He was vandalizing cars, and then decided to try and get into a house.
Officers say the suspect was banging on a door of the house when he was shot by the homeowner in self-defense.
That seems like a pretty clear statement of what the cops believe.
When the cops showed up, and had the guy taken to a local hospital. No word on what charges he will face. It is California, where charging criminals with crime can be seen as "unfair" by some DAs.
Only 31 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to tell the truth, one point below its low watermark of 32 percent in 2016 and 2023.
Click thru the highs, the lows, and the events that seem to have undercut their credibility.
Ecovacs robot vacuum cleaners have been hacked to shout slurs at their owners. (Vice)
This is the same company under fire in Australia for collecting audio and video recordings and keeping them even after the customers deleted the files.
Chicago Boyz: Random Thoughts (2) : Education Edition, Ackman’s Choice, Not-Quite-Random Columbus Day Musings, and A Canadian October Surprise?
Da Tech Guy: A Conservative is a Liberal Mugged by Reality. Ana Kasparian edition
Cackling Kamala’s America: Not a good week for Harris. University set up by trans ex-employee. Kamala mingled with Iranian regime operative.
Blackie’s Canada: Ethics committee grills Justin’s CTV. Interfaith dialogue in diverse Toronto
5. One of the consistent media cons over the last 15 or more years, has been to make sure that any crime by Muslims, especially that is consistent with Islamic culture or scriptural instructions is to be hidden in a number of ways.
Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Kamala Harris Caught Plagiarizing..a LOT!. The Telegraph writes The Kamala Harris plagiarism row is a disaster for her campaign, "It threatens to compound the perception that she is out of ideas."
Victory Girls: Harris Muses About Constellations Or Something
Volokh Conspiracy: Colorado Elected District Attorney Disbarred for Litigation Misconduct
Ukrainian drone strikes another arms depot inside Russia, officials say
A Ukrainian drone struck an important arms depot inside Russia, the Ukraine military said Wednesday, three weeks after another drone blasted a major Russian armory
ITEM 4: Florida State Guard tweeted, “The Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit and Crisis Response Battalion conducted search and rescue operations in Hillsborough, Pasco, Sarasota, and Manatee counties
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala?
Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is? ‘Do not refer to it as being in Israel,’ said the network’s senior director of standards and practices.
New Haven officers were called at 5:30 p.m. Friday to the Bella Vista housing complex on Eastern Street for a disturbance. Callers reported that a Black male was carrying a machete, banging on doors, and rambling.
The man, 56-year-old John Reynolds, was shot and killed by a resident after an altercation ensued. According to 911 callers, Reynolds had a history of mental health problems and may have been under the influence.
Bella Vista is a senior living complex in New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven is on the northern shore of Long Island Sound, about an 80 mile drive northeast from New York City.
Bella Vista is a senior living housing complex. Neighbors said there is security, but some believe it’s not enough.
The resident who shot Reynolds has not been arrested, though the investigation is ongoing. I have no feeling for how Connecticut in general or New Haven in particular views self-defense.
David Gilmour has to be one of my favorite guitarists. As lead guitar and singer for Pink Floyd through the era that saw their greatest success, I love the music that he has created. But I also love his solo work. So today we will hear some of his solo work.
I saw a mention on X, or something, saying that Gilmour was ramping up for a tour to start soon. I think it was X; I didn't make a note or make a bookmark. I have no idea if that is true.
Tam at Cars Gone By starts things off with some photos. 1956 Chevrolet 210
Few cars are as iconic as the classic "Tri-Five" Chevies, the full-size models from Chevrolet in '55, '56, '57. While the Bel Air, especially in its 1957 coupe form, gets all the ink, the 150 and 210 were the most numerous.
Maybe when the DOJ's antitrust team has finished beating up Google it could take a look at Adobe. Adobe no longer offers perpetual licenses for its low-end Elements products. (Notebook Check)
You can "buy" the 2025 editions right now, but the software will drop dead three years after it is installed.
It’s two! Two!! TWO!!! awesome posts in one! Since it is the actual Columbus Day (as opposed to the fake & gay Federal Columbus Day on Monday) today we’ll not only celebrate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (and link to some excellent books on the topic, previously covered here) but also do the usual FMJRA stuff.
Raddatz, clearly uncomfortable with Vance’s pointed critiques, attempted to steer the conversation back, stating that “the mayor did not seem [to think] they were invading the entire city.”
That’s when Vance landed the final blow, sarcastically quipping, “A few apartment complexes. No big deal.”
Starship Flight Test 5. This went beyond Wow, all the way to "Holy Crap!" It's beyond testing a couple of things, and as far as I can tell, it met every objective. I was here to watch this and watched the whole coverage that SpaceX linked to on X. Full screen, 1080p video for just about all of it.
I was privileged to attend the 9th Annual East Tennessee Blogshoot ran by David Brena Bock and Michael Farnette. It was great to finally meet in the flesh people I have been interacting online for over a decade in a half such as the original “Masshole” (His appellative, not mine) Jay Grazio, Weer and Mal among many others.
To call the Chrysler a “gem” is to do the building a great injustice. Alone among all the skyscrapers in New York, it’s a building worth saving because its beauty makes it truly a work of art rather than just another grubby office building.
The problem with a building — any building, no matter how well constructed or of what durable materials it was built — is that it needs constant care and refurbishment, which clearly has been neglected by this lovely structure’s various owners over the decades. And to be frank, all of them need to be whipped at the post.
Vox Populi - Not QUITE Nothing. On the situation in Aurora, Colorado.
In fairness, the government didn’t do nothing. It did call them liars and falsely declared that there were no Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, that if there were any gangs there, they hadn’t taken over any apartment complexes, and if they had taken over any apartment complexes, they had paid for them and were running them as legitimate landlords.
Despite these modest protections, the Democrats continue to push reckless accusations that our law is extreme. The fact is, the majority of voters in New Hampshire, like voters across the country, favor some restrictions on the forcible termination of a preborn child’s life. In fact, more recent polls in the state show that number to be 60 to 70%.
So, at life’s end, if asked what he did with his life, I am sure Commander Turner would have proudly told anyone willing to listen:
I was a sailor, and you should have seen us on the Garthsnaid. And this is no shit¹. Coming out of Chile, bound for Mozambique in 1920. It was blowing Beaufort force 9 or 10, and we sent men aloft to gasket the fores’l. And, I like a damn fool, decided to take my new camera out to the tip of the bowsprit to take a photo. I got the photo, and luckily lived to tell about it. Here’s the proof:
Two guys decided it would be a good idea to break into a home of someone they knew, and had some kind of beef with. There was a "prior altercation" in official parlance.
So how would you deal with uninvited guests at 3:30 AM?
[Deputies] say two suspects broke into the home that had two residents inside.
Deputies say that one of the suspects had been shot with a crossbow by a resident of the home.
Frenchtown Township, in Monroe County, Michigan is about half way between Detroit, and Toledo, Ohio.
Deputies arrived, and took the guy with the crossbow bolt embedded in him into custody, and then he was taken to the hospital, for surgery. The guy who didn't get shot with a crossbow, was arrested.
Based on the terms used, "Home Invasion" being how this whole thing was described, it sounds like police are treating it like self-defense. That conclusion is also reinforced by who got arrested. Still, cops don't make those decisions. Charges are determined by prosecutors.
Still, Michigan as developed a fairly good record of respecting your legal right to self-defense.
Germany has a little problem with the totally grateful Muslim migrants that Berlin's elites have allowed into the country, where they show their gratitude by stabbing Germans. But don't worry because one German doctor has just the thing to deal with a knife attack, and no, it isn't stitches.
Before we get to that, the most recent case to make the news happened less than two weeks ago, when a Syrian "migrant" wounded 31 people, including two children, in an arson attack. He could also be seen carrying an impressive-looking machete.
And it isn't a joke. Use a "towel snapping technique" to defend against machete.
The towel-snapping technique is 100% guaranteed to almost work, provided your attacker is a frightened woman with a fake knife who doesn't really want to cut you. Also, you have to carry a towel with you everywhere.
God forbid you should hire someone who is qualified for the job. No, you have to discriminate.
Megan Donecker filed a complaint about her former boss Mike Shaw and moaned about him telling her that he sought the 'candidates most qualified for the job.'
DEI advocates like Donecker say hiring should be done through an 'intersectional lens' whereby applications from people of marginalized backgrounds are given greater weight.
Aerosmith is a band that I am never sure if I like or not. Today's song was number 16 on the US Billboard Charts, so I heard it a lot. It is a power ballad, which I usually like, but power ballads from that era were usually a little calmer. But Aerosmith and "calm" don't belong in the same sentence.
Still, the lyrics and the songwriting are worlds better than what you find in 99% of Pop Music today. I leave it to you to decide...
For reasons I can't explain, this got stuck as a draft for a few of weeks. Still worth a look. (And no, there have been no updates that I could find.)
The 46-year-old man shot and killed ... in Utica on Saturday has been identified as Jeffrey Nash, according to the Utica Police Department. Investigators said Nash was shot while inside another person’s home.
No charges have been filed, and in Texas, or Oklahoma, the cops would be taking the homeowner out for a beer. In Florida, the sheriff of the county would be saying how good it is that people have the right to defend themselves and their families.
But this took place in New York.
District Attorney Todd Carville said there are several “legal issues” that need to be investigated regarding the circumstances of the shooting.
Sing the refrain: DAs HATE self-defense.
Self-defense IS a human right, but New York hates that.
The recently released ‘Not-a-Glock’ pistol is designed to be made in countries which restrict firearms ownership, particularly concealable pistols suitable for self-defense . Built and designed by a European, the build guide includes over 30 pages of detailed instructions on printing and assembly
Not really 100% 3D printed. You will need a few bits of metal from your local hardware store.
Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over 344 million customers.
The settlement requires Marriott and Starwood to implement a comprehensive security program and allow their U.S. customers to request personal data deletions.
Additionally, the American hospitality giant has agreed to pay $52,000,000 to 49 states to resolve claims related to the data breaches.
$52 million divided by 344 million customers is about 15 cents per person.
And this wasn't really a single breach, there were 3 separate breaches covering a couple of divisions of the company. Some of the intrusions went undetected for YEARS.
The FTC accuses the two companies [Marriott and its subsidiary] of misleading consumers about their data security practices and outlined failures such as poor password controls, outdated software, and lack of appropriate monitoring of its IT environment.
The FTC also spells out some business practices that Marriott will need to adopt, around security the data of customers, including allowing customers to request deletion of their data. Click thru for the list.
For a company with gross profit in the trailing twelve months of $5 billion, $52 million as a fine for potentially screwing up the lives and credit of 344 million customers seems like less than a slap on the wrist.
As for the business procedures the FTC is mandating, these are not outlandish. The first item on the list is, "Establish a comprehensive information security program with third-party assessments every two years and annual compliance certification for 20 years." That is not out of the ordinary, and will cost money. But they should have been doing that in any event. (They clearly were not.)
I would like to think that in 2024 basic security practices would be covered under the board of directors "Duty of Care," and perhaps a breach of their fiduciary responsibilities, but I know that no one, aside from the grunts in the trenches, will be held accountable. The directors have an out, of course; they used "reasonable care." Which is to say that they don't know anything about security, have no intention to learn about security, and so it never occurred to them to even ask about security. And if they did ask, they probably would have gotten a "don't worry about it" answer. Until some executives, and maybe a handful of directors are held accountable this kind of thing will continue to happen.
Someday companies will take data security seriously. That day is probably not today, or any day soon.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. (DEI) Environmental, Social, Governance. (ESG) These are the embodiment of indentity politics in corporate offices. It is destroying companies left and right, maybe especially in the gaming industry.
Endymion posted a video that was mostly about Ubisoft and implosion of their latest games, like Star Wars Outlaws, but which mentioned CD Projekt Red (CDPR). The CEO of that company immediately took to X/Twitter to call Endymion a liar. And since the Streisand Effect is still acting, here is the response by Endymion.
This video is Endymion bringing receipts, some of which are lifted directly from CDPR's own website, some from their official YouTube channel which show, yes, CDPR IS infected with DEI. I could list some of what Endymion lists, but just watch, or at least listen, to what he has to say.
Sweet Baby Inc. is a consulting company that "works" on video games to increase their DEI quotients. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in video games, like it push into Hollywood, does not improve storytelling, or gameplay. It does provide employment for the "consultants." Several of the games that Sweet Baby Inc. has been associated with recently, have flopped spectacularly. Both the flops, and their involvement in the flops, and the reason the games were flops shined a light on the DEI consulting companies in the gaming arena. The CEO of Sweet Baby Inc., Kim Belair, is not happy in the spotlight these days.
And she is calling gamers who don't like these Woke games some vile names. See the articles linked below the video.
The most recent big-name game that has Sweet Baby Inc. fingerprints all over it is from Rocksteady Studios and Warner Brothers. It is Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. It is technically part of the Batman Arkham series, but while those games were massively successful, Kill The Justice League can't be described in anyway, except as a failure. You can find their other games listed at the DEI-Detected website.
Derek Anderson is a YouTube creator who has a lot of energy. I like a lot of his takes on stuff. This video made me smile, on a day when I needed a smile.
Sweet Baby Inc. redesigned its website to remove its client and game list in an apparent attempt to hide its woke agenda to potential clients.
There was a page that listed all of their clients. Then they redesigned it to make it impossible to simply copy the text. Now they have removed all reference to what companies they have worked with and what games they have impacted.
In the opinion of company CEO Kim Belair, not only has the ongoing discourse surrounding the work of Sweet Baby Inc. amounted to nothing more than a “campaign of harassment”, but its critics’ opposition to the concept of corporate-styled ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ is an indicator of their “far-right” ideals.
Because like the folks in Hollywood can't admit that their TV shows and movies are horrible, the people from Sweet Baby Inc. and the rest of the DEI consulting firms can't admit that they are making horrible games. If you don't like a gender-swapped Han Solo in the latest Star Wars game, you are a sexist, at least according to DEI consultants. It goes on from there.
The one ray of sunshine from all of this, is that the name-calling is starting to elicit laughter. When game like Kill the Justice League, or Concord, or Dusborn gets hammered in the marketplace, calling your potential customers -ists and -phobes, over and over and over again, starts to sound like insanity. (Dustborn debuted to 83 concurrent users on Steam as an example.)
Politics are downstream of culture. For too long the Right has abandoned pop culture to the Progressive Left. "It's only comics. It's only video games. It's only movies and TV." It is only the culture. And now they are shocked to discover that the culture is screwed up, the politics are screwed up and more. Add in the Right's abandonment of education to the Left, turning state-run education into little more than communist indoctrination, and it is no wonder that this country is in bad shape. In the past 30 years, or more, if anyone on the Right even noticed what was going on in Pop Culture it was to denouce something. Even now, I don't think most people recognize where the rot begins.
A 19-year old Sugar Camp man shot and killed a wolf while hunting waterfowl the morning of Sept. 21.
The wolf kill was confirmed by both the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the United States Fish & Wildlife Service who’s been handed the investigation into the events.
The DNR has issued a statement saying they feel the shooting was justified, and was done so in self defense.
Nature is not the way it was depicted in the Disney movies of the 1960s and 1970s. Wild animals are cuddly creatures. Carnivores are definitely not to be taken lightly. And as this story indicates, you are only an apex predator when you're armed.
One entity that reached out was Hunter Nation, a staunch advocate for the delisting of wolves from the Endangered Species list.
I haven't looked, but I'm pretty sure you will find someone, who thinks their local park is the deep forest, that has a problem with someone defending himself in this fashion.
A store clerk was attacked by a group of about 50 members trying to rob a 7-Eleven store in Anaheim, police said.
Cops had been called to a mob taking over a street when the robbery call came in. They couldn't reach the store because of the traffic caused by the mob.
Delayed by the traffic from the street show, officers arrived at the store after suspects had fled the scene.
Several members, mostly men can be seen ransacking the store, climbing on counters, pushing shelves and throwing merchandise.
In other words, mayhem for the sake of mayhem, along with the stealing.
Some members were seen filming the assault-robbery and laughing at clerk with bloodied face.
No still shots from the video, no link to the video, no description of the suspects/perpetrators. I wonder why that is.
Seems time to include another link to Hobbes' Leviathan. We need law and order for civilization to thrive. The idea that security is required for civilization to endure is not new. Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651. In that book he describes the State of War that ensues when law and order break down.
Western Civilization is built on a foundation of law and order. Without law and order, you can't have nice things. You can't have anything really. Or as Hobbes stated it, when there is no force-of-law to keep people in check, things break down, and life become nasty, brutish, and short.
Armed men are luring women into robbery traps after meeting them on dating apps, Chicago police say. Three women have been targeted so far when they arrived at rendezvous locations in Auburn Gresham and Chatham.
According to CPD, the first woman was robbed when she arrived for a meet-up in the 800 block of East 90th Street around 6:46 p.m. on September 15. Two men forced the woman into an abandoned building and robbed her at knifepoint
Am I just old, or does meeting people like this sound... ill advised?
Netanyahu Blocks Israeli Defense Minister's US Trip - Newsmax
How exactly did FEMA acquire all the money it’s spent on illegals this year? - American Thinker
Elon Musk thinks that the reason so many billionaires are dumping money on Kamala is that they’re terrified Trump will release Epstein’s client list.
Does internal polling show Harris in trouble?
1. A reader sent in another solid data point with reference to the article on what appears to be a biblically designed attack on our civilization. The photo below says a great deal actually, especially given that it is a major Embassy for the COMINTERN.
Biden Admin: Gee, Why Won't the Israelis Tell Us Their War Plans? – HotAir
JD Vance Rips Biden-Harris 'Incompetence' in Hurricane Helene Response - Newsmax.com
Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre Offers to Give Elon Musk the ‘Client List’
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s whistleblowing victims, has issued a public statement to X boss Elon Musk, offering to give him the names
An illegal immigrant accused of forcibly raping a minor in Massachusetts was released back into the community by court officials, despite an active immigration detainer against him.
