08:47 – It was 51.7F (11C) when I took Colin out at 0645 this morning, sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and no wind. Oddly, when I looked out the door 15 minutes later, the south tree line was almost invisible because of heavy, very brightly-lit fog. By the time Barbara came out to the den at 0730 the fog had pretty much dissipated.
Barbara came back with most of what I put on the Costco list. One exception was the vanilla extract. She said Costco was out-of-stock on it and had a sign posted that it might be quite a while before they were back in stock.
I’m tempted just to pick up a bottle of the artificial stuff. The real stuff at Costco costs $15 or $18 for a one pint (473 mL) bottle. The artificial stuff from McCormick costs more like $5 for a one quart (946 mL) bottle. I’ve taste-tested real versus artificial, and there isn’t much difference tasting them directly. Once they’re mixed in a cake or cookies or whatever, I defy anyone to reliably pick which one’s which.
I’m increasingly running across truly disgusting news articles. Here’s one from the morning paper. FTA:
A Winston-Salem woman was convicted Thursday of forcing a 12-year-old girl into prostitution, resulting in the girl being raped by adult men over two years, getting pregnant and contracting a sexually-transmitted disease.
Twelve Forsyth County jurors found Flora Riano Gonzalez, 39, of the 1800 block of East 25th Street, guilty of sexual servitude, felony child abuse involving prostitution and felony child abuse involving sexual acts. Judge Richard Gottlieb of Forsyth Superior Court has scheduled a sentencing hearing for 10 a.m. today.
In any rational society, this woman would be dangling on the end of a rope by now.
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Doing the jobs americans won’t do…..
n
in seriousness, this is the MAIN reason I oppose the huge influx of illegals from points south. They bring with them slavery, drugs, gangs, prostitution, and child predation.
I don’t particularly care if Jose is cutting lawns, but I am furious at the idea he’s raping kids.
@nick
+100
You don’t mention driving drunk, which is apparently a cultural thing with Mexicans.
Yep, and if you recall, local PD was encouraged to let illegals caught drunk driving go, rather than prosecuting or deporting them.
Add in the burden on our schools, the lack of opportunity for citizen kids to enter the workforce (all the traditional teen jobs are held by adult hispanics in many parts of the country) and the public health risks and all the other issues and there is only one conclusion to be reached logically.
They’ve got to go, and no more allowed in.
WRT that, the number of men hanging out in the park where the ‘day labor’ gets picked up is SIGNIFICANTLY reduced. Families are starting to use the park again, since there are fewer men hanging out and pissing on trees. NO WAY would I bring a young kid near a group like that.
nick
I would like to see the month by month chart of $s sent south, and see how much it’s decreased in the last couple of months.
added – newest numbers I could find quickly
“The United States was the largest remittance source country, with an estimated $56 billion in outward flows in 2014, followed by Saudi Arabia ($37 billion), and Russia ($33 billion). India was the largest remittance receiving country, with an estimated $72 billion in 2015, followed by China ($64 billion), and the Philippines ($30 billion).”
That’s 56 billion dollars that didn’t benefit the US, or US citizens. $56B that wasn’t paid to US workers. $56B that didn’t get recycled thru local economies.
And $56B that did not get the opportunity to line the pockets of politicians.
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And $56B that did not get the opportunity to line the pockets of politicians.
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you’d think that that would encourage them to do something. If they grabbed just 10-20 % they could buy new dachas…..
n
The most disturbing aspect of the news article was possibly that it didn’t say:
“Judge Richard Gottlieb of Forsyth Superior Court has scheduled a hanging for 10 a.m. today”.
“And $56B that did not get the opportunity to line the pockets of politicians.”
That rather depends on who owns Western Union…
“That rather depends on who owns Western Union…”
and who they talk to
http://www.theyrule.net/
My car was hit by a “Hispanic” driver in San Francisco a few years ago. We stopped to exchange ID & Insurance data. He couldn’t speak a word of English yet had a shinny new CA License. When the bilingual CHP officer arrived, he explained to me that the driver was confused by English language signage causing him to crunch my car. I felt that this accident was directly the fault of the state of California for issuing driving credentials to a person obviously unsafe on the roads. But the goal of the CA DMV was “diversity” not road safety.
Same thing caused a brief scandal in Chigago with DMV issuing commercial DLs to Polish immigrants that couldn’t read english. That is a requirement for Commercial.
There was a lot of corruption involved, but I’m guessing no one but the crash victims was ever penalized.
n
Unfortunately, because this was a sex crime committed by a woman instead of a man she will receive 14 days in jail and 3 years of probation. A man would have gotten 20 years and would have been murdered in prison by fellow inmates. Welcome to America’s horribly sexist Judicial system.
You notice there’s no mention of who the men are who raped this girl. As far as I’m concerned, they need to track them down and hang them as well.
I have absolutely no problem with prostitution, gay or straight, if both/all parties are consenting adults. But this goes beyond the pale.
Unfortunately this type of thing is all too common, esp in areas where the culture doesn’t have a problem with it.
Sex slavery is a big problem in Houston, and throughout the border states. Houston particularly because we are a crossroads. A lot of girls move thru here on their way to the rest of the country.
Anyone who thinks this sort of thing doesn’t happen in their area is kidding themselves [note the ‘rest of the country’ above]. Anywhere you have a population that will support it and provide a ‘reservoir’ for it to hide in, you have the problem.
nick
That sort of thing happens here too. A “father” prostituted his ~11 year old daughter. One of the customers tried to get off on a technicality, fortunately the judge wasn’t buying. Lawyers who offer “defences” like this are scum too.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-21/paedophile-ring-impicciatore-appeal-interview-admissible/8461232
“SAN ANTONIO – A missing 12-year-old San Antonio girl has been found alive, but the girl has lived through hell for the last month.”
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) —
Houston police are hoping for help to find a young girl who has been missing for more than two weeks. … “We know she’s in danger,” said Romero. “We know someone is keeping her against her will. We heard that they are drugging her up and trafficking her.”
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) —
A 19-year-old woman has been charged for her alleged role in forcing a teenage runaway into sexual slavery.
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According to prosecutors, a 14-year-old girl said she was pulled into a van and kidnapped while walking down the street earlier this year. After her captors held her for five days, the girl said she was taken to a motel and assaulted, threatened and forced to have sex with more than two dozen men.
At the hotel, the girl said she met Coronado, who photographed her for an ad on Backpage.com, a site often used to post prostitution advertisements.
She later escaped.”
MANDEVILLE, Louisiana – A missing girl from the Houston area was found by local law enforcement in southeast Louisiana traveling with three illegal immigrants from Guatemala in a possible scenario where she could have been trafficked.”
and on and on……
nick
“Houston children rescued in nationwide sex trafficking bust”
By Keri Blakinger Updated 6:46 am, Tuesday, October 18, 2016
More than 80 children – including three from Houston – were rescued in a sweeping operation targeting sex traffickers nationwide, the FBI said Monday.
Operation Cross Country X netted the arrests of 239 pimps and other traffickers in just three days during the multi-agency effort that included help from 55 FBI field offices and 71 state and local task forces in 106 cities.
In Houston, officers recognized a 15-year-old girl from an Internet ad – and stepped in to rescue her from performing a commercial sex act.
The youngest victim recovered in the U.S. operation was 13 years old.
To the north, Canadian officials launched a corresponding operation and saved 16 children.”
“EXCLUSIVE: Men allegedly lured human trafficking victim to Houston with job offer
Delanny Malveaux (left) and Dorran Gilliespie now face felony charges tied to a prostitution and human trafficking case
By Steven Romo
Sunday, January 29, 2017
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“Kathryn Griffin is a peer recovery coach who helps counsel trafficking victims. She said these cases are increasing due to the Super Bowl.
“The whole Super Bowl is about making money, for the legitimate businesses, which is a great thing, as well as those who are in illegal practices,” she said.
She’s not surprised to hear cases like the one this weekend saying she gets many calls each day with victims needing help.
“Just this last Friday we saw this surge of 12 to 16-year-olds by the hundreds out on Bissonnet,” she said.
Griffin said victims are brought in because the Super Bowl means more potential customers. She said they are often trafficked in from out of state.
“Sex sells. You can sell a person up to 60 times a day,” she said.”
and on and on….
BTW our school district had a seminar for parents last week about how to recognize sex trafficking victims and the extent of the problem. ELEMENTARY school….
n
And now I’m headed to a local middle school to be a role player (punching bag?) for the gendarmes as part of their teen outreach program. No idea what I’ll be doing….
n
I never thought about this stuff when I was a kid. I’m sure it was there, but as I didn’t go to a Catholic school I was fairly safe (yes, I know Protestants and irreligious people are pedos too.)
A family member with young kids said she and her husband invited the parents of their kids school friends around to dinner (unofficially, to vet them) before allowing their kids to go there for sleepovers.
As a kid in the Sixties this sort of thing never crossed my mind.
We “vet” other parents as well. Our neighbor’s granddaughter is not permitted in our house when neither my wife nor my mother-in-law is present. That’s my rule. In this day & age, a wise man will avoid any situation where he can be accused of anything untoward. Kids will always be safe here. But I’m not taking any chances.
Just for laffs, check out whether or not your state has an online sex offender registry; chances are pretty good that some of them live pretty close by, especially if you’re near a city. In some cases pictures of the offenders are in those registries, too; 90% of them look as you’d expect them to look, and about 10% are women.
Consider that the tip of the iceberg, especially in areas with large numbers of Turd World “immigrants.”
73 and sunny w/blue skies and very light breeze; back down to the high 40s on Sunday with a good chance of rain. I better go make hay while the sun shines.
http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/ivanka-trump/berlin-visit-there-was-no-booing-for-ivanka-trump-51469066.bild.html
They’re in a very nice club.
And you’re not.
I don’t read German, but my ad blocker stopped access.
Kids will always be safe here. But I’m not taking any chances
Indeed. One of my strict rules when photographing minor females is that at least one parent is present along with my wife. If they are not a minor and are female my wife is always present. No way in Hell I will be alone with another female except for close friends.
Same when I sub at the school. If I am in a room alone and a female comes in I step into the doorway with the door held wide open. Even with just females the door is quickly propped open until at least one other male person arrives. Even that is not a guarantee if they wanted to make my life miserable. But I figure three teenagers could never get a made up story straight and I would not be charged. However I would be a marked man. If I were ever falsely charged you can be certain I would go after every one that made false claims against me with as much legal action as I could arrange.
driver was confused by English language signage
Aren’t the signs visual, as with pictures? That would seem to work in all languages. When I drove in Germany I managed even though I spoke no German. The symbols helped me a lot. Only confusing part was signs that warned of an impending sign.
“I have absolutely no problem with prostitution, gay or straight, if both/all parties are consenting adults.”
Gotcha! Mr Atoz and I are carpooling to Pahrump, NV tomorrow night.
WRT Polish immigrants in Chicago: Back in the late ’40s the Daley bunch renamed the NS thoroughfare Crawford to Pulaski. All the adults in my family really hated that.
Heh.
All of these sites simply can’t understand that they have two choices:
1. Allow people using adblockers to access their sites, and starve to death from lack of ad revenue.
2. Block people using adblockers from accessing their sites, and starve to death from lack of ad revenue.
I drove in France for a week in 1990 and figured out the road signs (driving on the wrong side of the road was a bigger problem.) Even got stopped by the cops, who wanted to see my drivers licence and car registration papers. Didn’t take long to work out (“certificate d’immitriculation” or some such.)
Perhaps I should just have made a run for a sancturary city?
Gotcha! Mr Atoz and I are carpooling to Pahrump, NV tomorrow night.
First round of PBR’s is on me. If Lamar Odom shows up, the first round of blow is on him!
Crappy day. Yard tractor quit. It is my old riding mower with the mowing deck removed. I use it to pull around a yard cart for debris. Started just fine when I removed it from the shed, drove to the spot to load some trimmings, shut it off. Went to start it again when the cart was loaded, starter just spun and would not engage the flywheel. Hooked the tractor up to the ZTR rig and pulled it back to the shed. Battery had gone toes up. Enough current to spin the starter (no load) but not enough to engage the solenoid. Had the battery tested, could only deliver 14 amps. So new battery.
Went to ride the bike. Road over a railroad crossing and the back tire almost immediately went flat. Had to call the wife to come with the pick-em-up-truck and bring me home. Took the bike to the shop to have the inner tube replaced. Not a simple job due to the motor, torque link, and wiring to the motor in the rear hub. Watched the chap do it so perhaps next time I will know how. The guy in the bike shop said railroad crossings will in many cases flatten a tire depending on the quality of the grade crossing. Well shit, I have to cross two of them when I ride the bike to school. Need to find an alternate route or go really slow over the existing crossings.
Pulaski? What’s wrong with that? That’s a wildland fire tool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski_(tool)
Just for laffs, check out whether or not your state has an online sex offender registry; chances are pretty good that some of them live pretty close by, especially if you’re near a city. In some cases pictures of the offenders are in those registries, too; 90% of them look as you’d expect them to look, and about 10% are women.
I know Florida has a really good online sex offender registry. You can punch in your address and get a list of known offenders in the area, complete with pictures.
Thank Jeb!. He gets a lot of cr*p as of late, but Bush did an effective job as Governor, especially in the area of online access to public records.
Aren’t the signs visual, as with pictures? That would seem to work in all languages. When I drove in Germany I managed even though I spoke no German. The symbols helped me a lot. Only confusing part was signs that warned of an impending sign.
The only sign that I had a problem with in Germany was the large arrow with “EinBahnStrasse” in it. At first, I thought it was “this way to the autobahn”. I later found it was “one way street”.
Which reminds me of an intersection I encountered in the 70’s in downtown Pittsburgh near the railyard where all the produce and stuff came in and was loaded on trucks.
I was driving down a one-way street when it T’d into a cross street. On the cross street going to my right was a one-way arrow pointing toward the intersection. On the cross street to my left was a one-way arrow pointing toward, you guessed it, the intersection. So three one-way streets terminated at that intersection, with no legal way to get out. I remember wondering why they weren’t all packed full of stranded vehicles.
Of course, Pittsburgh not long before that had finally finished the Bridge to Nowhere. They built it halfway over the river and then ran out of money or something. They had it blocked, but periodically morons would drive up onto it and drive off the end of the bridge into the river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Duquesne_Bridge
I just checked for sex offenders in our zipcode (28675). There were six listed within a three mile radius, but a lot of them were obviously not real criminals. Stuff like a guy who was 19 at the time having sex with an underage girl. Most of them have only one offense and clean records since. One guy, though, has six offenses, all of which are for sexual battery and all of which occurred within one week. I’m guessing his wife finally had enough and started calling the cops every time he hit her.
“First round of PBR’s is on me. If Lamar Odom shows up, the first round of blow is on him!”
Actually, a friend and coworker retired to Amargosa Valley a number of years ago. After visiting with him, I did some geocaching between there and Pahrump about 10 years ago. Went very close to Lamar’s recovery facility as I found out at his incident there, but not knowing about the facility at the time.
Did stay in Pahrump that night after spending the evening at the Stagestop, a great cowboy honky-tonk with live music (no hiphop). On my way to our annual 4WD camping and sightseeing trip to AZ strip (N of Grand Canyon and S of St. George, near polyggy heaven of Colorado City)
I highly recommend the Front Sight firearm training course in Pahrump. Five Star rated course.
https://www.frontsight.com/
I heard “get your finger off that trigger” more than once.
10-4, lynn, AFAIK, it is the only, or one of the very few, where one can shoot bona fide auto weapons. They also have a large fireworks warehouse where one can legally by those that are banned elsewhere. Or, there is an Indian reservation store the other side of LV that also sells such.
I think I’ve mentioned my former coworker, on a sex offender registry for, I believe, the rest of his life, because he was peeing out a bunch of beer when teenage girls were nearby. A criminal system of justice, indeed.
Barbara came back with most of what I put on the Costco list. One exception was the vanilla extract. She said Costco was out-of-stock on it and had a sign posted that it might be quite a while before they were back in stock.
I’m tempted just to pick up a bottle of the artificial stuff. The real stuff at Costco costs $15 or $18 for a one pint (473 mL) bottle. The artificial stuff from McCormick costs more like $5 for a one quart (946 mL) bottle. I’ve taste-tested real versus artificial, and there isn’t much difference tasting them directly. Once they’re mixed in a cake or cookies or whatever, I defy anyone to reliably pick which one’s which.
I am under strict instructions nowadays to get Adams Extract: 8 oz for $10. I was buying McCormick’s 16 oz for $10 and the wife complains that it is not much more tastier than water.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/adams-best-vanilla-extract/128539
I just opened a new bottle of the kirkland vanilla. We go thru a lot more when we are having pancakes and waffles every week. I don’t remember EVER using up a small bottle at home when I was younger.
Had a fun day playing the bad guy for a bunch of high school kids interested in criminal justice. Got to flee the scene, spent some time in handcuffs, was a domestic disturbance , a drug dealer, a random stop, car crash, sneak thief, and some other fun stuff. Class was about 97% non-white, and overwhelmingly female. About 3/4s raised their hand when asked if the were hoping to become cops. They were all physically slight, and most were VERY meek and shy. One girl was VERY VERY quick to go to guns. Several times I ended up staring at her blue gun. The program is some sort of elective track that draws on the whole district. They were mostly “at risk” youth to some degree, and the program increases graduation and continued schooling rates. In the old days it would have been a vo-tech class at the vo-tech center. Now it’s career track and the whole facility is upgraded, and offers real training in stuff that isn’t just auto shop and time wasting.
Fun day.
nick
“… Class was about 97% non-white, and overwhelmingly female. About 3/4s raised their hand when asked if the were hoping to become cops. They were all physically slight, and most were VERY meek and shy. One girl was VERY VERY quick to go to guns.”
Outstanding! Just what we need!
Brings to mind the vid I saw not too long ago of THREE female police officers attempting to arrest ONE unarmed man, who tossed them around like rag dolls, and then trashed their cruiser, while they’d given up and just stood by and watched until he took off.
Also brings to mind the femcop who’d stopped a suspicious character on the street with another cop and I strolled on over as backup. The other guy told her to call in the info and she tugged on his sleeve and asked him “Where are we?” in front of the suspect. This was over thirty years ago and from what I’ve heard and seen since, it’s gotten worse. More “affirmative action” and “diversity” hires with IQs well below 100 and about as fit to be decent community LE’s as I am to be a tranny ballet dancer.
And now I’m picturing a petite Latina cop confronting a carload of M13 mestizos with shaved heads and multiple tatts.
In the old days the M13 muchachos would be confronted with a two-man car and big-ass male cops toting shotguns, one on each side of the car; slightest flicker of lethal intent and a weapon shown….with at least one other car just seconds away arriving as backup. Newer times the cops would have selective-fire AR’s.
I’ll ask wifey about this stuff when I see her tomorrow; she just got in and is at her mom’s place. Her gig the last ten days was with two El Paso classes, both heavily loaded with city cops and county sheriff’s deputies.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-29/fyre-festival-furore-after-ja-rules-luxury-music-event-flops/8482192
Never heard of them:
“People had already arrived in the Exuma islands, paying up to $US12,780 for the luxury weekend that was to include performances by Blink-182, Disclosure and Major Lazer, among others.”
Kendall Jenner, the dolly bird with two mothers, was there…
It’s a bit harder to put on a successful public event than it looks to the people attending. My buddy was once told that the money people didn’t know why they were paying him to stand around during the event. They didn’t see the 6 inch thick binder that he’d filled getting ready for the event. They didn’t understand that he’d done all the hard work already, and done it WELL over the previous months, so things went without a hitch on the day.
They were fucking morons.
25 year old organizer. No concept of show production. Surprised there was no infrastructure. Appears to not understand “island time”.* Fucking moron.
nick
NB- this is the sort of thing I used to do for a living. It’s the sort of thing my friends still do.
*island time- everything takes at least 2.5x as long to accomplish in the islands, and everything is half as well done as it would be elsewhere. Not an exaggeration. Documented.
added- my buddy used to do $10k per plate bar mitzvahs, with national music acts, toboggan runs in the summertime, michelin rated chefs, etc
And sometimes S does happen…
MTV’s Spring Break once had an entire performance stage washed out to sea by a rogue wave just before shooting was supposed to start…
n
The wall, the wall, the wall…
http://www.garynorth.com/public/16534.cfm
Assuming all we see is a long slow and bumpy decline, I still figure we gotta do the semper paratus thing anyway.
Meanwhile, Pax tecum sit omnibus vobis, et a fine usque ad mirabilis sabbati.
Most of them have only one offense and clean records since.
Yep. What those registries don’t have is the classifications that the cops have. At least, they have in Texas. Most of those on the registry were evaluated by psychologists and psychiatrists for risk of recidivism. That determines what level of monitoring the cops give them. Most are in the “likely harmless in the future” category. Depending on the state and the offense, someone can petition to get off the registry in 10 years after sentence end.
Yet we don’t have a database for murderers, drug dealers, DUI offenders, etc. who are just as dangerous.
RE: Female Officers
My sons experience on a very small town police force. The chief hired a VERY attractive young woman officer, married. He put her on night patrol with him to “learn the ropes”. She failed three times to qualify with her service weapon, a S&W .40. My son was at the range on her fourth attempt. She broke down in tears trying to load her magazine crying that “someone sabotaged my gun”. My son checked it out. She had grabbed a box of .45 ACP and was trying to load them in her .40 S&W magazine. The stereotypical Dumb Blond. Shortly after that, my son left the force. He ran into one of the other officers a year later who filled him in. The other cops had gotten fed up with this nonsense and discreetly told the woman’s husband what was up. The husband showed up at the Police Chiefs door with a shotgun. No shots were fired but there were two divorces and a vacancy in the Chief of Police position.
Small town police departments often get embroiled in the local politics and stuff like that. There was some funny chit going on during the year I worked a small town force and eventually I got tired of it and moved into industrial/corporate security investigations, got sick of that and went back to street cop chit in the city. Walking a beat about 2/3 of the time and the rest was in and out of a cruiser. There were two problems with copchicks at that time: those who were simply affirmative-action hires and basically useless for backups or wrestling drunks at biker bars, and those who could have been good but spent most of the time striving and over-achieving at stuff and pissing people off. Trying to prove themselves at least as good as the men, etc., etc. One cutie blond was my partner for a while and she was a real social butterfly with other agencies and departments; she helped out with surveillance ops on the Italian mob outfit in Boston during Whitey’s tenure with the Irish mob, and eventually moved to the MA Criminal Justice Training Council, basically as a gopher, and then on to BATF down in Mordor and Floriduh. Last I heard, retired on medical disability. I also think, but can’t prove it, that she was dirty with the coke trafficking at the time and ditto certain State Police troopers.
All I ever worked was regular street cop beats, with a brief period as a department stastistical officer. I’ve told that story before here.
90% of a cop’s stress is within the department, not all the outside calls he or she goes to.