The armed attacker was sitting on the second floor of a double-decker bus when
he opened fire indiscriminately, police say.

'One person has been killed and another injured after a gunman opened fire on on
a double-decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip.
The attacker then barricaded himself inside the vehicle, beginning an armed stand-off
with police that lasted several hours.



The siege began at about 11am local time on Saturday as the bus stopped on Las
Vegas Boulevard, near the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino.
"He was on the bus. He was shooting people on the bus.
He was just contained to that location. He never exited the bus," Clark County assistant
sheriff Tom Roberts said.

Two people were taken to hospital after the shooting.
One later died and the other was said to be in a stable condition.
SWAT teams surrounded the vehicle as the authorities as the authorities tried to establish
if there were any more victims inside.

Officers also swept into the casinos to warn tourists to take cover until further notice, leaving
the normally busy road empty. The famous illuminated Strip was shut down in both directions.

Las Vegas police said the man, believed to be in his 50s, gave himself up just before
3.30pm without incident...'
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Cincinnati nightclub shooting: One dead, 14 injured, police say.

'One person has been killed and at least 14 injured in a shooting at a nightclub
in Cincinnati, Ohio, police said.


(Without levity, the spelling error meant deceased)

At least two gunmen were involved in the incident at the Cameo Night Club, the
Cincinnati Police Department said.
Several people have life-threatening injuries, assistant police chief Paul Neudigate
told news channel WLWT-TV.

"We are in the middle of a very horrific situation that occurred at the nightclub with
multiple victims," Mr Neudigate said.
"It's going to be a long night for our homicide units to investigate," he added.

The shooting happened at about 01:00 (05:00 GMT). Hundreds of people were
in the venue at the time, Mr Neudigate said.

Nobody has been taken into custody, CPD sergeant Eric Franz told ABC News.
He said police were interviewing multiple witnesses...'
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Quote:Rahm Emanuel's New Chicago Math Curriculum
 
Chicago schools are finally starting to teach practical math that kids can use in real-world situations:
 
1. Lajames has an AK-47 with a 200-round clip.  He usually misses 6 of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many mofos can Lajames ice on a drive-by before he gotta reload?
 
2. Willie has 2 ounces of cocaine.  If he sell an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what be the street value of the rest of his shit?
 
3. Dwayne pimps 3 ho's.  If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne's $800 per day crack habit ?
 
4. Raul wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit.  How many ounce bags will he need to make to get the 20% upside?
 
5. Ray-Ray gets $2000 for a stolen BMW, $1500 for stealing a Corvette, and $1000 for a 4 x 4.  If he steal 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4x4's, how many more Corvettes must he steal to make the 10k for his brother's bail?
 
6. Pedro get 6 years for murder.  He also get $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spend $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he get out?
 
7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with three 8 oz. cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
 
8. Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang.  There be 20 girls in his gang.  What be the percentage of bitches Tyrone knocked up ?
 
9. Lafawnda is a lookout for the gang.  Lafawnda also has a boa constrictor that eats 5 rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat.  If Lafawnda makes $700 a week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed her snake with one week's income ?
 
10. Marvin steals Juan's skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 mph, Juan load his .357 Magnum piece.  If it take Juan 20 seconds to load his piece, how far away will Marvin be when he get whacked

Dum-de-dum-de-dum... Another day in France and again, it's not terror-related.
Give me a break.

Three hurt in shooting near Lille metro station.

'A 14-year-old boy, shot in the leg, was reportedly among the victims of the attack
which happened as France was on high alert.



Three people, including a teenager, have been hurt in a shooting near a metro
station in northern France. Witnesses told police a gunman opened fire near the
station in Lille on Friday night before fleeing.

The suspect is believed to be still on the run following the attack in a car park near
the station. Investigators found 10 shell casings at the scene.
None of the injuries are life-threatening, police said.

According to reports, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg, while a second victim was
hit in the neck and was described as more seriously injured. A third wounded person
was also taken to hospital following the shooting close to the Porte d'Arras metro
station in the south of the city.

The motive for the attack has not been confirmed, but it is not thought to be
terror-related...'

Yeah.

'...Newspaper La Voix du Nord and radio France Bleu Nord reported the shooting
may have been a settling of scores between criminals. France is on high alert with
a state of emergency still in place following a series of terror attacks.

Last weekend, a radicalised Muslim on a crime watchlist shot a policewoman in
the head at a road check before attacking a soldier at Orly airport in Paris.

The attacker, known as Ziyed B, assaulted a patrol of three counter-terrorism soldiers
at the terminal, and wrestled one of them to the floor, trying to take her gun.

The man was shot dead by troops...'
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Quote:Researchers have turned a spinach leaf into working human heart tissue.

Scientists struggle to make large-scale human tissue – while they have had success in creating small lab samples, it is much more difficult to make them at the size of tissues, bones or whole organs. But that's what will be needed if the tissue proves useful in the treatment of disease or injury.

Now they have come closer to solving perhaps the hardest of those challenges ,and creating a vascular system that can deliver blood into the new tissue.

Researchers have turned a spinach leaf into working human heart tissue.

Scientists struggle to make large-scale human tissue – while they have had success in creating small lab samples, it is much more difficult to make them at the size of tissues, bones or whole organs. But that's what will be needed if the tissue proves useful in the treatment of disease or injury.

Now they have come closer to solving perhaps the hardest of those challenges ,and creating a vascular system that can deliver blood into the new tissue.

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A 232 Year History of our fight against Islam & why true history is no longer taught in our public schools...
 
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to U. S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
 
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every man, woman, and child in the village.
 
It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
 
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
 
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli ".
 
This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out where we may be heading.
 
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!
 
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates") were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic .
 
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
 
These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis , Morocco , and Algiers - collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic .
 
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain . When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.
 
However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.
 
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
 
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments.
 
Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
 
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
 
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
 
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
 
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.
 
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming.
 
That changed everything.
 
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States.
 
Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.
 
Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force.
 
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
 
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.
 
The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.
 
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.
 
America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
 
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him.
 
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States .
 
This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about women-only classes and swimming times in America at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on..
 
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
 
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!
 
IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST, YOU ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.

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• Scientists have discovered a key signalling process in DNA repair
  
• They have used this process in the development of a drug to reverse ageing 
  
• Trials on mice found that the pill repaired DNA damage after a week
  
• Nasa wants the new technology to protect its astronauts from solar radiation
  

Quote:During trials on mice, the team found that the drug directly repaired DNA damage caused by radiation exposure or old age.
'The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice after just one week of treatment,' said lead author Professor David Sinclair.
Human trials of the pill will begin within six months.

'This is the closest we are to a safe and effective anti-ageing drug that's perhaps only three to five years away from being on the market if the trials go well,' said Professor Sinclair.

The work has drawn the attention of Nasa, which is considering the challenge of keeping its astronauts healthy during a four-year mission to Mars. 

Even on short missions, astronauts experience accelerated ageing from cosmic radiation, suffering from muscle weakness, memory loss and other symptoms when they return.

On a trip to Mars, the situation would be far worse: Five per cent of the astronauts' cells would die and their chances of cancer would approach 100 per cent.

Professor Sinclair and his colleague Dr Lindsay Wu were winners in NASA's iTech competition in December last year.
'We came in with a solution for a biological problem and it won the competition out of 300 entries,' Dr Wu said.

Cosmic radiation is not only an issue for astronauts. We're all exposed to it aboard aircraft, with a London-Singapore-Melbourne flight roughly equivalent in radiation to a chest x-ray.

In theory, the anti-ageing pill could mitigate any effects of DNA damage for frequent flyers.The other group that could benefit from this work is survivors of childhood cancers.
Dr Wu says 96 per cent of childhood cancer survivors suffer a chronic illness by age 45, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancers unrelated to the original cancer.

'All of this adds up to the fact they have accelerated ageing, which is devastating,' he said.
'It would be great to do something about that, and we believe we can with this molecule.'

The experiments in mice, from a team at the University of New South Wales, suggest a treatment for these issues is possible through a new drug.
While our cells can naturally repair DNA damage - such as damage caused by the sun - this ability declines with age.
The scientists identified that the call signalling molecule NAD+, which is naturally present in every cell in the body, has a key role in protein interactions that control DNA repair.

Treating mice with an NAD+ 'booster' called NMN improved their cells' ability to repair DNA damage caused by radiation exposure or ageing 
For the past four years, Professor Sinclair and Dr Wu have been working on making NMN into a drug substance with their companies MetroBiotech NSW and MetroBiotech International.

Quote:The same day House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes gave a press conference stating that Trump and his transition team were under “incidental surveillance,” Attorney and founder of Judicial Watch, Larry Klayman, sent a formal letter to the House Committee on Intelligence demanding they investigate the claims and evidence more than 40 hard drives over 600 million pages of information presented under oath at the FBI Field Office In Washington, DC by his client – CIA/NSA Whistleblower Dennis Montgomery.



Klayman claimed in a Newsmax report that Montgomery, “holds the keys to disproving the false claims that there is no evidence that the president and his men were wiretapped,” however Montgomery’s case was largely ignored.

Quote: “When Montgomery came forward as a whistleblower to congressional intelligence committees and various other congressmen and senators, including Senator Charles Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who, like Comey, once had a reputation for integrity, he was “blown off;” no one wanted to even hear what he had to say,” the letter said.

This resulted in Montgomery contacting Attorney Klayman, who then approached the FBI:

“Under grants of immunity, which I obtained through Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Curtis, Montgomery produced the hard drives and later was interviewed under oath in a secure room at the FBI Field Office in the District of Columbia. There he laid out how persons like then-businessman Donald Trump were illegally spied upon by Clapper, Brennan, and the spy agencies of the Obama administration.

Montgomery left the NSA and CIA with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of information much of which is classified. He sought to come forward legally as a whistleblower to appropriate government entities, including congressional intelligence committees, to expose that the spy agencies were engaged for years in systematic illegal surveillance on prominent Americans, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, prominent businessmen such as Donald Trump, and even yours truly. Working side by side with Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence (DIA), James Clapper, and Obama’s former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, Montgomery witnessed “up close and personal” this “Orwellian Big Brother” intrusion on privacy, likely for potential coercion, blackmail or other nefarious purposes. 

He even claimed that these spy agencies had manipulated voting in Florida during the 2008 presidential election, which illegal tampering resulted in helping Obama to win the White House.”

Quote:Last Thursday, March 16th, 2017 – Klayman traveled to Washington DC. He was to meet with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. He hoped that Nunes would listen and ask FBI Director, Comey, why the FBI failed to pursue Montgomery’s evidence.
However, when Klayman arrived to speak with Nunes, he was “blown off” and referred to committee attorney, Allen R. Souza – who Klayman then requested brief Nunes on the information.

Quote:During my meeting with House Intelligence Committee counsel Allen R. Sousa I politely warned him that if Chairman Nunes, who himself had that same day undercut President Trump by also claiming that there is no evidence of surveillance by the Obama administration, I would go public with what would appear to be the House Intelligence Committee’s complicity in keeping the truth from the American people and allowing the FBI to continue its apparent cover-up of the Montgomery “investigation.”

To this day, this is where it currently stands. The big question: will House Intelligence Committee Chairman Nunes do his job and hold FBI Director Comey’s feet to the fire about the Montgomery investigation?

On Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 – on an unrelated front; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes noted that he did not know whether the “incident collection” of communications of Trump associates happened at Trump Tower. Nunes could not definitively say whether Trump’s communications were directly collected.

Nunes told reporters that, “I have seen intelligence reports that clearly show that the president-elect and his team were, I guess, at least monitored.” He continued to say, “It looks to me like it was all legally collected, but it was essentially a lot of information on the president-elect and his transition team and what they were doing.”

[RELATED: House Intelligence Chairman: Trump’s Transition Team Were Under Surveillance]

Multiple sources continue to confirm that a massive storm of scandal is brewing. The previous Obama administration is involved and could potentially result in the arrest of several Obama-era officials swallowed in this ‘storm of scandals’ path.

Grab your popcorn! The fireworks have been set and are about to go off in Washington D.C. Even Bob Woodward has confirmed what we are hearing from the confines of the intelligence community and military, “there is a real serious problem for the people in the Obama administration.”
Woodward, who made a name for himself covering Watergate stated that there are around 20 people in the 16-agency intelligence community who can order the unmasking, or “minimization,” of individuals. Further, Trey Gowdy questioned FBI Director James Comey probing into who leaked General Flynn’s identity to the media. Comey stated that “Obama political appointees had the ability to ‘Unmask’ American citizens.”

Quote:“You can learn all kinds of things from diplomats gossiping because that’s what occurs. Under the rules, and they are pretty strict, it’s called minimization. You don’t name the American person who is being discussed,” Woodward said.

“It’s, again, down the middle, it is not what Trump said, but this could be criminal on the part of people who decided, oh, let’s name these people.”
“Under the rules, that name is supposed to be blanked out, and so you’ve got a real serious problem potentially of people in the Obama administration passing around this highly classified gossip,” Woodward added.

Quote:Husband takes the wife to her high school reunion.
  
After meeting several of her friends and former school mates, they are sitting at a table where he is yawning and overly bored. The band cranks up and people are beginning to dance.
 
There's a guy on the dance floor living it large, break dancing, moon walking, back flips, buying drinks for people, the works.   
 
Wife turns to her husband and says, "See that guy?  25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him down.  
 
Husband says: "Looks like he's still celebrating!!!"