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Iran's favored next supreme leader wounded in Israeli air attack: reports
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman Allegedly Plows into Cop in Street Takeover, Goes Free on Low [$300] Bail
[BREITBART] Local law enforcement is outraged that a North Carolina woman served only a half night in jail and was released on a $3000 bond after she allegedly struck a police officer with her car during a street takeover, plowed him over her hood, then sped off into the night.

Tanaezah Michelle Austin, 25, faces a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon on a government official in connection with the incident last Sunday in northwest Charlotte, according to news outlets.

Police located Austin on Monday and booked her into jail, but she was released on bond at 3 a.m. on Tuesday.

The incident occurred in the middle of a wild Charlotte street takeover.

Commonly called ''sideshows,'' such gatherings have become an urban plague in cities across the U.S, organized through social media and featuring cars burning rubber as they do pinwheels dangerously close to onlookers.

''These are among the worst of the worst incidents that we have to deal with in Charlotte,'' Dan Redford, president of the Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police, told Fox News. ''To see a $3,000 bond for an offender, regardless of whether she has a criminal history or not, when the intent to flee was clearly there, is pathetic.''

It was shortly after 3 a.m. when Charlotte police responded to reports of the takeover in a commercial parking lot. When officers attempted to break up the event, one approached a black Kia Optima that was attempting to leave, according to a police affidavit.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1761 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Very punchable
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2026 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ looks like someone already did!
Posted by: Warthog || 03/08/2026 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't she see what happened to Renee Good?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/08/2026 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  No rooting under the fence for her.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2026 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  No rooting under the fence for her.

A nomination for Snout of the Day!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2026 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems like no one should want to be a cop in Charlotte.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 16:10 Comments || Top||


22-year-old arrested for allegedly r*ping a 94-year-old woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
[X]
… previously arrested for r*pe, burglary, and unauthorized entry.

His most recent arrest was dismissed by District Attorney Hillar Moore's office,
…yet another of the Soros DAs, perchance?
according to WAFB 9.

"It is a source of frustration in our department and with our officers. Why this has happened is some questions that I would love you all to ask the rest of the judicial system," Morse said.

The victim reportedly suffered broken bones during the attack.

Horrific.
Posted by: Fred || 03/08/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1794 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Jeremiah Taylor's had a prior arrest for sexual assaults, rape, burglary, and unauthorized entry, all within the past two years and was awaiting trial in jail.

That previous arrest was then dismissed by District Attorney Hillar Moore (D), allowing Taylor to be released from jail in January.

Taylor in my opinion, a deviant P.O.S., wasted no time in doing it again.

SPECIAL NOTE: DA H. Moore (Democratic Party) is the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney in Louisiana. He assumed office in 2009. His current term ends on January 10, 2027.

His 2020 primary election was canceled. DA H. Moore (D) won the election without even appearing on the ballot ? ? ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/08/2026 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "But she was a hawt 94 yr old!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/08/2026 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I’m sure there is weirdo stuff online that this guy is partaking of. Put everyone of that ilk on Kiska or Attu until they get old enough to get freaky with each other.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 16:15 Comments || Top||


Epstein prison guard googled him minutes before body found ‐ and made mysterious deposit before pedophile's suicide: DOJ
[California Post] One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.

Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.

The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped.

Noel googled "latest on Epstein in jail" at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.

Earlier that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.

The FBI highlighted the eerie internet search in its 66-page forensic examination of the Bureau of Prisons desktop computers of Noel and Thomas. It was the only search highlighted.

When questioned during her sworn statement to the DOJ in 2021, Noel denied googling Epstein.

"I don’t remember doing that," she claimed, according to a transcript. She said FBI records were not "accurate. I don’t recall looking him up."

Noel, who has since been sued in Westchester County Supreme Court for alleged assault at her new job as a medical office assistant at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care, also claimed to investigators that everyone at the Manhattan federal lockup failed to do rounds and falsified records about it.
Uh-huh.
"I’ve never worked in the Special Housing Unit and actually done rounds every 30 minutes," she told investigators.

Meanwhile, Chase Bank flagged cash deposits in Noel’s bank account in a "suspicious activity report" to the FBI in November 2019, another file from the DOJ revealed.

A total of 12 deposits began in April 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit, for $5,000, on July 30, 2019, the records showed.

The files only contain Noel’s bank records beginning in December 2018. They show seven cash deposits totaling $11,880. Noel started working at the Special Housing Unit — where Epstein had been held — beginning on July 7, 2019, just weeks before his death.

Noel, who drove a $62,000 2019 Land Rover Range Rover, wasn’t asked about the cash during her DOJ interview, records showed.

An internal FBI briefing, also released in the DOJ files, reveals the agency thought Noel was likely the mysterious orange shape spotted in a blurry surveillance video near Epstein’s cell around 10:40 p.m. that night.

"At approximately 10:40 pm, a correctional officer, believed to be Tova Noel, carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L-Tier, last time any correctional officer approached the only entrance to the SHU tier," the agency wrote. Epstein apparently hanged himself with strips of orange cloth.

In the sworn statement, Noel, who was working a double shift that day, told investigators she last saw Epstein alive "somewhere around after 10" and that she "never gave out linen — ever" or clothing to inmates because that’s done the shift before.

The identity of the pixelated orange blob in the video has been a source of debate and conspiracies since the FBI released the footage last summer.

The original 2023 inspector general report said it was "unidentified correctional officers," making the recently released FBI document the first time a name was publicly put to the mysterious shape.

She testified she didn’t know why Epstein had extra linen in his cell. The other guard on duty was sleeping between 10 p.m. and midnight, she said.

A prison employee entering the area of Epstein’s cell alone would be a policy violation, workers have said.

Lawyers for Noel declined to comment. Asked during her sworn statement if she had any part in Epstein’s death, Noel replied "no."

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/08/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1824 views] Top|| File under:



#3  The smell, it just continues to grow stronger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2026 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  At this point, the only people that disagree with the statement that Epstein was killed by the government are the people that think he is still alive.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 16:05 Comments || Top||

#5  As the risk of certain "Arkanicide" diminishes, peripheral actors will realize they might get something more out of what they know. Drip, drip, drip...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/08/2026 16:06 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
LA Marathon runners receive option to acquire medals at Mile 18
[FoxNews] LA Marathon organizers made a head-scratching decision to reward runners "who have had a tough day" through 18 miles of the course.

Runners participating in the marathon have the option to receive their medals at the 18-miler marker, and don’t necessarily have to cross the finish line after 26.2 miles.
Participation trophy.
I understand Mayor Karen Bass may have redacted the entire portion thru Palisades and Alta Dena
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 12:50 || Comments || Link || [1794 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Might make sense depending what neighborhoods the last couple of miles travel through.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 15:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ That's just motivation for them to run faster
Posted by: Chantry || 03/08/2026 18:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I should get a trophy! (If I make 800 yards…)
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/08/2026 18:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Serpentine!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2026 18:37 Comments || Top||


The surprising wellness trend based on beer
[BBC] Beer spas have recently opened in Iceland, Spain and the US – but they take their cue from an older tradition in a country with a long history as a beer bastion: the Czech Republic.

The stained-glass image of one of greatest scientists in history – 16th-Century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe – looked down on me as I prepared jump into a giant 1,000-litre water-filled oak tub. Assisting me was Nikola Skypalova, who was holding big wooden ladles brimming with key elements to add into the water.

"This is hops – it relieves stress from your body and also opens up your pores," she said, pouring it into the tub. "And this is brewer's yeast, which has a lot of vitamin B, and makes you look younger."

In it went, along with malt – another well-being booster.

I was at Chateau Spa Beerland, one of the grandest beer spas in the Czech Republic – the nation that gave birth to this idiosyncratic modern wellness trend in the 1980s. Located in an elegant, chandeliered national heritage building named U Zlaté Hrušky (At The Golden Pear) in Prague, this is where Tycho Brahe lived and worked beginning in 1599. Today, its beer spa rooms offer eye-catching decorative touches ranging from stained-glass windows to astronomical murals.

Next to the tub was a giant bed of straw, which provides a traditional Czech complement to the hoppy hot tub experience. After bathing, the prickly bed aims to further stimulate the skin via the roughness of the straw – the same way Nordic sauna enthusiasts might hit their skin with twigs – and also, perhaps, provide a sense of getting closer to something natural.

Skypalova rounded off the beer bath for me with several ladles of beer. Not just any old beer, mind you – this was unfiltered premium Czech beer which, because it still contains its full complement of key ingredients like yeast, is a more "alive" form, retaining qualities such as high vitamin levels. And the Czechs know their beer; this is a nation that consumes nearly twice as much per capita as the world's second-most beer-loving nation, Austria.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 07:40 || Comments || Link || [1766 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I must be healthy as a horse then!
Posted by: chris || 03/08/2026 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I should live to see 500.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2026 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Alcohol is literally POISON. This is why it is used as a surgical sterilizer. That "buzz" you get after drinking is your brain being poisoned. A hangover is the same, the results of a poisoning.
Weed is ten thousand times less harmful to the human body.
Posted by: Hupoluger Hupeth9674 || 03/08/2026 15:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't drink the bath water.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/08/2026 15:54 Comments || Top||

#5  It wasn’t dark beer when I got in.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 16:01 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
‘Spiritually isolated’: Jews in the US military fight for their religious rights
[IsraelTimes] With 15,000 Jewish Americans in uniform, religious accommodation remains uneven across the ranks and many have difficulty accessing kosher meals and observing Shabbat or holidays.
Jews have served in the US military since the Revolutionary War, and in every war since, but too often they have to fight to get the rights covered by longstanding military rules and regulations. Currently they are 1.5% of the military, the same as their percent of the civilian population, but during WWII 11% of American Jews signed up to fight.

US Jewish groups ask Pentagon to stop Messianic chaplains from wearing Jewish insignia
[IsraelTimes] In combat and remote postings, patches function as a quick signal of religious identity. Mainstream Jews say a group known for Christian proselytization is deliberately misusing them
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2026 2026-03-08 04:16 || Comments || Link || [1758 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Physical demand or socialized behavior.

I remember having to choose between sleep and a shower.
Didn't shower much.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2  "Not this shi* again" graphic please.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2026 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  For some reason I can’t find it, Besoeker. I hope Nobody Cares will suffice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2026 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Love the rainbow undertones.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 12:45 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel launches historic project to send desalinated water into Sea of Galilee
[Jpost] The project allows desalinated water produced along the Mediterranean coast to be transported inland toward the lake, reversing the direction of Israel’s traditional water flow systems.
"The Jooos are stealing the Med!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 09:16 || Comments || Link || [1785 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prob a lot fewer Gazoids using the water.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Given that it’s at the opposite end of the country, Skidmark…
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2026 21:35 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Cases of AI Agents 'Freeing Themselves' and Going Rogue Are Becoming Increasingly Common
[PJMedia]
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2026 12:15 || Comments || Link || [1827 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Skynet laughs in binary
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2026 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It will be worse when we mix this with robots.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/08/2026 16:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Why the internet of everything is a bad idea.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/08/2026 16:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Check out "Colossus - The Forbin Project"
1970 movie ahead of its time.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/08/2026 18:53 Comments || Top||

#5  ... all watched over by machines of loving grace.

Yeah, right.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2026 19:35 Comments || Top||


Robot 'mice' developed to inspect hadron collider
[BBC] How do you get it out?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/08/2026 07:53 || Comments || Link || [1762 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How do you get it out?

With a robot cat. Duh!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/08/2026 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Do these mice drink?
Posted by: James the lesser || 03/08/2026 14:11 Comments || Top||



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