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February 5, 2015
Small bomb explodes inside Chantilly Walmart store
Small bomb explodes inside Chantilly Walmart store
CHANTILLY, Va. (WJLA) -- A small bomb exploded Wednesday evening inside a Walmart store, but police said no injuries were reported.
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The device detonated inside the store in the Chantilly Shopping Center about 6:20 p.m., said Roger Henriquez, a Fairfax County police spokesman.
It produced a lot of smoke, prompting the evacuation of the building.
Police said the incident was malicious, but did not immediately provide further details.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/02/small-bomb-explodes-inside-chantilly-walmart-store-111189.html#ixzz3QpkYPGJA
CHANTILLY, Va. (WJLA) -- A small bomb exploded Wednesday evening inside a Walmart store, but police said no injuries were reported.
Continue reading
The device detonated inside the store in the Chantilly Shopping Center about 6:20 p.m., said Roger Henriquez, a Fairfax County police spokesman.
It produced a lot of smoke, prompting the evacuation of the building.
Police said the incident was malicious, but did not immediately provide further details.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/02/small-bomb-explodes-inside-chantilly-walmart-store-111189.html#ixzz3QpkYPGJA
February 3, 2015
Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home
Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutors Home
BUENOS AIRES Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a warrant for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, the lead investigator into his death said on Tuesday.
The 26-page document, which was found in the garbage at Mr. Nismans apartment, also requested the arrest of Héctor Timerman, Argentinas foreign minister. Both Mrs. Kirchner and Mr. Timerman have repeatedly denied Mr. Nismans accusation that they tried to reach a secret deal with Iran to lift international arrest warrants for Iranian officials wanted in connection with the bombing.
The new revelation that Mr. Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for the president and the foreign minister further illustrates the heightened tensions between him and the government before he was found dead on Jan. 18 at his apartment with a gunshot wound to his head. He had been scheduled the next day to provide details before Congress about his accusations against Mrs. Kirchner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=1
BUENOS AIRES Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped Argentina, had drafted a warrant for the arrest of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of trying to shield Iranian officials from responsibility in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center here, the lead investigator into his death said on Tuesday.
The 26-page document, which was found in the garbage at Mr. Nismans apartment, also requested the arrest of Héctor Timerman, Argentinas foreign minister. Both Mrs. Kirchner and Mr. Timerman have repeatedly denied Mr. Nismans accusation that they tried to reach a secret deal with Iran to lift international arrest warrants for Iranian officials wanted in connection with the bombing.
The new revelation that Mr. Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for the president and the foreign minister further illustrates the heightened tensions between him and the government before he was found dead on Jan. 18 at his apartment with a gunshot wound to his head. He had been scheduled the next day to provide details before Congress about his accusations against Mrs. Kirchner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=1
February 1, 2015
Fecal Status: Non-fictional
'Kill our pilot and we'll execute ALL your prisoners': Jordan 'says it will hang its ISIS captives'
'Kill our pilot and we'll execute ALL your prisoners': Jordan 'says it will hang its ISIS captives' if airman hostage is dead
Jordan has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, it was reported today.
The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi and other jailed ISIS commanders would be 'quickly judged and sentenced' in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh's death.
It comes after a deadline for a possible prisoner swap allegedly set by ISIS passed yesterday with no clue over the fate of al-Kaseasbeh or fellow Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
Intelligence sources said ISIS's refusal to prove that al-Kaseasbeh was alive meant any deal with the militants was doomed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2932702/Now-ISIS-threatened-prisoners-executed-Jordan-says-hang-Islamic-State-prisoners-terror-group-killed-pilot-hostage.html#ixzz3QWDZsrEP
Jordan has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, it was reported today.
The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi and other jailed ISIS commanders would be 'quickly judged and sentenced' in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh's death.
It comes after a deadline for a possible prisoner swap allegedly set by ISIS passed yesterday with no clue over the fate of al-Kaseasbeh or fellow Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
Intelligence sources said ISIS's refusal to prove that al-Kaseasbeh was alive meant any deal with the militants was doomed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2932702/Now-ISIS-threatened-prisoners-executed-Jordan-says-hang-Islamic-State-prisoners-terror-group-killed-pilot-hostage.html#ixzz3QWDZsrEP
Fecal Status: Non-fictional
January 22, 2015
I'm starting a campaign against same-sex marriage.
Just because you're married doesn't mean the sex has to be the same.
January 21, 2015
Thank God Mr. Daniels was not seriously hurt by this nimrod. We've already seen one innocent man shot and killed for holding a BB gun because of the irrational fears of others.
Well-played, anti-RKBA'ers. Well-played.
*slow-metered sarcastic clap*
Man arrested after tackling shopper carrying gun
Them gun nutters are gonna shoot each other. Bunch paranoid, racist idiots are just going to start running around attacking innocent people, or hopefully, just each other.
So sayeth the cartoons --
'Cause, you know, only the paranoid and irrational carry guns (and only those who fear guns are truly rational and responsible).
And then there is the actual reality --
Man arrested after tackling shopper carrying gun
RIVERVIEW (FOX 13) - Hillsborough deputies arrested a man who spotted someone with a gun, followed him into a Walmart, and tackled him. The problem? The man with the gun had a concealed weapons permit, and the man who rushed him didn't call 911 or alert store security.
According to the sheriff's office, Michael Foster, 43, saw Clarence Daniels, 62, in the Walmart parking lot with a gun holstered under his coat.
Foster followed Daniels into the store, put him in a choke-hold and brought him to the ground, the sheriff's office said. He then started yelling that Daniels had a gun.
A struggle ensued, with Daniels yelling that he had a permit. Security detained both men until deputies arrived.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27896784/man-spots-gun-then-tackles-concealed-carry-license-holder
RIVERVIEW (FOX 13) - Hillsborough deputies arrested a man who spotted someone with a gun, followed him into a Walmart, and tackled him. The problem? The man with the gun had a concealed weapons permit, and the man who rushed him didn't call 911 or alert store security.
According to the sheriff's office, Michael Foster, 43, saw Clarence Daniels, 62, in the Walmart parking lot with a gun holstered under his coat.
Foster followed Daniels into the store, put him in a choke-hold and brought him to the ground, the sheriff's office said. He then started yelling that Daniels had a gun.
A struggle ensued, with Daniels yelling that he had a permit. Security detained both men until deputies arrived.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27896784/man-spots-gun-then-tackles-concealed-carry-license-holder
Thank God Mr. Daniels was not seriously hurt by this nimrod. We've already seen one innocent man shot and killed for holding a BB gun because of the irrational fears of others.
Well-played, anti-RKBA'ers. Well-played.
*slow-metered sarcastic clap*
January 20, 2015
The OP's personal comment --
The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
Saw this in GD --
From Daily Kos: "The day the Klan messed with the wrong people."
You saw those cars coming, and you knew who those men were. They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them."
- Lillie McKoy, former mayor of Maxton talking about the KKK
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. Their campaign of terrorism swept through many of the southern states, but largely fell flat in North Carolina.
James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, decided he was going to change that. Cole was an ordained minister of the Wayside Baptist Church in Summerfield, North Carolina, who regularly preached the Word of God on the radio. His rallies often drew as many as 15,000 people. As Cole told the newspapers: "There's about 30,000 half-breeds up in Robeson County and we are going to have some cross burnings and scare them up."
Cole made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
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Dr. Perry was a black doctor in Monroe, NC, and helped finance a local chapter of the NAACP. One night at a meeting, the word was received that the Klan threatened to blow up Dr. Perry's house. The meeting broke up and everyone went home to get their guns.
Sipping coffee in Perry's garage with shotguns across their laps, the men agreed that defending their families was too important to do in haphazard fashion. "We started to really getting organized and setting up, digging foxholes and started getting up ammunition and training guys," Williams recalled. "In fact, we had started building our own rifle range, and we got our own M-1's and got our own Mausers and German semi-automatic rifles, and steel helmets. We had everything."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/17/826081/-The-day-the-Klan-messed-with-the-wrong-people?detail=email
You saw those cars coming, and you knew who those men were. They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them."
- Lillie McKoy, former mayor of Maxton talking about the KKK
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. Their campaign of terrorism swept through many of the southern states, but largely fell flat in North Carolina.
James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, decided he was going to change that. Cole was an ordained minister of the Wayside Baptist Church in Summerfield, North Carolina, who regularly preached the Word of God on the radio. His rallies often drew as many as 15,000 people. As Cole told the newspapers: "There's about 30,000 half-breeds up in Robeson County and we are going to have some cross burnings and scare them up."
Cole made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
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Dr. Perry was a black doctor in Monroe, NC, and helped finance a local chapter of the NAACP. One night at a meeting, the word was received that the Klan threatened to blow up Dr. Perry's house. The meeting broke up and everyone went home to get their guns.
Sipping coffee in Perry's garage with shotguns across their laps, the men agreed that defending their families was too important to do in haphazard fashion. "We started to really getting organized and setting up, digging foxholes and started getting up ammunition and training guys," Williams recalled. "In fact, we had started building our own rifle range, and we got our own M-1's and got our own Mausers and German semi-automatic rifles, and steel helmets. We had everything."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/17/826081/-The-day-the-Klan-messed-with-the-wrong-people?detail=email
The OP's personal comment --
Now this is what I call a 2nd Amendment remedy!
January 20, 2015
It's been ruled a suicide.
Argentine prosecutor who accused Cristina Kirchner over 1994 bombing found dead
Argentine prosecutor who accused Cristina Kirchner over 1994 bombing found dead
Alberto Nisman, who on Monday was due in parliament to present his case against President Cristina Kirchner, found dead days after warning "I could end up dead because of this"
An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Irans involvement in the countrys worst ever terrorist attack has been found dead, hours before he was due to present his evidence in parliament.
Alberto Nisman, 51, had spent the past decade investigating the 1994 bombings of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre, which killed 85 people.
Two years ago he began working on a 300-page dossier due to be presented to a parliamentary committee on Monday afternoon which used extensive wiretaps to unravel the mystery of the attack at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building (AMIA), for which no one has ever been convicted.
He knew that the revelations in his dossier were going to cause a huge outcry. The stridently anti-Kirchner newspaper Clarin said that he had told one of their reporters on Wednesday: I could be dead by the end of this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11354521/Argentine-prosecutor-who-accused-Cristina-Kirchner-over-1994-bombings-found-dead.html
Alberto Nisman, who on Monday was due in parliament to present his case against President Cristina Kirchner, found dead days after warning "I could end up dead because of this"
An Argentine prosecutor who accused President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Irans involvement in the countrys worst ever terrorist attack has been found dead, hours before he was due to present his evidence in parliament.
Alberto Nisman, 51, had spent the past decade investigating the 1994 bombings of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre, which killed 85 people.
Two years ago he began working on a 300-page dossier due to be presented to a parliamentary committee on Monday afternoon which used extensive wiretaps to unravel the mystery of the attack at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building (AMIA), for which no one has ever been convicted.
He knew that the revelations in his dossier were going to cause a huge outcry. The stridently anti-Kirchner newspaper Clarin said that he had told one of their reporters on Wednesday: I could be dead by the end of this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11354521/Argentine-prosecutor-who-accused-Cristina-Kirchner-over-1994-bombings-found-dead.html
It's been ruled a suicide.
January 18, 2015
"Only gunners feel like they need multiple guns."
"The only purpose for more than 6 rounds is mass murder."
"What are the odds of ever needing a gun?"
"You're safer without one in your home."
Woman uses 2 guns to shoot at would-be home invasion robber
Woman uses 2 guns to shoot at would-be home invasion robber
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The man who answered the door told the suspect at the door that he didn't know the person and tried to close the door, but the suspect forced his way in.
The suspect pointed a gun at the man's head and said "This is a robbery, give it up," according to the report.
A woman in a bedroom in the home heard the commotion and came out with a handgun, dove on the floor and started shooting at the suspect.
The suspect exchanged gunfire with the woman, who went back to the bedroom for another handgun and kept shooting at the suspect.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/woman-uses-2-guns-shoot-would-be-home-invasion-rob/njpht/#sthash.fbALotCj.BUrbzC29.dpuf
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The man who answered the door told the suspect at the door that he didn't know the person and tried to close the door, but the suspect forced his way in.
The suspect pointed a gun at the man's head and said "This is a robbery, give it up," according to the report.
A woman in a bedroom in the home heard the commotion and came out with a handgun, dove on the floor and started shooting at the suspect.
The suspect exchanged gunfire with the woman, who went back to the bedroom for another handgun and kept shooting at the suspect.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/woman-uses-2-guns-shoot-would-be-home-invasion-rob/njpht/#sthash.fbALotCj.BUrbzC29.dpuf
"Only gunners feel like they need multiple guns."
"The only purpose for more than 6 rounds is mass murder."
"What are the odds of ever needing a gun?"
"You're safer without one in your home."
January 16, 2015
I wonder if this gives RT room enough to print a "some say" article?
'Did the Americans plan the Paris terror attacks?' asks leading Russian tabloid
'Did the Americans plan the Paris terror attacks?' asks leading Russian tabloid
American intelligence services carried out the Charlie Hebdo terror attack to punish France for considering dropping sanctions against Russia or at least, that's the version of events presented in one of Russia's leading newspapers today.
The front page splash in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which asks "Did the Americans Plan the Paris Terror Attack?", is just the latest of a series of bizarre conspiracy theories put forward by some of the Russian press in the wake of last week's tragedy.
The headline relates to a page 7 interview with a political scientist called Alexander Zhilin, who links the murders of 16 people at Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher supermarket to disagreements between western governments about how to deal with sanctions against Russia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11340360/Did-the-Americans-plan-the-Paris-terror-attacks-asks-leading-Russian-tabloid.html
American intelligence services carried out the Charlie Hebdo terror attack to punish France for considering dropping sanctions against Russia or at least, that's the version of events presented in one of Russia's leading newspapers today.
The front page splash in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which asks "Did the Americans Plan the Paris Terror Attack?", is just the latest of a series of bizarre conspiracy theories put forward by some of the Russian press in the wake of last week's tragedy.
The headline relates to a page 7 interview with a political scientist called Alexander Zhilin, who links the murders of 16 people at Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher supermarket to disagreements between western governments about how to deal with sanctions against Russia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11340360/Did-the-Americans-plan-the-Paris-terror-attacks-asks-leading-Russian-tabloid.html
I wonder if this gives RT room enough to print a "some say" article?
January 11, 2015
Some people just insist on showing their "but"s
Even now people are saying, "Murdering over speech is wrong -- BUT..."
Just say, "No" to BUT monkeys.
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