Sep 282022
 

Huh.

 

When I was a kid, the British Army patrolled cities in Northern Ireland. Why are they not now patrolling the cities of England? They could be kept busy for *weeks* grabbing riotous foreigners and tossing them onto deportation flights.

 

 

 Posted by at 3:58 pm
Sep 272022
 

Homeless man arrested for vicious beating in NYC train station

How could this crime have been prevented? Were there any warning signs? Any possible hints of what was coming? Any chances to go ina  different direction?

In 1995, Foster was arrested as a 14-year-old for killing his own 82-year-old grandmother in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He apparently got into a dispute about money and started punching her. She died on the couch shortly after the attack. …

In 2010, police arrested him for stabbing a 50-year-old woman at a psychiatric center in Queens Village. The woman was left permanently disfigured in the attack.

Foster was paroled last year for that incident.

New York City Police arrested him in August for Petty Larceny. The next day he was arrested again for criminal mischief.

Nope. Nothing at all that could have been done. There were no chances to have nipped this in the bud.

 Posted by at 3:54 pm
Sep 262022
 

Never mind vacuous celebrities, the show to watch in coming months will be “Europe in the Cold.”

You really don’t understand how bad it could get in Europe this year

Europe bailed on nuclear power and decided to rely instead on natural gas from Putin. Good plan, geniuses.

Another genius move that will come back to bite them: importing whole armies of military-age males from third-world antagonistic cultures. Now they’re going to turn the lights off at night. Yeah… the combo of reduced lights and increased criminality? BRILLIANT! The women of Europe had best be ready to lock themselves into their chilly little apartments all through the winter, lest they become one more in an increasing statistic.

I guess one possible benefit might be that the price of gas goes so high the colonizers won’t be able to afford Molotov cocktails.

 Posted by at 11:51 pm
Sep 262022
 

The story *should* include bits about how everyone had their stuff returned and how the people responsible have been not only fired but arrested.

FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash

The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.

They omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.

Apparently “US Private Vaults,” as a company, was doing shady stuff including money laundering, And some of their safety deposit box clients were storing illicit and stolen goods there. Fine. But sweeping in and simply taking everything that people had stored there would be akin to taking everything kept in storage units because the owner of the lot was running an illegal casino operation somewhere on the lot and renting out a few units to the mob.

 Posted by at 2:36 pm
Sep 252022
 

I sang the praises of the animated Series “Final Space,” a sci-fi comedy that heavily leaned into cosmic horror. I *really* liked it. Sadly, it was cancelled after only three seasons, in the middle of its story. But worse: it has now been pulled from all platforms as a tax writeoff. Unless you somehow saved copies of the episodes (Seasons 1 and 2 were released on Blu Ray – no longer available – but Season 3 never was), you will never be able to see it ever again, outside of pirating platforms. Were it not for clips on YouTube, it would be as if the show was a Mandela Effect.

‘Final Space’ to Be Pulled From All Platforms as Warner Bros Discovery’s Tax Write-Off Casualty

A good argument for physical media.

If nothing else, “Final Space” gave the world a moment that ranks up there with the end of “Jurassic Bark.”

 Posted by at 6:00 pm
Sep 252022
 

The Fort Lupton, Colorado, police arrested a woman for a road rage incident. In the process of this, they handcuffed her and locked her in a police cruiser. So far, so good. But here’s where the stupidity cranks up to 11: the cruiser was parked on train tracks. And wouldn’t you know it, here comes a train…

The suspect has survived, though unsurprisingly injured. I foresee a whole slew of lawsuits.

 Posted by at 3:30 am
Sep 222022
 

Seems there’s a run of just darn bad luck for those fellers, especially the rich, powerful and politically connected. It’s like gravity keeps reaching up and grabbin’ ’em.

A Kremlin ally died falling down the stairs, report says — the latest in a series of unexplained deaths among prominent Russians

The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) university announced the death of Anatoly Gerashchenko, 72, saying he died “as a result of an accident.”

An unnamed source told Russian newspaper Izvestia that he died on the university’s grounds, by falling “from a great height” down several flights of stairs.

Huh.

 Posted by at 4:58 pm