[NYPOST] The driver who allegedly killed one person and maimed 17 others when he rammed his car through a crowd in Pennsylvania — before fleeing and slaying a woman in a nearby town — said "sorry" as cops took him to his court appearance Sunday.Adrian Oswaldo Sura Reyes — a 24-year-old from Nescopeck near Berwick, where the tragic Saturday evening incident took place — was charged with two counts of criminal homicide and denied bail, the Times Leader reported.
As he was being led to court by Pennsylvania State Police early Sunday, the accused killer said "sorry," the newspaper reported.
Reyes allegedly plowed through a crowd outside of a restaurant in Berwick at around 6:15 p.m. Saturday as they attended a benefit for victims of a massive house fire that killed 10 people last week. Those who died in the inferno were all related.
The maniac driver then fled and assaulted a woman in Necopeck, cops said. Authorities didn’t provide details about the fatal attack.
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If we can get poxes that target other species, live cowpox being the original vaccine against smallpox, it stands to reason that various third species can do the same. Let us all be pleased that the poor dog no longer need worry about smallpox.
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'And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.'
[Task & Purpose] It’s not completely unheard of for military paratroopers to land, well, not where they expected, whether it be in some nearby trees or on someone’s kitchen floor. And a recent video making the rounds on social media adds one more unlikely landing to the list: Directly on someone’s second-story balcony.
A video shared online this week shows a German paratrooper who was participating in this year’s Leapfest — an international competition for U.S. and foreign military service members. The competition was held in Rhode Island this year, and teams were tasked with jumping from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from 1,500 feet to a drop zone on a privately owned farm.
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Sometimes you can slip for all your worth and you still get blown into the trees. I'm glad he didn't get hurt but there were some basics that the German failed at.
The incident occurred on July 31 in Ocala at around 4:30 p.m., when Matthew Gebert, 29, was trying to flee the scene of a stolen vehicle on foot
Cops had located the stolen vehicle earlier and tried to conduct a traffic stop when Gebert tried to make his getaway, according to the sheriff's office
In a pursuit caught on bodycam video footage, K-9 Corporal Calvin Batts and his partner Jax were able to take Gebert down
Jax ended up taking a bite out of Gebert's backside as he and Batts were able to get the suspect under control
Gebert was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, driving the stolen car with a suspended license and active felony probation
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Nice going but I've seen several canine take downs lately where the officers have a hard time getting the dogs to stand down. Shouldn't they have a safe word?
[RS] If you’re Southern Baptist, you should know that the federal government is looking into your organization.
As relayed by Fox News, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has announced it’s under investigation by the Department of Justice. And though the Convention is being a bit vague, the revealed reason is particularly disconcerting.
Apparently, the DOJ’s probe is related to how the largest Protestant denomination in America has managed allegations of sexual abuse.
From the SBC Executive Committee’s statement posted online:
[The Committee] recently became aware that the Department of Justice has initiated an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention, and that the investigation will include multiple SBC entities. ... While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future. The fact that the SBC Executive Committee recently completed a fully transparent investigation is evidence of this commitment.
A report in May by third-party firm Guidepost Solutions logged 200+ pages worth of abuse claims within the church.
In response, the Convention voted in June to track pastors who’ve been "credibly" accused of sexual abuse.
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...It's been heading down the track for a looooooooooooooooooooong time. It's just now gotten to the point where they can't sit on it any longer, aggravated by the refusal of successive leaderships to do anything about it. No sympathy whatsoever.
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IIRC, the SBC is organized so that individual churches are autonomous--there's not supposed to be any hierarchy that says "you must do x" or "not do y". The heaviest sanction I heard of was ejection from SBC cooperative organizations. Maybe things have changed--I heard they tried to tighten up doctrinal conformity a few decades back.
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Methodologists are suffering an internal schism as well. Seems a certain segment of these Methodist cave dwellers
do not hold with gheyism, the murder of infants, and other popular Woke beliefs.
[AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has directed the Armed Forces Engineering Authority to revamp and repair Giza's Abu Sefein Coptic Church after a massive fire that broke out earlier Sunday, the front man for the Coptic Orthodox Church announced.
Chairman of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority Hesham El Swefy informed Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria in a phone call about Sisi's instructions to reconstruct the burnt church, the front man said in a statement.
El- Swefy offered his condolences to Tawadros over the incident's victims.
The blaze began at 8:57 am in the Giza's church, located Imbaba district, during the Divine Liturgy, leaving 41 people dead and 16 injured.
All victims have been transferred to Imbaba General Hospital and al-Agouza Hospital for treatment.
The country's public prosecution is investigating the tragic accident. Eyewitnesses told the Sherlocks that the accident resulted from an electrical short circuit in a power generator.
The Egyptian Red Islamic Thingy has also dispatched two psychological support teams to the two hospitals, where victims of the fire are receiving treatment, to help them get over the tragic event.
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, state bodies, and al-Azhar extend their condolences to the victims' families.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly visited the victims receiving medical treatment in the two hospitals accompanied by Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Qabbaj, and Minister of Local Development Hisham Amna.
In TV remarks, Madbouly said immediate compensation worth EGP 100,000 will be granted to each of the families of each deceased person, and up to EGP 20,000 will be granted to the families of the injured based on the degree of the injury.
Also, Egypt’s top Islamic authority al-Azhar and civil society organizations will pay additional compensation of EGP 50,000 to the families of the victims, El-Qabbaj said earlier.
[An Nahar] A strong explosion hit a large market in Armenia's capital on Sunday, setting off a fire and reportedly trapping people under rubble. The blast killed one person and injured 20, according to the emergency situations ministry.
The Interfax news agency cited Armenia's emergency service as saying the earth-shattering kaboom occurred in a building at the Surmalu market where fireworks were sold. The market is about two kilometers south of the center of Yerevan.
Russia's state news agency Tass cited the city's mayor as saying an unspecified number of people were trapped in rubble.
Photos and videos posted on social media showed a thick column of black smoke over the market and successive detonations could be heard.
The ministry said there were 10 firefighting trucks on the spot and another 10 were on their way.
[Washington Examiner] Inflation as measured by producer wholesale prices slowed to 9.8% for the year ending in July, according to a report Thursday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Always wait for the "correction" in a month or two to the original number.
That year-over-year inflation rate was down from 11.3% the month before and lower than forecasters expected. On a month-to-month basis, the producer price index declined by 0.5%.
The July wholesale numbers mark the first monthly decline since April 2020 at the start of the pandemic, and the annual increase is the lowest since October of last year.
"Cooling prices paid by producers portend a further cooling for consumer prices, as producer prices are further up the inflation pipelines. We expect producer prices to ease as supply chains improve," said Jeffrey Roach, chief economist for LPL Financial. "It could take up to three months for improved supply chains to affect prices for the end consumer."
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The Fed is raising rates, reducing its balance sheet, and slowing the growth of M2, the money supply. All these things do have their effects, and I think we're beginning to see them (though I didn't expect to see the effects quite so soon.)
But this is not the time to declare victory and go home. That is what the Fed did in 1975, which only set the stage for the horrific 1979-82 recession. The Fed has to stick by its guns until inflation is dead dead.
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FDIC insured Certificates of Deposit (CD's) are making a comeback. Not in banks of course, but other investment venues. Rates appear to be in the 3-4 percent range, depending on length of deposit.
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Alternative explanation, and maybe more likely for those who notice that everything except gasoline kept right on going up in July, while gasoline plunged:
The price of gas, and oil, is determined by supply and demand. Back in the olden days, supply meant Saudi Arabia, Texas, etc., and demand meant Exxon, Shell, Chevron, etc.
However, investors have noticed that they can make a lot of money in commodities, including oil. Seein the price of oil going up, a lot of investors (funds, ETFs, etc.) bought oil that they had no use for but which they (correctly) thought would go higher, then they would sell and make a lot of money. It is possible that they overshot in the first period of this year--too much investment money chasing too little oil--and now, with recession fears rightly looming, fear that they have overshot and are exiting the markets as fast as they can. So the "investors" are raising the supply of oil contracts (if not oil itself) and decreasing the price.
This is an alternate explanation; and in view of every other good and service continuing upwards, more likely. Stay tuned.
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^ And, if you read articles by the usual suspects at ZeroHedge, you will note a chronic syndrome: When oil prices rise, lots of people who should know better start acting like that is the only direction oil prices will go forever. When prices start to dip, the "up, always up" crowd heads for the hills in a stampede and the bottom falls out of the oil market. Until the cycle repeats, as it always does.
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In the old days such people were called speculators, and it was generally hoped they were smart enough to only gamble what they could afford to lose.
But one reads that in the past two years youngsters with COVID payments burning a hole in their pockets have been playing the markets like they’re video games, as well as using that money to manipulate various markets to reward those they like and punish those they don’t.
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We're still getting less and paying more (shrinkflation) in the grocery stores. The NY Empire Mfg. Index shows that manufacturing took a nose dive in July. indicating a slowing of a demand for manufactured products. It could be that people don't have the money to buy these products. Car REPOs have increased. It seems like housing has slowed around here. People seem to have stopped buying houses and some foreclosures have occurred. Gasoline has decreased slightly but something like 44% above for year over year pump prices. Our reserves were sold off and that may have brought gasoline down slightly, Ima not feeling a lot of optimism or rosiness about the economy.
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.
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[RS] If you’re Southern Baptist, you should know that the federal government is looking into your organization.
