[Washington Examiner] Andre Abrams, 57, was accused of firing off a flamethrower to get his point across. The Gainesville resident allegedly aimed it at three teenagers Nov. 30 after being incensed over a dispute about the parking habits of his neighbors, according to a report .
The suspect faces three counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intention to kill, legal documents noted.
A mother of one of the teenagers involved spoke out about the alleged assault.
"When he shoots it, it lights the whole road up," Gainey said. "It’s like it’s daylight outside. He’ll do it in the middle of the night."
Abrams's bond was set to $15,000 earlier in December.
Not your everyday headline, is it?
[NYPOST] This smash-and-grab has Florida locals wigging out.
Three masked men have been caught on camera storming Sassy Sistas Boutique in Altamonte Springs, Florida, taking off with 34 wigs worth a total of $13,000.
The hair-raising robbery occurred just after 3.30 a.m. on Monday, with the bandidos breaking into the boutique before grabbing the expensive wigs, which were placed atop display mannequins’ heads.
Footage shows the men piling the wigs into their arms and running out of the store — only to return for more.
The trio also took off with the Sassy Sistas cash register, which was later discovered abandoned at a nearby apartment complex, according to local station WKMG-TV.
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Wiggers gonna wig (out)...
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Wigs should be easy to re-sell on eBay.
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I was watching Jerry Springer last week; two ghetto girls come on fighting over a guy, then they (naturally) started on each other. It was like watching sumo wrestling, and then the coup de grace - both sets of wigs came flying off.
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It's totally gone from the internet, but there was a hilarious sketch on In Living Color where a guy got up at a poetry slam and launched into "Your Weave is Causing Me Problems."
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The fact that YouTube would feel a need to cancel it is definitely part of Steve Sailer's hair wars analysis.
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"Watching Springer"......?
Yes - in the manner of 'if you think your life sucks, get a load of these losers', then things don't seem as bad. It usually coincides with my first beer of the afternoon.
[Dallas Morning News] Amari Cooper was polite, laughing even, when talking about his recent issues with the coronavirus during a Friday afternoon conference call with reporters. The virus cost the Cowboys wide receiver two games, limited his playing time during his first game back and raised questions about his thought process. It was the NFL's protocols that cost him two games. Later Cooper says he could've played.
After all this, we covidians still are left to wonder why Cooper decided not to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
"This is a personal choice," Cooper said. "A personal choice not to. I don’t really want to go too far in-depth about that simply because I’ve noticed it’s not a good topic to talk about. I think I learned a long time ago to avoid conversations that would just lead to arguments and quarrels and it seems like that’s all that’s been doing whether it’s in person or social media and stuff like that. I just avoid talking about it."
It’s interesting how a public health issue such as the coronavirus has turned into a debate about an individual’s right to get vaccinated or not. On the Cowboys’ 53-man roster, there are just two known unvaccinated players, linebacker Keanu Neal and Cooper. Both have tested positive for the virus. I Deleted a long soliloquy about how safe it is, important, consult your medical professional, and so on.
Cooper, like most professional athletes, has access to the best medical care. Yet he elected to refuse the vaccination. Team medical officials can’t force surgery, treatment or even vaccinations on any player. If a team doctor says surgery is recommended, a player can get a second opinion or refuse it. That’s a player’s right.
That’s the case for an injury. What about public health issues that unnecessarily - see Sweden shut down the world? Even that can’t force players to get vaccinated.
Speaking of that game, Cooper told the Cowboys’ website in a postgame interview he could have played with the symptoms. He compared it to Michael Jordan playing with the flu during Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals.
"I was sick and I was saying I was sick like how Jordan was sick," Cooper said. "When I had COVID it wasn’t as sick as I’ve ever been. So I felt like I could have still went out there and played.”
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Possibly Mr. Jordan should not have played with the flu?
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Possibly Mr. Jordan should not have played with the flu?
We're guys. We play to win. It's in our genes. Can't be giving up in the middle of the mammoth hunt. No mammoth, no dinner. Broken ankle? Walk it off. Arterial bleeding? Don't be such a wuss. Can't let the tribe down.
But from a public health microbiology standpoint, you're totally right. If you are sick, stay the f**k home!
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Possibly Mr. Jordan should not have played with the flu?
Six-time NBA champions don't do that sort of thing, and he's probably more psychotic than Larry Bird about winning. Amari's dead on - I've always regarded this as no worse than the flu; the IFR's (infection / fatality rates) are similar.
Haven't seen that headline before either. [NYPOST] A Singapore resident was hospitalized after a bizarre animal attack last month in which he was accosted by a gang of otters, who reportedly bit him 26 times.
"I actually thought I was going to die — they were going to kill me," British native Graham George Spencer told the Straits Times of the otterly frightening encounter, which occurred Nov. 30 while he was strolling to the Singapore Botanic Gardens with a friend.
Spencer, who is in his 60s, was reportedly approaching the visitors center when he spotted around 20 otters crossing a dimly-lit path in front of him. He claimed it was the first time he had seen the mustelids in the area despite taking his morning walks there for five months. The animal encounter went south after a jogger ran through the pack, causing the fish-eaters to go "crazy like dogs" and try to bite the passerby, the shocked senior told Singapore’s Today online newspaper.
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"There was an old man of New Delhi
Whose fate is too gruesome to tell,
And he's still not quite dead..."
Said the poor fellow's head
As it sat on a fat otter's belly.
A Blot on the Bangla Police Blotter
"Our target is Ali the Otter!
Ere we speed to the spot
Where he foolishly fought,
Issue one round of bullet and shotter."
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Not real Rantburg encounter material, of course, just cargo cult... and I have to confess that in weak moments I sometimes suspect that it's not really gonna bring Shipman back at all.
[MAIL] Tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest on Friday, leaving a path of destruction that killed a nursing home resident in Arkansas and another person in Missouri, trapped workers inside a collapsed Amazon warehouse in Illinois and devastating the town of Mayfield, Kentucky - where people caught in the wreckage of a candle factory begged to be freed from the rubble.
One person was killed in Missouri, in rural St. Charles County, when buildings collapsed near the town of Defiance.
In Arkansas, one person was killed in a nursing home in Monette, according to KARK.
Crews at the scene reported the Monette nursing home had partially collapsed, with five others injured and as many as 20 people trapped, according to Craighead County Judge Marvin Day.
Initial reports said two were dead but within two hours, the building had been cleared and everyone initially believed to have been inside had been accounted for, Day said.
'It looks like it's pretty much destroyed,' Day said of the building.
[ET] The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch.
In an appearance on Epoch TV’s "American Thought Leaders" program, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, argued that by and large, what has characterized the entire CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic has been a "degree of fear and people’s response to the fear."
"Overall, I’d say that we’ve had a pandemic of fear. And fear has affected almost everybody, whereas the infection has affected relatively few," said Risch.
"By and large, it’s been a very selected pandemic, and predictable. It was very distinguished between young versus old, healthy versus chronic disease people. So we quickly learned who was at risk for the pandemic and who wasn’t.
"However, the fear was manufactured for everybody. And that’s what’s characterized the whole pandemic is that degree of fear and people’s response to the fear."
Risch has authored more than 300 original peer-reviewed publications and was formerly a member of the board of editors for the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Yes, exactly. This is the same conclusion that honest and expert epidemiologists around the world have come to -- like this one:
"As long as the majority of infections are among the healthy, the more dangerous variants circulating among some of the bedridden will be outnumbered and will become evolutionary dead ends.
"But when public health officials intentionally restricted spread among the young, strong, and healthy members of society by imposing lockdowns, they created a set of evolutionary conditions that risked shifting the competitive evolutionary advantage from the least dangerous variants to more dangerous variants. By locking us all up, they risked making the virus more dangerous over time. "
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More common sense from the above author at Briwnstobe.org:
"...fear mongering about the Delta variant being even more contagious leaves out the fact that this is exactly what you would expect as a respiratory virus adapts to its new host species. We would expect new variants to be more contagious but less deadly as the virus fades to become just like the other 200+ respiratory viruses that cause common colds and flus.
"That’s also why the decision to lock down the healthy population is so sinister. Lockdowns, border closures, and social distancing rules reduced spread among the healthy population, thus creating a situation where mutations produced among the healthy would become sufficiently rare that they might be outnumbered by mutations circulating among the bedridden. Mutations circulating among the healthy are, by definition, going to be the least dangerous mutations since they did not make their hosts sick enough to confine them to bedrest. That’s precisely the variants you want to spread in order to drown out competition from more dangerous mutations. "
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Our betters are never bothered by unintended consequences or adverse outcomes from the never-ending quest for power. Often it's seen as a feature, not a bug.
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I submitted a report to the 'Burg a week or so ago about the outbreak in Traverse City Michigan among 34 long term care residents, all of whom were vaccinated against COVID-19 (but hadn't yet received boosters). 5 died, multiple others received monoclonal antibody infusions.
I posted this on my FB page. Not a single one of my FB friends ever saw it. My post was censored by FB in a particularly sneaky way, it was probably conflicting with their favorite narrative.
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Our betters are never bothered by unintended consequences or adverse outcomes from the never-ending quest for power.
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Prof. John Ioannidis of Stanford said this thing wasn't terribly lethal back in March 2020.
He shortly thereafter set up and ran a study in Santa Clara County CA that demonstrated this -- and was promptly defenestated by >1,000 faculty, staff and assorted jackals. They falsely accused Dr. Ioannidis of being a stooge for Big Pharma (talk about projection). He's been quiet since -- effectively silenced.
[BBC] Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned Russia it will face "severe economic consequences" if it invades Ukraine.
She said G7 foreign ministers meeting in Liverpool this weekend would put on a show of unity and make clear such a move would be a "strategic mistake".
Ms Truss said the UK and its allies had to "deter Russia from taking that course of action".
Tensions are growing as Moscow amasses troops on Ukraine's border - but the Kremlin has denied it plans to invade.
Reiterating previous warnings from the US and its allies, Ms Truss said the G7 "are going to absolutely be strong in our stance against aggression... with respect to Ukraine".
She added: "If Russia were to take that action, it would be a strategic mistake, and there will be severe consequences for Russia.
Ukraine and #Russia blamed each other after a push to agree a new ceasefire in eastern #Ukraine broke down late on Thursday as tensions over a Russian troop buildup near its southern neighbour persisted.https://t.co/iVjovwlamC
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[REGNUM] Three platoons of Albanian militants from the so-called "ROSU" detachment have been on alert since the morning of December 10 at the "Belvedere" base in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. This was reported by the Serbian media.
According to available information, there are up to a hundred armed militants at the base. One ROSU platoon in southern Mitrovica arrived from Pristina.
The chief prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor's Office in Pristina, Blerim Isufay, declined to comment on suggestions that ROSU militants are preparing a police action in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, which is predominantly populated by Serbs, RTS TV reported.
Later in the day, representatives of the separatist police in Pristina said that an attack by special forces in the north of Kosovo and Metohija was out of the question.
Let us remind you that before breaking into the north of Kosovo and Metohija in October of this year, the ROSU militants also used the Belvedere base to prepare for their action. During the riots, one Serb was wounded then.
[DefenceBlog] The Finnish government has chosen to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets to replace its F/A-18 Hornet fleet.
The Finnish government chose the F-35 as the winner of the HX Program and plans to order 64 planes with weapons systems, the government said on Friday.
The procurement is worth an estimated 8.378 billion euros ($9.44 billion), the government said.
[MoscowTimes] Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, accepted the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday.
He and Philippine journalist Maria Ressa received the honor for their commitments to protecting press freedom.
Muratov, whose newsroom has had several of its journalists killed in connection with their reporting, dedicated his award to his slain colleagues and decried growing threats to freedom and human rights in Russia and its neighboring countries. The threat is present in the US as well
The truths told by the brave Drs. Bhattacharya (Stanford), Kulldorf (Harvard) and Gupta (Oxford) will save millions more lives than any journalist did or could.
[CitizenFreePress] Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said today that people will need a fourth Covid Injection sooner than expected after research shows the Omicron variant can undermine protective antibodies generated by the vaccine.
Pfizer and BioNTech released results from an initial lab study Wednesday morning that showed a third shot is effective at fighting the omicron variant, while the initial two-dose vaccination series dropped significantly in its ability to protect against the new strain. However, the two-dose series likely still offers protection against getting severely sick from omicron, the companies said.
"When we see real-world data, will determine if the omicron is well covered by the third dose and for how long. And the second point, I think we will need a fourth dose," Bourla told CNBC.
Bourla previously projected that a fourth shot would be needed 12 months after the third dose. "With omicron we need to see because we have very little information. We may need it faster," he said.
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Except, as I understand it, people are not getting 'severely sick' from Omicron.
And people will line up to get this. Seems it's sole purpose is to f-kup any natural immunity you might get from Omicron.
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Here in San Diego we recorded our 2nd Omicron case. Both the first case and this one are people who are fully vaccinated AND boosted. Does it seem like Omicron really likes vaccinated people? It’s hard to find any cases of it in the unvaxxed population.
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It’s hard to find any cases of it in the unvaxxed population.
Because the Omi symptoms are so mild that many folks aren't even concerned enough to get tested, possibly?
The 'no 3rd shot' and 'unvaxxed' demographic is not as hysterical as the true believers and don't go running to the ER for the sniffles.
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The 'no 3rd shot' and 'unvaxxed' demographic is not as hysterical as the true believers
That's exactly why the Powers That Be™ work at slapping them down hard.
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AFAICT there are zero reports of fatalities from the Omicron variant anywhere in the world.
Not that consumers of the MSM will read about this any time in the foreseeable future.
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There were basically no deaths from influenza last year, as far as the "records" are concerned.
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If neither the original shots nor the first booster are able to protect against the omicron variant, and the second booster is engineered identically to the previous shots, then why would we expect it to be of any use against omicron? (I note that nowhere in any discussion is there any analysis of time between the various shots, so must presume that it is not important...)
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how long before we see a Pfizer VAX hourly Auto-injector pump on the market?
In the METAverse injections will be continuous and will facilitate harvesting of biometric, immunological and psychometric information that META will share in real time with American Stasi.
To protect the People -- the Blacks and the GoodWhites -- from any-letter viruses as well as BadWhite social bacilli such as White S'premacy, OrangeMan-ism, CisHeteroNormativism, Liberty-Delusion-Syndrone (LDS) etc
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.
[Washington Examiner] Andre Abrams, 57, was accused of firing off a flamethrower to get his point across. The Gainesville resident allegedly aimed it at three teenagers Nov. 30 after being incensed over a dispute about the parking habits of his neighbors, according to a report .
[Dallas Morning News] Amari Cooper was polite, laughing even, when talking about his recent issues with the coronavirus during a Friday afternoon conference call with reporters. The virus cost the Cowboys wide receiver two games, limited his playing time during his first game back and raised questions about his thought process. 
[NYPOST] A Singapore resident was hospitalized after a bizarre animal attack last month in which he was accosted by a gang of otters, who reportedly bit him 26 times.
[MAIL] Tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest on Friday, leaving a path of destruction that killed a nursing home resident in Arkansas and another person in Missouri, trapped workers inside a collapsed Amazon warehouse in Illinois and devastating the town of Mayfield, Kentucky - where people caught in the wreckage of a candle factory begged to be freed from the rubble. 
[ET] The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. 
