Homeland Security Secretary carries around a checkbook and lots of cash? I don't know any details other than what's in the limited article, but unless it's ripped off your shoulder on the street, losing a handbag pretty much requires some degree of negligence. Like leaving it in your shopping cart in the grocery while you turn around to look for broccoli. Like leaving it on the back of your chair while you face the table. Like setting it down on the counter while you turn and scan your card - or wait for your change from the cash you paid with. Most regular people know that - apparently the Secretary of Homeland Security doesn't.
... The surveillance footage of the incident at The Capital Burger restaurant in Washington, DC, showed the suspect purposefully moving close to Noem as he zeroed in on her Gucci bag near her feet, a law enforcement source said.
The thief, dressed in dark clothing, sat down at an empty table next to Noem with his back facing her and used his left foot to slide the bag away, the source said. He surveyed the restaurant before eventually picking up the bag, covering it with his jacket and leaving.
Bold.
... The Secret Service was inside the restaurant with Noem, who was dining at a table with her family, according to a source familiar. The source didn’t specify how many agents accompanied Noem or where they were inside the restaurant.
... Law enforcement experts have raised concerns about whether the incident, which involved a thief getting so close to a Cabinet official and then absconding with her belongings, may have been a lapse in security.
Ya' think?
“This is a security breach that actually has high consequences, and it needs immediate and further review by the Secret Service and DHS and other law enforcement partners,” said Jonathan Wackrow, a CNN law enforcement analyst and former Secret Service agent.
Heads should roll.
“If necessary, the Secret Service will need to make operational changes on how they deal with these types of private events moving forward,” Wackrow told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”
He added that Noem remains “at higher risk for targeted threats, both by foreign and domestic actors, and just her public profile alone makes her a symbolic target.”
A worse actor could have easily killed her, Gnomicide . . . or put a bomb or venomous snake in her bag and safely absconded.
Homeland Security Secretary carries around a checkbook and lots of cash? I don't know any details other than what's in the limited article, but unless it's ripped off your shoulder on the street, losing a handbag pretty much requires some degree of negligence. Like leaving it in your shopping cart in the grocery while you turn around to look for broccoli. Like leaving it on the back of your chair while you face the table. Like setting it down on the counter while you turn and scan your card - or wait for your change from the cash you paid with. Most regular people know that - apparently the Secretary of Homeland Security doesn't.
Both are undocumented immigrants, at least one from Chile. Irony.
... In an interview with officials from the Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service, the DOJ said Leiva admitted using his feet to slide Noem's purse from under her table. He told investigators he did not know who Noem was before he allegedly committed the crime....
6 days. They probably weren't expecting the full weight of DHS to track them down in NYC and Miami. Opps.
A Magna Carta wrongly listed as an unofficial copy for nearly 80 years has been confirmed as an original from 1300.
The discovery means the document is just one of seven issued in 1300 by Edward I that still survive....
Carpenter described HLS MS 172 as “one of the world’s most valuable documents”.
He added: “It asserts a fundamental principle that the ruler is subject to the law. He can’t just say: ‘Into prison, off with your head, I’m seizing your property.’ If he wants to act against you, he has to do so by legal process. It’s the foundation stone of the western tradition of law and democracy.”
According to the library’s accession register, it had bought what it believed to be a copy for $27.50 in 1946. A month earlier, an RAF veteran had sold it to the London book dealers Sweet & Maxwell for £42.
Vincent said: “It’s easy to understand why it was mis-catalogued when it was sold … it’s a long time ago. Everyone in 1945 was a bit tired. It’s worth many, many, many, many times that.” ...
... Creativity is a skill that Amy Climer outlines in her book Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results.
After all, we were all creative once. Remember what our imaginations could make of that shadow on our bedroom wall or the world we could build with a blanket, a table and a few pillows?
But that light, Climer writes, is often extinguished along the way by a not-so-great teacher, a parent’s impatience or the playground bully. Case in point: Kindergartners score the highest in building a structure with marshmallows and sticks; MBA graduates score the lowest, Climer points out in her book....
I'm not going to get her book to find the source for the study, but what a great anecdote if it is true. GoKindergartnersGo!
Misleading, it was just the House. It now goes to the Senate and perhaps the Gov.
... The measure also directs the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to record reported chemtrail sightings and pass complaints on to the Louisiana Air National Guard. Lawmakers removed penalties for violations, opting instead for further investigation and documentation....
There must be tens of thousands of contrails — condensation trails — over LA every year. What are the DoE and LANG going to do with all the reports from idiot citizens?
What People Are Saying
Speaking to Newsweek, Mark Shanahan who teaches American politics at the University of Surrey in the U.K: "The norm in mature democracies is that voters elect skilled representatives who act in our best interest, and thus for very many decades potential legislators have striven to prove their intellect, their balance and their ability to weigh evidence. But that changed with Trump's election to a situation where politics is much more about celebrity than credibility and cranks from the margins of political ideas are now lauded front and centre. Whether it's RFK at Health, or MTG in the House, wild and wacky ideas, with no basis in truth, are being raised and argued as if they were true - often with little or no media push-back. The president sets the tone, and so far, Donald Trump has encouraged and enabled the circus of craziness. While US government is more about ratings than effectiveness, this disconnect from reality is set to continue."
Ya' think?
A prolific serial killer's 
