Islamic State Conducting a Real 'War on Women' (VIDEO)

Following-up from earlier, "Report: Islamic State's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Raped U.S. Hostage Kayla Mueller Before Her Death (VIDEO)."

From Aaron Goldstein, at the American Spectator, "ISIS IS CONDUCTING A REAL WAR ON WOMEN":

I want to scream so many four-letter words, this story makes me so angry. Man. https://t.co/XCNsKZMtPW

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) August 15, 2015

On Friday, it was revealed that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had repeatedly raped American relief worker Kayla Mueller while she was in captivity.

Mueller was kidnapped in Syria two years ago and would never get out alive. ISIS claimed she had been killed as a result of Jordanian bombing of ISIS positions in Syria, but this is a most dubious claim. While ISIS was eager to claim she did not die at their hands they were not so eager to say their leader is a sexual sadist.

Baghdadi is hardly the only ISIS leader to engage in such evil. ISIS often kidnaps women, particularly the Yazidis, and forces them into sexual slavery. Earlier this month, 19 brave women who refused to have sex with ISIS leaders were executed.

I don't ever want to hear Democrats accuse Republicans of engaging in a war on women because ISIS is conducting a real war on women. A war in which women are actually raped and murdered. Our energies should be spent fighting the real enemy.

Black Mom Fears for Son's Safety as Tennesee High School Won't Stop Students from Displaying Confederate Flag

It's Stewarts Creek High School, in Smyrna, Tennessee.

And remember, it's "heritage, not hate."

See the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal, "Confederate flags, image of rifle, show up at SCHS":

SMYRNA – Confederate flags decorated about a dozen student vehicles at Stewarts Creek High Thursday, including one with the image of an assault rifle and the words “COME AND TAKE IT.”

Stewarts Creek High Principal Clark Harrell declined a formal interview about the flags, including the one with the gun image.

“We’re fine,” Clark said from the lobby of the school’s front office, referring other questions to Rutherford County Schools spokesman James Evans.

Displays of the Confederate flag have been an issue since an accused white gunman in June killed nine black worshipers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, the state where the Civil War started. The accused gunman was known to identify with the Confederate flag and express racists sentiments.

The South Carolina Legislature responded by removing a Confederate flag display from a memorial on its Capitol grounds.

Evans said the mother of an African-American student had complained about spotting a Confederate flag in the bed of a truck headed to the Stewarts Creek campus Wednesday.

“We explained to her that because of the First Amendment, students are allowed to express themselves as long as it’s not causing a disruption at school,” Evans said during a phone interview.

When it comes to the image of a rifle being on one of the flags, Evans said Board of Education attorney Jeff Reed will investigate what the district can do even though no direct threat was made.

“We obviously don’t like having the image of a gun posted on campus like that, and that’s one of the reasons he’s looking into seeing if we can remove it or not,” Evans said...

Also at WKRN News 2 Nashville, "Smyrna mom upset students can fly Confederate flags on H.S. campus":

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – A local mother is upset because kids at her child’s school are allowed to fly Confederate flags on campus.

The mom, who would like to remain anonymous, contacted News 2 with concerns about her son’s safety at Stewarts Creek High School in Rutherford County.

She said her 14-year-old son, who is in ninth grade, came home this week and told her that kids were wearing Confederate flag T-shirts to class.

The mother said she saw them herself while dropping off her son Wednesday morning. She said she also noticed students flying Confederate flags in the back of their trucks.

“I felt sad and hurt when I saw that,” she told News 2.

The Confederate flag has remained a controversial symbol since the Civil War, and the mom said, “I just don’t think it should be in schools.”

While driving by Stewarts Creek High School, News 2 counted as many as three Confederate flags on vehicles in the parking lot. There were also some American flags being displayed.

One of the Confederate flags had the message “heritage not hate” printed on it. Still, the mom says she sees the flag as a source of hate and is afraid for her son’s safety...

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I'm sure the boy will be perfectly fine.

Obviously, it's a touchy situation as far as sensitivities go, but the school's handling it appropriately. Remember, it's a personal (private not public) display of the flag. That's protected speech. Folks are going to have to strike a balance. There's not too many radical goon leftist murderers like Dylann Roof out there.

(I'd note though, it must be shocking to folks like Stogie that this kid's not all proud of the Confederate flag, what, with all those Southern black crackers hoisting the heritage down there, y'all.)

Vancouver Woman Fears Drone Was Trying to Snap Photos of Her Suntanning Topless on Balcony

More drones!

At Toronto's National Post, "Vancouver woman says drone appeared to be trying to get images of her suntanning topless on balcony":

A Vancouver woman is distressed after a drone appeared to be trying to capture images of her suntanning topless on her private balcony, sparking concerns about irresponsible drone use.

Kathryn Redford, 30, lives on the second floor of an eight-storey apartment near West 4th Avenue and Pine Street in the Kitsilano neighbourhood.

Her secluded balcony is shielded by a brick wall on one side and a large tree on the other side which allows only a “sliver” of sunlight into the otherwise private balcony.

There are no apartment buildings across the street from Redford, and the inside of the balcony is not visible from street level.

Redford was reading and suntanning topless on her balcony floor Wednesday around 2:30 p.m., as she’s done before, when she heard the “unmistakable” sound of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

A yellow quadcopter with a small flashing light appeared by her balcony, in the “sliver” of space between her building and the tree and hovered for about 10 seconds.

In shock, Redford covered herself with her book and watched as the UAV took off. As she gathered her things to retreat inside, the UAV re-appeared and this time, remained for about 30 seconds...

Well, I guess that does it for topless sunbathing in Vancouver!

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Surveillance Video Shows Suspects Robbing Man in West Hollywood

The surveillance video's here.

The victim's a dog walker. Too bad he wasn't walking some bigger dogs.

West Hollywood too. I thought homosexuals were all copacetic? I guess not.

And at ABC News 7 Los Angeles, "SUSPECTS CAUGHT ON CAMERA ROBBING MAN WALKING DOGS IN WEST HOLLYWOOD."

Islamic State's Female Enforcers: The Sharia Crackdown in Raqqa, Syria (VIDEO)

NBC's Richard Engel reports:

Contra Costa Sheriff's Deputy Drowns in Lake Tahoe Kayaking Tragedy

He was off-duty, out kayaking with friends, when things went horribly wrong.

At the Contra Costa Times, "In Contra Costa Sheriff's deputy Lake Tahoe drowning, harrowing details emerge."

Plus, watch at KCRA News 3 Sacramento, "Sheriff's deputy drowns in Lake Tahoe while trying to save friend."

Garland Tyree, Shooter in Staten Island Standoff, Was Democrat Party Activist and Community Organizer (PHOTOS)

Following-up from previously, "Garland Tyree, Bloods Gang Leader, Shot Dead in Staten Island Standoff with U.S. Marshalls (VIDEO)."

It turns out the suspect was an activist with the South East Queens County Young Democrats, and was a community youth organizer on the East Coast. See his pages at Facebook and LinkedIn, as well the Facebook page for the Democrat club.

The bottom photo is said to show the suspect with former New York City Comptroller and Democratic Mayoral candidate John Liu.

Make sense. The Democrats Party is the party of far left-wing terrorism and #BlackLivesMatter violence and destruction.







More at the Heavy, "Garland Tyree Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know."

Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism: Interview with Whole Foods Market Co-Founder John Mackey

Reason Magazine talks to Whole Foods' John Mackey, "Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism: They're jealous, he says, they side with rulers, and they don't understand how markets work":

"Intellectuals have always disdained commerce" says Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey. They "have always sided...with the aristocrats to maintain a society where the businesspeople were kind of kept down."

More than any other outlet, Whole Foods has reconfigured what and how America eats and the chain's commitment to high-quality meats, produce, cheeses, and wines is legendary. Since opening his first store in Austin, Texas in 1980, Mackey now oversees operations around the globe and continues to set the pace for what's expected in organic and sustainably raised and harvested food.

Because of Whole Foods' trendy customer base and because Mackey is himself a vegan and champions collaboration between management and workers, it's easy to mistake Mackey for a progressive left-winger. Indeed, an early version of Jonah Goldberg's best-selling 2008 book Liberal Fascism even bore the subtitle "The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton and The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods."

Yet nothing could be further from the truth—and more distorting of the radical vision of capitalism at the heart of Mackey's thought. A high-profile critic of the minimum wage, Obamacare, and the regulatory state, Mackey believes that free markets are the best way not only to raise living standards but also to explore new ways of building community and creating meaning for individuals and society. At the same time, he challenges all sorts of libertarian dogma, including the notion that publicly traded companies should always seek to exclusively maximize shareholder value (go here to read a 2005 Reason debate about the social responsibility of business featuring Mackey, Milton Friedman, and Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers). Conscious Capitalism, the book he co-authored with Rajendra Sisodia, lays out a detailed case for Mackey's vision of a post-industrial capitalism that addresses spiritual desire as much as physial need...

More.

And watch the interview: "Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism."

I'm not all into organic, although I love this guy's vision.

And, hey, buy his book, Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.

Outrage as Mayor Bill de Blasio Worked Out at Brooklyn Gym During Staten Island Standoff (VIDEO)

Following-up from earlier, "Garland Tyree, Bloods Gang Leader, Shot Dead in Staten Island Standoff with U.S. Marshalls (VIDEO)."

The New York Observer has the story, "De Blasio Refuses to Discuss Hitting the Gym During Violent Stand-Off":

Mayor Bill de Blasio today refused to discuss his decision to stay at the gym for nearly two hours in the middle of a six-hour Staten Island stand-off in which a firefighter was shot twice by a man police have identified as a Bloods gang leader.

“We’re briefing you all on a very serious situation, and that’s just not a serious question,” Mr. de Blasio curtly replied during a press conference at a Staten Island police station when asked about his gym schedule.

The alleged shooter, Garland Tyree, was killed this afternoon, ending the stand-off that began at 6 a.m. when a task force of federal and NYPD officers tried to serve a federal warrant at the home in Staten Island’s Mariners Harbor neighborhood and were met with heavy smoke coming from under the door—which police now say was due to a smoke bomb they found in the home. Shortly after FDNY Lt. James Hayes entered the apartment to investigate the smoke, Tyree shot him twice in the lower extremities, officials said today during a press conference.

After hours of negotiations, Tyree said that after speaking to his mother—who police flew in on a department helicopter from Delaware—he would exit and surrender, police officials said today. But instead of exiting peacefully, Tyree fired shots from inside the apartment at department vehicles, and then exited while continuing to fire shots from a fully automatic AK-47, Mr. Bratton said. Officers returned fire and killed Tyree.

But despite calling the situation “very serious,” it apparently was not serious enough to interfere with Mr. de Blasio’s morning gym routine, which involves a drive from his Gracie Mansion home in Manhattan to the Park Slope YMCA in his old Brooklyn neighborhood. Mr. de Blasio’s ill-timed work-out was first reported by NY1’s Grace Rauh, who said it appeared the mayor was at the gym for two hours—or at least, his detail was: Mr. de Blasio left through a back door, possibly to avoid Ms. Rauh and her camera.

Mr. de Blasio’s spokeswoman Karen Hinton first said on Twitter that the mayor was at the gym for 80 minutes, then said on Twitter that he arrived at 9 a.m.—about three hours after the stand-off began and the firefighter had been shot—and left at 10:40 a.m, which amounts to 100 minutes. Ms. Hinton clarified that the mayor’s workout was 80 minutes, but he stayed at the gym to make phone calls.

“Mayor de Blasio was on calls with both Fire Commissioner Nigro and Police Commissioner Bratton about the situation on Staten Island throughout the morning, starting at 7 am, and he continued receiving multiple updates until he departed for Staten Island. This includes leaving the gym to make and take a series of calls from approximately 10:40 to 11:15, when he departed for Staten Island,” Ms. Hinton said in a statement. “The mayor has met with the wounded firefighter and his fellow firefighters at the hospital, and will soon update the media on both the situation on the ground in Staten Island and the wounded firefighter’s condition.”

During his press conference, the mayor spoke at length about his time with Mr. Hayes in the hospital, saying the firefighter was in good spirits and making light of his condition and calling him a “proud Staten Islander.” He heaped praise on first responders.

“It’s a day when they all handled their jobs in exemplary fashion. There’s a lot to be proud of today in the way our first responders handled something you just can’t be prepared for,” Mr. de Blasio said.

Before entering the apartment, Mr. Hayes spoke with Tyree about the smoke, Mr. Nigro said.

“Lt. Hayes was speaking with the occupant of the apartment and speaking quite calmly, and then suddenly [Tyree] stopped,” Mr. Nigro said, leaving Mr. Hayes concerned that Tyree may have succumbed to smoke. So Mr. Hayes entered the apartment to check on Tyree, Mr. Nigro said, and was then shot by him.

The incident comes as the mayor has struggled to overcome a growing perception of rising crime and disorder in the city, fueled in part by intense media coverage of homelessness and a 10 percent spike in homicides this summer. A recent Quinnipiac survey found that despite continued record low crime, most New Yorkers ranked quality of life the lowest since 1997. Earlier this summer Mr. de Blasio repeatedly noted that the rise in violent crime was largely isolated to gang disputes—but today’s shoot-out is an example of gang violence spilling beyond gang-member-on-gang-member assaults. Sources speaking to the Staten Island Advance described Tyree as the leader of the Bloods gang on the East Coast, and the paper noted his long rap sheet in the borough...

More.

Also at DNA Info, "De Blasio Went to the Gym During Gang Leader's Standoff With NYPD."

Report: Islamic State's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Raped U.S. Hostage Kayla Mueller Before Her Death (VIDEO)

Mother-fucking savages.

At ABC News, "ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say." (At Memeorandum.)

And watch, at CNN, "ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was sexually abusing American hostage Kayla Mueller, U.S. government officials tell CNN. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports."

ADDED: At Atlas Shrugs, "ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Repeatedly Raped American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say":

Obama has done nothing to stave off the rise of the global jihad.

Obama should be impeached on the grounds of depraved indifference.

Hillary Clinton's Emails Discussing 'Top Secret' CIA Drones Strikes Sent on Unsecured Server (VIDEO)

At the video below, from CBS, "An Associated Press report says an email discussing secret CIA drones was sent through Hillary Clinton's private, unsecured server while she was secretary of state. It was one of two messages with top secret information sent to Clinton. The FBI took possession of the server on Wednesday. Nancy Cordes reports from Washington, where the email controversy is stirring up the presidential race."

And here's the report, at AP, "AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk":

WASHINGTON (AP) — Neither of the two emails sent to Hillary Rodham Clinton now labeled by intelligence agencies as "top secret" contained information that would jump out to experts as particularly sensitive, according to several government officials.

One included a discussion of a U.S. drone strike, part of a covert program that is widely known and discussed. A second conversation could have improperly referred to highly classified material, but it also could have reflected information collected independently, U.S. officials who have reviewed the correspondence told The Associated Press.

Still, it's looking increasingly likely the issue of whether Clinton mishandled classified information on her home-brew email server will have significant political implications in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Clinton, who has been seen from the outset as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, agreed this week to turn over to the FBI the private server she used as secretary of state. And Republicans in Congress have seized on the involvement of federal law enforcement in the matter as a sign she was negligent in handling the nation's secrets.

On Monday, the inspector general for the 17 spy agencies that make up what is known as the intelligence community told Congress that two of 40 emails, in a random sample of 30,000 messages that Clinton gave the State Department for review, contained information deemed "Top Secret," one of the government's highest levels of classification.

While neither of the emails was marked classified at the time they were sent, they have since been slapped with a "TK" marking, for "Talent Keyhole," suggesting material obtained by spy satellites. And they also were marked "NOFORN," meaning information that can only be shared with Americans with security clearances.

The two emails got those markings after consultations with the CIA and other agencies where the material originated, officials said. Some officials said they believed the designations were a stretch — a knee-jerk move in a bureaucracy rife with over-classification.

The officials who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity work in intelligence and other agencies. They wouldn't detail the full contents of the emails because of ongoing questions about classification level.

Clinton didn't transmit the sensitive information herself, they said, and nothing in the emails she received makes direct reference to communications intercepts, confidential intelligence methods or any other form of sensitive sourcing.

The drone exchange, the officials said, begins with a copy of a news article about the CIA drone program that targets terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere. While that program is technically top secret, it is well-known and often reported on. Former CIA director Leon Panetta and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have openly discussed it.

The copy makes reference to classified information, and a Clinton adviser follows up by dancing around a top secret in a way that could possibly be inferred as confirmation, the officials said. Several people, however, described this claim as tenuous.

But a second email reviewed by Charles McCullough, the intelligence community inspector general, appears more problematic, officials said. Nothing in the message is "lifted" from classified documents, they said, though they differed on where the information in it was sourced. Some said it improperly points back to highly classified material, while others countered that it was a classic case of what the government calls "parallel reporting" — receiving information the government considers secret through "open source" channels.

The issue came to light Tuesday after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said McCullough found four "highly classified" emails on the unusual private server that Clinton used while she was secretary of state...

Well, yeah, it might have an effect on the presidential race, heh.

Still more.

And ICYMI, "The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary's Emails."

"Nowadays Salon publishes morally reprehensible full-throated defenses of the increasingly violent Black Lives Matter movement whose supporters now openly endorse murdering cops and waging 'war' against America..."

This is a great piece from Matthew Vadum, at FrontPage Magazine, "Salon: Mouthpiece of the Racist Left, One of America's Ugliest Opinion Forums":

Salon cheered on the rioters in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., accepting as gospel the idea that blacks like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin were murdered by racist white people running wild. Black violence is routinely dismissed at Salon because it doesn't fit the Left's narrative. Black people are always victims and white people are always evildoers.

David Palumbo-Liu is just one of many Salon writers who spends his time emulating Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Like Farrakhan, Palumbo-Liu seems to embrace genocide against whites.

After two hard-left Democratic presidential candidates were booed at a radical left-wing activists' convention for not toeing the Black Lives Matter line, Palumbo-Liu castigated the politicians for daring to assert that all lives, not just black lives, matter, accusing them of belonging to an evil "cult." He attacked "the disgraceful performances of Mike [sic; read Martin] O’Malley and Bernie Sanders at last week’s Netroots Nation (#NN15) event in Phoenix."

After Black Alliance for Just Immigration national coordinator Tia Oso and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors occupied the stage where O'Malley was speaking, Cullors said she had to intervene. "We are in a state of emergency. If you do not feel that emergency, then you are not human." De-humanizing opponents is a tactic of a genocidal, totalitarian movement, not of those legitimately advocating for civil rights.

To this political stunt worthy of the Third Reich's Sturmabteilung, O'Malley responded in a restrained and perfectly decent way. He said "of course" black lives matter, just as white lives and “all lives matter.”

Palumbo-Liu rejects this line of thinking because it deviates from the now fashionable leftist view that black lives matter more, much more, than the lives of everyone else. O'Malley's sin lay in "effectively erasing the specific ways black lives in particular are targeted by both structural and informal racist violence in all shapes and forms."

Keep reading.

Ice Cube on Charges of Racism, Anti-Semitism: 'That's not who I'm about ... you can't discriminate...' (VIDEO)

You gotta read Michelle Malkin's column out today. It's like damn!

Here, "Straight Outta Whitewash":

My Instagram and Facebook feeds have been filled with unwitting apologists for racism against Korean-American small-business owners.
Heckuva job, Hollywood!

Here’s how the poison is spreading. A savvy marketing team at Universal/Comcast Corp. developed a web toy that allows social media fans to customize the theatrical poster logo for the media giant’s new biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.” Hundreds of thousands of clueless users have uploaded photos of themselves and substituted “Compton” with the names of their hometowns.

Jennifer Lopez, Serena Williams, LeBron James and Ed Sheeran are among the celebrities who helped make the meme go viral. Youth vote-pandering GOP Florida Sen. Marco Rubio jumped on the cultural bandwagon, too, with two obsequious messages on Twitter featuring the hashtag “#straightouttacompton.”

Update: And, of course, the celebrity dolt-in-chief’s administration used the meme to tweet about the Iran Deal.

It’s a publicity coup for rappers-turned-multimedia moguls Dr. Dre (Andre Young) and Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) as they pimp the movie — named after their breakthrough 1988 album — glorifying the rise of their band N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) and the hardcore gangsta rap genre.

“Straight Outta Compton’s” cop-bashing, thug-promoting songs — most notably “F-k the Police” — vaulted Young and Jackson into the entertainment stratosphere. Young is a near-billionaire after becoming a producer, promoter and maker of overpriced headphones (the company was bought by Apple for $3 billion last year). Jackson embarked on a successful career as a solo rapper, mainstream actor and comedian.

Their hagiographic movie omits Young’s history of assaults on women and completely whitewashes Jackson’s incendiary attacks on Korean storeowners in South Central Los Angeles.

Shortly before the 1992 L.A. riots, Jackson had penned the hate-filled song “Black Korea” for his best-selling platinum solo album, Death Certificate. He seethed against law-abiding immigrant entrepreneurs in his ‘hood and threated to burn their stores “right down to a crisp”:

Every time I want to go get a f–king brew

I gotta go down to the store with the two

Oriental one-penny-counting mother–kers;

They make a nigger mad enough to cause a little ruckus.

Thinking every brother in the world’s out to take,

So they watch every damn move that I make.

They hope I don’t pull out a Gat, try to rob

Their funky little store, but, b-tch, I got a job.

So don’t follow me up and down your market

Or your little chop suey ass will be a target

Of a nationwide boycott.

Juice with the people, that’s what the boy got.

So pay respect to the black fist

Or we’ll burn your store right down to a crisp.

And then we’ll see ya…

‘Cause you can’t turn the ghetto into black Korea...

Keep reading.

Then watch last night's ABC's Nightline interview with Ice Cube, where he claims he's a changed man on his earlier racism, 'That's not who I'm about ... I'm a black man ... you can't discriminate...'

Watch: "Straight Outta Compton,' Paying Homage to the Roots of Rap."

Naturally, ABC omitted that part in its segment on Good Morning America, "Straight Outta Compton' Inside Look."

Garland Tyree, Bloods Gang Leader, Shot Dead in Staten Island Standoff with U.S. Marshalls (VIDEO)

Wow, this is major.

At at London's Daily Mail, "Bloods gang leader demanded his mother be flown to stand-off, said goodbye to her, then came out shooting with an AK-47 and was killed by cops."

Also at the New York Post, "Gang leader dead after shooting firefighter, setting house ablaze."

And at the Wall Street Journal, "NYC Firefighter Shot and Suspect Killed in Staten Island Standoff":

A New York City firefighter was shot twice Friday morning during a standoff at a Staten Island apartment that ended with the suspect being killed in a firefight with police, authorities said.

The six-hour standoff with Garland Tyree, 38 years old, began when U.S. Marshals attempted to execute an arrest warrant in connection with an alleged federal probation violation. The authorities encountered smoke at the home at 15 Destiny Court, prompting a call to the Fire Department of New York.

Responding firefighters were met with gunfire, and a 53-year-old FDNY lieutenant, James Hayes, was shot in the buttocks and right calf, authorities said. He was in stable condition at Richmond University Medical Center.

Police had been negotiating with Mr. Tyree, who barricaded himself in the apartment with an assault rifle, authorities said. The standoff ended around noon after several shots were fired, setting off screams among neighbors and family members who were trying to help police get Mr. Tyree to surrender.

Mr. Tyree was killed in the shootout, a law-enforcement official said. No one else was in the apartment with Mr. Tyree, police said.

More at CBS News New York, "Standoff on Staten Island

And at DNA Info, "UPDATED: Reputed Gang Leader Who Shot Fireman Dies in Shootout: Sources," and "Here's What Garland Tyree Told Us During Fatal Standoff With Police."

Jimmy Fallon's Hilarious Imitation of Donald Trump (VIDEO)

OMGosh this is funny.

Fallon's got Trump nailed!

Watch: "Donald Trump Clarifies Megyn Kelly Comment."

China's Devaluation Invites Global Currency War

Well, remember, China's moves represent the highest stakes in international politics, although folks don't often realize it. The currency issue at base is about international preponderance, which nation-states command the most world monetary power. It's still the U.S. at present, a fact that rattles rogue regimes in Beijing, Moscow and beyond.

See the New York Times, "China’s Renminbi Devaluation May Initiate New Phase in Global Currency War":

For years, China looked like the principled noncombatant. As other countries, seeking to secure an economic advantage, let the value of their currencies slide on international markets, China held firm on the value of its money.

But this week, China jumped into the fray. In a surprise decision on Tuesday, the country’s authorities began sharply devaluing its currency, the renminbi. While the plunge paused on Friday, the renminbi was still down 4.4 percent against the dollar this week, a huge drop for China.

The abrupt move opens a new phase in what some analysts see as a long-raging global currency war, a development that could leave the United States exposed and undermine efforts to pull the world economy out of the doldrums.

The yen, the euro and several other major currencies have fallen in recent years against the dollar as the Federal Reserve has cut back its stimulus and policy makers elsewhere have sought to obtain gains for their sluggish national economies.

But the countries that don’t join the devaluations, like the United States right now, can end up suffering, if they export less and import more. A steep drop in the value of the renminbi could also intensify some of the forces that, in the view of some economists, have caused the American economy to underperform.

“The risks of a deflationary, secular stagnation in the U.S. would be increased by a large devaluation of the renminbi,” said Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary. Mr. Summers, however, cautioned against overreacting. “One has to be very careful about regarding market fluctuations and uncertainty among market participants as a crisis that demands major government interventions.”

Even so, the Fed faces a dilemma as it contemplates raising interest rates for the first time in more than nine years. A rate increase could drive the dollar up even more against other currencies, creating a vexing obstacle for the American economy at a crucial moment in its recovery.

“We’ve been in a currency war for six years,” said Stephen S. Roach, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. “China is now moving on its currency, and other countries are using their currencies as a tool to relieve distress, and that is potentially destabilizing.”

China’s devaluation stems in part from a desire to let markets influence the price of the renminbi, a shift global policy makers have advocated. If managed well, it may give China a lift and the extra flexibility it may need as it deals with the challenges facing its economy.

At a news conference on Thursday, officials from the Chinese central bank defended the devaluation and said it would be managed carefully. Zhang Xiaohui, an assistant governor at the central bank, said that there was “no basis for the continued depreciation of the renminbi.”

The hope among global policy makers, of course, is that the changes in exchange rates are not excessive and do more good than harm. Still, history shows that currencies often go down too much or go up too far, interrupting the strong trade flows that have underpinned the global economy for decades...

American Flag Raised Over Havana as U.S. Embassy Reopens in Cuba

Another "victory" for the Obama administration's 6-year campaign of coddling the world's worst regimes.

Yeah, fuck Cuba.

Fuck Cuba. Spend your money at the Jersey Shore, where it won't go to subsidizing terrorism. pic.twitter.com/gZ6XmtoW7s

— Frances Martel (@francesmartel) August 14, 2015

Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin Slams Proposition 47 in Wake of Illegal Alien Murder of 64-Year Old Marilyn Pharis (VIDEO)

Here's CNN's coverage from a few days ago, "Police chief blames immigration, crime policies in murder of California woman."

But watch local ABC News 3 Santa Barbara's report, "THE TRAGIC KILLING OF MARILYN PHARIS HAS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOCUSED ON THE FACTS OF THE KILLING AND THE SUSPECTS - THE POLICE CHIEF OF SANTA MARIA SAYS THE LAW CHANGES ARE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS."

I'm going with Chief Martin.

PREVIOUSLY: "Illegal Alien Charged with Murder in Brutal Attack on 64-Year-Old Marilyn Pharis of Santa Maria (VIDEO)."

ICYMI: Google Apologizes for Search Results Tagging Black Couple as Gorillas

That would kind of suck, although they actually look like gorillas.

Here: "Google apologizes after Photos app tags black couple as gorillas."

Stacey Poole Friday Rule 5

At Egotastic!, "STACEY POOLE BIG BOSOM YACHT SWIMSUIT STRIPTEASE."

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— Stacey Poole (@StaceyPoole1) August 10, 2015

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— JCG (fan Sophie) (@buquet1000) July 21, 2015