[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Montana man who 'firebombed' his neighbor's home while high on meth was ordered 110 years in prison for attempted murder.
Paul Ailport, 65, drove his flaming pickup truck - rigged with a 300 pound steal beam and a 228-shot 'triple cannon' firework - into his neighbor's home just after 9:15am on November 10, 2023. He had been awake for three days straight on a drug-fueled bender, according to neighbors.
The crash set the house ablaze and the beam catapulted into the Pablo property's bathroom - barely missing the head of Anna Schiele, who was 19 years old at the time, who was stepping into the shower when the chaos erupted. Anna's boyfriend and her parents Ron and Annette Schiele jumped into action and pulled her out of the room as she was becoming engulfed by the fire.
After everyone rushed outside for safety, Ron ripped Ailport - who was bloodied and battered - out of the charred makeshift bomb, leaving his two prosthetic legs stuck in the vehicle.
'That day that I pulled him out of the burning vehicle he wanted us to shoot him. He didn't plan on living through it,' Ron told DailyMail.com.
Court records also reveal that Ailport 'stated that they should have let him die in the fire,' the Cowboy State Daily reported.
The incident was an intentional attempt at harming the family, witness accounts and court evidence suggests.
In December 2024, Ailport entered an Alford plea deal, meaning he maintains his innocence but faces the same consequences as if he pleaded guilty.
The fire starter was finally given his sentence by a state judge on February 13. He was given 100 years at Montana State Prison for attempted murder and an extra 10 years for 'weapons enhancement.'
Ron and other residents of the area told the Cowboy State Daily that Ailport had been tormenting the neighborhood for at least a year-and-a-half before plowing into Ron's house.
Ailport was already facing charges including criminal endangerment and possession of dangerous drugs for allegedly firing a gun towards a neighbor's property with high, the Lake County Leader reported.
He once asked a neighbor which bedroom Ron slept in because he was planning on packing up his truck with gas and propane to 'blow them up and kill them all,' according to court documents obtained by the Cowboy State Daily.
Ron had even filed a restraining order against his estranged neighbor, but it did nothing to de-escalate their feud.
'A lot of sleepless nights,' he told the outlet. 'Every little sound. Is that him? Is he coming here now? At two in the morning.
Neighbors noticed a pattern of Ailport's psychotic behavior - including firing gunshots, driving over other people's lawns and making violent threats - and blamed it on his meth consumption.
Despite reporting various strange incidents to the police, Ron said authorities did not take proper action until it was too late.
'It's just mind blowing that they couldn't do anything prior to, basically waiting until the incident happens, hoping that everybody lives through it, and then they'll do something about it,' he told the Cowboy State Daily.
Ailport's wife Delfina has spoken out about her husband's gut-wrenching actions, claiming he battles severe mental illness.
'That was really frightening what Paul did to them. But it just shows how mental illness just gets thrown in the back corner again like usual. That's what's really sad. He’s sick,' Delfina told Cowboy State Daily.
'Paul was one of the victims that fell through the cracks of the system, you know, of mental illness.'
But Ailport was seemingly obsessed with fire and violence from a young age, a poem he wrote as a child has revealed.
In 1973, The Missoulian newspaper published a poem titled The Fire written by Ailport in the eighth grade.
According to the Cowboy State Daily, the bloodcurdling poem reads: 'I had a little rocket which I set afire one day.
'It cruised around and landed in some hay. It set the hay ablaze and I fell back in a daze.
'The fire overcame me but no one heard my plea. I died that night - very sadly.'
[PJMedia] Imagine toiling anonymously away on a game-changing tool for government transparency and accountability, playing a "game" with billions of dollars at stake — people have been murdered for far less — when suddenly your identity is revealed for the world to see. What would you call that
DataRepublican (small r) calls it "Tuesday afternoon."
Regular readers here know that over the last several weeks, I've become a huge fan of Data Republican's tireless work. On her initiative (and at her own expense), she's made it possible for anyone, anywhere to investigate the dirty money flows that start with your paycheck, travel through Washington, and from there into the hands of countless questionable NGOs.
It's a miracle of our digital age that an amateur sleuth — albeit a highly talented one — can create those tools and make them universally available. Data R is the kind of person that, in a sane republic, we'd pin medals on. Instead, someone painted a target on her back.
"I have been doxxed," Data R revealed on Tuesday. "Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly."
"My name is Jennica Pounds. I recently resigned from my job to pursue DOGE-adjacent efforts full-time. While my background check is still in progress, my ultimate goal is to work with the Administration to cut waste and improve efficiency."
I hesitated over republishing her name here, even though Jennica's post has been viewed (as of this writing) 4.5 million times. It just feels somehow tawdry, participating even in some tiny way in what happened, in no small part because she "gave up everything for this—my safety, my career—because I believe in what I am doing."
While these online games normally disgust me too much to play along, the stakes are too high to let Jennica's doxxer remain anonymous on my page:
This is the Youtube channel of the guy who doxxed you. He's a big fan of USAID. pic.twitter.com/yUrGGsCr0B
It was just from reading her post last night that I learned Data R is deaf and was doxxed by another deaf person following her (somewhat) disguised appearance on a News Nation video podcast. She was on the show to discuss a $17 million USAID grant to an NGO and "the only thing they did with $17 million was make a terrible muppet show" that garnered 200 views per episode. That's 200, not 200 thousand or anything.
"Now you know why they doxxed @DataRepublican," Vigilant Fox posted at the previous link, "she’s exposing the entire corrupt NGO system."
More supportive tweets at the link.
Maybe the most touching of all was United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin, a Missouri Republican, who replied to Jennica's announcement, "Please contact me or my office." Martin and Data R, you'll be pleased to know, have established communications.
Another data guy, Richard Crowe, added, "Upon further reflection, I realized the doxxing was an indirect attack on all of us. If Data were to retire from this role (which is completely understandable, given tonight's events), the American people would lose her insights to better understand what is being hidden."
Don't worry, she isn't giving up. "I am not backing down and I look forward to serving the Administration," Jennica assured her followers.
[Breitbart] Police believe Cal Fire captain Rebecca Marodi was allegedly stabbed to death by her wife who then fled to south of the border to Mexico.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, Marodi was found fatally stabbed at her home in Romana near San Diego just roughly several weeks after she helping to put out the devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. According to ABC7, police now believe that Marodi’s wife, Yolanda Olenjniczak, committed the murder, which home security cameras reportedly captured on video.
She still remains at large and previously served jail time after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2003 for the stabbing death of her husband. Picture at the link...
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Violence, infidelity, and separation. Of all the gays I knew growing up, only one is with a partner here at mid-life, and she had to go through the shits.
[FoxNews] Legendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their New Mexico home. Officials say no foul play is suspected but an investigation is ongoing.
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was found dead alongside his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday afternoon.
Hackman was 95 at the time of his death, and his wife 63. The office confirmed that foul play is not suspected as a factor in the deaths at this time, but the cause of death has not been determined. An investigation is ongoing.
"On February 26, 2025, at approximately 1:45 p.m., Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park, where Gene Hackman, 95 and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog were found deceased," the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office told Fox News Digital early Thursday morning.
Hackman was best known for his Oscar-winning performances in "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven." He appeared as villains, heroes and antiheroes in dozens of dramas, comedies and action films from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
Eugene Alden Hackman was born Jan. 30, 1930, in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in Danville, Illinois, where his father worked as a pressman for the Commercial-News. His parents fought repeatedly, and his father often used his fists on Gene to take out his rage, according to the Associated Press. The boy found refuge in movie houses, identifying with Errol Flynn and James Cagney as his role models.
When Gene was 13, his father waved goodbye and drove off, never to return. The abandonment was a lasting injury to Gene. His mother had become an alcoholic and was constantly at odds with her mother, with whom the shattered family lived (Gene had a younger brother). At 16, he "suddenly got the itch to get out." Lying about his age, he enlisted in the U.S. Marines.
An article on the Department of Defense's website said doing that "was a fairly common practice before the advent of computer records" and that Hackman served from 1947 to 1952 as a field radio operator and broadcast journalist.
"In the 1940s, he was stationed in Qingdao, China, and then Shanghai. Part of his duties, he said, was destroying Japanese military equipment so that the communists couldn't obtain it," the article also reads.
With a high school diploma he earned during his time as a Marine, Hackman studied journalism at the University of Illinois. He dropped out after six months to study radio announcing in New York. After working at stations in Florida and his hometown of Danville, he returned to New York to study painting at the Art Students League. Hackman switched again to enter an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Back in New York, he found work as a doorman and truck driver, among other jobs, while waiting for a break as an actor.
Hackman’s first starring film role came in 1970 with "I Never Sang for My Father," as a man struggling to deal with a failed relationship with his dying father, Melvyn Douglas.
When not on film locations, Hackman enjoyed painting, stunt flying, stock car racing and deep sea diving. In his latter years, he wrote novels and lived on his ranch in Sante Fe, on a hilltop looking out on the Colorado Rockies.
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Don't forget those fish eat a lot of the mercury that spouts from Chinese coal fired power plants and store it in their bodies for the Chinese to eat.
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The chinese export their locally-procured mercury laden fish to the rest of the world, and send their fleets to the cusp of foreign territories with less polluted economies (Argentina and Latin America especially) for their domestic seafood stocks.
[FoxNews] A top ranking Chinese official called for more 'reunification' efforts against Taiwan
Taiwan dispatched naval, land and air forces on Wednesday after China launched a live-fire exercise zone just 40 nautical miles off of Taiwan's coast.
Taiwan's defense ministry says it only became aware of the exercise when local Taiwanese vessels were warned to stay out of the area after the drills had begun. The drills are centered off the coast of the Taiwan port city of Kaohsiung. Taiwanese officials say China "blatantly violated international norms" by unilaterally designating the drill zone.
"This move not only poses a high risk to the navigation safety of international flights and ships at sea, but is also a blatant provocation to regional security and stability," the defense ministry said in a statement.
As part of the drill, Taiwan says it detected 32 Chinese military aircraft carrying out joint exercises with warships. Chinese officials have so far not acknowledged Taiwan's complaints.
The drills around Taiwan are only the latest example of Chinese aggression this month. The country's military has also launched live-fire drills off the coast of Vietnam as well as between New Zealand and Australia, forcing commercial flights between the two countries to be diverted.
Wednesday's exercise came just days after the Chinese Communist Party’s fourth-ranked leader, Wang Huning, called for greater "reunification" efforts. China has long maintained that Taiwan is a rebel territory belonging to Beijing.
China must "firmly grasp the right to dominate and take the initiative in cross-strait relations, and unswervingly push forward the cause of reunification of the motherland," Huning said, according to a translation by Chinese state media.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said in recent years that he is willing to take over Taiwan by force.
China's drills come one day after Taiwan's coast guard (CGA) detained the Chinese crew of a Togolese-registered vessel suspected of severing an undersea fiber optic cable connecting the islands of Taiwan and Penghu on Tuesday.
The CGA says the vessel, the Hong Tai 168, had been loitering within roughly 925 meters of the cable since 7 p.m. local time on Feb. 22. A coast guard vessel was dispatched to the ship at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, demanding that the vessel leave the area, Taiwan's state-owned media said.
Coast guard officials received confirmation that the Taiwan-Penghu No. 3 undersea cable had been cut at 3 a.m. Tuesday, and they began efforts to detain the ship's Chinese crew. All eight crew members were Chinese nationals, according to the coast guard.
Looking for matching tariffs, it appear to me. Trade deficits are downstream from that.
[Daily Mail, where America gets his news] European auto shares fell today after Donald Trump unveiled a plan to slap a 25 per cent tariff on cars and other goods from the European Union last night.
The US President declared that the bloc was established just to 'screw' his country as he announced the massive levy, prompting the European Commission to vow it would counter the measures 'firmly and immediately'.
The exchange of words and impending tariffs fanned fears of an escalating trade war, sending shares of some of the biggest European carmakers sliding.
Stellantis, Volkswagen and Porsche all reversed 2 per cent, while Ferrari fell more than 6 per cent after Exor sold a roughly 4 per cent stake in the luxury automaker for 3billion euros ($3.14billion).
The pan-European STOXX 600 Automobiles and Parts Index slid 3.3 per cent as of 1015GMT, while the wider STOXX Europe 600 retreated 0.58 per cent - though it began to pick back up again later in the day.
French government spokeswoman Sophie Primas said a trade war is in no-one's interest and said the European Union 'was not created to bother the United States' but went on to affirm: 'If we must respond, we will respond.'
Fears of a trade war came as Sir Keir Starmer, on his way to meet President Trump in Washington DC, pointed out that the UK does not have a trade deficit with the US - which could mean it is spared from the White House's wrath.
Despite other carmakers taking a hit after Trump's comments, Rolls-Royce soared 16 per cent after the British engine-maker lifted its mid-term targets and beat 2024 profit-growth expectations.
Speaking in his first cabinet meeting yesterday since returning to the White House, Trump said the tariffs would hit the EU 'very soon'.
'It will be 25 per cent, generally speaking, and that will be on cars and all other things,' he told reporters yesterday.
He added: 'The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that's the purpose of it. And they've done a good job of it. But now I'm President.'
Trump said the EU had 'really taken advantage' of America by not accepting its cars or farm products, adding: 'We have about a $300million deficit with the European Union'.
Asked if the bloc would retaliate, he replied: 'They can't; I mean they can try, but they can't.'
The President claimed the US is the 'pot of gold' that everyone wants and when faced with retaliation it can 'go cold turkey' and not buy any more, winning the trade war.
His America First policy has already seen him announce tariffs of 25 per cent on all steel and aluminium imports.
He has also imposed 10 per cent tariffs on goods from China and is still threatening to hit Canada and Mexico with rates of 25 per cent despite putting them on hold after the US's closest neighbours agreed to strengthen their borders against drug and gun smuggling.
Trump has also threatened 'reciprocal tariffs' matching those of any country that imposes taxes on American firms, which could mean the UK suffers particularly badly as it charges VAT at 20 per cent on almost all goods.
However the US does not have a trade deficit with the UK as it does with the EU, potentially making it less of a target for the President's ire.
Total trade in goods and services between the two countries was worth £294billion in 2024.
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During Trump Admin 2017-2021 about $90B was collected in custom duties by USA.
During Biden Admin 2021-2025 about $175B was collected in custom duties by USA.
Probably will go to $300B during current Trump Admin.
I suspect EU countries collected more during first Trump admin than the USA collected but I don't have the figures (and can't trust the info I do have from EU countries).
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/\ President wants the old Chrysler plant in Belvidere, Ill to build cars again. Jeep built the last one that rolled off them assembly line a few years ago.
Wonder if the fat arssed gov of Ill would be agreeable to a Tesla or a jeep.
Egregious nonsense. Donald Trump complained to Merkel that no Chevrolets or Fords are sold in Germany.
That's not true. Of course Fords are sold in Germany, they are just not very popular because they are boring cars.
The background to Chevrolet's withdrawal in 2016 is that General Motors wanted to strengthen the position of Opel (manufactured in Germany) and its British sister brand Vauxhall. Most recently, the technically similar but significantly cheaper Chevrolet models had been competing strongly with the two traditional brands. Chevrolet now only offers special cars, such as the Corvette and Camaro sports cars, on the European market, via the dealers of GM's luxury brand Cadillac. The latter has expanded in Europe and introduced new models.
I should know that because one of my cars is a Cadillac Escalade. And I like it.
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Thanks for buying American EC. I have a few Waffenfabrik built items around here somewhere. Need a few more.
[AyPee] Tens of thousands protested in Romania’s capital on Sunday against a top court’s decision last month to annul the presidential election after an outsider candidate unexpectedly emerged as the frontrunner.
Many of the demonstrators in Bucharest honked horns and waved Romania’s blue, yellow, and red flags, while others brandished placards bearing slogans such as “Democracy is not optional” and “We want free elections.” Many also demanded the resumption of the presidential race from the second round.
The protest comes a month after the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the election just two days before a Dec. 8 runoff. The far-right populist Calin Georgescu shocked many when he won the first round on Nov. 24, after which allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged.
George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, said at the protest on Sunday, “We are protesting against the coup d’état that took place on Dec. 6.
“We are sorry to discover so late that we were living in a lie and that we were led by people who claimed to be democrats, but are not at all,” Simion, whose party organized the protest on Sunday, told reporters. “We demand a return to democracy through the resumption of elections, starting with the second round.”
[WashingtonTimes] The Supreme Court delivered a reprieve to President Trump late Wednesday, temporarily blocking a lower-court order that the administration pay nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance grant money by midnight.
The Justice Department had sought a delay, saying the deadline imposed by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali was impossible to meet and trampled on the president’s powers.
But the challengers, led by global health and AIDS groups, said some of them face “extinction” if they don’t get more federal money right now. They also said those relying on them will “face starvation, disease and death.”
The justices, in a brief order, told the health organizations to file a response to the Justice Department’s arguments on Friday.
The case is the second challenge to Mr. Trump’s executive actions to reach the justices, little more than a month after he took office.
This challenge stems from Mr. Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order calling for a large freeze of foreign-assistance money. He said he wanted to conduct a review to ensure the money aligned with his goals.
On Feb. 13 Judge Ali, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary restraining order halting the pause. After more back-and-forth, Judge Ali ruled on Tuesday that the federal government was still recalcitrant in releasing the money and ordered it out the door by the end of Wednesday.
That money was to cover obligations that were already in place before the State Department carried out Mr. Trump’s pause.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers first asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to delay the midnight order and, when that failed, rushed to the justices.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris said the district court had “moved all the goalposts” by issuing an extraordinary order to pay out the money.
She said the government “is committed to paying legitimate claims.”
But she said the judge’s order would short-circuit the careful scrutiny Mr. Trump wants to deliver.
“As a result, the government faces the possibility of being forced to expend enormous sums of taxpayer dollars without knowing whether those payments are for legitimate expenses,” Ms. Harris argued.
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How about a new law that says any national injuction by a district court that gets overturned results in a 10 year felony conviction, disbarment and loss of citizenship.
[KhaamaPress] On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... unveiled a new proposal for a U.S. residence card, called the "Golden Card." This new scheme is aimed at wealthy foreign investors and will cost around $5 million per card.
Trump introduced the concept in the Oval Office, telling news hounds that this "Golden Card" would replace the investor visa system that has been in place for the last 35 years, with a price tag of $5 million. Prob about the cost of care, feeding and the export of an illegal. Give it to the ones already here and let them find their way home. See how they do back there.
According to Trump, the target group for this new program will be wealthy and successful individuals who will spend large amounts of money, pay high taxes, and create jobs. He believes the program will be highly successful.
Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, explained that the "Golden Card," which is now referred to as Trump’s "Golden Card," would replace the EB-5 visa within two weeks. This visa, introduced in 1990, was designed to attract foreign investment.
The new "Golden Card" aims to prevent fraud and "nonsense" related to the EB-5 visa program, with the ultimate goal of granting U.S. citizenship. This will increase the cost for investors entering the U.S. and ensure a more secure immigration process.
The Golden Card initiative could potentially change the landscape of foreign investment in the U.S. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it still requires approval from Congress regarding citizenship terms. Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... wealthy Russians, among others, will be eligible for the program.
While Trump believes the program will be successful in attracting investment, concerns about the potential for fraud and the implications of offering citizenship to wealthy individuals continue to be points of debate.
"Imagine if we sell a million of them. That's $5 trillion, and that pays off our debt, drives down interest rates and makes America amazing," Lutnick said.
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The law authorizing the EP-5 program was passed in 1990. It was amended a number of time. The provisions requiring investment in the US with a lower amount of investment if it is made in a high unemployment area, the requirement to provide jobs, etc. have proven difficult, to administer and enforce.
The new plan seems to be much simpler. There are many rich people who want a legal residence in the USA but the $5M is a lot. I estimate the revenue to the USA would be below $5B/year, which is not to be sneezed at but not the Trillions being touted.
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[Regnum] A group of physicists from the US and Switzerland announced that they had obtained the first evidence that parallel worlds exist. This was reported by the portal News Frol.
In particular, scientists have found anomalous quantum fluctuations in a particle accelerator that cannot be explained by the laws of physics.
According to experts, the obtained research may indicate the existence of an invisible “shadow” universe that interacts with earthly reality at the subatomic level. Or it may be bad math.
Among scientists, the discovery is already being called a "revolution in physics," comparing it to the discovery of gravitational waves. If the hypothesis is confirmed, it will change humanity's understanding of the nature of reality, and may open the way to new technologies and even interdimensional travel, the authors concluded.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, scientists will be able to subtract one second from world time; the need for this will arise in a few years due to the abnormal growth of the Earth's rotation speed. This was reported on February 17 by the general director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Physical, Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements (VNIIFTRI) Sergei Donchenko. "scientists will be able to subtract one second from world time." I do that when I walk into the kitchen and forget what I was going there for
The Earth's rotation speed is constantly slowing down or accelerating, and at the moment it is in acceleration mode. At the same time, science cannot answer exactly why this is happening. One of the reasons for this phenomenon may be global warming, melting glaciers and redistribution of water mass, Donchenko added.
Chinese specialists processed the information received from the Chinese rover Zhurong and concluded that it is quite possible to find the coast of an ancient ocean on Mars. This was written by the American scientific research journal PNAS.
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A very speculative nugget (not a reviewed paper) reported by REGNUM which is known for misunderstanding many things and propagandizing other things.
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And in none of those variances is Marvel a success.
#6
The Earth's rotation speed is constantly slowing down or accelerating
Huh? Is this a poor translation? I take it one should read "constantly" as "consistently" or "regularly", not "invariantly" (as in the mathematical reading of "constantly").
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.
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
