Category Archives: Fail!

South Carolina Neo-Nazi Couple Pleads Guilty to Murdering Sex Offender and His Wife | Hatewatch

“They got exactly what they deserved,” Moody said, as he was being led out of the courthouse. “Had to do it over again, I’d kill more.”

His wife also had no regrets or remorse.

“Killing that pedophile,” she told the station, “was the best day of my life.”

But if killing registered sex offenders was indeed the Moodys mission, they did not have to go outside the ranks of Crew 41 to find them.

At the time the Parkers were murdered, the head of group’s Colorado chapter was also on a list of registered sex offenders.

via South Carolina Neo-Nazi Couple Pleads Guilty to Murdering Sex Offender and His Wife | Hatewatch.

The Gun Report: May 6, 2014 – NYTimes.com – NYTimes.com

Cherry Allen, 56, an anti-violence and neighborhood watch activist, was struck in the chest by a stray bullet while sitting outside her home in Wilmington, Del., Monday afternoon. Police said two gunman had opened fire on someone. The victim is in stable condition. “For this to happen to her, when this is what she does for the community, is just sad,” her niece said.

—CSNPhilly.com

via The Gun Report: May 6, 2014 – NYTimes.com – NYTimes.com.

On Independence Day, Netanyahu caves to right wing – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

The meaning of this is simple: Netanyahu is prepared to gamble on the democratic nature of the State of Israel to stay in office and reap political benefits. The very person who came out in his previous term against the uninhibited laws proposed by Knesset members from the right, who attempted to cause harm to the legal system, has abandoned all that is left of revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s respectful and honoring manner and the heritage of the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the Likud.

via On Independence Day, Netanyahu caves to right wing – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

Hotel Boycott Grows Over Brunei Penal Code – NYTimes.com

The response here to the planned imposition of Islamic law in Brunei, with extreme penalties for adultery and gay sex, has become more pointed in recent days as two Hollywood-related charities moved events from the Beverly Hills Hotel, which is owned by the Brunei Investment Agency.

According to the Deadline Hollywood news site, a fund-raiser on Wednesday for the youth organization Teen Line will be moved from the hotel to the Sony lot in Culver City, Calif. The event will honor Amy Pascal, co-chairwoman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Jenny Pascal, her sister.

Separately, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that the annual “Night Before the Oscars” fund-raiser for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, usually held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, will now be held elsewhere.

The sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, last week began phasing in a new penal code based on Islamic law, or Shariah, that by 2015 will make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death. The sultan’s investment agency owns the Dorchester Collection, which manages a chain of hotels that includes the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Hotel Bel-Air and other luxury hotels.

via Hotel Boycott Grows Over Brunei Penal Code – NYTimes.com.

IRIN Middle East | Alert over spike in Middle East flu virus | Egypt | Israel | Iraq | Jordan | Lebanon | Libya | Oman | OPT | Syria | United Arab Emirates | Yemen | Early Warning | Flu | Health & Nutrition

Last month some 400 passengers from an Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi to Manila were called in for testing by the Philippines Ministry of Health after it was discovered one person on board had been diagnosed with MERS-CoV in the UAE, but had left the country before his results were known.

via IRIN Middle East | Alert over spike in Middle East flu virus | Egypt | Israel | Iraq | Jordan | Lebanon | Libya | Oman | OPT | Syria | United Arab Emirates | Yemen | Early Warning | Flu | Health & Nutrition.

VDU’s blog: MERS in the USA….

The source of all exported MERS-CoV positive people lies within the Arabian peninsula. Very limited local spread has occurred within 3 non-peninsula countries.

Click on image to enlarge.

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) made its way to another country yesterday; the United States of America (USA).

via VDU’s blog: MERS in the USA…..

Retired Army Colonel Plans Militia-Backed ‘Operation American Spring’ to Force Obama Out of Office | Hatewatch

(Sedition, terrorism and rebellion are the words that come to mind, after extreme self-delusion and self-hatred!)

“The militia groups and the others stood up for Bundy and the government thugs stood down,” Riley said.  “I hope people feel the same way about Operation American Spring.”

In fact, Riley said he hopes members of Congress will “come to their senses,” leave their offices and join in the demonstration set to begin in two weeks.

“It’s a sacrificial effort by patriots who believe our nation is in jeopardy,” Riley told Hatewatch today from his home in Crestview, Fla.   “Our government at the federal level is totally lawless.  Our nation is in grave danger right now of internal implosion.”

While the event is attracting interest from various antigovernment and militia groups, those who join Riley will have to leave their guns behind or face arrest in the District of Columbia.

The group will not apply for a U.S. Park Service demonstration permit “because we are just a bunch of individual patriots who plan on visiting Washington, D.C., exercising our constitutional rights, all at the same time,” Riley told Hatewatch.

Operation American Spring already has delivered its “declaration of revision” demand packets to all 535 members of Congress, Riley said.  The packets call for the impeachment or resignations of President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate majority leader; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate minority leader; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House minority leader, and Attorney General Eric Holder.

via Retired Army Colonel Plans Militia-Backed ‘Operation American Spring’ to Force Obama Out of Office | Hatewatch.

Avian Flu Diary: CDC: First Imported MERS Coronavirus Case In the United States

CDC: First Imported MERS Coronavirus Case In the United States

(Crap!)

Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL

The CDC has just completed a hastily called press conference, headed by the CDC’s  Dr. Anne Schuchat and Pamela Pontones, State Epidemiologist, Indiana State Department of Health, to discuss the first imported case of MERS into the United States.

Admiral Schuchat, as many will remember, distinguished herself with her expertly handled press conferences during the opening weeks of the 2009 pandemic.

 (AKA= excuse for no steps taken to stop it at source) The arrival of a MERS case into the United States was considered almost inevitable, given the amount of international travelers this country receives, aided by the relatively long incubation period (up to 14 days) for the virus.  Dr. Schuchat stated that the CDC `expected the arrival of the virus’, and that local, state, and national public health agencies have been preparing for this eventuality for over a year..

The CDC released an emailed summary, which states:

On April 24, the patient traveled by plane from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to London, England then from London to Chicago, Illinois.  The patient then took a bus from Chicago to Indiana.  On the 27th, the patient began to experience respiratory symptoms, including shortness of breath, coughing, and fever. The patient went to an emergency department in an Indiana hospital on April 28th and was admitted on that same day. The patient is being well cared for and is isolated; the patient is currently in stable condition. Because of the patient’s symptoms and travel history, Indiana public health officials tested for MERS-CoV. The Indiana state public health laboratory and CDC confirmed MERS-CoV infection in the patient this afternoon.

“It is understandable that some may be concerned about this situation, but this first U.S. case of MERS-CoV infection represents a very low risk (no evidence but best guess and hope) to the general public,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of CDC’s National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases.  In some countries, the virus has spread from person to person through close contact, such as caring for or living with an infected person. However, there is currently no evidence of sustained spread of MERS-CoV in community settings.

CDC and Indiana health officials are not yet sure how the patient became infected with the virus.  Exposure may have occurred in Saudi Arabia, where outbreaks of MERS-CoV infection are occurring. Officials also do not know exactly how many people have had close contact with the patient.

 

Admiral Schuchat stated that the risk to the general public was `very low’, but that out of `an abundance of caution’ (AKA: CYAs) aggressive airline, bus, and hospital contract tracing was being undertaken by state and federal authorities.  Dr. Schuchat also warned that the situation is very fluid, and the CDC’s guidance and recommendations could change over coming days.

via Avian Flu Diary: CDC: First Imported MERS Coronavirus Case In the United States.

Avian Flu Diary: England: PHE Press Release On MERS Case Transiting London

(not a SciFi script but could be a good start for one but probably would be rejected because who would believe that it could be so easy to carry a potential killed disease from Saudi Arabia to the USA in a matter of hours and not be stopped and taken off the plan and all on the flight put in isolation?)

The passenger, who is not a UK national, was on British Airways Flight 262 from Riyadh to London, and transferred at Heathrow for onward travel to the USA, where they were later hospitalised with suspected MERS-CoV.

 

The risk of the infection being passed to other passengers on Flight 262 is extremely low. However, as a precautionary measure, Public Health England has contacted UK passengers who were sitting in the vicinity of the affected passenger to provide health information.

 

Any UK based passengers on Flight 262 on April 24 who have since become unwell or experienced respiratory symptoms, such as shortness of breath are advised to contact NHS 111.

 

PHE will also work with the US health authorities to contact any UK passengers on the April 24 onward flight from London to Chicago, American Airlines Flight 99.

via Avian Flu Diary: England: PHE Press Release On MERS Case Transiting London.