Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
Don’t know how I missed this, but Wendy Davis was fined $5,000 for campaign violations. Mind you, these were campaign violations from her 2012 state senate race.
Davis’ personal financial documents for 2010 and 2011 did not properly indicate that her law partner, Brian Newby, was a registered lobbyist. The firm’s unpaid executive director, Marcy Weldin Foster, was also a registered lobbyist in 2011, and that was not disclosed. The commission found Davis received fees for services from her own firm and another that she worked for “of counsel,” Cantey Hanger, in 2010 and 2011. Both firms paid Newby as a lobbyist, and Cantey Hanger paid Foster as a lobbyist.
The actual ethics judgment can be read here.
Maybe she’s auditioning to be on Hillary’s campaign team…
Tags:Crime, Elections, Ethics Violations, Texas, Wendy Davis
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Friday, May 29th, 2015
I didn’t get flooded out, but for a while on Memorial Day, I finally had that defensive moat around my house I’d always dreamed of…
U.S. economy shrinks in first quarter. (Hat tip: Instapundit, who adds, of course, “unexpectedly!”)
Get ready for still more ObamaCare sticker shock.
Let he who has never created a shell company to skirt disclosure laws cast the first stone at the Clintons…
The Clinton Foundation took money from FIFA, the recently indicated world soccer organization.
“Does the Media Hold Anyone to a Lower Ethical Standard than the Clintons?” Save rock stars in the 1970s and Obama 2008—2013, I’d say no…
Speaking of rock stars from the 1970s, Ted Nugent has some realistic and pungent advice for the graduating class of 2015:
- Life is not fair. Get used to it.
- Social justice is a commie scam. Read the drivel of Saul Alinsky and fight it with all you’ve got.
- Nobody owes you jacksquat. You will either earn your own way, or feel like a helpless leech. There is no middle ground.
And there’s more where that came from…
Why didn’t the Obama Administration order airstrikes against ISIS columns before they took Ramadi?
What Right Wing Nutjob said “We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people” in December of 2011? That would be Barack Obama.
Why the left launched an attack on geek culture: “The group that expected to define taste and culture by virtue of their previous oppression found themselves instead being forced to make less money and cater to the tastes of a group that not only never sought out the bleeding edge of coolness, but never cared about the concept to begin with.”
Dutch tend American WWII graves. “Each grave has been adopted by a Dutch or, in some cases, Belgian or German family, as well as local schools, companies and military organizations. More than 100 people are on a waiting list to become caretakers.” Damn these rains, all this mold pollen is really doing a number on my eyes… (Hat tip: Borepatch.)
Bernie Sanders, S&M fantasy pervert.
Woman comes to the sudden revelation that she’s being a shrew. “He’s a good man who does a lot for me, and doesn’t deserve to be harassed over little things that really don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.” (Hat tip: Milo Yiannopoulos’ Twitter feed.)
Pictures from the Austin flood.
Pctures from the Houston flood.
Tags:Bernie Sanders, Clinton Foundation, Crime, Democrats, FIFA scandal, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Scandals, Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, LinkSwarm, media bias, Media Watch, Military, ObamaCare, Ramadi, soccer, Social Justice Warriors, Ted Nugent
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
We’re finally starting to get a fuller picture of how the Waco biker shootout between the Bandidos and the Cossacks actually went down. A Cossack who was there says that they were set up by Bandidos who invited them to Twin Peaks.
He said that the Cossacks were invited to the Twin Peaks patio that day — by a Bandido leader, who offered to make peace in a long-running feud between the two gangs. That invitation was a setup for an ambush, though, according to the Cossack. That’s why the dead included six Cossacks, one Scimitar (an ally of the Cossacks) and only two Bandidos.
Snip.
“It was a setup from start to finish,” he said.
The Cossack’s story has been impossible to verify, but it is largely consistent with what police have said about how the brawl began.
Related stories:
“While the black Baltimore rioters and looters were called thugs, no white Waco rioters and looters were thus characterized. I wonder, why might that be? Oh, yeah, that’s right: there are no white rioters and looters in Waco.”
Here’s some maybe-not-entirely-wrong pop-psychological analysis of the shootout as almost entirely a generational issue: the Bandidos are old and the Cossacks are young.
Cossacks cancel a rally in the town of Mingus over safety concerns.
Information on the Indian American LLC that owns the Waco Twin Peaks.
The owner of an adjacent restaurant is suing Twin Peaks for damages. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tags:Baltimore, Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Chalak Mitra Group, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Mingus, riot, Scimitars Motorcycle Gang, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Twin Peaks, Waco
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
Evidently Mexico was jealous of our Waco biker shootout and decided to one-up us:
The latest in a series of clashes between Mexican authorities and a powerful, fast-growing drug cartel turned into the deadliest confrontation in recent memory, with 42 suspected gang gunmen and one Federal Police officer killed during a three-hour firefight at a remote western ranch.
The battle on Friday followed two other recent unprecedented attacks by the cartel, one that killed 15 state police officers and another that shot down an army helicopter with a rocket launcher for the first time in Mexico’s history. The death toll from all three is at least 76 people at a time when the Mexican government claims crime is falling dramatically and the interior minister recently insisted the country “is not in flames.”
Snip.
The suspects were members of “a criminal organization whose main operating zone is Jalisco state,” National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said. He did not specifically the Jalisco New Generation cartel, but the drug gang dominates the area where the battle erupted and has grown rapidly in recent years to become one of Mexico’s biggest organized crime groups.
Remember that the New Generation cartel previously shot down a police helicopter.
More information on the cartel:
Promoting themselves as ‘guardians of the people’ the gang, based in Guadalajara in Jalisco state, is one of the first cartels to communicate directly with the public by hanging banners around the city with messages of solidarity and posting videos online of vigilante justice.
Snip.
Following a coordinated attack on a police convoy last month which caused the deaths of 15 police officers, the New Generation hung banners around Guadalajara, Mexico’s second biggest city, proclaiming that ‘the cartel wishes to aid and defend the citizens against The Zetas, The Knights Templar [two other major cartels and rivals] and the abusive authorities’.
The Knights Templar are a drug cartel? I smell a new Dan Brown novel in the works…
Tags:Crime, Jalisco, Knights Templar drug cartel, Mexico, New Generation drug cartel, Zeta Drug Cartel
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Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Welcome to the beginning of the long Memorial Day weekend! Here in Texas, we’re going to celebrate the long weekend by building arks and gathering up two of every animal.
“Islamic State seizes Syria’s last border crossing with Iraq.” (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)
Obama’s toothless Iran deal is pushing the Saudis to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan.
Saudi convicted of keeping a sex slave refuses to attend a mandatory sex offender course, because Islam.
“If the Obama Administration loses [the King vs. Burwell ObamaCare case] in the Supreme Court, the political pain will fall almost exclusively on the President and his Party.”
Evidently Bill de Blasio has mistaken himself for Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
Coming soon: homebrew heroin.
Ted Cruz is the only republican arrogant enough to be President. (Though I have some disagreements with Spengler’s subsidiary foreign policy points.)
Democratic pollster Pat Caddell: Obama is more corrupt than Nixon. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
“How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media’s Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies.”
The Stephanopoulos lies: worse than you think.
A good many of those Ferguson protestors were paid to protest. And now many say their paymasters refuse to cough up the dough. It’s sleazebags all the way down.
Slashdot post: Look at all this STEM sexism! Slashdot comments: Your link is garbage and you should stop talking out of your ass.
It’s another one of those New York Times pieces that seem designed to make you hate both rich Manhattanites and the writer equally, about how terribly, terribly isolating it is to be a rich woman on the Upper East Side. (File under: “Three people in New York make a trend.”)
By way of partial counterpoint (and, in some ways, almost equally annoying), here’s dating advice for Uptown divorcees from a few years ago. “Our biggest challenge, time and again, is matching up middle-aged divorcées in the ‘pre-realist’ stage, who have not realized that they have a choice of sex, money or companionship —but not necessarily all three in the same package.”
Good: List of speed-traps to avoid in Texas. Bad: Slideshow.
Police chief in small Texas town get’s drunk and starts hitting on another policeman’s soon-to-be-ex-wife. Beatdown ensues.
Dogs are Awesome.
Tags:Bill De Blasio, Crime, Ferguson, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Scandals, Islam, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jonah Goldberg, King vs. Burwell, Media Watch, Military, New York City, ObamaCare, Slashdot, Social Justice Warriors, speed trap, Ted Cruz, Texas, The New York Times
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
And here’s still more information that’s dribbled out on Sunday’s Waco biker shootout:
A complete list of bikers arrested after the Waco shootout.
Security camera footage from the restaurant shown to the media but not released to the public (thanks a lot) shows members of the Cossacks, as well as members of “Scimitars, Boozefighters and Leathernecks.” Previous reports hadn’t listed the Boozefighters, who have a colorful history (they claim they were the inspiration for the movie The Wild One) but claim today “We are very patriotic & support the US military. We strive to do our best to continually improve ourselves, our Club, and the communities we live in.”
For those keeping track on the home game, motorcycle clubs/gangs listed as having been at the Waco shootout include: Bandidos, Coassacks, Scimitars, Vaqueros, Pirados, Leathernecks, Boozefighters and Veterans. Which is eight groups, though initial reports said five.
The names of the dead from the Waco biker shootout have been released, including two (Jesus Delgado Rodriguez and Manuel Issac Rodriguez) with Hispanic surnames.
Also make that at least two black bikers arrested after the Waco shootout. Bonus: One is an ex San Antonio cop.
I can understand the Waco police’s impulse not to give out the names of the biker gangs involved so as not to give them more publicity. However, in today’s media environment this is an essentially meaningless gesture
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Boozefighters Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Jesus Delgado Rodriguez, Leathernecks Motorcycle Gang, Manuel Issac Rodriguez, Pirados Motorcycle Gang, Scimitars Motorcycle Gang, Texas, Vaqueros Motorcycle Gang, Waco
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Time for another Texas vs. California update:
“March marked a phenomenal run of 99 consecutive months when Texas’ unemployment rate was at or below the national average.” Also: “Texas employs an impressive two and a half times more people since December 2007 than the rest of the nation combined.”
The Texas state legislature is on the verge of passing an actual conservative budget.
Will Franklin looks at local bond debt in Texas. It’s creeping up, partially due to big government advocates scheduling off-year bond elections when fewer people are voting. Even so, voters seem willing to reject big-ticket bond items.
San Bernardino’s bankruptcy plan: CalPERS gets theirs, bondholders get screwed.
And San Bernardino is planning to outsource their firefighting operations, not least of which because the fire department sucks up $7 million worth of overtime a year. And the fact their union stopped participating in bankruptcy talks didn’t help… (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.)
How a few wealthy California environmentalists give the illusion of a mass movement.
How retroactive pension increases destroyed California budgets. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.)
California is a victim of repeated short-sighted thinking.
Los Angeles joins the minimum wage hike bandwagon. Expect another wave of small business closure stories over the next few months…
Why public employee unions are the elephant in the room for California’s debt crisis. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami.)
California’s majority Democrats shelve legislative transparency bill written by Republican. This is my shocked face.
Compton teachers get laid off, Do-Da, Do-Da…
“In another corporate exodus from Torrance, California, to North Texas, Kubota Tractor Corp. and Kubota Credit Corp. announced Thursday that they will move their headquarters to Grapevine from the Los Angeles area.”
“The number of young adults admitted to California hospital emergency rooms with heroin poisoning increased sixfold over the past decade.” (Hat tip: Cal WatchDog.)
The Weinstein Company hit with $130 million lawsuit. File under: Hollywood Accounting.
Tags:bankruptcy, California, CalPERs, Crime, Democrats, environmentalism, Grapevine, Regulation, San Bernardino, Texas, Texas 84th Legislative Session, Texas Public Policy Foundation, unions, Welfare State, WILLisms
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
A few more tidbits about the Waco biker shootout:
And still more background on the Bandidos/Cossacks beef:
Earlier Monday, Dallas TV station WFAA reported that the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Joint Information Center issued a bulletin May 1 that cautioned authorities about increasing violence between the Bandidos and the Cossacks. McNamara has said all nine people who were killed in the melee Sunday were part of those two groups.
The bulletin said the tension could stem from Cossacks refusing to pay Bandidos dues for operating in Texas and for wearing a patch on their vest that claimed Texas as their turf without the Bandidos’ approval.
“Traditionally, the Bandidos have been the dominant motorcycle club in Texas, and no other club is allowed to wear the Texas bar without their consent,” the bulletin said, according to WFAA.
The bulletin said the FBI had received information that Bandidos had discussed “going to war with Cossacks.” It also outlined several recent incidents between the two groups, including one instance in March when about 10 Cossacks forced a Bandido to pull over along Interstate 35 near Waco and attacked him with “chains, batons and metal pipes before stealing his motorcycle,” WFAA reported.
That same day, a group of Bandidos confronted a Cossack member fueling up at a truck stop in Palo Pinto County, west of Fort Worth, the bulletin said. When the Cossack member refused to remove the Texas patch from his vest, the Bandidos hit him in the head with a hammer and stole it.
This Dallas Morning News piece suggests that the Cossacks showed up uninvited to the Waco meeting.
Anyone trying to make a shootout between two (or more) biker gangs about “race” or “white-on-white violence” is talking out their ass. Remember that this morning’s follow-up showed 11 Hispanic and one black suspect among those arrested. So the liberal race-hustler /victimhood identity politics/Social Justice Warrior crowd is wrong not just conceptually (as they are 100% of the time), but on basic incident facts as well.
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Texas, Waco
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
And still more on the biker gang shootout in Waco that left nine people dead:
According to The Wall Street journal:
The tensions reached a boil recently when some Cossacks members began wearing a patch with the word “Texas” emblazoned at the bottom of their biker jackets and vests.
Those “bottom rocker” patches, as they are called in biker parlance, were a direct affront to the Bandidos, a larger gang with a long history of criminal activity in several states, Mr. Cook said. The Bandidos had claimed the sole right to display the patch as a sign of their turf, he said.
“The fact that the Cossacks would put on a bottom rocker with the state of Texas is basically saying, ‘We don’t respect you, and we won’t answer to you,’ ” Mr. Cook said. “It was a powder keg.”
So if Mr. Cook is correct, nine people just got killed over this:
“Steve Cook, a police detective in Independence, Mo., who heads the Midwest Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association—a nongovernmental group of law enforcement experts that tracks biker gang activity and shares intelligence among members.” And ironically, he was already scheduled to hold a seminar on outlaw biker gangs in Waco in June…
Although initial pictures of detained bikers them to be overwhelmingly white, eleven of the mugshots show people with Hispanic surnames, and one of the suspects appears to be black. America: So diverse even scumbag outlaw motorcycle gangs are integrated!
This report says that members of the Vaqueros were involved in the fight. Assuming that this website is for the same gang, they claim to be “family men engaged in legitimate business.” Fat Tony nods approvingly.
Here’s a piece on a Bandidos funeral from 2007. “Bandidos parked their bikes and began hugging and kissing one another on the mouth—the traditional Bandido greeting.” Uh huh…
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Texas, Vaqueros Motorcycle Gang, Waco
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
A few more tidbits on the Waco shootout:
ABC offers some additional information on the gangs involved:
The U.S. Department of Justice identifies the Bandidos as one of the two largest “outlaw motorcycle gangs” in the U.S., with about 900 members in 93 chapters.
According to the Department of Justice website, the Bandidos are “involved in transporting and distributing cocaine and marijuana and are involved in the production, transportation and distribution of methamphetamine.” The group is most active in the Pacific, Southeast, Southwest and West Central U.S.
The Bandidos gang also has members in 13 other countries, according to the Department of Justice.
Some of the biker gangs involved are evidently threatening the Waco police following the shootout. I don’t see that ending well for the gangs involved…
Via Dwight comes word that Twin Peaks corporate has revoked the Waco location’s franchise license.
Also via Dwight comes word that some 30 bikers walked a $179.94 tab at a Waco Denny’s.
Tags:Bandidos Motorcycle Gang, Cossacks Motorcycle Gang, Crime, Texas, Twin Peaks, Waco
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