[BLAZE] A man died after several neighborhood residents confronted him for allegedly trying to climb the wall of an elementary school with a sledgehammer, California police said.
The bizarre incident unfolded at McKinley Elementary School in Long Beach at about 2:30 p.m. while school was in session on Tuesday.
The suspect had already climbed a fence and gotten into the parking lot of the school, police said. When he tried to scale another barrier to the campus, he was pulled down by a group of men who detained him.
Police said they were called to the scene after the man called about a home invasion, but when they arrived they were directed to the school where the man had been detained.
Police said the man was already unresponsive when they arrived at the school. Paramedics confirmed the man was dead at the scene.
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Sounds like he did not have the cardiac fitness to use his personal EAP response for a house invasion by the Norse god Loki. Surely, the plan looked good on paper but it did not meet the test of real world circumstances. Maybe the humidity got him.
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[PJ] As prominent leftists continue their sick obsession with ensuring as many abortions as possible, a group of pro-aborts has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to help women kill their babies.
Many hailed last year’s Supreme Court overturn of the anti-constitutional Roe v. Wade decision as a victory for life, but pro-abortion Democrats have been fixated on maintaining a high abortion count across the country ever since. Fox News reported on Sept. 19 that "a new chatbot called Charley aims to help [women] start the process of getting an abortion."
The official website describes "Charley, The Abortion Chatbot" from National Women’s Health Network (NWHN) this way:
Chat with Charley to get abortion options in every zip code. Charley is managed by trusted partners of the NWHN. Everything Charley shares has been vetted by experienced public health professionals and reproductive health advocates, including medical and legal experts.
Multiple states have banned abortion, raising questions about how Charley helps provide "abortion options in every zip code." The site does explain that it provides "information including what’s legal in your state, where your nearest clinics are, how to get abortion pills, as well as estimated prices and wait times." Abortion pills are restricted in over a dozen states, which hasn’t stopped abortion advocates from mailing pills to individuals in those states through the U.S. Postal Service.
Charley’s creators include Bianca Sembrano, former President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards, Frank Rosado, also formerly of Planned Parenthood, former Director of Innovation at Planned Parenthood Kaori Sueyoshi, and Kiana Tipton. Other creators include former President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of South, East, and North Florida and current Latinx Outreach Lead Lillian Tamayo, former Planned Parenthood employee and "passionate advocate for sex education" Nicole Cushman, and former Planned Parenthood digital department head Tom Subak. There are also several medical advisors.
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Since many locations depend on each other for items and/or the need generated to produce them. Watch the UNION Unemployment #'s and negative economical trickle down affect of this poorly timed UNION stunt has on other union and non-union locations.
Hell the Union strike might even end up saving the Auto Makers $$ Millions in the long run.
#2
We've been hearing about "channel stuffing" for years. Dealers being forced to take delivery of vehicles they know they won't be able to sell because nobody wants the overpriced things. The car lot is full, but do they have the model with the options you want? Probably not.
The "industry" will moan that the strike is bad for them and their future, but I'm sure lots of people in management see it as a time to whittle those existing inventories and close some excess capacity while putting the blame on the union.
Not that some of that blame doesn't belong there.
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Deceptive newspaper ads. Dealer has ad for lower cost vehicle but only stocks a couple at the beginning of the month ...you show up and they 'hard sell' you for a more expensive model because they (quote) don't have any left (un-quote).
[Center Square] Sewage backups and inoperable fire systems are among the safety hazards that U.S. service members living in barracks face, according to a new report on how such conditions undermine quality of life and military readiness.
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report found that the Pentagon's assessments of conditions at barracks "are unreliable" and "observed barracks that pose potentially serious health and safety risks — such as broken windows and inoperable fire systems — and that do not meet minimum [U.S. Department of Defense] standards for privacy and configuration."
"Thousands of service members live in barracks below standards," according to the report, which was published Tuesday.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Housing Patricia Coury said in a response to the report that "Corrective Action Plans for each recommendation will be developed by my office with input from the Military Departments."
#3
Barracks are about on the bottom of all priorities. We were living with old WW2 temporary wood facilities well into the 80s. Still doing 'fire watch' at night in which those living in them had to do as you have very little time to evacuate before it would become an inferno. We had junior rank bachelor officer quarters that made Motel 6 look like a three star hotel. Hey, but we have billions for the Ukraine.
#5
Oh, the stories that I could tell about the barracks where I lived at Misawa AB, Japan. No AC, of course; a heating system that wouldn't be turned on in the fall, until there had been a difference between the high and low for thirty days in a row. The barracks where I lived wasn't too bad, aside from being overrun by cockroaches. The barracks building across the street was in such bad condition that a guy walked into the upstairs latrine, and the floor under him gave way and dropped him down into the ground floor latrine.
#10
Ae the residents able to quietly make repairs, so long as they source the materials themselves? Surely that would be preparation for life in the field as well.
Translation: "I'll have to have a much bigger budget and a much bigger staff to churn out some PowerPoint presentations for presenting over lunch at some fancy-schmancy hotel."
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...The storm that may have killed that F-35 passed over my home not long before the accident. It was awful, with extremely high wind gusts and rain literally going sideways. If he got caught in a downdraft or microburst, it wouldn't make a difference how much the airframe cost because there was now a very good chance the plane was gone.
#5
Given its a serious violation of 14 FAA CFR § 91.119 - Minimum safe altitudes. PLUS UCMJ violations of Article 108 Military Property of the United States – Loss, Damage, Destruction, or Wrongful Disposition and Article 110 Improper Hazarding of Vessel or Aircraft and etc...) resulting in the lost of a $80M jet.
I predict, Ft. Leavenworth will need to free up a few south Facing accommodations for 10 years.
#6
I keep seeing the breathless headline that the jet "flew 60 miles" after the pilot ejected. At the F-35's minimum flight speed, that's not actually many minutes of flight.
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#7
yep. Ask Payne Stewart
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/21/2023 7:21 Comments ||
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Except, the plane Stewart was on was at cruising altitude, fueled for a cross-country flight and it was a business jet, not a fighter.
Otherwise, a good comparison.
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I've been wondering how all these digital wonders will deal with being in a real massive electrical storm. I know, hardened systems, but the rule in electrical shielding is 'close is worse'.
And they all have radar soaking (and electricaly conductive) carbon fiber skins and frames, with antennae built in. I know, aluminum frames were conductive, but they didn't have the digital flight sensors under the skin all over the airframe.
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Ya know, the AF has a large scale hangar at Eglin that can simulate hazardous weather. Hurricane force winds, blowing rain, freezing ice storms, the works. Doubt if it can do lightning, though.
Remember reading that the C-17 wouldn't completely fit, they had to make a special door so the tail could stick outside.
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It's not hard to do lightning.
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#13
Speaking of USMC pilots, I'm watching CalFire Air Attack stacking above our burg n there's n Osprey with no USMC markings in the mix. Did CalFire buy themselves an Osprey? Curious.
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Not to go all Dr Mengele this early in the morning, but we do have a large population of homeless mentally ill drug addicts we don't know what to do with.
If I were me, I would be trying to connect animal brains with robot bodies. Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the robotic dogs of war.
#5
Having refused the clotshot due to lack of willingness to be somebody's guinea pig, I'll just have to say "I'll give it due consideration".
Anyway,...
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#6
Had I a condition this 'may' resolve, then you bet I'm in line.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Are we sure they didn’t invent it in a lab, then just pretend they found it in the deep blue sea? Lots of spikes would be a hint...
[BenarNews] The Philippine defense chief has said that possible "covert" activities by Chinese workers in the country are a "security risk" and the defense department’s current focus was on such actions.
Workers from China who are in and out of the Philippines on a regular basis are difficult to keep track of, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. told politicians during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros had asked Teodoro about the national security implications of Chinese state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) operations in critical public services, including energy and telecommunications.
"The SOEs and infrastructures, that’s not so much a problem because we can monitor it and we have default control over it. It’s the activities that we cannot see that’s worrisome," Teodoro said in reply.
"So what I want to know and what we are currently focusing on are the covert economic activities and information activities that are not openly happening."
Chinese workers, especially those that frequently come and go, are a "security risk" because the government cannot monitor them, Teodoro added.
The State Grid Corporation of China owns 40% of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, while state-owned China Telecom partly owns one of the archipelago’s telecommunications providers, DITO Telecom.
During the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, there was an influx of Chinese workers in the country, particularly in the Philippine offshore gaming operations, or POGOs.
These operations cater mainly to customers in mainland China, where gambling is banned. At their peak, POGOs hired more than 300,000 Chinese workers, according to officials
Earlier this week, the Philippine Coast Guard front man had alleged without offering proof that China was running a disinformation campaign supported by ’state actors" on Manila’s dispute with Beijing on the West Philippine Sea, which is the part of the South China Sea within Manila’s exclusive economic zone.
The Philippines in 2016 won a landmark ruling in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, which threw out China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea. Beijing, however, has ignored the ruling and carried on with its military expansionism in the strategic waterway, including building artificial islands.
"I hope we are keeping tabs on those hostile state actors and doing what we can to minimize their ability to influence public opinion in the Philippines," Sen. Hontiveros said.
Teodoro said the defense department and the Philippine military knew about the "fusion of external threats through internal activities" but they were still verifying reports.
"The best way ... to weaken a country, rather than an overt war-like disruption of your facilities, is really to take control of [the] internal economy, internal processes and the like," Teodoro said.
He added that there was a need for intelligence and confidential funds allotment for different agencies "to prevent" such eventualities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... China has increased its presence in the South China Sea. Beijing has consistently deployed its China Coast Guard ships and maritime militia vessels to harass Philippine ships, Filipino officials said.
Philippine ally the United States is seeking access to more bases in the Philippines on top of nine sites already included under an expanded pact amid heightened regional tensions with China, Philippine military chief Romeo Brawner Jr. and Adm. John C. Aquilino, head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said this week.
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[PJ] As prominent leftists continue their sick obsession with ensuring as many abortions as possible, a group of pro-aborts has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to help women kill their babies.
