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Is that the golf equivalent of a banjo hitter in baseball?
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I was trying to make a Nero joke but I don’t think it worked.
It kinda did but I couldn't resist the comparison.I was trying to make a Nero joke but I don’t think it worked.
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Labour MP Dan Norris arrested over rape and child abuse allegations
Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency home
Labour MP Dan Norris arrested over rape and child abuse allegations
Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency home...
His constituency website said he trained with the NSPCC and worked as a teacher and child protection officer.
Avon and Somerset Police said: “A man aged in his sixties was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sexual offences against a girl (under the Sexual Offences Act 1956), rape (under the Sexual Offences Act 2003), child abduction and misconduct in a public office.
“He’s been released on conditional bail for enquiries to continue. This is an active and sensitive investigation, so we’d respectfully ask people not to speculate on the circumstances so our enquiries can continue unhindered.
“In December 2024, we received a referral from another police force relating to alleged non-recent child sex offences having been committed against a girl.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Is Impossible—and It’ll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money
A new study detailed all the problems with plans to shoot a missile out of the sky.
gizmodo.com
That’s like trying to shoot a bullet out of the sky with a bullet. The missile defense study, published on March 3, detailed a few of the challenges facing a potential Golden Dome-style system.
Trump’s executive order is vague and covers a lot of potential threats. “We focus on the fundamental question of whether current and proposed systems intended to defend the United States against nuclear-armed [intercontinental ballistic missile] now effective, or could in the near future be made effective in preventing the death and destruction that a successful attack by North Korea on the United States using such ICBMs would produce.”
Stopping a nuke is the primary promise of a missile system. And if one of these systems can’t stop a nuke then of what use is it?
The study isn’t positive. “This is the most comprehensive, independent scientific study in decades on the feasibility of national ballistic missile defense. Its findings may shock Americans who have not paid much attention to these programs,” Joseph Cirincione told Gimzodo.
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The study looked at a few different methods for knocking a North Korean nuke out of the sky. An ICBM launch has three phases: the boost phase which lasts only a few minutes, the midcourse phase which lasts around 20 minutes, and the terminal phase which is less than a minute.
During the boost-phase, the nuke is building up speed and getting into the air. “Boost-phase intercept of ICBMs launched from even a small country like North Korea is challenging,” the study said.
You have to get weapons close to the missile and, in the case of North Korea, that would require building them close to China and then firing them over Chinese territory. Any defense system would only have a few moments to respond to the nuke because the boost phase only lasts a few minutes.
For a countermeasure to hit that ICBM under those time constraints means it would need to be built close, probably somewhere in the Pacific. And we would need a lot of them. China would not be happy about a ring of missile defense systems close to its borders, no matter how America tried to sell it to them.
But what about space-based systems? It’s a territory rivals have less power over. “The scientific review panel found that it would take over a thousand orbiting weapons to counter a single North Korean ballistic missile. Even then, ‘the system would be costly and vulnerable to anti-satellite attacks,’” Cirincione told Gizmodo. Around 3,600 interceptors, to be precise.
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Well, what about lasers? Reagan’s original plan was lasers. Surely technology has advanced since the 1980s. “There is widespread agreement that laser weapons that could disable ICBMs during their boost-phase, whether based on aircraft, drones, or space platforms, will not be technically feasible within the 15-year time horizon of this study,” the study said.
This hints at another one of the problems of missile defense: it takes a long time to build and your enemies aren’t stagnant while it’s happening. While America works on the Golden Dome, Russia, North Korea, and China will be building their own new and different kinds of weapons meant to circumvent it. We may be able to build lasers capable of shooting nukes out of the sky in two decades but by then America’s enemies may have things to deal with the lasers.
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Protesters in small New York village march to Trump border czar's home over family's ICE detention
The three children and their mother were detained after ICE agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.
Protesters in small New York village march to Trump 'border czar's' home over family's ICE detention
The three children and their mother were detained after ICE agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.
“… The three children and mother were detained after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.
The New York Immigration Coalition, a nonprofit that campaigns for immigrant rights, told NBC News that the family is currently being held in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond Saturday night to a request for comment about the protest or the family’s detention, but Homan defended the operation during an interview Thursday with WWNY 7News.
“It wasn’t a raid. It was a search warrant execution at a house where a family was found in the country illegally. ICE is doing everything by the book. Once the investigation gets to the point where we don’t have an interest in this family, then a decision will be made on release,” Homan said.
Homan added that investigators are doing their “due diligence.”
… Cook said the students are in third grade, tenth grade and eleventh grade and had been at the school for three years. She added they declared themselves to immigration authorities prior to the ICE operation.
… According to the New York State Department of Education, Sackets Harbor Central School had 399 enrolled students across pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2023-2024 school year.
… The village — which has a population of fewer than 1,400 — also considered declaring a state of emergency, though officials ultimately decided not to do so.
… Organizers and protesters alike said they hoped Saturday’s march caught the attention of Homan, who was born in the nearby town of West Carthage, New York. …”
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Protesters in small New York village march to Trump border czar's home over family's ICE detention
The three children and their mother were detained after ICE agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.
Protesters in small New York village march to Trump 'border czar's' home over family's ICE detention
The three children and their mother were detained after ICE agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.www.nbcnews.com
“… The three children and mother were detained after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.
The New York Immigration Coalition, a nonprofit that campaigns for immigrant rights, told NBC News that the family is currently being held in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond Saturday night to a request for comment about the protest or the family’s detention, but Homan defended the operation during an interview Thursday with WWNY 7News.
“It wasn’t a raid. It was a search warrant execution at a house where a family was found in the country illegally. ICE is doing everything by the book. Once the investigation gets to the point where we don’t have an interest in this family, then a decision will be made on release,” Homan said.
Homan added that investigators are doing their “due diligence.”
… Cook said the students are in third grade, tenth grade and eleventh grade and had been at the school for three years. She added they declared themselves to immigration authorities prior to the ICE operation.
… According to the New York State Department of Education, Sackets Harbor Central School had 399 enrolled students across pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2023-2024 school year.
… The village — which has a population of fewer than 1,400 — also considered declaring a state of emergency, though officials ultimately decided not to do so.
… Organizers and protesters alike said they hoped Saturday’s march caught the attention of Homan, who was born in the nearby town of West Carthage, New York. …”
[virtually every story like this on social media has a number of responses along the lines of good, deport them all to they are better off in their home country, and about as many or more that deny every story that indicates that anything untoward has happened]
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Australian MMA coach detained in US prison nightmare
In a post on social media, Subotic who has coached the Australian national MMA side, said he had been locked in an isolation room for three hours before he was taken to prison.
www.dailymail.co.uk
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Pretty big news item for a Sunday - Trump won the Club Championship!
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Felon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge
Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.
A violent felon whose sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child.
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It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021
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I wonder why Silence never posts about the victims of people that Trump released into America?Felon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge
Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.www.nytimes.com
A violent felon whose sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child.
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It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021
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Worth remembering that this is the same guy who tried to fight Sean O'Brien on the floor of a committee room -- creating one of the more iconic Bernie moments.
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The Return of the Dire Wolf
The Return of the Dire Wolf
The Return of the Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.
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"Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month olds—their size, for starters. At their young age they already measure nearly 4 ft. long, tip the scales at 80 lb., and could grow to 6 ft. and 150 lb. Then there’s their behavior: the angelic exuberance puppies exhibit in the presence of humans—trotting up for hugs, belly rubs, kisses—is completely absent. They keep...
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