[BLAZE] A man allegedly attacked a Florida homeowner's wife in front of her home and then tried to break into another home after being shot by the victim's husband, according to police and eye witness accounts from neighbors.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a call about a burglary at a residence on Bath Club Boulevard North in North Redington Beach around 3:23 a.m. on Wednesday morning. They found a man with a gunshot wound in the middle of the street and he was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injures.
Police did not release additional information about the shooting or alleged home invasion, but neighbors told WFLA-TV that the man had been bleeding profusely after being shot by a homeowner in the neighborhood.
"I heard the screaming and the yelling, and then I heard the gunshot," John Paul McCarthy said. "I couldn’t distinguish the glass breaking and all that, it was just commotion."
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His lawyer will point out - “How was he to know that they were Latinas?” His defense will be that the city is at fault for not keeping him locked up.
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^ Remember when all girls at NYC train and bus stations had to worry about were pimps?
Good times...
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Some assholes need the Pinochet helicopter tour of the Atlantic
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This nonsense is why there used to be insane asylums with locked wards for the violent ones. And why — only a few years ago — the job of the police was to arrest lawbreakers, and of prosecutors was to convict and jail them.
Here’s hoping the anti-woke backlash will soon clear the decks of the Soros protoges.
[Daily Caller] Gaston Glock, the reclusive Austrian engineer who invented the Glock handgun, died Wednesday, his company announced.
"In Memoriam Gaston Glock 07/19/1929 — 12/27/2023. Perfection continues," GLOCK, Inc. posted to its website.
The Glock handgun was invented as Austrian military sought a new, innovative firearm in the 1980s, Reuters reported. The Glock company used to manufacture a variety of items including curtain rods and military knives, until Glock and his team of firearms experts produced the semiautomatic, largely plastic Glock 17, the outlet noted.
The design, revolutionary at the time because it combined ease of assembly with strength, lightness, and portability, won the company the weapons contract with the Austrian military.
[IsraelTimes] The former president of Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s tiny Jewish community, who had pushed for the rehabilitation of Beirut’s abandoned synagogue, has died, his family and the community’s lawyer tell AFP.
Isaac Arazi, 80, who headed the Lebanese Jewish Community Council, "died on Tuesday and was buried the same day," lawyer Bassem el-Hout says.
Jews have been living in Lebanon for 2,000 years but their numbers shrank from some 22,000 before the 1975-1990 civil war to around 30 today, according to Hout.
They left steadily for the United States, Brazil and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after the State of Israel was established in 1948, "but they are still attached to Lebanon and many come back regularly," Hout adds.
Arazi’s family published an obituary in a Lebanese newspaper describing him as the driving force behind the reconstruction of the Magen Abraham Synagogue in central Beirut, one of the largest and most ornate in the Arab world.
The Jewish council that Arazi headed had helped fund the project through donations.
In 2009, Arazi told AFP he was "ecstatic" about renovating the synagogue, which opened to worshipers in 1926, and expressed hope that the endeavor would "ensure that the community grows once again."
The synagogue’s last rabbi fled the country in 1977 as Lebanese Jews left in droves, particularly after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, where the words "Jews" and "Israelis" are often synonymous.
A handful of buildings that were once synagogues still stand in Lebanon, including one in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and another in the southern city of Sidon.
[IsraelTimes] Hip-hop icon known for outlandish antisemitic screeds pens apparently software-translated statement in broken Hebrew professing his will to make amends to the Jewish community
That poor man is again swinging into the depressed side of his bipolar experience.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — As Congo copes with its biggest outbreak of mpox, scientists warn discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make it worse.
In November, the World Health Organization reported that mpox, also known as monkeypox, was being spread via sex in Congo for the first time. That is a significant departure from previous flare-ups, where the virus mainly sickened people in contact with diseased animals.
Mpox has been in parts of central and west Africa for decades, but it was not until 2022 that it was documented to spread via sex; most of the 91,00 people infected in approximately 100 countries that year were gay or bisexual men.
In Africa, unwillingness to report symptoms could drive the outbreak underground, said Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseases specialist at the Niger Delta University in Nigeria.
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Dieter from Sprockets: "Do you want to... touch my monkey?"
"Now, we dance..."
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^ I forgot to get a Unitard
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#8 - Nicely played
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A Tale of Old Homo Caudatus,
Of swinging both ways, and the Watoose,
Of scratching of notches
And other monks' crotches:
"We're nearly not queer,
Though -- wife, beer! -- clearly dear."
And I fear that's how monkeypox got loose.
[Business Insider] What makes special forces "special" isn't just combat skills or superhuman endurance. For units such as the US Army's Special Forces, it's the ability to train and advise foreign forces.
But this requires to ability to speak the local language, or at least to understand enough to know if the interpreter is lying. Yet US special operations forces lack required proficiency in foreign languages, according to a recent report by General Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency.
Between 2018 and 2022, "most Army and Marine Corps Special Operations Forces (SOF) units did not meet foreign language proficiency goals," the report said. In fact, "less than half of SOF personnel completed any foreign language training."
US Army Special Operations Command and Marine Special Operations Command told GAO investigators "that they do not routinely assess if foreign languages assigned to SOF are relevant to the partner forces and local population they communicate with on deployments."
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I suspect it was partially op tempo. Also the command would have to manage giving the soldier exposure opportunities for the different languages. That would be hard to manage. Sgt Billy has gone overdue on Pashtun.
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More timely to hire local 'terps' you can leave behind.
Don't outsource your core competency, for everything else use contractors. More plausible deniability.
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The standards are on a scale, level 2, 3 etc... Deployment schedule and future requirements allow for them to slip down a level or two and then brush up on their skills as the geographic region get hotter. For example being proficient in Spanish might not be to important right now so they let it slip. The soldiers get paid a different amount for each skill so it benefits them to stay proficient.
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[Utica Observer-Dispatch, h.t. Epoch Times] Mayor John Stephens has no idea what it will be like to live in Ilion without Remington Arms. "I’m 57-years-old and I’ve never seen anything but them here," he said.
Neither has anyone else.
The manufacturer has been producing firearms in Herkimer County since long before the village existed. It produced its first gun in 1816 when the area was known as Morgan’s Landing, Stephens said.
The manufacturer has been producing firearms in Herkimer County since long before the village existed. It produced its first gun in 1816 when the area was known as Morgan’s Landing, Stephens said.
But those 208 years will end in March. That’s when RemArms, the company’s latest iteration under the ownership of the Roundhill Group LLC, plans to close the Ilion factory, lay off all of its not quite 300 workers and move operations to Georgia.
In explaining the move, company officials described the ineffectiveness and expense of trying to run the aging, 1- million-square-foot factory in Ilion. They also mentioned the more gun-friendly political environment in Georgia.
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I am surprised it took them this long to wake up. My guess is that the last leadership holdouts preventing a good business decision; finally retired.
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In many cases, a former employee will start a similar business and try to leverage the knowledge and skill sets of the workforce that is left behind. In this case, NY is salted ground for that type of startup. You may see some boutique stuff.
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Following in the wake of Smith & Wesson. Kimber fled New York for Alabama a few years ago.
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A term for the Civil War my Grandmother said was common in her mother's day was "... the late unpleasantness". Such gentility in phrasing is unlikely is there is a Version 2.0.
As I recall, the lack of arms manufacturing industries was a serious deficit for the Confederacy. It seems that might be changing, albeit 150 years too late.
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I wonder how much time, effort and money the union and "stakeholders" spent lobbying the pols in Albany and DC who were targeting their livelihoods.
Not much?
Didn't think so...
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[Breitbart] Cuba‘s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia under the country’s barely functional healthcare system. But, but, Michael Moore said Cuba's health system was far superior to ours. He wouldn't lie, would he?
The changes, discreetly introduced by Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power with barely a mention in Castro regime state propaganda outlets, are slated to go into effect once the communist-led legislature introduces the necessary regulations for their application. Cuba will then become the second country in Latin America to approve euthanasia after Colombia did so in 1997.
“The right of people to a dignified death is recognized in end-of-life decisions, which may include the limitation of therapeutic effort, continuous or palliative care, and valid procedures that end life,” the corresponding text in the final draft of the legislation reportedly read.
The health law’s text also claimed to recognize “the right of people to have access to a dignified death, through the exercise of end-of-life determinations, which may include the limitation of therapeutic effort, continuous or palliative care and valid procedures that end life.”
State media claimed that the euthanasia provision is allegedly meant for “people with chronic degenerative and irreversible diseases, with intractable suffering, who are in an agonizing or terminal phase of life or who have suffered injuries that place them in this condition.”
“We can’t afford to treat them anyway, so they might as well be killed quickly, saving us money and them pain,” they added.
“This regulation legitimizes a right demanded by people for several years; we are not talking about euthanasia but about determinations,” Leonardo Pérez Gallardo, professor at the University of Havana and president of the Cuban Society of Civil Law, told the state-owned Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Pérez Gallardo did not address in his remarks any difference he considered there to be between euthanasia and “valid procedures that end life,” as stated in the law’s text.
The introduction of euthanasia to Cuban law comes at a time when Cuba’s healthcare system — highly lauded by international leftists as one of the best in the world — has been left in complete shambles after six decades of communist rule.
The collapse of Cuba’s health care is marked by a complete lack of even the most essential supplies to treat patients. The near-ruined state of the nation’s healthcare infrastructure often presents itself in the most unsanitary conditions.
“I have had to cast a patient with a piece of cardboard. The scissors and the stethoscope you have to take care of as if they were gold; if you are careless, they steal them in the consultation room. Since we lack paper, we don’t even have prescriptions,” A Cuban orthopedic specialist told Diario Las Americas in December.
The impending introduction of euthanasia also comes as Cuba continues to face a severe population collapse fueled by declining birth rates and accelerated growth in the elderly population among Cuba’s remaining inhabitants. Large numbers of the nation’s youth are fleeing communism, fueling the largest migrant crisis in Cuban history.
According to statistics presented by Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), the island nation has roughly 11.08 million citizens. Since 1977, Cuba has been unable to achieve the 2.1 fertility rate required of a country — meaning 2.1 children are born per woman of childbearing age — to reach population replacement levels.
Castro regime officials have stated, “If the current trends are not reversed, which seems unlikely,” then Cuba’s population could drop from its current 11 million to fewer than nine million people by 2054.
The dramatic and increasing exodus of Cubans fleeing from communism in recent years has also led to a significant decrease in Cuban healthcare personnel.
In 2022, Cuban official statistics indicated that the nation counted 291,098 healthcare professionals, down from 312,406 in 2021. In the case of physicians with a specialty, Cuba went from 106,131 in 2021 to 94,066 in 2022.
[WIRE] More than 1,200 Pizza Hut delivery drivers throughout California will be out of a job in the coming months after California’s fast food minimum wage increase.
Numerous Pizza Hut franchises in California announced they would eliminate delivery driver positions and rely on third-party delivery companies such as DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats as the state’s minimum wage for fast food workers will increase to $20 in April, CBS News reported. The layoffs, which will start in February, will mostly affect Pizza Hut delivery drivers in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties.
One delivery driver told Business Insider last week that he was offered $400 severance pay if he worked until February 5 — the date Pizza Hut told him he would be laid off.
"The money they are giving us as severance pay is a slap on the face," the Pizza Hut employee said. "It comes to $3 a month for nine-plus years of service."
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One big fucking DUH! there. Of course raising the minimum wage will result in a rise in unemployment.
"The money they are giving us as severance pay is a slap on the face," the Pizza Hut employee said. "It comes to $3 a month for nine-plus years of service."
Let me guess: You voted for Newsom and his party every time.
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In the progressive sphere, choice is the pinnacle of human individuality, whether killing unborn infants or cutting off gender associated body parts.
To bring up that some choices (votes) result in bad outcomes is very unacceptable.
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And maybe that clown deserves a slap in the face. Unless there's some leftie mandate in California or bona fide work agreement/contract (ha), I should think that Pizza Hut doesn't have to offer any severance pay. Period.
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I notice no lefty "journalist" or media organ has come forward with a glowing story of how the antisemitic "baristas" in Oakland have fared since they were cut loose.
Story in that somewhere, eh?
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The drivers will still be there dashing instead. PizzaHut simplifies their business. All the pizza places will follow suit. They will also drop staff. Fast food wait times will double.
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Soviet Central Planning strikes again. Don't we feel virtuous!
#12
^ except even slave owners had to pay for the food, clothes and shelter of their 'property'. Now they simply shift that cost to the general taxpayers in various 'social programs'.
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.
[BLAZE] A man allegedly attacked a Florida homeowner's wife in front of her home and then tried to break into another home after being shot by the victim's husband, according to police and eye witness accounts from neighbors.
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
But those 208 years will end in March. That’s when RemArms, the company’s latest iteration under the ownership of the Roundhill Group LLC, plans to close the Ilion factory, lay off all of its not quite 300 workers and move operations to Georgia. 
