This is a 1954 action adventure film about a mercenary crew aboard a WWII vintage Japanese submarine post WWII sent to investigate wrongdoings by the Chicoms.
California lawmakers are considering banning police from using K-9s to arrest suspects or for crowd control. Proponents say police dogs have a violent, racist history.
A California sheriff criticized lawmakers who want to keep police dogs from biting suspected criminals or being used during protests, calling K-9s an important "less-lethal" option for law enforcement.
"One of our one of our biggest successes and biggest tools to deescalate situations is the deployment of canines," Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told Fox News.
AB 742 would prohibit police from using dogs to apprehend a suspect or for crowd control. Police dogs would not be allowed to bite people under any circumstances, according to the bill text. The bill does not prevent the use of search and rescue dogs or police K-9s that sniff out bombs or drugs.
"The use of police canines has been a mainstay in this country’s dehumanizing, cruel, and violent abuse of Black Americans and people of color for centuries," the bill reads, adding that police dogs were used by slave catchers and, more recently, to quell civil unrest like the Los Angeles race riots and Black Lives Matter protests.
Statistics from the California Department of Justice show no use-of-force injuries involving police dogs during civil disorder or assemblies in 2020 or 2021.
"Every agency should have canines," Bianco said, adding that very few deployments of canines result in bites and "those deployments are all toward violent people."
There are few national statistics on K-9 use or injuries associated with police dogs, but one study showed police dog bites sent nearly 33,000 people to U.S. hospitals between 2005 and 2013.
In California, police dogs accounted for nearly 14% of the use-of-force incidents that resulted in injury in 2021, according to the state's DOJ. K-9 use is also largely unregulated in California — individual police departments can set their own policies, and training guidelines published almost a decade ago are optional.
Perhaps California should look at how Florida handles the thing...
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It used to be that here in CA, we were living/breathing ATMs for the govt. Now, apparently we're here for the criminals benefit, which brings a whole other menu of goodies to endure.
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04/15/2023 10:07 Comments ||
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Government, criminals...what's the difference?
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04/15/2023 12:17 Comments ||
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Does the ban include Under Dog episodes?
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04/15/2023 12:44 Comments ||
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I am envisioning robot police dogs being deployed to patrol our once-great cities. They could be programmed to bite Perps Of Color (POCs) less severely, because equity. As a bonus, they could play the Underdog theme song before springing into action.
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^ In case anyone was wondering what a poorly trained chatbot looks like.
Just thinking out loud...
I wonder if the "controlled leak" story is just a CYA to make the intel community look less stupid AND to introduce the public to the idea that Ukraine might not be headed for glorious victory. Now that the horses are out of the barn, maybe we should put up a Danger: Horse Crossing sign.
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04/15/2023 13:32 Comments ||
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Crash landing, or about face? I suspect that the deep state never meant for Ukraine to win, or even draw. They just wanted to make the process as painful as possible for the Russians. And if not for Europe, which seems serious this time, I'm sure our good friends in the swamp would have figured out a way for Ukraine to lose by now.
[ZERO] "On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce tough new tailpipe emission standards designed to effectively force the auto industry to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars," reports The Verge, with the provocative headline "The End Is Nigh for Gas-Powered Cars."
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is the newest religion, and we all know who the practitioners are. Electric vehicle (EV) owners sing "Hallelujah" when they pull out of their garages. The investor-class ESG evangelists believe the new belief is in its beginnings. Whatever the Biden EPA does, investor Harris Kupperman thinks it’s likely just the Church of What’s Happening Now.
Kupperman, referred to as Kuppy by Real Vision’s Maggie Lake, told her, "Well, I think we’re nearing peak ESG, which is probably a good thing, honestly." He explained,
And it’s like religions kind of come, they peak, they die out. No one practices Roman religions anymore. I can name three of the gods and I’m a Roman history major.
These things, they peak, they crest, and this little religion of ESG, it’s been around for a while. It peaked. And now there’ll be some die hard adherence, but I think the vast majority of investors want to make money. And it’s great if they’re doing something that has a social good, but most of them just want to save for their retirement.
As to all those fancy Teslas silently cutting you off in traffic, their drivers teeming with superiority, thinking they are saving the planet, Kuppy sees them going the way of T. rex.
"No. I think EV is going to be something you’re going to go to a museum with my kids and be like, wow, that was an evolutionary dead end and we always [waste] trillions of dollars on this. No, I think that there’s no future to EV."
"Really, why?" an aghast Lake wondered.
Next, Kuppy comes with the hard facts amateur environmentalists and government enforcers don’t consider.
Because it [the EV] destroys energy. You have this concept called EROI, which is the return on energy you put in. An EV, you put more energy in than you get out. And so as a result, it’s just like a thermodynamic rule—it won’t work unless you subsidize it.
What’s the reason for EVs? It’s because it supposedly produces less carbon. But through the full life cycle of owning an EV, because so much carbon has to go into the stupid thing, it doesn’t use less carbon. You’re better off having a gas guzzler.
Yikes. Maybe EV owners are not as heroic as they believe.
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As auto manufacturers fade away Japan has planned for a brighter future. They will continue to produce gas, hybrid, Hydrogen, Diesel, and whatever to satisfy markets. Poor countries, wealthy countries , authoritarian all require different modes of transportation. I'd be happy with a mule.
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...Wait till the dealers find out how much it costs and how few they're going to sell.
And then wait for the states - especially CA and NY - to enact laws on disposal and handling of batteries. You think paying extra to dispose of your tires sucks? Wait till they start adding a 15-20% fee for battery disposal at the point of sale and then added into your yearly license and registration every year. And don't get me started on the increases in insurance.
Oh, and the new user fees on EVs will be comedy gold as well. Just because you're using electricity doesn't mean you're going to stop paying for the roads. A mileage tax makes the most sense and is the least intrusive, but 'sense' and 'least intrusive' are two concepts most governments aren't real clear on.
And then the utilities will get in on the act, with 'high demand' usage and special fees for charging stations, not to mention what they're gonna charge for new generating capability.
Like I've always said: if you think driving with gas is expensive now, wait till you see how much it costs to drive when you don't use it anymore.
Mike
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Separate paperless billing coming soon. We'll read the meters from the street. Multiple meter volume discounts apply.
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Yeah, EV's are sooooooo popular that the Feds had to offer $7,500 to get one. Of course, the EV makers would never raise prices...(kind of like guaranteed student loans vis-a-vis tuitions and raising the minimum wage).
How many miles of copper wiring are in these EV's, by the way?
ESG and "climate change" is definitely the new religion; well, besides covid and Saint Fauci.
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Indeed, we will all wait to discover the true cost. Too late then as there will be no alternative bbut pack animals and steam as per design. Forget about alternative imports. Only a few will be allowed to trickle in but those will go to the ruling class as they can't be bothered to live under the rules they've set for the rest of us.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
04/15/2023 9:45 Comments ||
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To add to #5's list:
Wait until the first major disaster that knocks out regional power for days and weeks. The armed forces can truck in whatever is the 'fuel de jour' for their vehicle fleet but the rest of the population (including local infrastructure) is screwed.
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/\...Wait until they need to airdrop bicycle rickshaws (made in India or Chine and priority airshipped here) in the disaster area for ambulance work. (/sarc)
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And the IC vehicles not cashed for clunkers won't start because the software for the mandated alcohol sensor is no longer supported.
Ooops! Ooopsies!
Because it [the EV] destroys energy. You have this concept called EROI, which is the return on energy you put in. An EV, you put more energy in than you get out. And so as a result, it’s just like a thermodynamic rule—it won’t work unless you subsidize it.
*bangs head on desk*
And the same MFrs complaining about apple batteries going bad too soon, just a couple years ago, are like yeah EVs its fine.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Separate paperless billing coming soon. We'll read the meters from the street. Multiple meter volume discounts apply. 
