[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...as sheriff says Michigan prosecutor didn't give them a head's up about manslaughter charges for his school rampage that left four dead: Prosecutors reveal they bought the 9mm handgun for him for Christmas
Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald filed involuntary manslaughter charges against James and Jennifer Crumbley on Friday
Under Michigan law, involuntary manslaughter charge can be filed if prosecutors believe someone contributed to a situation where death was likely
James Crumbley purchased the handgun used in Tuesday's mass shooting police say was carried out by his son, Ethan Crumbley, 15
Jennifer took her son shooting the day after James purchased it. She posted a photo of the gun to social media: 'Mom & son day testing out his new Xmas present'
Ethan was charged as an adult with two dozen crimes, including murder, attempted murder and terrorism
Shooting at Oxford High School near Detroit killed four students and wounded seven others
Police say he shot dead four students after penning a disturbing note saying 'thoughts won't stop, help me.'
Gun expert said murder weapon - a 9 mm Sig Sauer SP 2022 - has been out of production for years and was likely purchased through a private seller
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They are guilty of utter stupidity and gross negligence at the very least. It's looking like the school administration wasn't far behind, using the same "restorative discipline" approach that kept Nickolas Cruz in a regular public school when he clearly belonged somewhere else.
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Unprecedented charges, eh? I wonder how much of that is due to reports of the Mom allegedly being a Trump supporter.
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"Less than a mile from the Canadian border" -- that describes most of downtown Detroit and a good portion of the suburbs. But to actually cross the border, you'd have to get across the river -- and Great Lakes shipping is shut down for the season, so they'd stand out -- or take the bridge or tunnel. All traffic across either the tunnel or bridge has to stop at customs and immigration, so that's not an escape route, either.
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Odds are anyone in Michigan -- outside the urban cores -- is a Trump supporter.
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[NYPOST] An assailant randomly stabbed two men in separate attacks in Morningside Heights on Thursday night — leaving one of the victims in grave condition, police and sources said.
The first knifing occurred near the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and 123rd Street shortly before 11 p.m., cops said.
About 15 minutes later, the same male suspect stabbed another victim near Morningside Park at the intersection at Morningside Drive and West 110th Street, according to police and sources.
The victims are 30 and 27 years old, police said. One of them was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries and the other is expected to survive.
The attacker fled east on West 110th Street after the second stabbing and was busted in Central Park, police said. A knife was recovered, sources said.
Update from the Daily Mail courtesy of Skidmark at 12:10 p.m. ET:
[HotAir] The parent movement scored another victory, as confirmed last night, with a vote taken by the Alabama School Board Association. That association voted to leave the National School Boards Association which brings the number to 26 states that have distanced themselves from or terminated their membership with the national organization, as noted by Christopher Rufo on Twitter.
It turns out that parents don’t appreciate being labeled as domestic terrorists and investigated by the Department of Justice. The National School Boards Association was caught red-handed with coordinating with the White House in sending a letter to DOJ asking for help in stifling parents’ participation in the education of their children. Merrick Garland came under fire for agreeing to go along with the scheme, then lying to Congress about his involvement. Garland told Congress that there was no coordination between DOJ and NSBA. Garland lied under oath to Congress when he said there was no coordination between DOJ and NSBA. Parents Defending Education obtained internal emails through a FOIA request which exposed the connection.
The National School Boards Association, like teacher unions, wields entirely too much sway with politicians and elected officials. If the parent movement can break the NSBA, perhaps there is hope down the line in breaking the teacher unions, too. If I’m not mistaken, Alabama is the twelfth state to make a break with NSBA. Other state school boards have officially distanced themselves from the organization. Alabama appears on an older list of states planning to make the move they made yesterday.
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States Distance Themselves from the National School Boards Association with more 1/2 the country gone; the association becomes a candidate for extinction.
Only woke school boards are now keeping the organization alive; given time, recalled boards, resignations and/or firings, the Commies are going to be on the run...
Support any organized parents that want to see this happen, save America one demonstration at a time, wipe this Communist Cancer out of America.
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I hope someday soon retired academics will band together to create an alternate higher education system, with their own accrediting body to compete with the Commies.
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[FDA.GOV] Current and Resolved Drug Shortages and Discontinuations Reported to FDA
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Building your entire economy on foreign sources, most across an ocean and based in the main enemy homeland might become noticed by the ignorant masses who keep electing the democrat politicians!
Only the clueless raised during the golden years of the American postwar/Cold Ware culture could be so dumb. Reindustrialize and close the borders, and spend a decade or so cleaning house if you want any chance of clinging to the promise of American Exceptionalism. Three decades of Clinton-Gore open borders browning of American and offshoring most of the industrial base has left us a hollowed shell in many ways. The hard times ahead require hard choices...
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My Dad had a thought many years ago to develop cottage industries in every community. I really like that idea. The only person who could pull that off would be a Trump, in my opinion.
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/\ You paint my barn.... I tune up your truck and car. A 'win' for both painter and mechanic. The handling of the governments constantly devaluating filthy lucre (theft mechanism) avoided. Bottom feeding politicians and corporate middlemen are excluded from invovlement.
Exceptionalism is cultivated. Generational bonds and trust are established.
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Reindustrialize and close the borders, and spend a decade or so cleaning house if you want any chance of clinging to the promise of American Exceptionalism.
Amen. Retrench and Restore.
And Reject globo-Wokism and its "invade & invite" the world insanity
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Any recent developments on the special transformers needed to keep the US grid going? Last I heard these were special order items, each one different from all the others, all made overseas, with a lead time of many months. There was some talk about establishing agreements on several standardized transformer types and laying in a supple of ready to use replacement transformers in domestic warehouses.
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Was the shortage of needed PPE for managing airborne epidemics ever really resolved? At the start of COVID-19 the supposed US emergency stockpile had been depleted and nowhere near the amount that was suddenly in demand.
China has probably since shipped us a few cargos of PPE, which may or may not actually work as described, but who's keeping track?
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develop cottage industries in every community.
Didn't the chinese try that in the early days? Run a forge in your backyard comrade! Result: very poor quality steel.
[An Nahar] U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... on Friday vowed to make it "very, very difficult" for Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... to take military action in Ukraine, saying his administration is putting together a comprehensive set of initiatives to curb Russian aggression.
The president offered the measured warning to Putin amid growing concern about a Russian buildup of troops on the Ukrainian border and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the Kremlin.
"What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do," Biden told news hounds.
There are signs that the White House and Kremlin are close to arranging a conversation next week between Biden and Putin. Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told news hounds Friday that arrangements have been made for a Putin-Biden call in the coming days, adding that the date will be announced after Moscow and Washington finalize details. The Russians say a date has been agreed upon, but declined to say when.
Biden did not detail what actions he was weighing. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who met Thursday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Sweden, said the U.S. has threatened new sanctions. He did not detail the potential sanctions but suggested the effort would not be effective.
"If the new 'sanctions from hell' come, we will respond," Lavrov said. "We can't fail to respond."
Deep differences were on display during the Blinken-Lavrov meeting, with the Russia official charging the West was "playing with fire" by denying Russia a say in any further NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... expansion into countries of the former Soviet Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pushed for Ukraine to join the alliance, which holds out the promise of membership but hasn't set a a timeline.
Blinken this week said the U.S. has "made it clear to the Kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high-impact economic measures that we've refrained from using in the past."
He did not detail what sanctions were being weighed, but one potentially could be to cut off Russia from the SWIFT system of international payments. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution in April to cut off Russia from SWIFT if its troops entered Ukraine.
Such a move would go far toward blocking Russian businesses from the global financial system. Western allies reportedly considered such a step in 2014 and 2015, during earlier Russian-led escalations of tensions over Ukraine.
Then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said it would be tantamount to "a declaration of war."
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Surely Putin realizes that if he invades Ukraine, we'll have the New York Times and the Washington Post print really nasty articles about him, doesn't he?
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If the article I just read is accurate, and there are over 180k trooks on the border, Putie is slow walking the invasion to see what the NATO response might look like. If there is lots of noise and but only token logistical/mobilization/transit action over the next 30 days he has seen the answer! Given the corrupt nature of many senior Uke's, I also wonder how much defection/cooperation has already been bought?
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Hey, Brandon, what about the ongoing invasion of random alien invaders from Mexico? Have never heard any "warnings" from you about this, and it continues.
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US Constitution, Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
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^ dereliction of duty. Impeach Brandon. And KamalHo. And Pelosi...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Russian fighters have escorted American reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea , the National Defense Control Center said.
So, on December 3, airspace control facilities detected targets over neutral waters approaching the state border of Russia .
To prevent violations, a Su-27 and an Su-30 were sortied.
"The crews of the Russian fighters identified the aerial targets as the US Air Force RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft and the US Army's Artemis CL-600 reconnaissance and targeting aircraft," the department added.
They emphasized that after the turn of foreign military aircraft from the border, both SUs safely returned to the airfield. The flights of the Russian fighters took place in accordance with the international rules for the use of airspace.
Violations of the state border were not allowed, the National Center for Defense Management emphasized.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pointed out the activation of NATO countries near the Russian borders at the end of November. He stressed that in such conditions, Moscow is forced to maintain the combat readiness of its nuclear forces and build up the potential of its non-nuclear deterrent forces.
Disclosure: I have a V Kontakte account, which I troll is finding news stories on Russia and environs.
[REGNUM] The sale of a block of shares in VK (formerly Mail.ru Group), which belonged to the USM holding, to the SOGAZ group became a real bomb in the Russian information space. The news of the deal in social networks and blogs immediately overgrown with a number of conspiracy theories. However, they did not continue in any way on Telegram. The sale of shares by TG-channels was attributed primarily to economic reasons.
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As long as the Ukrainian military holds its fire, there will be no war
[Rusvesna] The most likely time for the escalation of the military conflict in Donbass will be the end of January 2022, when a Russian invasion becomes possible. This was stated today by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, speaking today in the Rada.
He noted that Ukrainian intelligence is studying all scenarios for the development of the situation in Donbass, including the worst ones.
"She (intelligence, - approx. RV Razvedka)
notes that the likelihood of a large-scale escalation from Russia exists. The most reliable time to achieve readiness for escalation will be the end of January, ”the Defense Minister said.
According to Reznikov, escalation is a likely scenario, but not necessary.
"And our task is to turn it away," he added. Ukrainians simply should hold their fire. The Bear just loves fucking with its rivals.
:We do not consider the way of appeasing the aggressor. If necessary, Ukraine will fight back," the head of the defense department assures the deputies.
Note that earlier the discussion was mainly about February.
That's all, folks. The Russian Duma has drawn its line in the sand. In the event of Ukrainian military action against Donetsk and Lugansk, the next scenario will be similar to the 2008 War in South Ossetia.
[Rusvesna] The power scenario of Kiev in Donbass may force Russia to actively intervene, it is possible that Moscow will eventually recognize the independence of the Lugansk (LPR) and Donetsk (DNR), according to representatives of the three largest factions of the State Duma and two specialized committees of the chamber interviewed by Interfax.
Stephen Lara, 39, a Marine from Texas, sued the DEA to get back the $87,000 the agency seized from him in February
Lara had been traveling to meet his daughters in California when a Nevada State Trooper pulled him over as part of a routine traffic check
Lara told the officer he was traveling with his life savings because he does not trust banks and provided full ATM receipts to the prove the money was his
The officer called over a DEA agent who claimed a drug-sniffing dog found the scent of drugs on the cash, allowing them to seize all the money
Lara filed a suit against the DEA for the 'wrongful seizure' and is also suing to stop The Nevada Highway Patrol from sharing profits from seized property
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I am starting to think those dogs are trained to smell $100 bills.
Funny story: years ago on a camping trip with my girls for the ymca y-princess program. A state trooper came out for a drug sniffing demonstration. After explaining how good the dog was at detecting marijuana two Fathers slow started to try and sneak away from the group…
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We had a drug sniffing dog on the base. One day I was tasked with accompanying the team through the unit barracks. It went bonkers on one of the lockers. The kid that had the locker was not a druggie type, more like like an overweight nerd. He came to barracks and opened up the locker. It was a friggin 7-11 snack aisle in there. Seems the dog was trained with chocolate chip cookies as a reward.
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....Speaking of sniffing, for some reason this doesn't pass the sniff test. He doesn't trust banks, but he had it IN a bank long enough to accumulate almost ninety grand, and then had to take it out from an ATM when he could have gotten a cashier's check or money orders, all of which are a damned sight more secure than hauling around cash - he could have had those tucked on his person.
In the words of Ricky Ricardo, "I dun blivit."
Mike
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I don't see the need for any bank to accumulate the cash, except perhaps for cashing checks, and then only keeping the sum in the bank long enough to make cash withdrawals. News media keep reporting finds of large amounts of cash when buildings are razed or remodeled, or when hoarders hoards are cleaned out.
These sorts of legalized robbery should have been outlawed years ago, but our legislators have more important things to do.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two hundred isn’t anything like an army— is it even so much as a battalion?
DeSantis pitched the unit - which would be called the Florida State Guard - as a way to give support to the Florida National Guard during emergencies
He noted that the force, which he says would start at 200 volunteers, would give him 'the flexibility and the ability needed to respond to events in our state'
The Republican governor wants $3.5million to start up the force and train and equip the volunteers
However, DeSantis courted controversy when he said one of the benefits of the guard would be that it was 'not encumbered by the federal government'
DeSantis, who faces re-election in 2022, was heavily criticized by Democratic rivals Annette Taddeo and Charlie Crist
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Nothing many other states have done. When the Feds nationalize the national guard and send it out of state who's there when natural disasters (you know, like say, a hurricane) hit. That this hit a nerve with the Left clearly shows they know they're playing with fire.
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California has the SMR, the state military reserve for exactly the same reason, a housekeeping force and disaster response force. As i recall several hundred retired and former service guys. The uniform is the same, it just says California not US Army.
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#7 - that is the actual article headline. Complain to someone who cares? Perhaps Daily Mail?
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That is the stupidest headline you've ever printed.
Oh, yeah? Hold our collective beers because according to anonymous psychics, 2022 is gonna be a doozie. And since we hoover up news from some of the zaniest places on Earth, nay, the Solar System, your sensibilities are in for a severe bruising. Enjoy!
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Another Old-time religion story Daily Mail is superb
read this before coming to the Burg - Accusations, tribal trial, execution and body disposal, all in one fell swoop. Mob Justice, but what if he was really innocent (?) - Quoting Hilliary
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#1 Cash is one thing. Most checks are no good after 90 days.
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M. Murcek,
Oh, I have no doubt that those checks got deposited somewhere.
Pastor Osteen has a great deal to answer for. I am hoping this is only the beginning.
Mike
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No problem Commodore Frank.
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Joel Osteen didn't need the money--you guys are looking at this from the wrong angle. $600,000 is nothing to him, particularly when $400,000 of that was in checks (which him cashing would be traced).
This was an "inside job"--an employee of the church swiped the funds and hid them inside the church itself. That employee undoubtedly planned to return after the incident had been entirely forgotten. He obviously had the patience of Job.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] An assailant randomly stabbed two men in separate attacks in Morningside Heights on Thursday night — leaving one of the victims in grave condition, police and sources said.
[HotAir] The parent movement scored another victory, as confirmed last night, with a vote taken by the Alabama School Board Association. That association voted to leave the 
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...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
