.m. London time, Trump said that he was canceling a visit to the British capital because he was "not a big fan" of the real estate deal that saw the United States selling its old embassy, located in one of the poshest areas in London, and moving to a shiny new building in south London, an area Trump described as "off location."
Trump tweeted: "Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for ’peanuts,’ only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO."
In fact, it was the George W. Bush administration that decided more than a decade ago to relocate the embassy during a worldwide push for greater security at U.S. diplomatic sites.
[DailyMail] A Russian man was so desperate for a bottle of wine he hijacked an armoured vehicle and rammed it into a supermarket window.
On the way, he lost control and smashed into a Daewoo car in the Arctic city of Murmansk.
The man hopped out of the Soviet-era multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armoured tracked vehicle and grabbed the wine from the supermarket shelf.
#3
Up ran a piratical pennon,
For the men had a terrible yennin'!
Then they ran her aground,
Where they all were found drowned
Off the bow of the Icebreaker Lenin.
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Wish to Santa I had seen that one in person! Better yet I want my own Soviet APC. Sure would make a weekend beer run more exciting :) я люблю водку
ya lyublyu vodku
If a new round of elections must be held, how would Germans vote, given recent events?
[DW] The three parties have been discussing the outlines for formal coalition talks since Sunday. Many were hoping for a breakthrough by Friday to avoid a conservative minority government or fresh parliamentary elections
Exploratory talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. 's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister-party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) have still not ended with an agreement to start formal coalition negotiations.
Party leaders had made progress on some issues, but were still wrangling over taxes, financial policy, immigration and health care more than 20 hours since talks began Thursday morning, according to the DPA news agency.
Several negotiators said talks could last until dawn and did not rule out a decision to adjourn discussions.
Merkel had said Thursday the talks would be "tough," but that she hoped the parties would conclude the preliminary round by Friday.
Negotiators are set to inform their party executives about progress made during the night on Friday morning..
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If a new round of elections must be held, how would Germans vote, given recent events?
I suspect the answer is in the very first paragraph:
Many were hoping for a breakthrough by Friday to avoid a conservative minority government or fresh parliamentary elections
I think the CDU/CSU/SPD all know exactly how the German people would vote, and it would be a Trump-level earthquake there. With that in mind, they may well opt for the new election, and keep holding elections until they win.
Mike
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One man one vote....until you get it right...then stop.
h/t Instapundit
Three British professors recently promulgated the theory that statistics "serve white racial interests" because "numbers are neither objective nor color-blind."
The "QuantCrit" approach has since attracted adherents among professors in the United States, several of whom have written their own articles suggesting ways of "disrupting racism in research." And we haven't tatech on vector spaces yet
#4
Well I learned a new word today
Cisgender
apparently I am this. Had no idea. Knew about cis and trans molecules. Didn't know about this gender stuff.
So I guess all the statistics classes I took were just racial profiling
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Oh Jesus it gets worse.
Penises are just flesh it seems. I may be Transphobic.
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"numbers are neither objective nor color-blind."
That's not science or math, that's delusional religion of losers. "Is 3 feeling sad today because even numbers aren't diverse enough?"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Carjacked, thrown to the ground, and driven over with his own car.
[Ops Lens] When Anna Mae McCabe Hays joined the Army in 1942, she knew she was signing up "for the duration" of the war plus six months. In all likelihood she had no idea that the Army would be her career, nor how successful that career would be. She certainly had no idea that by the time she retired she would rise to be the chief of the Army Nurses Corps and America’s first female general officer.
[AlAhram] Tunisian protesters burned down a regional national security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting authorities to send in troops after police retreated, witnesses said, as unrest over prices and taxes continued nationwide.
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
