He thought breaking into an occupied dwelling was a good idea. He was wrong. Kalamazoo homeowner fatally shot man trying to break in, police say
Aaron Joseph Williams, 33, was attempting to break into a house in the 3100 block of Whittier Drive when the homeowner shot him around 11:43 p.m. Saturday, May 15, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Public Information Officer Ryan Bridges said.
Self-defense is a human-right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
No 24 hour news coverage. No Riots. (They don't do peaceful protests anymore.) No narrative to advance. 'It's just not fair': Families of children shot demand change in Minneapolis
Both a 9-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were shot in the head in Minneapolis in recent weeks, in separate incidents. They are both in intensive care in the same hospital.
Their families want to know where the community outrage is, since it is mostly absent.
Both families are heartbroken and angry. They admit they’re frustrated they haven’t seen the community outrage surrounding the two shootings, and they’re demanding people put down their guns.
There are 3 embedded videos at the article linked above. The 2nd is a very irate grandmother reading Minneapolis the riot act. It at least is worth a look.
People have a fear of math (Mrs. Spencer's words). I have to agree. And also, a lot of it isn't taught very well today. 89-year-old math tutor’s virtual lessons reach students around the world.
The video at the site is OK, but other videos will run incessantly when it is finished. You have been warned.
Dolores Spencer has taught math since 1954. After she retired from the school system she went into tutoring.
Delores Spencer of Virginia has been teaching math for nearly 70 years. In 2020, she took her lessons online to help give students access to tutoring who need it.
You can find her YouTube channel, Mrs. Spencer's Math Lab, at this link. She has since moved the F*c*book - no links to the evil empire. You can find it on your own...
It is unfair to the guy he just killed to have let him out. Prosecutors say man who's been to prison twice for murders killed another victim Sunday | CWB Chicago
A man who has been convicted of two separate murders and publicly admitted to a third killing was charged Wednesday with murdering another man over the weekend. Bernard Barry, 75, was arrested after a SWAT standoff Sunday evening.
Click thru for the details, but how many people does this guy have to kill before we keep him locked up? In a Blue City, probably a lot of people.
They don't like it because some people are better at it than others, and that isn't equal. Everyone must be ground down to the lowest common denominator. California Radicals Say Math Is Racist, Set Out to Cancel It in Public Schools
What kind of racist influences? To begin with, there is no right or wrong answer in math. Any answer is equally valid.
It was nice having bridges that stood up, and cars and planes that worked. That age will be over if this takes hold.
Oregon is also considering adopting this nonsense so California kids won’t be the only children who will be light-years behind others by the time they graduate.
Here is the Wall Street Journal story on the insanity: California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class
The proposed curriculum framework aims low, abandons the gifted, and preaches ‘social justice.’
I knew they hated math, I just never believed that they would actually outlaw it.
Good thing this elderly couple still had the means to defend themselves. Cathedral City home invasion suspect shot by homeowner, police say
A guy breaks into a home and starts threatening the homeowners, who did manage to call 911.
The homeowners attempted to defuse the situation, but the intruder became agitated and made threats against their lives, according to police.
Officials said the 85-year-old homeowner then retrieved a firearm and shot the intruder in the upper body.
He probably thought threatening a couple in their 80s would be easy. Or he was just crazy.
Whatever the case, he was wrong. The bad guy is in a local hospital's intensive-care unit.
Without real means to defend themselves, the old and the infirm will be at the mercy of the young and the violent, the small will be at the mercy of the large. That is why we must have access to effective means of self-defense.
Good Guys 1, Bad Guy 0.
A Los Angeles councilman, Mike Bonin, is meeting with some extreme pushback. LA residents blast proposed homeless sites at beaches, parks
So he wants to allow homeless encampments in more parks and on more beaches. The people of LA are not happy.
But the plan has sparked a massive recall effort by residents who claim that their local parks and beaches are already inundated by tents, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Parents can't let kids go to some parks already because of homelessness. And this guy wants to expand that.
Bonin’s call for the homeless camp sites has now sparked a petition signed by more than 19,000 people who fear their communities could follow in the footsteps of Venice, the Los Angeles neighborhood racked by increased crime and several fires.
And a separate recall petition has gotten 10,000 signatures.
If you push people far enough, they will push back. And while I'm sure most of LA is still too woke to be opposed to anything the Left comes up with, it is a start.
I can't feel sorry for you, if in 2021, you - or anyone working for you - are using weak passwords. Ransomware gangs get more aggressive against law enforcement
“I was shocked, I was surprised, frustrated,” Cunningham said.
You are stupid. That is my considered opinion.
Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St. Louis, and were demanding $6,000 of bitcoin.
I would have guessed that they would pay the six grand, even though doing so is probably illegal, but they didn't.
Back in Roxana, the police chief said he didn’t have to pay the hackers because the files were backed up and the department bought new computer equipment for roughly the same amount as the ransom demand. Cunningham reported the hackers to the FBI, but as far as he’s heard they were never caught. The whole experience, Cunningham said, was a real eye-opener.
If you need to be hit with a ransomware attack to have your eyes openned about the very real problem of ransomware and other cybercrime, well you are hopeless.
This one was extra aggressive. ‘Hangry’ alligator chased people across Wendy’s parking lot in Florida, police say
Work off those fast food calories.
The gator, measuring 7-feet-3-inches, was eventually trapped in the parking lot of the Lehigh Acres Health ∓ Rehabilitation Center across the street from the Wendy’s, [Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] confirmed. The animal has since been relocated to an alligator farm, the FWC confirmed.
I don't think this even qualifies as Peak Florida.
Alligators as pets is apparently a source of the problem. Alligators in Michigan? Sanctuary trains officers to catch them safely. - Chicago Tribune
Most of them are small alligators still living in aquariums in people’s homes. But sometimes calls come in for larger alligators spotted in ponds or creeks. In 2019, a man was collecting minnows in Tuscola County when a 5 to 6 foot alligator lunged at him from a ditch. The man drew his pistol and killed the animal.
Good thing he had a pistol.
Alligators are no strangers to the Midwest, as Chicagoans know. An alligator nicknamed Chance the Snapper became a sensation in 2019 after turning up in a Humboldt Park lagoon. He’s now living the good life in a sanctuary in Florida after being captured by trapper Frank Robb, known as “Alligator Robb.”
People are crazy. People who think an alligator would make a great pet are insane.
Allergies are contributing to my insomnia. (Coughing fits at 3 AM make it tough to get a decent night's sleep...)
Marion County Florida is located in sort of in the middle of the state. The largest city, Ocala, is not quite halfway between Gainsville (home of the Gators) and Orlando (home of The Mouse). It is about due west of Daytona Beach.
This guy decided to run. Are we shocked to learn that he had an outstanding warrant?
I didn't even get my morning coffee ... It's not even 8 o'clock yet, man. (Deputy Hanner)
This incident took place on Sunday, May 16, 2021.
This is the dashcam and other video for Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit.
Bacon Time!!!! starts things today with Sunday Linkage
Hogewash: More Reporting on Rebekah Jones
Watts Up With That: NIH Financed Dangerous “Gain of Function” Virus Studies in Wuhan
Battleswarm Blog, with a link I missed on Saturday, is next. LinkSwarm for May 14, 2021
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (WV) says he’s not going to let the Democrats’ election-theft bill pass. Good for him. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
Pirate's Cove is up next with - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
- The Right Scoop notes that Jew and Israel haters swarming a police car is a bad idea
- This ain’t Hell... features dumb crooks
Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Afternoon Edition)
Louder With Crowder: Cop Car Tosses Protesters Blocking HIghway, also, Crowder Starts Legal Action Against YouTube
Vox Popoli: The Canceling Of Literature, also, “Dozens Of Meetings”
Political Hat - News of the Week (May 16th, 2021)
April Gun Sales Indicate Gun Industry Continues to Thrive
The brisk pace of firearm sales has continues into 2021, despite the fact two of the alleged catalysts no longer provide the overwhelming motivation they initially did
EBL - God Bless America and the First Amendment ⛽️📈
EBL: MAGA Stands With Israel ☀️🚀😬✡️
AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.17.2021 (how true is this)
ZeroHedge: Former Prince, now Mr. Markel criticizes First Amendment h/t AoSHQ
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.18.21 (Evening Edition)
This Ain’t Hell: Inside The Military’s Secret Undercover Army, also, Biden Administration Has The Army Ready To Fight Our Biggest Enemy Yet
Transterrestrial Musings: The Neo-Feudalism Of Los Angeles
Don Surber - Highlights of the News
ITEM 4: The Daily Caller reported, "Louisville police are investigating an attack that happened on Mother’s Day that left a military veteran with a broken nose, Wave 3 News reported.
A View from the Beach - Election 2020: Video Shows Capitol Policeman Inviting Incursionists into Capitol
John Simpson at Am Think thinks Dr. Strawman, Or How I Learned To Stop Loving The FBI And Start Worrying
Vlad Tepes - Abuse of law, and the subsequent degradation of respect for authority: Links 1 May 17, 2021
5. Its tricky finding a word for writing a ticket of nearly a thousand dollars to a reporter for reporting on a march for freedom in Hamilton On. other than fascist, totalitarian, authoritarian, repressive, communist...
Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links
Sean Parnell launches a critical Senate campaign in Pennsylvania.
Joe Biden is proving even more of a ‘master of disaster’ than Jimmy Carter
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report - 5/17/21
"We're talking agitators armed with so much pseudo-science and Marxist ideology that they'll be rabid fanatics."
The Green New Deal's Shock Troops
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American Dissident
How Biden Aims to Bring Critical Race Theory to Your School: Lindsey Burke
Biden Steals $850 Mil from COVID Stockpile to Use for Illegal Aliens: Daniel Greenfield
I leave you with Sunday Funnies, 05-16-21 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday gifdump from Knuckledraggin My Life Away, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Monday Memes … from Freedom Is Just Another Word…
The gun-hating-left goes on about how you are more likely to shoot someone you know, but there is a reason for that. Tyler County Sheriff: Fatal shooting may be connected to child custody dispute
You would not be in a child custody dispute with a total stranger.
Thursday deputies were dispatched in response to a reported shooting at a residence on County Road 3260 in the Colmsneil area. Deputies said they arrived at the residence and observed a male individual with a gunshot wound to the chest.
And this happened in Texas. What did he think was going to happen?
The guy who got shot died at the scene.
Self-defense is a human-right.
Privacy is such a 20th Century idea. Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers | Ars Technica
But for consumers, those competitive prices may come with a downside: becoming subject to targeted advertising and monetized personal data collection. As reported previously on Engadget, Vizio just posted its first public earnings report, wherein it revealed that profits from the part of its business that is built around collecting and selling user data as well as targeting advertising at users totaled $38.4 million in the quarter.
So yes, your smart TV is spying on you. And what you watch. Very much in tune with Nineteen Eighty-Four.
More Surf Rock? Sure. And why not honor the Colonial Pipeline insanity at the same time?
This song is "Pipeline" by the Dragsters. As near as I can tell, this was a single in 2018. It was included an a compliation of surf music at some point.
Or try to. Also families never seem to acknowledge the bad eggs. ‘Caring, Loving and Charitable … He Got a Kick Out of Pulling Pranks on People’
He also is responsible for the largest mass-murder in Colorado Springs history.
The family describes him in angelic terms. Others, not so much.
Macias arrived at the Canterbury Park mobile home community by himself and entered the trailer, where seven adults and three children had gathered to celebrate birthdays. The suspect methodically shot six of the adults in quick succession, Frabbiele said.
The three children — ages 2, 5 and 11 — were in the main room of the home and witnessed the shooting, but later hid in one of the bedrooms. They were not physically harmed. One of the adults escaped the trailer unharmed.
So, more demonic than angelic.
Next time you see one of these “Family Demands Answers” stories, where they’re trying to convince you the deceased criminal was an innocent angel, just keep in mind Teodoro Macias’s obituary.
Oh, “his mischievous tricks”!
Publicly-funded Rail seems to be a way to spend money and never get anything done. Honolulu's rail project plagued with wheels too thin and tracks too wide.
No one does proper systems design, anymore.
Or how can you buy rail cars that won't run on the tracks you specified?
The costs went from $5 billion to more than $12 billion, and the schedule has slipped 11 years.
The trains built for Honolulu's troubled rail project have wheels that are too narrow for the track, and solving the problem will lead to more issues or more delays.
Replacing the wheels will add too much weight to the trains. Replacing the tracks would push the timeline back a year.
The problem is at frogs and switches. (click thru for an image of a frog in this context.)
How the hell do you specify train cars without respect to the tracks, or tracks without respect to the cars? They both have to work together.
Oh, and there are other problems with the switches. Bad welding, cracks caused by sandblasting. It seems you don't get much for $12 billion today.
Hat tip The Antiplanner and Honolulu Rail Disaster Gets More Disastrous, in which it is noted...
The saddest thing is that no one in the transit industry seems to be capable of learning from experiences like this. Instead, people like the CEOs of Los Angeles and San Jose’s transit agencies, who have overseen new rail construction leading to transit ridership declines, get rewarded for wasting taxpayers’ money by being given cushy jobs in the Biden administration.
HeyJackass! has the Chicago stats. Mostly Peaceful Weekend
As we enter the final weeks of Spring Training, scores need to be settle before the Summer Shooting Season can begin.
Final Peaceful Tally: 7 killed, 45 wounded
2020 weekend tally: 6 killed, 35 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 4 killed, 12 wounded
I would dearly love to cover other cities, but the newspapers don't regularly post these kinds of stats, and I haven't found analogues to HJ for NYC, or LA, etc.
That thing that the gun-hating Left says never happens. Witnesses: Man who killed Arkansas woman lured out neighbors
Police in Fort Smith, Arkansas, located on the border with Oklahoma, say that after Zachary Arnold, 26, fatally shot Lois Hicks on Saturday morning, he continued to shoot at neighboring apartments with a semi-automatic rifle. Another resident, who has not been named, retrieved a hunting rifle and shot and killed Arnold, police said.
