Maybe. But keep in mind this is the part of the cycle where people get spooked at shadows. Could be nothing.
Developing…
Update: Maybe not a bomb, but authorities appear to have closed off the Sunset Valley store on the suspicion that the Schertz bomb was mailed from there.
Another bomb exploded in central Texas, this one at a FedEx facility in Schertz near San Antonio:
At least one person has been injured when a package bomb exploded at a FedEx facility near San Antonio in Texas early Tuesday. Federal agents said the incident is likely linked to attacks by a serial bomber that have killed two people in Austin, the Associated Press reported.
The incident happened at about 12:30 a.m. at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Schertz.
The San Antonio Texas Fire Department said a FedEx employee apparently suffered a non-life-threatening “percussion-type” injury from the blast.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI were sent to the scene as well as SWAT and bomb squads from the San Antonio Police Department.
NPR says the package was intended for Austin.
[T]he package was moving from an elevated conveyor belt to a lower section when it exploded,” the television station reports.
It “contained shrapnel consisting of nails and pieces of metal, sources said,” according to the CBS affiliate, which said the Schertz facility has 75 employees.
Developing…
I should have posted about the Austin Mad Bomber story earlier, but I have no more of a clue who’s behind it than anyone else.
A fourth bomb has exploded, injuring two men. As opposed to previous bombings, this one was in southwest Austin, rather than east Austin, and the two victims were white and Hispanic rather than black (the profile of the previous victims).
Wikipedia has an article and a map of the bombings:
If you have any tips on catching the bomber, the reward is now up to $115,000:
Call the Austin Police Department TIPS line at 512-472-TIPS (8477) Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) Text the letters “DPS”- followed by your tip – to 274637 (CRIMES)
There was a boatload of non-federal-Government-staffing-decisions news this week, and I’m still catching up on it.
One of the bigger items: The federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas’ “sanctuary cities” ban:
Texas law is clear: “The Texas Constitution prohibits a city from acting in a manner inconsistent with the general laws of the state. Thus, the legislature may, by general law, withdraw a particular subject from a home rule city’s domain.”
Snip.
The plaintiffs have not made a showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits of any of their constitutional claims except as to the enforcement of Tex. Gov’t Code § 752.053(a)(1)’s “endorse” provision against elected officials. The foregoing discussion demonstrates there is no merit in their remaining arguments, and none of the other challenged provisions of SB4 facially violate the Constitution. Accordingly, we AFFIRM in part the district court’s preliminary injunction, VACATE in large part and remand with instructions to DISMISS the vacated injunction provisions.
Now let’s see if we can just get those Democratic Party enclaves to obey the ruling…
Last week I had to put Jigsaw, my loyal dog of 13+ years, to sleep due to cancer. He was a good boy and I miss him very, very much, but life goes on.
Anyway, I hope you’re having a better week…
I tried to Tweet out a link to this Daily Signal piece on “8 Stubborn Facts on Gun Violence in America”…when I discovered that I couldn’t.
Twitter has once again decided that there’s information its users should not be allowed to share.
Try it yourself, and see if the secret block has been lifted or not.
In the meantime, here are the eight points in the article, each backed up with supporting data:
Read the whole thing.
Edited to add: I can now tweet this link from my home computer…but I still can’t post it from my iPhone.
The latest Muslim-run child sex ring in the UK is bigger than Rotherham:
The Sunday Mirror blew open ANOTHER child sex abuse ring in Britain. This 18-month investigation found up to 1,000 girls, as young as 11, raped, sold for sex, and even killed for over 40 years in Telford, located 146 miles southeast of London.
The Mirror reported:
Police conducted an inquiry into child prostitution called Operation Chalice, which led to imprisonment of seven men in 2013. A report from the local Telford and Wreckin Council that same year said that “[F]rom the late 1990s professionals had concerns about the nature of some of the child sexual abuse cases presented to them.” Nothing happened, though, due to “existing procedures” and “understanding and learning at that time.”
But people told the authorities about the abuse decades before Chalice. The Mirror found out that two pedophiles started “targeting girls at a local children’s home in 1981.” One of those “abusers earned thousands a night for years trafficking girls around the country for sex with hundreds of men, according to one victim.”
The publication spoke to 12 victims who “accused more than 70 abusers and claimed that violent rapes were still taking place just months ago.” The Mirror continued:
One 14-year-old, groomed and abused after her phone number was sold to paedophiles, said: “I hated what was happening and my abusers made my skin crawl but I was told that if I said a word to anyone they’d come for my little sisters and tell my mum I was a prostitute.
“Night after night, I was forced to have sex with multiple men in disgusting takeaways and filthy houses.
“I must have been getting the morning after pill from a local clinic at least twice a week but no one asked any questions.
“I fell pregnant twice and had two abortions. Hours after my second termination, I was taken by one of my abusers to be raped by more men.
“The worst moment came just after my 16th birthday when I was drugged and gang raped by five men.”
It goes on in further nauseating detail.
Rotherham, Telford, Sheffield. All UK child sex rings run by Muslim men that police ignored for years or decades.
Almost like there’s a pattern…
So Rex Tillerson is is out as Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo is in.
Pompeo will have to be nominated and approved by the Senate before he can take Tillerson’s spot in the government. Republicans can approve anyone they want in the Senate as long as they stick together, and Pompeo was confirmed for his current post in a 66-32 vote.
“His experience in the military, Congress, and as leader of the CIA have prepared him well for his new role and I urge his swift confirmation,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday, as he wished Tillerson and his family well.
Vice President Mike Pence backed Trump and urged the Senate to confirm Pompeo, “a man of highest integrity with unquestionable qualifications who will do an outstanding job.”
There were notable foreign policy improvements under Tillerson (the crushing of the Islamic State, significant reform in Saudi Arabia, the embassy move to Jerusalem, arming Ukraine, pressuring North Korea to the negotiating table, etc.), but most were attributable to either President Trump’s unique style of negotiating, or the fact the idiots in the Obama Administration were no longer in charge.
I thought I was ambivalent about Tillerson’s exit, until I read this:
His profound disagreements with the president on policy appeared to be his undoing: Mr. Tillerson wanted to remain part of the Paris climate accord; Mr. Trump decided to leave it. Mr. Tillerson supported the continuation of the Iran nuclear deal; Mr. Trump loathed the deal as “an embarrassment to the United States.” And Mr. Tillerson believed in dialogue to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, but Mr. Trump repeatedly threatened military options.
Indeed, Tillerson’s efforts to save the asinine Iran Deal appear to be his undoing.
“President Trump has been clear that the Iran deal is terrible policy and has sought ways to hold Iran accountable,” DeSantis told the Free Beacon. “With Mike Pompeo, Trump will have a Secretary of State who sees the threat posed by the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] and by Tehran in a similar light as he does.”
Alrighty then. It’s best Tillerson was shown the door…
Some liberals are very, very upset that President Donald trump called Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters “low-IQ.”
Obviously, liberals instantly denounced President Trump as a “racist” (it’s what they do):
The President went to Pennsylvania, singled out a black Congresswoman from California, and called her stupid.
That’s not race-baiting. That’s racist.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 11, 2018
This despite the fact that Rep. Waters
And here’s a “greatest hits” sampler of same:
Truth should be an absolute defense from charges of racism. The fact that Rep. Waters is a very dim bulb has nothing to do with her race or sex, or even her party. (The late Rep. Barbara Jordan, Democrat of Texas, was wrong about many things, but she was anything but dumb.)
But why go back and forth on the issue when there’s a simple, real-world way to resolve it?
It seems to be an article of faith among liberals that Rep. Waters is not, in fact, below average IQ.
It also seems to be an article of faith among liberals that President Donald Trump is a “dummy,” a “moron,” etc.
Therefore, I offer up a modest proposal: Let President Trump debate Rep. Waters in prime time, with an equal number of questions supplied by each of the participants.
It should soon become apparent to American voters who is dumber than who…