[MSN] Loretta Lynn, a singer and songwriter whose rise from dire poverty in Kentucky coal country to the pinnacle of country music was chronicled in the best-selling memoir and movie "Coal Miner’s Daughter," and whose candid songs gave voice to the daily struggles of working-class women, died Oct. 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.
#9
California has essentially de-criminalized crime. El Dorado County is a conservative, upscale suburb of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, a lovely spot which until the past few years has remained mostly the better California of memory. Now the rot is spreading quickly.
"“The practical reality is that most retailers have learned if they call law enforcement for a theft of less than $950, either law enforcement will not respond, or if they respond at most, what they will do is issue a citation [for court appearance],” Pierson said."
As such, most retailers in California have a policy that prevents their employees from reporting low-level property crimes, which is why the data for such incidents may be inaccurate, according to Pierson. Some stores stop reporting petty theft altogether because police “can’t do much.”
A store can be sued by an attempted robbery suspect who’s physically confronted by its employees.
“We’re a very litigious society here in California, and the stores and their insurance carriers really are afraid of being sued for trying to stop a crime that has little or no consequence,” he said."
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most retailers in California have a policy that prevents their employees from reporting low-level property crimes
The upside of this is that even though organized retail theft is a thing now, the politicians responsible for the mess can point at the police report data that shows crime is actually down. It makes for a great campaign taking point.
#13
White jaywalkers -- "Ossifer, trust us,
We're Black, just like Garrett Augustus!" --
Start curlin' and corkin'!
If poor Mr. Morgan
Could see! Ain't no traffic light justice!
#14
Since the majority of murders are committed by blacks, isn't it racist to prosecute for murder? (Even though the majority of murder victims are also black.)
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All Black Lives Matter Sometimes. Depends on the perp, depends on...
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[ALARABIYA] Kim Kardashian has agreed to settle charges of unlawfully touting a crypto security and to pay $1.26 million in penalties, disgorgement and interest, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday.
The SEC said in a statement that reality television star and influencer Kardashian failed to disclose that she was paid $250,000 to publish the post about EMAX tokens, the crypto asset security being offered by EthereumMax on her Instagram account.
"This case is a reminder that, when celebrities or influencers endorse investment opportunities, including crypto asset securities, it doesn’t mean that those investment products are right for all investors," SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.
The US regulator also charged Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and a music producer known as "DJ Khaled" in November 2018 for allegedly not disclosing payments they received for promoting investments in initial coin offerings.
Neither Mayweather nor Khaled Mohammed Khaled admitted or denied the SEC’s charges, but agreed to pay a combined $767,500 in fines and penalties.
[FoxNews] Five years since the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas claimed 58 lives — and two more after that night — officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) can receive reality-based training at a new $35 million facility.
The LVMPD Foundation, which raises money for the police department, has so far garnered $29 million in donations for the $35 million, reality-based training facility, which is set to be completed by the end of next year.
"The training facility is being built to address both the need for collective responses to incidents like the Country Music Festival shooting on 1 October, 2017, as well as to provide training for the police department and ultimately other law enforcement agencies so that they can better respond to incidents that require deescalation, self-defense and other types of responses — in particular to active shooter situations," LVMPD Foundation Executive Director Tom Kovach told Fox News Digital.
The planning for the training center, from an idea standpoint and a conceptual standpoint, however, began prior to the 2017 shooting, Kovach said.
The first stage of construction for the center has been completed, while the second stage is ongoing.
"The first building, which is completed and operational — that building contains the administrative functions for the training center," Kovach explained. Trainings are designed, scheduled and built out between sessions.
In that building, which is larger than 50,000 square feet, there are "classrooms for classroom-based training" and "mat rooms for physical training, de-escalation training, self-defense training and so forth." There is also a simulation room that "allows different scenarios to be projected on the walls. " That room "is broken up into smaller spaces to resemble an apartment or other types of spaces that our officers will get called to in response to an incident," Kovach said.
Thousands of officers have already experienced training — including reality-based training, advanced officer skills training, and bleed training — in the first building. Up to 30 students can be trained at once in the first building.
The second building, which will be over 130,000 square feet once complete, will include indoor, climate-controlled rooms designed to look like real-life convenience stores, casinos, hotel rooms, a school, a gym, a doctor’s office, a restaurant and other settings where active-shooter situations, as well as a number of other personal and citizen-defense incidents, may occur.
The goal is to teach officers how to properly respond to high-intensity scenarios in a way that saves as many civilian and officer lives as possible.
While reality-based training centers are not new for police, the LVMPD Foundation's center is a first-of-its-kind in terms of scale and functionality, Kovach said.
Right about now, 100's of people are combing the rural GA Farms & fields for abandon old tractors. Saw a few likely pre-1940'ist in the Keysville and Blythe GA area last month. ☺
#4
Another sign of too much money sloshing around without any means of sound investment. In olden times, that money would have gone to build a factory, school or hospital.
#4
Speaking from some experience, there's no doubt that the best defense against a hurricane is a well-maintained car with a full tank of gas. I don't even want to think about evacuating in an electric car.
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...its a mistake that gets solved the first time.
[FoxBusinessNews] Major concealed carry insurance providers in the U.S. say they have seen unprecedented growth in the past few years, as rising crime rates continue to drive more Americans to take their personal safety into their own hands by buying a firearm for self-defense.
Delta Defense, which runs the U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) and provides self-defense liability insurance coverage as part of membership in the education and training organization, has seen its membership numbers more than double from 300,000 in 2020 to nearly 700,000 today.
A decade ago, USCCA's membership was at 50,000.
Tim Schmidt, CEO of Delta Defense and President and Co-founder of the USCCA, attributes the surge to the "millions of brand new gun owners there are in the wake of primarily all the riots that happened in early 2020."
He told FOX Business, "A lot of people came to the realization that ‘Holy cow I need to be able to defend myself, so I'm going to buy a gun.'" And those new gun owners are seeking out education, training and further protection.
Competitor U.S. LawShield, which launched in 2009 and also provides education, training and concealed carry insurance, saw an enormous surge in membership starting in 2020, too.
"We had this combination in the last two or three years of COVID, civil unrest, gigantic increases in crime across the country – and we saw a very, very unprecedented growth in our company." president Kirk Evans told FOX Business, saying that his organization is also currently sitting at around 700,000 members.
Evans said another reason the industry has seen so much growth is because of increasing diversity among gun owners.
"You could not go a week in the last year or two without seeing an article about ‘women make up the largest demographic of new permit holders’ or ‘African Americans have shown the highest increase’ or minorities as the biggest increase in blank or people in San Francisco running out to buy a firearm," he said. "This is not a white conservative group anymore."
Both CEOs believe business is set to take off further.
Evans sees opportunity following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which will make it easier to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun in a number of states.
Just like New York, Evans says, California, New Jersey and other states with restrictive permitting structures will now have to loosen them. He explained, "What we expect to see is a huge growth in three of the largest states in the country" due to the decision.
Schmidt sees opportunity in both the sheer number of gun owners in the U.S. and his company's own expansion, noting that there are some 22 million Americans that have concealed carry permits and 80 million households that own guns.
"It's a combination of just the overall society is just buying more guns because they're scared and they want to be able to defend themselves," he said. "And number two, we're getting better at our job."
#1
It's got to be very lucrative insurance. Your chances of being involved in a righteous civilian shoot that is treated like a crime is probably about as good as your chance of being struck by lightning or winning the lottery.
Much of the need for the insurance depends on the jurisdiction. You are much more likely to need it in a blue state than a red one.
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I used to have it but let it lapse when I didn't travel that much by car anymore. I live outside Houston so I'm not overly concerned about needing it but if I start travelling out of state again, will probably pick it back up.
[HotAir] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected two appeals by gun owners seeking to overturn the federal government’s ban on the sale of bump stocks — devices that allow a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger.
The court did not elaborate on its decision, which is a significant victory for gun safety advocates and government efforts to regulate dangerous weapons. Just more 2nd amendment restrictions.
[DW] Togo's government has confirmed reports that Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's ousted coup leader Paul-Henri Damiba fled there following a mutiny of junior officers. Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... ECOWAS envoys were being sent to Ouagadougou.
“You may continue to be a flake in private, Your Majesty, but in these troubled times your government hasn’t the time for expensive virtue signaling. Now be a dear and start working on your red boxes like a good little king.”
[Dawn] King Charles III will not travel to next month’s United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... climate summit in Egypt, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Sunday, after UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reportedly "objected" to the keen environmentalist attending.
This new prime minister is looking more and more like what the Brits thought they were getting when they elected Boris Johnson, even if her proposed tax reduction was cut off at the pass.
Britannia’s new monarch, who took the throne when his mother Queen Elizabeth II died last month, had intended to deliver a speech to world leaders gathering at the COP27 summit on November 6-18, the Sunday Times reported.
#3
It was all about who would pay. Chuckie could do pretty much as he wishes on his own dime. The PM told him that was the only way he'd do this. That give you an idea of how expensive that trip would have been.
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Heh...
"Virtue signal at the cost of your own purse, your Majesty."
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#6
I had hopes he was going to submerge those environmental loony positions in remembrance of his mothers sterling performance as monarch. I remain hopeful but this is the first hint that he may not be able to suppress the nuttiness in the coming months. With the coming fireworks from the Ginger Moron and his evil wife, one hopes Will and Kate will have a respected Throne in the future.
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How can our North Korean "allies" conduct such tests on the heels of a US Vice President's visit? Discreet diplomatic letters of demarche must be undertaken at once. Developments can be monitored below the fold on page 18, in the coming weeks.
[Aljazeera] United States manufacturing activity grew at its slowest pace in nearly two and a half years in September as new orders contracted while interest rates were aggressively hiked to cool demand and tame inflation.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Monday that its manufacturing purchasing managers’ index or PMI dropped to 50.9 in September, the lowest reading since May 2020, from 52.8 in August.
A reading above 50 indicates expansion in manufacturing, which accounts for 11.9 percent of the US economy. Economists polled by Reuters news agency had forecast the index slipping to 52.3.
Some of the slowdown in manufacturing reflects the rotation of spending from goods to services. Government data last Friday showed spending on long-lasting manufactured goods barely rose in August, while outlays on services picked up.
#1
over the next year or so a fair amount of manufacturing will be coming to the US from Europe because of the cost of electricity, gas, water, etc.
How much is uncertain but it could be as much as a million jobs and since this is primary activity a lot of service jobs would be created. Of course this assumes the Biden Admin doesn't destroy our economy with high energy costs, diversity requirements, pollution regs, etc.
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#5
Not unusual, as it turns out. Every operating company the Empire State building had ever had gone bankrupt. Probably by design, tax wise. There's a metaphor there.
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[NYP] Six young people were killed when their car slammed into a tree in Nebraska — a horrific crash that was detected by the new iPhone 14, which alerted first responders, authorities said.
Five men in the Honda Accord died at the scene of the crash around 2:15 a.m. Sunday in Lincoln, police said. A 24-year-old woman who suffered critical injuries died later at a hospital.
ICYMI: The police chief in the #Indonesian city where clashes and a stampede at a football #stadium left 125 people dead has been removed from his position, a national police spokesman says.https://t.co/Oj2WjHKL7P
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.
One small step for Equity. One small step for mankind. 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[FoxBusinessNews] Major concealed carry insurance providers in the U.S. say they have seen unprecedented growth in the past few years, as rising crime rates continue to drive more Americans to take their personal safety into their own hands by buying a firearm for self-defense.
[HotAir] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected two appeals by gun owners seeking to overturn the federal government’s ban on the sale of 
[Aljazeera] United States manufacturing activity grew at its slowest pace in nearly two and a half years in September as new orders contracted while interest rates were aggressively hiked to cool demand and tame inflation.
