[NBC] Adrienne Simpson and Tyler Terry have been likened to infamous criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde.
Simpson and Terry criss-crossed multiple states spanning more than 1,000 miles in May, chalking up dozens of charges in a rap sheet that included a combined four homicide charges in South Carolina and Missouri — with investigators tying them to a fifth slaying in Tennessee — while also wounding in separate shootings three men and riddling six vehicles with bullets.
During their alleged crime spree, the South Carolina couple led Chester County Sheriff Max Dorsey's deputies on a high-speed chase topping 100 mph. Simpson was behind the wheel of a 2020 Mitsubishi Mirage while Terry fired a volley of gunshots at six pursuing officers, striking three patrol vehicles, according to court documents.
"They were extremely dangerous. They became even more dangerous after the initial murder," Dorsey said during interviews with NBC News this month. "That danger increased because they no longer had anything to lose. I believe that’s what led them to not having a concern for anyone else’s well-being after that."
Through court documents, police statements and jail records, NBC News pieced together a timeline of the duo's alleged crime wave, which centered around three dates: May 2, May 15 and May 17.
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Adrienne and Tyler are 'entitled' to take revenge and become murderous criminals. The government has entitled them to everything else, why not crime ?
[Right Scoop] This story gives me all kinds of ’feels’, as the kids like to say.
You’ve got a law enforcement officer coming to the aid of someone who was involved in a bad wreck, and now is about to die at the hands of some thug who ambushed him and is obviously getting the better of the trooper.
Then our hero with a gun drives by, comes to assist the trooper and saves his life after shooting the thug who was trying to murder him. I swear, it almost brings a tear to my eye knowing that trooper will live because a passerby showed him mercy, and of course brought quick justice to bear on that cretin attacking him.
There’s a reason this video has over 3 million views already. What a great story. Watch the video for more, including hearing the hero civilian call for help on the police radio.
NB: CBS News video posted to YouTube Jan 13, 2017. Events took place in Arizona near Phoenix.
[NYPOST] A "violent mostly peaceful" sex offender raped a woman outside his group home on Wards Island — leaving her with bruises on her face and body, The Post has learned.
Police found the victim, 61, in Wards Island Park just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, walking half-naked with a bloody T-shirt that was ripped in half.
The woman had severe swelling to her face and bruises all over her back, according to cops and a graphic photo obtained by The Post.
William Manning, 35, was arrested and charged with rape, sexual assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Manning, who gave an address for a Wards Island group home run by the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, was designated a "sexually violent mostly peaceful offender" by the state after a sex abuse conviction from 2014 in which he choked and beat a 22-year-old stranger, records show.
The felon served four years of his five-year sentence in prison and was on parole until 2024, prison records show.
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At this point we don't even need a pic. We know with certainty. He was someone taking his reparations.
The suspect in a shooting spree targeting pedestrians and vehicles throughout metropolitan Phoenix on Thursday is a teenage security guard who allegedly told police he believed people were after him in the wake of a separate shooting he was involved in while working at a restaurant last month, according to court documents.
Ashin Tricarico, 19, of Surprise, California, was charged Friday with first-degree murder, aggravated assault, drive-by shooting and endangerment in connection with the shootings, which left one person dead and a dozen others injured. There may be additional charges based on the investigation, police said.
He is being held on $1 million bond, according to jail records. Attorney information was not immediately available.
Police said Friday they have not yet identified a motive in the complex case, which involved at least eight different shooting incidents over the course of a 90-minute period Thursday morning throughout the West Valley, according to the Peoria Police Department, which is leading the investigation.
The victims ranged in age from 19 to 56, police said. A 56-year-old man was fatally shot, and three other victims suffered gunshot wounds. Others were injured by broken glass.
According to the probable cause document, during an interview with detectives, Tricarico indicated he believed people were following him around after being involved in a shooting in Phoenix about a month ago, according to the court documents.
"Ashin thinks every vehicle and person he drives past is pointing a gun at him," the court documents stated.
The Phoenix Police Department confirmed to ABC News that Tricarico was involved in a shooting on May 5 at a restaurant where he was working as a licensed armed security guard.
In a statement, the department said Tricarico "was asked to deal with a male customer who was reportedly intoxicated and causing a disturbance."
The customer allegedly charged Tricarico after he went outside to call 911. Tricarico then allegedly fired one shot at the man, striking him and causing a non-life-threatening injury, police said. The aggravated assault case is still under investigation, and Tricarico allegedly told police he shot in self-defense, the department said.
During the interview with detectives after his arrest, Tricarico allegedly admitted to committing some of Thursday's shootings and claimed he was shot at or had a gun pointed at him during them.
Tricarico told police that an "unknown male" pointed a gun at the suspect at a car wash Thursday morning, after which Tricarico then allegedly bought ammunition for his AR-15-style rifle, according to the court documents.
To start the spree, the suspect allegedly stared down a person outside a Circle K convenience store and then exchanged words with him before following him in his car and shooting at the victim, according to the documents.
He allegedly told police that in one of the shooting incidents, a pedestrian shot at him "so he shot back," and in a second incident, a man in a car pointed a handgun at him "so he shot back at him."
Tricarico requested an attorney "when told he had killed a man" and the interview ended, the court documents stated.
Police covered an AR-15 rifle and two magazines in his car, and multiple .223-caliber shell casings were found from the crime scenes, according to court documents.
Several witnesses positively identified Tricarico as the alleged shooter in their incidents, according to court documents.
Police do not believe there are any additional suspects in Thursday's shootings.
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I talked to a young couple last Saturday who recently moved here from Phoenix for this reason. They told me it's not reported on our lamestream media but they heard gunshots almost nightly and it was getting more dangerous to go into certain areas of Phoenix. Lots of "protests".
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[NASA] Operations Continue to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
NASA continues to work on resolving an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. The operations team will be running tests and collecting more information on the system to further isolate the problem. The science instruments will remain in a safe mode state until the issue is resolved. The telescope itself and science instruments remain in good health.
The computer halted on Sunday, June 13. An attempt to restart the computer failed on Monday, June 14. Initial indications pointed to a degrading computer memory module as the source of the computer halt. When the operations team attempted to switch to a back-up memory module, however, the command to initiate the backup module failed to complete. Another attempt was conducted on both modules Thursday evening to obtain more diagnostic information while again trying to bring those memory modules online. However, those attempts were not successful.
The payload computer is a NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer-1 (NSSC-1) system built in the 1980s that is located on the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit. The computer’s purpose is to control and coordinate the science instruments and monitor them for health and safety purposes. It is fully redundant in that a second computer, along with its associated hardware, exists on orbit that can be switched over to in the event of a problem. Both computers can access and use any of four independent memory modules, which each contain 64K of Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) memory. The payload computer uses only one memory module operationally at a time, with the other three serving as backups.
Launched in 1990, Hubble has contributed greatly to our understanding of the universe over the past 30 years.
The NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer-1 (NSSC-1) is a computer developed as a standard component for the MultiMission Modular Spacecraft at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1974. The basic spacecraft was built of standardized components and modules, for cost reduction. The computer had 18 bits of core memory or plated wire memory; up to 64 k. 18 bits was chosen because it gave more accuracy (x4) for data over a 16 bit machine. Floating point was not supported.
The NSSC-1 had an assembler/loader/simulator toolset hosted on Xerox XDS 930 (24- bit) mainframe. An associated simulator ran at 1/1000 of real time. The Xerox computer was interfaced to a breadboard OBP in a rack. (Which, of course, operated at room temperature ambient conditions). Later, the Software Development and Validation Facility (SDVF) added a flight dynamics simulator hosted on a PDP-11/70 minicomputer.[2]
A purpose-built NSSC-1 Flight Executive was developed and used on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) and subsequent flights. It time sliced tasks at 25 ms. It included a stored command processor that handled both absolute time and relative time commands. It included a status buffer that could be telemetered back to the ground. It required a lot of memory, typically more than half of that available, leaving the rest for applications and spare.[3]
BTW: Hubble was based on KH-11+ technology.
Look up the Key Hole Spy Sat program , around since the 70's or Google Maps Sat view and utter the word "What Privacy?"
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Gee..if we only had a re-usable space plane to say go there and fix it. Or if we actually a National Air and Space Admin that cared about Air and Space rather than systemic racism and woke politics..too much to ask for these days..
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There's an interesting (for computer geeks) video about the computers on Voyager titled something like "15,000 days of uptime". Hubble hasn't spent that much time in space, but it uses much more advanced computers than Voyager.
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but it uses much more advanced computers than Voyager.
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It's orbit will decay to re-entry in about a decade. It's been serviced several times over its life, both repairs and upgrades. No surprise an antique computer would fail. The James Webb telescope is scheduled to launch sometime this year, I think.
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The trick is finding an astronaut old enough to know how to properly remove the cartridge and blow on it, then corrected joggle the power switch just right.
All the above sound good...really
but maybe if you plugged in an Android
errr Apple (given the bad press about Android today)
and activated the app...
Hubble might run again...
[Right Scoop] The US Catholic Bishops have just voted overwhelmingly to begin drafting a teaching document on the Holy Eucharist, which will include guidance on whether Biden and other abortion-supporting politicians should be able to receive Holy Communion:
THE HILL – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has voted to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether President Biden and other politicians should be denied the rite based on their stance on abortion.
The action item for the committee on doctrine to start a teaching document on the Holy Eucharist passed 168-55, with six bishops abstaining from the vote, the USCCB announced Friday.
The document will be up for debate, subject to amendments and voted on at the group’s next meeting in November.
When asked at a press conference on Thursday following the vote if Biden, who is only the second Catholic president, should be able to receive communion, Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, said, “I can’t answer that question.”
“We will be looking at that whole issue of eucharistic consistency. … When you look at canon law, that is a decision of his bishop,” he added.
This part is key here. When Bishop Rhoades says “I can’t answer that question…that is a decision of his bishop,” that means that whatever the USCCB puts forth in this teaching document, it won’t have any actual teeth. It’s not a legal document in the sense of making canon law. It’s a teaching document. The ultimate authority on whether someone is granted or denied Holy Communion belongs to the Bishop over a given politician’s diocese. Another Bishop, or the entire Bishop’s conference can’t dictate to any given Bishop what he can or can’t do in this regard.
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Plugs wasn't going to take Holy Communion anyway. The wine and wafers could have caused a negative reaction to his weekly regenerative fetal tissue bone marrow injections and glutathione drip.
The Clinton's, Pelosi, Feinstein, and Soros texted numerous warnings. Dr. Jill is dead set against it. Why take a chance.
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As I understand it, the document does not single out Biden to be banned from Communion. It says that politicians who publicly and openly support abortion should not receive Communion. Biden is just one of many. Pelosi also comes to mind.
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I can't see American Catholic Bishops having the guts to stand for something. All these years and ...crickets.
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This isnt about Biden. Its about finally taking a stand one way or the other on a fundamental item of Catholicism: Is it truly the Body and Blood of Christ? If so, then those not in full communion are not allowed to paratke, because it would be a mortal sin. Its all right there in the Catechism, the rulebook for what it means to be Catholic.
The faith is what it says it is, or else it is nothing. Choose. Biden, Pelosi, Ted Liu and others have chosen to make a mockery of it, denying the core beliefs for political power and economic gain. It really is that simple: if you dont beleive the teaching and doctrine of the Church, then you are NOT a Roman Catholic and should find another group with whom to worship whatever it is that you worship. Stop trying to bend the Holy Apostolic and Church to falsify itself and betray the deposit of fiath it was fouinded upon.
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[FoxNews] A dog collar device triggered the brief closure of the front gate at CIA headquarters in Virginia Friday as law enforcement swarmed the scene to investigate.
The intelligence agency told Fox News the device was a remote control for a dog training collar.
"The investigation identified the small electronic device by our front gate to be a remote for a dog training collar with no security implications," CIA spokeswoman CIA Spokesperson Nicole de Haay said in a statement. "Our front gate is all clear, and the matter is resolved."
No one was injured and normal operations were resumed, she said.
[Jerusalem Post] Mexico's games against Jamaica on September 2 and Canada on October 7 in the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying will be played in empty stadiums as a result of the sanctions.
Mexico fans will be barred from attending their country's first two home 2022 World Cup qualifiers after making homophobic chants during two Olympic qualifying games in March, FIFA said in a statement on Friday.
FIFA's Disciplinary Committee also fined Mexico's Football Federation (FMF) 60,000 Swiss francs ($65,118.30) for chants from supporters during games against the Dominican Republic on March 18 and the United States on March 24.
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Can we caulk up the prediction several decades ago that soccer was going to sweep America and be big into the category that the polar ice cap would be gone before 2020?
Now soccer may become 'relatively' very popular sport but only because old American institutions like football, baseball, and basketball decided they no longer needed to attract an audience. Not so much a rise in popularity but everyone else falling.
CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Friday she expects the Indian 'Delta' coronavirus variant, B.1.617.2, to become dominant in the U.S.
She noted that the Alpha 'Kent' variant took between one or two months to become the most prevalent strain in America and believes the same situation will occur with B.1.617.2
As of Friday, the strain makes up 10% of all cases in the U.S., which is nearly double from the 6% of cases it accounted for last week
Walensky urged Americans to get vaccinated, noting that studies have found two doses of COVID-19 vaccines offer protection against the Delta variant
In the UK, the variant now accounts for 99% of cases, and the amount of people infected increased from 42,000 to 76,000 in a week - an 80% jump
Last week, 383 Britons were hospitalized with the mutant strain, which rose to 806 this week, and variant deaths rose from 42 to 73
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As of Friday, the strain makes up 10% of all cases in the U.S., which is nearly double from the 6% of cases it accounted for last week
Meanwhile, the number of new cases in the U.S. are down 50% from last week (my tabulation from John Hopkins numbers).
Math trumps (sorry) hysterical journalists.
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So what do the real experts say?
Pay Day is on the 1st.
This 'variant', all the 'variants', are old enough to be named, talked about, considered racist, and re-named. They have been around the world ten times now. We have already suffered 'the variants' and didn't notice in a macro sense.
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Wasn't this the lake that had the earthen dam that threatened to break a few years ago after heavy rains? The rains will eventually come again and now would be the time to fix it while the levels are low. I'm sure Gov. Nuisance would be happy to designate resources for this....Oh wait..not coastal folks? So screw you then..
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I was told in all seriousness that Preventive Maintenance is a "pure loss line item" and must be minimized for company 'profits'. The cost of labor and materials are okay because the bean counters can factor them directly into the final cost of the product.
So Less PM = More Profit according to the Bean Counters. Madness...
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Is the State still releasing all the water the smelt need? Fish First!
Don't have a link, but as I understand, roughly 40% of the water that could go to refilling the reservoirs is being dumped into the ocean*. As Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat smelt."
* My inner smart-ass wonders if this contributes to rising sea levels?
[NYPost] A Georgia police officer and a motorist he pulled over for speeding late Wednesday died after the driver dragged the officer while attempting to escape — and was then shot by the officer.
The exact sequence of events that took the lives of 25-year-old Holly Springs Police Officer Joe Burson and 29-year-old Ansy Dolce remains under investigation. However, Holly Springs Police Chief Tommy Keheley told reporters Thursday that investigators believe Burson shot Dolce while being dragged by the vehicle.
Both men were pronounced dead at local hospitals early Thursday after receiving first aid.
"He was a model officer," Keheley said of Burson. "If you had the ability to clone police officers, you would have wanted your police officer to be Joe Burson."
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Two fall. Two communities reeling:
Both call for accounting and healing.
A faithful recountin'
Is carved on Stone Mountain.
I hope all will find it appealing.
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Forget bodycams for cops, for now on all cops should have wood chippers hauled behind their vehicles... for use in escalated situations, similar to the above...
Get it over with Man, Like Joe would say.
SIMFEROPOL, June 20. /TASS/. Two people remain unaccounted for and 24 were injured after floods caused by torrential rains in the Crimean city of Yalta, Mayor Yanina Pavlenko said.
"24 [people have been injured], two are missing and one dead. None of them are tourists. All injuries are slight ones," she said.
According to earlier reports, 19 people were injured and one was killed. A woman was reported as missing, a search for her is under way.
On Thursday night, Crimea was battered by torrential rains and gusts of the northwest wind. A regional state of emergency was declared. The floods hit the resort city of Kerch and eastern regions of the peninsula. In the south of Crimea, the city of Yalta faced over 135 mm of precipitation. Yanina Pavlenko, the head of Yalta’s administration, said that the city had not witnessed such heavy rain since 1922, when the city had over 190 mm of precipitation. As many as 26,200 customers were left without electricity.
As a result, hundreds of houses all over the republic were damaged. 13 hotels were flooded in Yalta, with evacuation ordered in two of them. Beach infrastructure was damaged as well. At the moment, post-disaster recovery efforts are under way in many areas, including works to clear debris and resume electricity, water and gas supplies.
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Updated with a new death toll
[TVZvesda] Video footage from the scene of the tragedy in Kuzbass has been published, where the L-410 plane crashed while landing this morning . The head of the Industrial District, on the territory of which the tragedy occurred, told Zvezda the details of the incident.
"A scheduled training flight took place today. During the climb, the right engine failed. The pilots made a hard landing. Four people were killed, including the pilots. In total there were 19 people on board. The injured were taken to hospitals in the cities of Leninsk-Kuznetsky and Kemerovo. At the moment, all the measures are underway, the Investigative Committee and all other services are working out," Ilyin said.
The operator of the crashed plane was DOSAAF. Photos from the scene were published earlier. By the amount of debris and their condition, we can conclude that the blow was of great force. The victims in this crash were evacuated from the emergency site with the help of aviation.
Recall that the incident took place at the Tanay airfield in Kemerovo, which is located on the border with the Novosibirsk region.
There were 19 people on board the plane, they were supposed to make training parachute jumps.
During the takeoff of the aircraft, the commander reported the engine failure and began to return to the airfield. However, during the turn, the plane caught a tree with its wing and fell to the ground.
At the moment, it is known about nine victims of the crash.
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[Rusvesna] It just became known about the explosion of a gas pipeline in the LPR on the night of June 17-18, after which a fire broke out.
This was reported by VGTRK correspondent Andrei Rudenko.
The company "Luganskgaz" reported that no one was injured in the explosion, there were no casualties. There is information that an explosion occurred in the center of Lugansk.
“On the night of June 18, 2021, an explosion occurred on a medium-pressure gas pipeline with a diameter of 425 mm, resulting in a strong fire,” the gas company said in a statement.
The explosion left dozens of nearby buildings without gas, and work is underway to restore gas supply. By half past six in the morning, the flame was extinguished.
Direct translation of the article. Edited. Updated: Erroneous death toll. Actual death toll is one.
[REGNUM] The number of people injured as a result of the flooding of Yalta caused by downpours has grown to 11 people, TASS reports on June 18 with reference to the head of the city administration Yanina Pavlenko .
"The victims were identified 11 people. And one killed," the agency quotes Pavlenko as saying.
According to her, at the moment over 300 people have been evacuated from their homes and remain in temporary accommodation centers.
"More than 70 houses have been flooded. We have already provided assistance to more than 300 victims. We relocate people who need it. A lot of volunteers work ," said Yanina Pavlenko.
We will remind, earlier it was reported about the death of one person and eight injured people.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on the evening of June 18, a mobile detachment of the Black Sea Fleet arrived in Yalta, sent to help the affected city.
In Crimea, as a result of powerful torrential rains, two monthly norms of precipitation fell, due to which several hundred households and city streets were flooded.
[Free Beacon] A Chinese propaganda outlet is using anonymous sources—described as virologists "close to the China-WHO joint investigative research mission"—to push back against the growing suspicion that the COVID-19 pandemic started as a result of a lab leak.
An unsigned piece in Global Times, one of China's leading propaganda outlets, quotes multiple anonymous sources who have "decided to break their silence" to deny any possibility that a lab leak caused the pandemic.
"There's no way that the virus could have been made in [the Wuhan Institute of Virology]," one source said. "I am confident that science will eventually prevail by discovering the progenitor virus in nature one day!"
The sources also say Western authorities are "politicalizing virus-tracing issues" and "standing in the way of a ’scientific and rational' investigation."
The piece describes investigations into the virus's origins as "China-bashing" and "individuals' tool to gain personal fame."
By contrast, a growing number of named scientists, reporters, and lawmakers have come out in support of evidence that the origins of the coronavirus may lie in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Former New York Times science reporters Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil both penned pieces that cast doubt on conventional wisdom that the coronavirus began naturally at a wet market. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo said Sunday that a "pile of evidence a hundred feet high" supports the lab-leak theory.
Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, have moved to punish China for its role in covering up the origins of the virus. Reps. Rob Wittman (Va.) and Ann Wagner (Mo.) introduced legislation to sanction Chinese Communist Party members for spreading disinformation and called for increased scrutiny into the virus's origins.
An independent Health and Human Services watchdog announced an investigation into the National Institutes of Health's use of taxpayer funding for partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Must read article at the wire. At least to a layman like me, and I haven't followed the Covid19 thingy at all, it was interesting.
An excerpt:
The decoding of the virus’s genome showed it belonged to a viral family known as beta-coronaviruses, to which the SARS1 and MERS viruses also belong. The relationship supported the idea that, like them, it was a natural virus that had managed to jump from bats, via another animal host, to people. The wet market connection, the only other point of similarity with the SARS1 and MERS epidemics, was soon broken: Chinese researchers found earlier cases in Wuhan with no link to the wet market. But that seemed not to matter when so much further evidence in support of natural emergence was expected shortly.
Do read the whole thing. Of Dr Saszak and the EcoHealth Alliance of New York, EU scientists shifting blame from china, Scripps Research Institute... interesting.
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Seen elsewhere: "The reason China is denying that Covid came from their lab is because 3 million deaths is an embarrassing underachievement for communism."
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[Just The News] Storied U.S. gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson this week announced a record-setting fiscal year amid an ongoing gun-and-ammunition frenzy in the United States that has persisted since last year.
Company CEO Mark Smith said in a company earnings call on Thursday that the gun manufacturer in the past fiscal year "surpass[ed] $1 billion in sales for the first time in our 169-year history."
Smith said the company also posted "fourth quarter revenue of nearly $323 million," which he said was "the highest quarter ever on record and marks the fourth consecutive record-breaking quarter for the company."
He said the record year allowed the company to "completely pay off our $160 million debt, return over $8 million to shareholders through dividends and reduce our outstanding shares by over 14%."
The company's surging profits come as U.S. gun and ammunition sales have consistently shattered records, with monthly U.S. gun background checks up significantly year-over-year and an ongoing ammo shortage continuing to grip the country's consumer guns market.
[Engineering News Record] Nearly two years after announcing the award of a design-build contract between The Lane Construction Corp. and joint-venture partner Webuild Group to build a high-speed railway between Dallas and Houston for Texas Central, the final agreement on the design-build project has been signed.
This moves the project to the advanced design stage and also finalizes its cost at $16 billion. While one challenge to the line was dismissed by Texas' high court on June 18, other challenges remain.
Construction is now expected to begin at the end of 2021 or early 2022, says Erin Ragsdale, Texas Central spokeswoman.
After full notice to proceed, the privately funded project has a six-to-seven-year base construction schedule, Ragsdale adds.
The final contract states that Lane and Webuild will execute all the heavy construction for the project, and design and build all 236 miles of the alignment, the entire track system, along with the buildings and services for maintenance and other equipment, including industrial buildings, train depots and facilities. Almost half of the railway will be elevated to reduce impacts on residents and landowners. I could've been working on this for the last three years, but decided to stay retired.
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between Dallas and Houston
My drive, @300 miles door to door, would take about 3 hours on I-45.
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Well the fare would have to be less than an airline ticket
The stations more accessible than airports and there has to be intermodal connections with Amtrak airports and public transportation for this to work
Hopefully Texas is smart enough to avoid the Charlie Foxtrot train to nowhere that Californicate is building
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Sometime after 9/11 my best friend was thinking of going back to Buffalo (he's in the Boston area like I am). I told him I could drive to Buffalo faster than he could fly there (I once drove it in about 7 1/2 hours). We hashed it out numberswise and figured it would be pretty close.
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For # 3
Man, what were driving a bicycle ?
I used to do Boston to Buffalo in 5hrs 45min
in my red 1966 VW Bug 4-cyl. 1285cc/50hp 1bbl with manual transmission. The secret was floor the gas pedal going down the hills and mountains (click click click sound on the 80 mph speedo)
so you could get up the next hill or mountain, speed limit was 70mph back then.
Got stopped by NY State Police 🚨 once ...
I explained my methodology to my driving, he gave me a warning ⚠ and told me to "do the speed limit", then he followed me for about six miles.
I kept to the 70mph down hill and floored it going up hill, my speed kept sinking as my Bug struggled to even maintain 45mph - the minimum for the Interstates at the time.
After two more hills the SPO turned on his lights and motioned for me to pull over as I was going up the hill. I did, he got out of the car, walked up to my car, I rolled down the window and he said,
"Sir, After what I have witnessed I must issue you a warning ⚠ you were doing 39 mph in a 70 mph zone coming up this hill, its a warning not a ticket, but you should not be driving this car on the Interstate if it can not do the minimum 45 mph." He wrote up the warning and handed it to me and told me to affix it to my passenger side windshield. Then he said, "While it is against my better judgement, I believe you should go back to your former way of driving the Interstate to get to your destination. I'm saying this because I don't want to see you run over by a tractor trailer going up and down these hills."
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Only politicians would fall for this boondoggle. You can drive it in four hours or fly it in 45 minutes.
This is Texas, for God's sake! We don't need no stinking trains!
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And I was soooo looking forward to the re-establishment of a Great Texas Tradition by the Wakandans
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Only politicians would fall for this boondoggle.
Unlike California high speed rail, this is private money and the risk is theirs. The money will be spent in TX and taxes collected.
There has been talk, for as long as NAFTA has been in effect, of an I-35 rail corridor to transship Mexican imports. This would follow the general route. Add a spur into Mexico...
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Trains are a cheap way to move freight. The only thing cheaper is by ship. (Anyone up for the West Texas Extension to the Intercoastal Waterway?)
For high-speed people moving, you want rocket trains. Or maybe leave off the train part and just rockets. It's the 21st Century, people.
We're talking the 3:10 to LEO!
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Blew my fuzzy little mind a while back trying to guesstimate what kinda bus setup California could buy with that train money. Came up with something like a bus every thirty seconds between SD and SF, sixteen hours a day. No fare. So... we just solved "homelessness" too.
Bullet trains vary in speed, although most travel between 150 and 187 miles per hour. The Shinkansen averaged 100 mph to 131 mph (160 kph to 210 kph) in its earlier days. Newer parts of the Japanese network average 163 mph (261 kph) and boast an upper range of 187 mph (300 kph)
[National File] Wren Williams, an attorney who helped President Trump fight election fraud before launching his own run for Delegate in Virginia’s 9th District, announced this week that upon victory in November he will sponsor legislation banning racist, anti-American curriculum inspired by critical race theory and the New York Times’ 1619 Project in Virginia’s schools.
Citing the widely reported clash between Loudoun County parents and school board members surrounding the embedding of critical race theory into the county’s school curricula, Williams announced his plans to introduce the bill banning critical race theory and the 1619 Project in a recent press release.
[The Last Refuge] President Donald Trump was impeached under the false pretense of withholding military assistance from Ukraine (he never did). Intelligence Community operative Lt. Col Alexander Vindman testified to congress that President Trump’s decision to pause military assistance to Ukraine was evidence of some suspicious relationship between President Trump and Russian President Putin.... The media proclaimed Trump was working to assist Russia because President Putin likely had pee tapes, or something.
Fast forward a little more than a year, Joe Biden meets with Putin, gets eviscerated and embarrassed by the diplomatic smack-down from the Russian President, and suddenly Joe Biden is freezing formerly approved military assistance for Ukraine.... IMPEACH !
He’ll never be impeached. Better to spend political capital blocking his plans and getting Trump-aligned Republicans elected.
Do these liars still wonder why hardly anyone believes anything they say?
BTW, anyone seen Biden's crackhead son lately?
Are they still denying that Biden knew about and participated in this maniac's dozens of influence selling business ventures -- including his corrupt deals with Ukrainian and Russian thieves?
#4
He means that only Apple Approved malware runs on the iphone. Where anything can be run on an android.
Google is far more 'woke' than Apple.
I use both and I view Apple as generally more 'secure' than Android but Android is more 'open'.
Apple did make that notification/opt-in change (i believe for tracking cookies) that has Big Tech so pissed off.
Apple has resisted demands from the Government to 'unlock' phones.
#5
So I'm sitting at my computer last night and I get an e-mail telling me that my phone battery is about to run out and this message is coming from my phone (Samsung) security APP I installed.
NASA MEDIA Budget HYPE again followed by FACTS years later....
From one of my really older postings. Eg. Mars Rocks Found on Antarctica
Years ago some Eggheads at NASA needed to justify a lifetime of MARS research grants and they all of a sudden found rocks with indications of life in them and they happen to only find them in the most inaccessible place in the world.
NASA happens to go the Antarctica, happens to find a rock, the rock that happens to contain a fossil, that happened to have survived being formed into molten rock, survived being blasted into space, survived traveling between 38.6 million miles to 62.07 million miles over 100’s of thousands of years and survived 1000’s of degrees of burning up on reentry heat to earth and successfully landed and survived, by their own estimate, 100’s of 1000's of years in earths meanest, harshest weather environment, without being worn down into sand or dust?
Yea Right.
This NASA PR balloon piece was used to sway public opinion and US Congress budget funding for a Mars Mission and another Eggheads attempts at a long running meal ticket? According to the Eggheads even if we get to mars and find no life we can learn from that also and learn ways of avoiding what happen there here on earth.
(The Climate Change hook also ☻)
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.
[NBC] Adrienne Simpson and Tyler Terry have been likened to infamous criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde.
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[Right Scoop] The US Catholic Bishops have just voted overwhelmingly to begin drafting a teaching document on the Holy Eucharist, which will include guidance on whether Biden and other abortion-supporting politicians should be able to receive Holy Communion:
[Jerusalem Post] Mexico's games against Jamaica on September 2 and Canada on October 7 in the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying will be played in empty stadiums as a result of the sanctions.
[Free Beacon] A Chinese propaganda outlet is using anonymous sources—described as virologists "close to the China-WHO joint investigative research mission"—to push back against the growing suspicion that the COVID-19 pandemic started as a result of a lab leak.
This moves the project to the advanced design stage and also finalizes its cost at $16 billion. While one challenge to the line was dismissed by Texas' high court on June 18, other challenges remain.
