The Dalai Lama has warned that 'the whole of Europe will eventually become a
Muslim, African country" unless refugees that have been taken in are
not returned to their home countries.
Speaking with the BBC's Rajini
Vaidyanathan from his home in the mountainous town of McLeod-Ganj in
Northern India, the 83-year-old spiritual leader said that while Europe
was under an obligation to take in those who need help, they must
ultimately be returned to their homelands.
"European countries should take these refugees and give them education and training, and the aim is return to their own land with certain skills,"
said the Dalai Lama, adding "A limited number is OK, but the whole of
Europe [will] eventually become Muslim country, African country -
impossible."
"Receive them [migrants], help them, educate them, but ultimately they should develop their own country. I think Europe belongs to the Europeans."
We wonder if virtue-signaling liberals will peel off their "Free
Tibet" bumper stickers now that their idol is one pair of Khakis and a
tiki-torch away from Europe's identitarian movement?
The Dalai Lama sought refuge in India, where he has been living in exile with 10,000 Tibetans.
His monastery - which overlooks the snow-capped peaks of the
Dhauladhar range in the Himalayas - is breathtakingly beautiful. But the
view is bittersweet.
His life's cause - to return home - remains a distant dream, even if
he insists it may yet happen. "The Tibetan people have trust in me, they
ask me [to] come to Tibet," he says.
But in the next breath he adds that India has also become his
"spiritual home". An implicit acceptance, perhaps, that his goal of an
autonomous Tibet is far from reality. -BBC
When asked about President Trump, the Buddhist monk said that he
"lacked moral principle" and that the administration's America first
policy is "wrong."
The bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, were found in the Rio Grande on Monday.CreditCreditJulia Le Duc/Associated Press
MEXICO
CITY — The father and daughter lie face down in the muddy water along
the banks of the Rio Grande, her tiny head tucked inside his T-shirt, an
arm draped over his neck.
The
portrait of desperation was captured on Monday by the journalist Julia
Le Duc, in the hours after Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez died with his
23-month-old daughter, Valeria, as they tried to cross from Mexico to
the United States.
The image
represents a poignant distillation of the perilous journey migrants face
on their passage north to the United States, and the tragic
consequences that often go unseen in the loud and caustic debate over
border policy.
It recalled other
powerful and sometimes disturbing photos that have galvanized public
attention to the horrors of war and the acute suffering of individual
refugees and migrants — personal stories that are often obscured by
larger events.
Like
the iconic photo of a bleeding Syrian child pulled from the rubble in
Aleppo after an airstrike or the 1993 shot of a starving toddler and a
nearby vulture in Sudan, the image of a single father and his young
child washed up on the Rio Grande’s shore had the potential to prick the
public conscience.
As the photo
ricocheted around social media on Tuesday, Democrats in the House were
moving toward approval of an emergency $4.5 billion humanitarian aid
bill to address the plight of migrants at the border.
Good morning everyone I hope you had a good week. Yes I am up early today because I have lots of errands to do and I have to take Drew to work. Here are your questions.
1) Do you have plans for the 4th of July?
2) Are you going to see any parades?
3) Are you going to spend the 4th of July with family or friends?
4) Are you planning on cooking you for the 4th of July?
RACINE — The suspect who law
enforcement officials say shot and killed Racine Police Officer John
Hetland last week was arrested Thursday.
The alleged perpetrator was captured in Milwaukee and was taken to jail
wearing Hetland's handcuffs. The identity of the suspect was not
released during a press conference Thursday evening at the Racine Police
Department, 730 Center St.
Hetland, a 24-year Racine Police
Department veteran, was shot and killed the night of June 17 at Teezers
Bar & Grill, 1936 Lathrop Ave., while trying to stop an armed
robbery.
“We are pleased to
announce we have caught that killer," said Racine County Sheriff
Christopher Schmaling, during the press conference. "This coward is in
our custody."
Alongside
Schmaling at the joint press conference were Kenosha County Sheriff
David Beth and City of Racine Police Chief Art Howell. The officials
spoke from a podium next to the quad memorializing Hetland, covered in
notes and flowers.
"Hopefully the family tonight will find some comfort,” Schmaling said. “We have worked night and day to see closure."
Getting a Head in Life
Laurence Pilgeram, who died in 2015 in California, paid Alcor Life
Extension Foundation $120,000 to preserve his body indefinitely at
-320.8 Fahrenheit (-196 Celsius) in the hope of being brought back to
life in the future. But a month after his death, his son, Kurt Pilgeram
of Dutton, Mt., received a box containing his father’s ashes: the
company had sent him all but his father’s head, which was still being
stored in liquid nitrogen at Alcor’s facility in Arizona. “They chopped
his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house,”
Kurt told the Great Falls Tribune. He is suing Alcor for $1
million in damages and an apology—plus the return of his father’s frozen
head. “I want people to know what’s going on,” he said. For its part,
Alcor says its contract was with Laurence Pilgeram, and that it met that
agreement. The company contends Kurt is trying to get the life
insurance money that paid for Alcor’s services. The trial is expected to
begin in 2020 in California.
Clooney Clone Con Job
Francesco Galdelli, 58, and Vanya Goffi, 45—a.k.a. the Italian Bonnie
and Clyde—were arrested on Saturday, June 15, at a luxury villa in
Pattaya, Thailand, after years of avoiding Italian authorities for
various scams and frauds. The Telegraph reported that Galdelli
had confessed to posing as George Clooney and opening an online clothing
business “to trick people into sending him money.” The two would also
sell fake Rolex watches online, sometimes sending packets of salt to
their customers instead of the expensive jewelry. Clooney testified
against the couple in 2010, but they fled Italy before being arrested
there. Galdelli was arrested in Thailand in 2014 but escaped after
bribing prison guards. The pair will be returned to Italy for trial.
Unctuous Onc
German Instagram “influencers” Catalin Onc and Elena Engelhardt have
faced a digital dressing-down after they set up a GoFundMe page
requesting donations for a bike trip to Africa. They want to raise about
10,000 euros for the jaunt, but some people aren’t on board. Onc and
Engelhardt live with Onc’s mother, who supports them by working at two
jobs, the Independent reported. They posted on their Instagram
page: “Some will just tell us to get jobs, like everyone else does, and
stop begging. But when you have the impact we do on others’ life (sic),
getting a job is not an option. A normal job at this point would be
detrimental.” Commenters let loose on the couple: “Get a job and treat
your mum; she shouldn’t be funding her grown son to wander the world
like a lost boy.” And: “You’re not impacting anyone’s life; you are just
a couple of freeloaders.”
Desperate Times Call for Useless Measures
In the Colombian city of Buenaventura, violence and corruption are on
the rise, and after a shocking Saturday, June 1, murder of a young
girl, the local bishop devised a plan to “purge the city of evil.”
Monsignor Ruben Dario Jaramillo Montoya intends to perform a mass
exorcism, and to help him, he has asked the Colombian Navy to fly a
helicopter over the city and spray “holy water” on those below. The
ritual is scheduled for mid-July during annual patron saints
festivities. “We want to drive out these demons that are destroying the
port,” the bishop told Caracol Radio.
Think You Hate Your Job?
Last year, Eli Aldinger, 23, told police officers in Bothell, Wash.,
he intentionally drove his Toyota Camry into two different groups of
pedestrians in order to “get out of going to work.” Aldinger, who worked
in food service at McMenamins Anderson School, first hit a woman who
was crossing the street with her husband, admitting to police that he
sped up to 35-40 mph so he could “hit her before she made it across the
road,” reported the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter. Later, he swerved
to hit another pedestrian but declined to strike a third, thinking that
would be “a bit too excessive.” On Friday, May 31, Aldinger was
sentenced to 14 years in prison for assault.
Foxconn Technology Group may be pushing
back the expected completion date of the display panel factory it has
begun building in Mount Pleasant.
In March, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer announced it would start building the plant by summer, and that the factory would begin production in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Construction
did begin by summer, but on Thursday, an update on bid opportunities at
the project mentioned that the factory building is “set for completion
in early 2021.”
The update did not say when
production at the factory is expected to begin. A Foxconn spokeswoman
did not immediately respond to questions about the construction and
production schedule.
Travis Stackhouse (Photo: Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office)
A Milwaukee father punched and killed his 5-year-old son because the boy ate a piece of his cheesecake, prosecutors say.
Travis
Stackhouse, 29, told police he punched his son in the stomach Friday
because he was upset three of his children were eating the cheesecake
he’d gotten for Father’s Day, according to a criminal complaint.
Stackhouse told police he only had one piece.
Prosecutors
on Wednesday charged Stackhouse with first-degree reckless homicide in
the death of his son. He is held on $25,000 bond, according to the
Milwaukee County Jail website. He faces up to 60 years in prison, if
convicted.
Paramedics arrived about 2 a.m. Saturday
at the home in the 2600 block of West Ruby Avenue and pronounced the
boy dead after CPR did not revive him. The Milwaukee County Medical
Examiner’s Office determined he suffered a ruptured stomach, bruised
kidneys and a torn adrenal gland. He died from blunt force trauma to the
abdomen.
MOUNT PLEASANT — Haunted house
enthusiasts can now enjoy a beer at the Abandoned Haunted House before
or after they make it through the spooky experience.
Contingent
on the fire alarm system being approved by South Shore Fire Department,
the Abandoned Haunted House Complex, 2825 Southeast Frontage Road, will
be serving beer for the first time during this upcoming season.
The
Class B liquor license, which only covers beer, was approved by the
Mount Pleasant Village Board on Monday on a 4-2 vote with trustees Bud
Eastman and Jon Hewitt voting “no.”
Trustee Gary Feest said “the potential for disaster is there.”
“But
in all honesty, he’s open for 15 days, he’s got a cop on the premises,”
Feest said. “As much as I’m not a big fan of alcoholism, drinking and
everything else, I can’t deny this license just because of the potential
that the haunted house might chaotically create a problem.”
The Racine County Sheriff's Office
responded to 17th Street, between Racine and Mead streets, after what
Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said was a drive-by shooting early
Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured, he said. RICARDO TORRES
ricardo.torres@journaltimes.com
RACINE — Authorities responded to a report of gunshots on the south side Wednesday afternoon.
Shots
were fired near 17th Street between Racine and Mead streets at
approximately 1:15 p.m.
Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling
later said it was a drive-by shooting but that no one was injured. The
suspect fled in a vehicle.
At the scene, deputies interviewed nearby witnesses and said they were
searching for a white sedan that may have been involved in the incident.
The Sheriff’s Office is investigating, Schmaling said.
Don Nelson was 540-344 from 1977-87. (Photo: Lynn Howell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
On
Monday, Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer was named NBA Coach of
the Year for 2019. On Tuesday night, the last man to win that award for
the Bucks, Don Nelson, will be profiled on HBO's "Real Sports with
Bryant Gumbel," profiling his life of retirement farming marijuana in
Hawaii.
Nelson, who was named coach
of the year with the Bucks in 1983 and 1985, helped build the Bucks into
one of the powers of the Eastern Conference in the early 1980s and has
been hailed by such greats as Pat Riley as one of the greatest
innovators the game has ever seen. Nelson, who also put the building
blocks in place that turned the Golden State Warriors into today's NBA
superpower, has been out of coaching for nine years and has found a
chill next chapter living in Maui.
Vehicles race through the red light at West Capitol Drive and North
60th Street on June 20, two days after Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her
was killed at this intersection on his way home by a driver accused of
blowing through the traffic signal. (Photo: Jim Stingl / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Police have a message for reckless
drivers speeding through red lights, passing illegally in bike lanes and
cruising Milwaukee's streets with no license plates:
You will be stopped and forced to deal with the consequences.
The
Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department and
Wisconsin State Patrol are teaming up for a second summer to combat
reckless driving in the city.
Their saturation patrols are expected to last through the end of the summer.
“Our
community knows that it's necessary and it's needed because the
recklessness that is in our streets is unacceptable,” said Milwaukee
County Sheriff Earnell Lucas. Bad driving is the No. 1 topic Lucas hears
about.
For the past four weeks, the three law
enforcement agencies have been flooding notorious bad driving hot spots
on the city’s north and south sides.
Such concentrated efforts can deter impaired driving and promote safer behavior, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Some folks in southern Wisconsin find themselves facing a magnetic attraction to the region's hidden heavy metal scene.
They
have taken up what's known as magnet fishing, a hobby that — measured
in terms of social media — is all the rage in Europe but is just now
becoming a pastime in the American Midwest.
The
hobby consists of attaching a powerful magnet to a rope, then tossing
the magnet into a waterway. Once the magnet hits bottom, you drag it
until it locks onto something metal. Then you haul the item to the
surface.
Sometimes the result is treasure, most of the time it's junk, and sometimes what you haul to the surface is just plain weird.
"It’s
one of those hobbies where it’s kind of silly and it takes a lot of
time and it’s kind of stinky and the water’s gross and you have to wear
gloves and my wife’s always like, ‘Ugh, where are you going?' " said Jim Walters, a magnet fishing hobbyist from West Bend.
A Saturn hatchback was abandoned on
English Street between Wisconsin Avenue and Main Street with the engine
still running after a Racine County sheriff deputy attempted a traffic
stop late Monday afternoon. Deputies allegedly found 476 grams of
marijuana brownies, and ammunition inside the car that matched a handgun
that a suspect discarded. CHRISTINA LIEFFRING
christina.lieffring@journaltimes.com
RACINE — The driver accused of
abandoning a car with 476 grams of marijuana brownies inside it on
Monday had his initial appearance in court on Tuesday, which happened to
be his birthday.
Kemont M.
Regulus, of the 4100 block of Marquette Drive, Racine, spent his 19th
birthday in court, where he was charged with a felony count of
possession of over 200 grams of marijuana with intent to deliver, which
carries up to four years in prison. He was also charged with felony
counts of attempting to feel or elude an officer and possession of a
firearm by a felon and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug
paraphernalia.
RACINE — An unnamed city employee’s
resignation agreement, the terms of which have been undisclosed, has
been approved by the City Council and its Executive Committee.
On
June 18, the Executive Committee met in closed session, citing a
Wisconsin statute that permits a meeting to go into closed session to
discuss “employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation
data of any public employee over which the governmental body has
jurisdiction or exercises responsibility.”
When the committee reconvened in
open session, its members voted unanimously to forward the agreement to
the City Council with a recommendation to approve. Later that same
evening the council did so.
The Journal Times has submitted a records request for the resignation agreement.
I've been tending to Mr. OrbsCorbs, who recently underwent surgery to remove a blockage in an artery. I should return with my regular column next week.
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a
world, ain’a? So listen, since being rather new and somewhat clueless as
to the appropriate lifestyle of being an “old fart,” I found myself on a
pleasant Sunday afternoon wondering just what the fock to do. Shortly, I
had an “aha” moment. Golf! Yes sir, watch golf on TV. That’s what old farts do on a pleasant Sunday afternoon, what the fock.
So I fired up the Philco, and yes, there was golf on TV to watch. Oh,
boy. Exciting? Perhaps, but only if you’re the kind of a guy who can
get a boner from listening to paint dry.
One thing I’ll say about those golfers though. You don’t really ever
hear about them getting arrested for waving a gun around at 3 a.m. in
the parking lot of some hotsy-totsy discotheque, nor do you often read
in the papers where any of these well-compensated duffers get pulled
over for a routine traffic stop that culminates in the discovery of a
crack pipe under the front seat and a hundred pounds of pot in the
focking trunk, as you may read about those involved in the less gentile
sports.
But after about 15-focking-minutes, five words popped into my head:
“I am such an idiot.” Yes sir, the old-fart lifestyle is going to take
some time to get used. So off went the TV, had a smoke, mixed up a nice
cocktail and cracked open the latest issue of Bendover magazine, what the fock.
The big feature was a historically pictorial spread called “The Tarts
of the House of Hohenzollern.” I never knew the box camera had already
been discovered by the 1700s. Sometimes their research articles seem a
little shaky, like the time they said that scientists had discovered a
food that diminishes a woman’s sex drive by more than 90%. So I’m
reading and reading, and it turns out the food is Wedding Cake, I kid
you not.
But in this issue, they had a Father’s Day article that said a bunch
of scientists whipped out some newfangled research on the male line of
this DNA stuff that led them to surmise, if not downright deduce, that
all beings of human actually have the same one-kind-of father from
’round about 250,000 years ago, give or take a couple, three
millenniums.
Imagine that. One dad, lots of kids. Me and you and Plato. Me and you
and Marie focking Antoinette. Me and you and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Malcolm
X. Pinky Lee. Peggy Lee. Lee Marvin. Marvin Gaye. Faye Throneberry. Fay
Wray. Martha Raye. Martha Mitchell. Billy Mitchell. Billy Martin.
Martin Heidegger. Dean Martin. Dean Wormer. Dizzy Dean. Daffy Dean.
Muammar al-Qaddafi. Al Jolson. Prince Albert. Princess Grace. Gracie
Allen. Allen Toussaint. Eva Marie-Saint. St. Guy of Pomposa. Guy de
Maupassant. Buddy Guy. Buddy Hackett. Cesar Chavez. Julius Caesar—all
right, you get the picture.
You and me and everybody, past, present and future, we’re all
honest-to-gosh related. One big family. And still people wonder why
there’s war all the time all over the world? Give me a focking break.
Like they say, you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose; but
you can’t pick your relatives, so it looks like we’re stuck but good.
Have a nice day.
The one thing that bugs me about Bendover is they’ve got too
many goddamn advertisements featuring some kind of semi-celebrity
douche bag or knobshine—none of whom is me. HEYYY! I’m
available anytime, anywhere to push your line of crap, so just call me.
It’s time these big corporation companies and marketers start coming up
with big dough to writers for endorsing their focking products. I dream
of the day BiC Pen comes to ink some several hundred dollar exclusive
endorsement deal contract with me. I even got the magazine ad already
played out in my mind. Picture the picture:
Caption: “Art Kumbalek, Newspaper Hack.” I’m sitting on a stool in
some swanky cocktail lounge with two showgirls on each knee. Art’s
saying, “Yeah gals, not only am I glad to see you but that is a
BiC in my pocket. It’s the only pen I’d use to sign the check for the
tab we’ve run up the last couple days. Fock, the check will bounce but
you two, and my BiC, are coming back with me to my place.”
Or how ‘bout Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (“Breakfast, lunch, dinner—I
live on the stuff, America!” Or baloney: “Not only do I write it—I eat
it, too. Get Real!”) And of course, any kind of liquor you got.
Which reminds me, Bendover also had a story with this
headline: “Study shows some health benefits from alcohol.” What the
fock, what say we go get healthy big-time, but you buy the first round
’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
(CNN)San
Francisco will become the first US city to effectively ban e-cigarette
sales, after the city's board of supervisors unanimously voted in favor
of an ordinance Tuesday.
The
ordinance says "no person shall sell or distribute an electronic
cigarette to a person in San Francisco" unless that product has
undergone premarket review by the US Food and Drug Administration. To
date, none have.
This
includes sales in brick-and-mortar stores, as well as online sales
shipped to a San Francisco address. The ordinance also applies to
flavored tobacco products in addition to e-cigarettes. The measure does
not ban the use of vapes among people 21 and older.
"This
is a decisive step to help prevent another generation of San Francisco
children from becoming addicted to nicotine," said City Attorney Dennis
Herrera in a statement, following the vote.
On Tuesday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law that legalized recreational marijuana throughout the state.
After
sparking heated debate in the Illinois legislature, which led one
representative to crack an egg in a pan to demonstrate the effects of
drugs on a person's brain, the law will take effect on Jan. 1.
Illinois
state Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, holds up an egg before
cracking it into a pan to reference the "This is your brain on drugs,"
campaign during debate on a bill to legalize recreational marijuana use
in the Illinois House chambers Friday, May 31, 2019. DeLuca voted
against the bill that passed the House 66-47. (Photo: Ted Schurter/Associated Press)
Wisconsin is now an island surrounded by legal weed;
three out of four border states — Michigan, Minnesota and now Illinois —
have legalized marijuana use and two of them allow residents to
purchase and consume cannabis for any reason.
Here's what the new Illinois law means for Wisconsinites, according to the bill Pritzker signed:
Who can buy it?
While Wisconsinites may purchase weed in Illinois, they may not legally take it back home with them.
Marijuana
possession for non-Illinois residents age 21 and older is limited to 15
grams of cannabis flower, 2.5 grams of cannabis concentrate or 250
milligrams of THC — the chemical in weed that gets users high —
contained in a cannabis-infused product.
Legal possession limits are less strict for Illinois residents.
According
to Sgt. Christopher Hannah, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department,
which oversees a border area with Illinois, is aware of the
legalization.
"The state laws have not changed and the department will continue to enforce those state laws," said Hannah.
On Friday, May 31, Illinois became the 11th state to
legalize marijuana for recreational use, beating New Jersey and New York
to the punch. This new development makes Wisconsin the only state where
cannabis is strictly banned, sandwiched between Michigan and Illinois
where it is legal and Minnesota where it is decriminalized.
This doesn’t come as a surprise, as newly elected Illinois Gov. J.B.
Pritzker had made marijuana legalization a priority of his campaign.
“The path forward for Illinois is clear: We need to legalize marijuana,”
Pritzker wrote in his political program.
“As governor, I am ready to stand with leaders, communities and
families across our state to legalize marijuana and move our state
forward.” Promise kept, with brio.
What does come as a surprise, however, is the way the bill passed.
Illinois is the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana through
legislation; the previous 10 states legalized it through voter
initiatives. Just hours before the end of the legislative session, the “Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act”
was approved by the state House of Representatives by a 66-47 vote. It
creates a legal, taxed and regulated cannabis sales system.
Under the new law, adults 21 and older will be able to possess up to
30 grams of cannabis (less for non-residents) or five grams of cannabis
concentrate. Additionally, medical marijuana patients will be able to
grow up to five cannabis plants at home legally, and businesses and
“home growers” will be able to apply for growing licenses.
Authorities are searching for this
suspect in Monday night's armed robbery of Teezers Bar & Grill
during which John Hetland, an off-duty Racine Police officer, was
fatally shot. Anyone with information regarding the investigation should
contact Crime Stoppers at 888-636-9330, 262-656-7333 or 800-807-TIPS
(8477). Submitted image
RACINE — The reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who shot and killed
Racine Police Officer John Hetland was at $70,500 as of Sunday
afternoon.
Hetland was
killed when he attempted to intervene in an armed robbery at Teezers Bar
& Grill, 1936 Lathrop Ave., while he was off duty June 17.
According to the Racine Neighborhood
Watch Facebook page, those contributing to the reward are the FBI at
$20,000; Andis Company at $15,000; Culver’s at $5,000 and Crime Stoppers
of Racine County at $13,500 (including $5,000 from the Wisconsin
Professional Police Association, $2,000 from Teezers, $2,000 from the
Hiawatha Bar in Sturtevant and $2,000 from Floyd’s Towing in Mount
Pleasant.)
In addition, Joey LeGath, owner of
four Racine-area taverns, said he is putting up $5,000; and Dickie’s Bar
owner Tom Durgom said he is putting up $2,000.
And
Friday night, Police Chief Art Howell said he had received a pledge of
$5,000 from the leadership team at Educators Credit Union to add to the
growing reward fund. On Sunday Howell added that he’d received an
additional pledge of $5,000 from Karl Rajani of American Telehealthcare.
Rajani is one of the new co-owners of the Riverside Inn.
Anyone
with information regarding the investigation should contact Crime
Stoppers at 888-636-9330, 262-656-7333 or 800-807-TIPS (8477)
Mount Pleasant Sgt. Eric Giese was identified as the police officer who shot and killed Tyrese West on June 15. (Photo: Village of Mount Pleasant Police Department)
The police officer who shot and killed
18-year-old Tyrese West in Mount Pleasant on June 15 was identified as
Sgt. Eric Giese, a 12-year veteran of the village's Police Department,
according to a news release from the state Department of Justice.
Giese has been a sergeant for a year and a half. He was placed on administrative leave immediately following the incident.
The
Racine Police Department, which is handling the investigation, reported
that a Mount Pleasant officer tried around 1:30 a.m. to approach West,
who was riding a bike without proper lights in the 2500 block of Racine
Street.
According to the DOJ, West fled on the bicycle and Giese pursued the teenager on foot.
Following a short foot pursuit, Giese observed West was armed with a gun.
Various
nonlethal methods were used by Giese in an attempt to address the
threat, including verbal commands and the deployment of electronic
control devices, the DOJ said.
After the nonlethal
attempts were unsuccessful, Giese fatally shot West. The DOJ said
life-saving measures were rendered but unsuccessful.
A handgun was recovered from the scene.
Members
of the Racine Police Department Investigative Division and a Racine
Police Department Chaplain notified the immediate family on the date of
the shooting. Follow-up contact with immediate family members will occur
as additional information becomes available, the DOJ said.
This is not a spectator sport I would
recommend, but I set up a lawn chair at the busy corner of Capitol
Drive and 60th Street to watch drivers blow through red lights.
You don't have to wait long. It happens a lot. Not every stoplight cycle, but a lot.
Light
turns yellow, vehicles speed up. Light turns red, they speed up even
more. Sometimes three or four blow through the light, or they veer
around slowing cars. Stopping for a yellow light just might get you hit
from behind.
The two vehicles on the left speed through the red light on West Capitol Drive at North 60th Street. (Photo: Jim Stingl / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
But then two more vehicles behind them also run the red light. (Photo: Jim Stingl / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
This is the northwest side intersection where
Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her was broadsided and killed early Tuesday
as he drove home from work.
Dante L. James, the
man accused of hitting him, was on probation for his fourth OWI
conviction. His license was revoked. He was going 62 mph west on Capitol
and blew right through the red light. He was drunk again, more than
twice the legal limit, said the charges filed Friday. And he ran from
the crash scene.
ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA AND LAURIE MCGINLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST
22 JUN 2019
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved sales of a new drug intended to enhance sexual desire in women.
Marketed
as Vyleesi, also known as bremelanotide, the medication is a shot that
comes in a push pen device that can be self-administered as needed for
premenopausal women who experience distress as a result of low sexual
desire.
Technology has the power to completely shape our lives, but it could
also alter our bodies in unexpected ways. Recent research suggested
small, hornline spikes could grow on our skulls, and smartphones could
be the culprit behind this change.
But don’t panic yet.
One critic of the research says it “doesn’t hold water,” while another says that the paper’s hypothesis is only speculative.
Researchers David Shahar and Mark Sayers from the University of the
Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, first published their findings
in 2016, and they followed it with a paper earlier this year in the
journal Scientific Reports. The study has found a second life after the
BBC published an article, “How modern life is transforming the human skeleton,” that cited their work.
Some who have given up booze altogether join "sober
sometimes" friends to enjoy nonalcoholic drinks at Sans Bar in Austin,
Texas.
Julia Robinson for NPR
At 8 p.m. on a Saturday night, people are starting to pack into a popular bar called Harvard & Stone in an East Los Angeles neighborhood. The chatter gets louder as the booze begins to flow.
In
the far corner, about a dozen women in a group are clearly enjoying
themselves too, but they are not drinking alcohol. They're sipping
handcrafted mocktails, with names like Baby's First Bourbon and Honey Dew Collins, featuring nonalcoholic distilled spirits.
They're part of a sober social club, made up mostly of women in their 30s who want to have fun and make friends without alcohol.
The
members of this club work out, have demanding jobs and simply don't
want to feel foggy or hungover anymore. Without alcohol, they say, they
just feel better.
"Oh my gosh. Well, one thing that was
noticeable to pretty much everybody was my overall health and, like, my
skin, my eyes. ... I lost weight," says Stephanie Forte, who works in
sales in the beauty industry.
Another social club member, Kathy Kuzniar, says she used to obsess
over whether there was enough wine in the house. She says she feels
calmer since she became sober, and she has lost 30 pounds.
"I'm creative again," Kuzniar says. "And I know I wouldn't be doing those things if I was still drinking."
City of Racine officials and a
bipartisan group of legislators came together this month to announce
plans for a $48 million hotel and convention center that would connect
with Festival Hall.
The proposal is a game-changer for Downtown Racine and Racine County as a whole.
Currently, local trade groups wanting to
hold a convention must go elsewhere in the state for their events. This
proposal opens up so many opportunities.
When
meetings or trade shows at the convention center would be done for the
day or on break, event attendees could venture up to Main Street to
check out the restaurants and shops.
But
this project cannot advance until legislation passes: Part of Racine’s
lakefront is filled lake bed and there are laws regarding how formerly
submerged land can be used.
David-Elias
Rachie of Gatehouse Capital Corp. told the Journal Times Editorial
Board earlier this month that the project is essentially at a standstill
until legislation passes allowing for the development along the
lakefront.
This week,
legislators will be busy with the state budget, and rightfully so. The
biennial state budget is supposed to go into effect July 1, and agencies
throughout the state are anxiously waiting for its passage for planning
purposes.
While the budget is
an obvious focus, legislation allowing for the Racine convention center
should also be considered a high priority.
A group of US senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, received a classified briefing Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the US Navy with unidentified aircraft, according to a congressional aide.
The Oregon state Senate closed Saturday after a “possible militia threat” from a right-wing group -- amid a broader drama over a walkout by Republican lawmakers over looming climate change
legislation.
RIght-wing groups posted their support for the 12 rebel Republicans on Friday, including one group -- the Oregon Three Percenters -- who joined in an armed takeover of a wildlife refuge in 2016.
When Civil War Two dawns over the glorious American Empire it will
take on an interesting variation in Florida. Accounts of the initial
disorders will read much like the one that follows, one that actually
did happen.
Black and Hispanic rioters armed with guns and machetes roamed the
streets for days, sometimes in gangs of 100 or more. They looted and
burned stores. They threatened, robbed and assaulted Europeans,
sometimes driving them from their homes.
The local police and national guardsmen, who were almost all blacks
and Hispanics, bolted their sworn allegiance to the law, failed to
protect the Europeans from these assaults, and according to
eyewitnesses actually joined in the looting, driving away in national
guard trucks they had so industriously loaded with merchandise.
Hundreds of imprisoned black and Hispanic convicts, including rapists
and murderers, escaped and poured into the streets, fueling the chaos.
The shocked and unprepared Europeans were forced to defend themselves
from the blacks and Hispanics with whatever was at hand. Some had
guns, but others had to stand guard over their homes and property with
machetes. Many Europeans fled to the airport where they begged the
arriving, mostly-European soldiers to evacuate them.
This scenario depicted above is not a piece of B-movie fiction, it
really happened. What’s more, it wasn’t played out in some foreign
banana republic or remote leftover of the British or French Empires.
All the principals described above were Americans – all of them. The
black and Hispanic rioters were Americans. The escaped convicts were
Americans. The police and national guardsmen turned looters were
Americans. The Europeans who took up machetes in defense of their
homes and lives were Americans. The terrified Europeans who fled to
the airport for evacutaion were Americans. The arriving soldiers who
rescued them were Americans. They were all Americans, all of them, and
the Stars and Stripes flew overhead while our imperial society first
broke down and broke up, then reformed in clashing tribal fragments.
This astonishing breakdown was reported on the front page of America’s
leading Imperialist mouthpiece, along with pictures and extensive
eyewitness accounts of the terrified survivors, and it occurred within
the lifetime of most living Americans … and was then instantly
forgotten. Down the memory hole – what’s on the tube tonite?
I’ll wager that today not one American in a thousand remembers this
all-American apocalypse when American police and national guardsmen
turned looters, and when European-Americans had to arm themselves with
machetes and stand guard over their homes, and it all happened on
American soil with the Stars and Stripes flapping overhead, exposed as
the gutted symbol it has been reduced to. Throw in some popcorn and
you’ve got yourself a neat preview of Civil War Two.
I bet you’ve no idea of what I’m talking about, do you? If you are
reading these words on my website you can scan down to the posted
newspaper accounts and verify everything I’ve said. If you’re not at
my website you’ll simply have to visit it. The URL is posted at the
end of this column.
Critics mock my assertion that America will devolve into a 3,000 mile
tribal Superdeath Bowl with black and Hispanic police and soldiers
rebelling and pitching in with their tribal co-ethnics in rioting and
looting and attacking Europeans. My fellow imperial subjects, these
establishment critics can’t even remember when it actually happened
right under their noses.
Residents of Florida should pay particular attention to the ethnic
rebellion described above and documented below by the New York Times.
Why? Because it provides an instructive preview of a region-wide
riot-turned-rebellion that will drive the few remaining Europeans (by
which I mean those not partitioned by machetes) out of southern
Florida about a generation from now, never to return.
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