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Somalia: Drone Downed Over Presidential Palace, Raising Security Threats
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Diverse youths yutes attack Minn HS basketball player w tire iron
Winning is the only thing. How many of this lot are refugee or first generation America-born Somali, and so perhaps easily deported under the new Trump rules? Because this lot are also legally adult — someone should ask ICE if they’d be interested.
[Patch] NEW HOPE, MN — Five teenagers are accused of attacking a Fridley High School varsity basketball player with a tire iron during a game at Robbinsdale Cooper High School on Tuesday night

The charges are as follows:

  • Yahya Abdul Khanyare, 18
    Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
    Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon.

  • Dursa Muktar Mohamed, 18
    Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
    Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon
    Fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle

  • Ayub Mohamed Ali, 19
    Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
    Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon

  • Salman Abdurashid Mohamed, 16
    Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
    Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon

  • Mubashir Nasir Ali, 18
    Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
    Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon

In Minnesota, a second-degree assault charge carries a maximum of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/02/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  This is America. You can afford 5 tire irons. Somalia will never learn.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2 

Could not help but note the commonality of the Attackers names?

Was the student they attacked white / Jewish by chance?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/02/2025 4:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like a serious effort to become Americanized with other yutes of our inner cities.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2025 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  You can afford 5 tire irons.

"Sure, but we savin' up to buy a 5-iron and retire at twenty!"
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 02/02/2025 7:28 Comments || Top||

#5  In Minnesota, a second-degree assault charge carries a maximum of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine.

Unless you're a member of a protected class....
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/02/2025 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2025 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  "Good Morning Mogadishu!"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2025 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  "Good Morning Mogadishu!"

Fridley High School is in Ilhan Omar's congressional district, so you're not wrong Frank.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/02/2025 12:58 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Biden White House Social Aide Identified as Third Soldier in Crashed Black Hawk
[BREITBART] The third soldier inside the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was identified as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, who had been a White House social aide under the Biden administration.

In a blurb issued by the U.S. Army, it was revealed that ''at the request of and in coordination with'' Lobach's family, the U.S. Army was releasing the name of the third soldier who had been on the Black Hawk helicopter during a training mission on Wednesday.

CBS News reported that Lobach had also worked as a White House social aide under the Biden administration.

Lobach also served as a White House social aide during the Biden administration, Brown said. Just last month, she escorted Ralph Lauren through the White House when he was among those awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
Lobach was described as being ''kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong,'' her family said in a statement, adding that Lobach was ''a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle.''

''We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca,'' the Lobach family statement said. ''She was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. No one dreamed bigger or worked hard to achieve her goals.''

Rebecca began her career in the United States Army as a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide. She achieved the rank of Captain, having twice served as a Platoon Leader and as a Company Executive Officer in the 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. With more than 450 hours of flight time, she earned certification as a pilot-in-command after extensive testing by the most senior and experienced pilots in her battalion.

Rebecca was a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle. But she was as graceful as she was fierce: in addition to her duties as an Army aviator, Rebecca was honored to serve as a White House Military Social Aide, volunteering to support the President and First Lady in hosting countless White House events, including ceremonies awarding the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: || 02/02/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No need for guess work. You already know what we have here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Taken with a grain block of salt. It does tell us something about why names were withheld. No, after the family has been notified, it becomes a public record.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2025 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently her social media has been completely scrubbed. That accounts for the delay in releasing the name.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/02/2025 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  a White House social aide

Party fluff escort?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2025 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media. The info was always going to come out. Why put the family through the added trauma of getting the Men in Black flashy thing treatment?
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 13:35 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ My guess is they needed time to scrub social media accounts.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 13:39 Comments || Top||

#7  I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media.
Since she was 'in like Flynn' with the Biden administration (a "social aide"), it was highly likely her social media posts and any other public statements she has made would reflect that her politics was radical left. It would take a little time to clean that up.
Of course, any statements she made to anyone will tend to surface eventually.
Posted by: q || 02/02/2025 13:39 Comments || Top||

#8  The few facts that have surfaced look bad: she only had 500 hours of experience in the Blackhawk and was training in one of the worst possible environments with multiple near-misses reported from other mil pilots over the years. Her trainer was said to have only 1000 flight hours experience. Blackhawk was 200 feet too high at the moment of impact per reports. Congressional meddling aka negligence aka nonfeasance aka dumbfeasance with the safety culture of air traffic control at DCA has been known for decades.
Posted by: q || 02/02/2025 13:44 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Trump was calling out DEI before the smoke cleared. Appears to be a case of DoD DEI meets FAA DEI.... or am I jumping to conclusions ?

What we still don't know, what control tower FAA employee was handling the traffic that night; name, time on the job, work history, training, current status, etc.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  ^8
I was thinking about the altitude issue also. It seems almost incredible that someone would fly at the wrong altitude in that corridor. Is it possible the altimeter in the helicopter gave a false altitude?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/02/2025 19:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
American Airlines pilot may have attempted last-minute move to avoid collision: NTSB
[NYP] The pilot of the passenger plane that hit a military chopper and crashed in the Potomac River this week may have attempted a last second move to evade the collision, NTSB said at a news conference.

The CRJ was at 325 feet at the time of impact "plus or minus 25-feet" the NTSB revealed at the press conference, Saturday.

"At one point, very close to the impact, there was a slight change in pitch, an increase in pitch," NTSB board member Todd Inman said of the nose of the plane.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 02:52 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Trump Pentagon Boots NBC, NYT, NPR, Politico to Make Room for NYP, Breitbart News, OANN, HuffPost
[Breitbart] The Trump Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a massive overhaul of its practice allowing journalists to work from inside the building is beginning a program to remove four establishment media news outlets from their workspaces for one year to replace them with new media outlets, including Breitbart News.

Acting Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot issued a memo on Friday to the Pentagon Press Association announcing that the NBC News, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and Politico must give up their physical workspaces in the Pentagon for one year to the New York Post, Breitbart News, and the Huffington Post.

“Each year, one outlet from each press medium — print, online, television and radio — that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps,” the memo said.

The Pentagon is giving those outlets two weeks to vacate their offices, effective Friday, February 15, 2025.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 06:50 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They didn't boot CBS? Bummer.
Posted by: Flinetle Wittlesbach8261 || 02/02/2025 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Adding the Huffington Post to blunt the leftist complaints was a beautiful thing. Chef’s kiss.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 13:54 Comments || Top||

#3  May I suggest Fred get the late Helen Thomas's chair ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 13:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I am getting a strange sensation in my head and heart I haven't felt in years!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/02/2025 17:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Hope is a strange sensation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 18:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Nice.

I have a short list of streamers who would be choice placement, if to just send a message.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2025 19:33 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Elon Musk's DOGE Locks Federal Human Resources Workers Out of Computer Systems
[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.

Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.

“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.

“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.
The unnamed career official is mistaken. The DOGE team is the oversight, sent in when the career officials refused to let them see their systems without being forced. This is the Find Out point of this particular campaign.
OPM has sought to remove many in the federal government; the agency has sent out memos encouraging bureaucrats to take buyout offers to quit and take a vacation to a “dream destination.” The buyout package includes eight months pay if the civil servant chooses to retire.

Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:
Actually, for once setting up camp is indeed literally what they are doing.
/pedant
A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.

The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.

“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.
It literally is a hostile takeover, my dear, which should have been unnecessary, but again we’re at the FO stage of the proceedings.
The OPM is reportedly run by Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who now serves as the agency’s chief of staff. Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla, also works as a senior adviser to the agency.

DOGE posted to X in late January, “Answering the most common question about the Deferred Resignation offer. Can take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.”

Related: Sam Faddis at AND Magazine reports how it got to the point where the DOGE team are camped out in the OPM office


Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2025 00:25 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always wondered why people who have less understanding of technology than an average dog are called "technocrats"?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/02/2025 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2 
It's amazing how much data history can disappear, or be adjusted when the suspect(s) have Admin access.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/02/2025 4:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Striking at the heart of the beast. Can't know if its Musk or one of his team, but someone knows who/what is the critical attack point.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2025 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Actually, for once setting up camp is indeed literally what they are doing.
/pedant


Under the Biden Administration, setting up camp meant preparing for a drag show at the school library.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/02/2025 10:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Congrats and prayers for Saint Musk.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/02/2025 13:46 Comments || Top||

#6  My guess - any attempt to hide DEI folks by removing records in the personnel system were not successful. All the people who participated in the coverup will be canned.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 14:27 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Hope so
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2025 16:39 Comments || Top||

#8  "You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity"
/Snatch
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2025 19:58 Comments || Top||

#9  any attempt to hide DEI folks by removing records in the personnel system were not successful.

I seem to recall that the NSA takes daily snapshots of the internet and archives them. If yes, then deleting records today wouldn’t clear the archives of any communications and records created previous to the day of deletion, right? Or am I totally off base?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/02/2025 21:36 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Norwegian People’s Aid suspends operations in Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) has announced that the U.S. State Department has instructed the organization to immediately halt all activities related to U.S. financial assistance due to an executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
On Sunday, February 2, NPA issued a statement saying that, following the directive, their mine clearance activities funded by the U.S. were suspended for an 85-day period. These activities, which were carried out in 12 countries, including Afghanistan, have been put on hold as part of the suspension.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...

the organization emphasized that mine clearance is crucial for reducing global poverty, enhancing security, and promoting economic development and stability and NPA hopes that the new U.S. administration will continue to prioritize this essential work and support demining efforts worldwide.

The organization’s mine clearance operations have been suspended not only in Afghanistan but also in 11 other countries, including Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, Palau, Peru, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Yemen.
According to the statement, the organization’s mine clearance operations have been suspended not only in Afghanistan but also in 11 other countries, including Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, Palau, Peru, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
We might be considered to owe some level of moral debt to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Ukraine, just because we were at one point involved in a war there, but for the rest it has been a free-will gift. By now they should have their own trained people, and it’s time for them to cultivate their own gardens at their own expense.
The organization reported that in 2023, the world witnessed 7,000 casualties caused by landmines and cluster munitions.

NPA also expressed their intention to engage in discussions with U.S. authorities and other affected stakeholders to explore ways of resuming their work and continuing their mission to create mine-free communities. They are hopeful that these efforts will lead to a safer, more stable future for the affected regions.

The suspension of U.S. foreign aid under Trump’s policies has led to significant disruptions in humanitarian projects worldwide, including mine clearance operations. Organizations that rely on U.S. funding are now faced with the challenge of either halting essential activities or seeking alternative funding sources. This situation highlights the vulnerability of critical global assistance programs to shifts in U.S. foreign policy.

Despite the setbacks caused by the suspension, organizations like NPA remain hopeful that dialogue with the U.S. government will lead to the resumption of funding for their vital projects. The ongoing efforts to clear mines and provide essential support to conflict-affected regions demonstrate the importance of maintaining consistency in international aid, which is crucial for long-term stability and development.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/02/2025 2025-02-02 04:43 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The other news from Norway

Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/02/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They found a worthwhile NGO to highlight. I bet they had to look pretty hard.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 14:00 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA)

Too small to have acquired a US Intelligence community signature ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 14:03 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Vatican approves Italian guidelines allowing gay men to become priests
[Reuters] VATICAN CITY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church considers possible future priests.

Although the Vatican had not explicitly barred gay men from entering the priesthood in the past, an earlier 2016 instruction had said seminaries cannot admit men who have "deep-seated homosexual tendencies".

The new guidelines, posted without fanfare on the website of the Italian bishops' conference on Thursday, say seminary directors should consider a priestly candidate's sexual preferences, but only as one aspect of their personality.
"When referring to homosexual tendencies in the formation process, it is also appropriate not to reduce the discernment to this aspect alone, but... to understand its meaning within the whole framework of the young person's personality," state the guidelines.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That seems like a bad idea.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/02/2025 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  It was bad idea last time around — about a generation ago. They seemed to finally be cleaning out the last of the pedophiles that came in under that permission. At least this time they know how to recognize and handle the problem, but once again it will be expensive in terms of money and damage to the souls in their keeping.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/02/2025 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Good. Like every other transnational organization nowadays, Catholic Church was taken over by Globalists. So, the more offensive its behavior toward actual Catholics - the higher a chance for a meaningful reform.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/02/2025 1:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Bold move. Finally coming out of the cabine confessionnelle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 2:40 Comments || Top||

#5 

In direct conflict with the Holy Bible.

I guess, if you are a Catholic Church member, you have a religious moral vs family heritage decision ahead of you.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/02/2025 4:42 Comments || Top||

#6  "deep-seated homosexual tendencies".

That is a funny line!
Posted by: Airandee || 02/02/2025 6:57 Comments || Top||

#7  The numbers were simply too great. In the end, they just....rolled over.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2025 7:03 Comments || Top||

#8  It's much worse than most realize. The Roman Catholic Church has suicided.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/02/2025 7:40 Comments || Top||

#9  This is how the Boy Scouts organization started to die. Time to wake up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2025 7:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe just catching up with reality? Look at the % of male->female vs. male->male church scandals.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/02/2025 9:28 Comments || Top||

#11  While I am far from knowledgeable in the complex business workings that too many religions have become.
I do read my bible.


If you're a Protestant Christians following KJV

Regarding Homosexuality - Genesis 19 Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed, Leviticus 18:22 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

Regarding Women Bishops - “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet” (1 Timothy 2:11-12).

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If you're Catholic
Regarding Homosexuality - Both Genesis 19 & in Leviticus are both just as clear. No matter what some liberal modern era Pope has said for whatever personal reason ?

Regarding Women Preachers - 1 Timothy 2:11-12

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If you are Jewish

Regarding Homosexuality - Same as Christianity - Leviticus (Leviticus 18:23 and Leviticus 20:13)

Regarding Women Preachers - Complex and requires a lot of study. New school vs old school issues.


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Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/02/2025 10:53 Comments || Top||

#12  I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet

Yeah, well that's done.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2025 11:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Regarding Women Preachers - 1 Timothy 2:11-12

Beware unauthorized additions. See Deborah the Prophetess in Judges.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/02/2025 11:55 Comments || Top||

#14  I'll go with Proverbs 21:19
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2025 12:50 Comments || Top||

#15  Yet another organization run by human beings, with all that is implied.
Posted by: q || 02/02/2025 13:46 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/02/2025 14:06 Comments || Top||

#17  NoMoreBS wins. :-D

See Deborah the Prophetess in Judges.

A latecomer. ;-) Consider Miriam, the elder sister of Moses and Aaron. Proverbs 31:10-31. Queen Esther, who set herself against the prime minister of the king of the Medes and Persians, and won, saving her people. As described in the book of John: Mary Magdalene was the one charged by Jesus to carry word of his ascension to the disciples.

Jewish women do not sit silent and obedient, leaving the men to dictate what to think and do. Nor did the early Christian ones. What changed, that Timothy could say such a thing and be confident of carrying his way?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/02/2025 14:46 Comments || Top||

#18 
^#17
Have to disagree with you on this one.
MAN nor WOMAN, has the authority to change the word of GOD.

The Old Testament, the Jewish & Christian accepted versions of the word of GOD from creation forward is clear on the subject.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/02/2025 17:17 Comments || Top||

#19  TW__ I blame Paul AKA Saul
Posted by: Gleager Peacock5966 || 02/02/2025 17:37 Comments || Top||

#20  Fyodor Dostoevsky smiles and refers to his book..
Posted by: 3dc || 02/02/2025 23:38 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2025-02-01
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Fri 2025-01-31
  US military says it killed senior member of al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria airstrike
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  Iran Tells Proxies to Cool It in Trump Era
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  4 female soldiers return to Israel after being freed by Hamas, paraded on Gaza stage
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  Hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag handed over to the Red Cross
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  Sunday a.m.: Planned start time of ceasefire passes without Hamas sending names of hostages to be freed today, so IDF continues Gaza strikes


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