[Hot Air] You can’t blame them for trying I guess. Two adult men arrested and charged for stealing from a Kohl’s department store in Colorado had their lawyer make the case that the charges against them should reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor because some of the items were on sale.
The pair were dubbed the "KitchenAid Mixer Crew," because the pricey kitchen appliance was included in the theft, along with brand-name shoes and clothing. Investigators identified the two through surveillance images.
Prosecutors said the items stolen totaled $2,094. That’s important because the cutoff line between a misdemeanor theft and a felony theft in Colorado is $2,000, according to the prosecutor’s office.
"The legal argument by the defense was that these two individuals basically stole merchandise that was on sale, and if you took the sale price, it would fall below the $2,000 threshold required for a Class 6 felony conviction," said Eric Ross, spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
If the stolen goods had been $95 cheaper then the most these two could face was a year in jail. But if this is treated as a felony then they are facing up to 18 months in prison, not to mention a felony conviction on their records. Their attorney argued the items were below the misdemeanor threshold if you counted the sale prices instead of the regular retail price.
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They were shooting for something epic like the Hole in the Wall Gang. Unfortunately, that name is probably a solely owned subsidiary of the Grinder ap.
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In addition to being hilarious, this points up the difficulties involved in writing laws, specifications and computer programs.
In this case, the law declares a specific numerical limit but does not specify how that number is to be calculated. Do we use the wholesale price? Manufacturer's suggested retail? The current price at the time of the crime? I think they have a point. And their lawyer has balls for trying to make it in court.
[Breitbart] A male-born transgender athlete appears set to be awarded one of only 12 female volleyball scholarships at the University of Washington, a report finds.
Tate Drageset, a 17-year-old transgender “girl” who apparently began “transitioning” at the age of 12, made a verbal commitment to attend the school in June and will be awarded one of Washington’s Division 1 athletic scholarships, according to Reduxx.
Drageset has already been part of several girls’ volleyball teams that made it to state championships, and this year, he was named the MVP at the Girls Junior National Championships. Drageset also won the California Interscholastic Federation’s Division 5 Player of the 2022-23 Year.
Despite the well-known accolades, what has been less well known is that Drageset is transgender and was born a male. None of his teams, schools, or volleyball associations have revealed that he is a male playing as a transgender girl.
Parents of girls that Drageset has faced on the court, though, have reportedly talked about the situation for years, with many furious that the taller, more powerful Drageset has been facing down and taking opportunities from natural-born girls for years.
But many have been afraid to speak out for fear that they would be targeted as haters and their daughters would be punished.
“Everyone is scared of how their child will be treated if they speak up. It’s already so competitive to get on a good club team,” one parent told Reduxx. “The stealing of positions and opportunities has been infuriating and so sad when you see how it affects the girls. There is no concern for their mental health or safety after being replaced.”
Drageset’s mother, though, seems to have made a cottage industry for herself, chronicling her son’s progress as a trans girl.
According to her story published by the Los Angeles Times in 2016, Stacey Drageset claims she knew her son was transgender because when he was a small child, he liked girls’ clothing. While the story does not fully name Tate, the child in the story is called “T” and is also said to be heavily into volleyball. “T” is also from the same area Tate lives in, according to the paper’s story.
Stacey Drageset also produced a short film about Tate in 2016 entitled Trans-mission.love, a film made when Tate was only 12. According to Reduxx, Tate’s face was blurred, but the movie features the child holding a volleyball with “Tate” on it.
Tate’s mother also published a book in 2015 on the topic of gender identity aimed at children. So, it seems clear that Stacey Drageset has been promulgating transgenderism for small children since her son was only around ten years old.
Reduxx adds Tate’s volleyball performance statistics far outpace his female opponents and teammates.
“When compared to same-height female athletes within his volleyball club, Drageset’s standing reach, vertical jump, and other key physical metrics are all more favorable,” Reduxx noted.
Reduxx also pointed out that male volleyball rules set the net at seven inches higher than that for girls’ volleyball. That is because male volleyball players are, on average, six inches taller than girls and far more powerful on spikes and serves. So, it isn’t surprising that Tate is overpowering all his actual female opponents.
Tate has been tearing through all opponents, and every team he has played on as a girl has effortlessly soared into championship status. However, many parents feel that Tate is cheating and that his male physique gives him a vast and unbeatable advantage.
Then there is the safety issue. Some parents worry about their daughters’ safety on the court, with the more powerful students playing against them.
The worry is justified. Only weeks ago, a father in California came forward to report that his daughter was seriously injured by a ball spiked by a transgender player during a high school volleyball game. He said the girl suffered a severe concussion and was left with blurry vision.
In 2022, another girl was seriously injured by a transgender player during a high school volleyball game in North Carolina.
In November, a Massachusetts girl had her teeth knocked out when a boy on an opposing field hockey team slashed a shot that struck her in the face with brutal force.
[America Free News Network] "The United States Military Academy honors Native American Heritage Month by reflecting on the their annual ceremony where cadets receive an eagle feather prior to graduation and commissioning."
Plus, by Federal Law, you can't personally keep an eagle feather unless you are registered as a Native American. And even they have to get a permit to do so.
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"Feathers donated from Wind Turbines across America"
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^ What about velociraptors? Being an ancestor of birds would seem to make you a bird and therefore protected by law.
Extinct, you say? Hah! Paleo-dude Jack Horner is publicly trying to genetically reverse engineer a dinosaur from a chicken and making progress. Gawd only knows what the Chinese are up to.
tl;dr: it would be unlawful to shoot rampaging dinosaurs without first obtaining a permit
[FoxNews] The Satanic Temple's display inside the Iowa State Capitol was destroyed on Thursday, according to police.
A spokesperson for the Iowa State Police told Fox News Digital that Michael Cassidy, 35, was arrested after allegedly tearing down the Iowa Satanic Temple’s Baphomet display.
He was charged with 4th-degree criminal mischief.
In a text message to Fox News Digital, Cassidy confirmed he tore down the satanic display, which was erected last week by The Satanic Temple of Iowa to represent the group's right to religious freedom.
"It was extremely anti-Christian," Cassidy told Fox News Digital when asked why he tore the statue down.
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“Bezoar is a long term thinker who believes that humanity has a bright future” - unless you’re in a retail industry, in which case he’s coming after you.
[MSN] Thousands of Pfizer employees from around the world were watching through their computer screens in October when Chief Executive Albert Bourla and other executives at the giant drugmaker stepped onto a stage for a company town hall.
Pfizer had announced several days earlier it was embarking on a $3.5 billion cost-cutting effort, including layoffs. Bourla and the other executives explained the company was positioning for growth.
"Future is bright... but you might get fired," one employee wrote in the video’s chat room, which the company had left open. "Dumpster fires are [always] bright," read another message.
Not long ago, Pfizer was among the most admired companies, a firm that in record time had delivered a vaccine that could protect against Covid-19, and then a drug to ward off bad infections. The products powered Pfizer’s revenue past $100 billion. Employee pride swelled.
This week, the company’s shares fell to their lowest close in more than a decade, capping a stunning fall that year-to-date has obliterated $140 billion in valuation. The company is pulling back on some of its research programs and laying off workers. Morale has shriveled, according to current and former employees.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Where's the EMP?
Four cities in Connecticut were caught up in illegal street takeovers over the weekend
Cops were pelted with fireworks as they tried to break up events that drew up to 1,500 motorists
One police officer in Milton was hospitalized after being assaulted by the mob
Street takeovers are large gatherings of drivers, often filled with stunts and other mayhem. The events have become more common across the US with other cities reporting issues with takeovers in recent weeks.
Police said the group started in Shelton and traveled to North Haven, Orange, Derby and then back to Shelton as police pursued in an attempt to disperse them.
'Some of the vehicles traveled from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Vermont for this event,' Shelton police detective Richard Bango told CT Insider.
'When the vehicles arrived at Research Drive business parking lots they were turned away. The group then attempted to plan alternative parking lots to gather along Bridgeport Avenue using social media.'
Video taken in Derby showed fireworks raining down on cops and exploding in the street through a smoke-filled haze.
Shelton police said they learned a takeover was being planned on Saturday.
They coordinated a multi-agency response including the FBI and Connecticut State Police.
We started here, and set the plan out, so we were ready for them when they got here and moved with them,' Shelton Police Chief Shawn Sequeira told WTHN.
'Once they're gathered, that's a whole different situation,' he added.
In West Haven, six people were arrested in the early hours of Saturday following a takeover where attendees performed donuts and other dangerous stunts in vehicles.
Police apprehended and charged four adults and two juveniles after fireworks were thrown at officers and people refused to comply with orders to disperse.
Cops responded to numerous 911 calls reporting, 'people standing in the roadway and cars doing "donuts" in the street', according to a statement.
The Connecticut events came after Indianapolis was rocked by a similar event that drew more than 500 cars from various states - with some doing dangerous stunts as people hung out the window.
The carnage ended with gunfire as cops tried to break up the gathering and the arrest of 23-year-old Sebastian Jimenez after he injured two cops after leading them on a pursuit.
The city has seen a worrying rise in takeovers, which often see an influx of motorists illegally gather to perform risky maneuvers in cars and other vehicles.
'It's unwanted by the community and it's a very dangerous activity,' Indianapolis police Northwest District Commander Lorenzo Lewis said.
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Develop a way to dye mark, and/or RFID tag aggressive hostile protesters, destructive looters, and rioters.
South Korea use to use a DYE Spray technique very effectively for later arrest and it also subjected such criminals to a public stigma when in public until the dye wore off. But then Facebook cobbled together a collection of errors spread out over dozens of violent protests, and South Korea halted the effective use of Protest Mod Dye spraying.
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I would take my cannon and point it at the bugwits. Load it with rock salt
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The sad arrest rate shows that the LE response is just barely that. It's not meant to put an end to anything. The populace will continue to be terrorized.
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[RIA] It all started with material that went around many media outlets: after the State Council (government) of China published the “White Paper” last month. regarding Tibet, Beijing has stopped calling it Tibet and instead uses the word "Xizang". The calculations began: before the book was published, Tibet was mentioned 700 times in the official media, and after that it was all about Xizang.
A similar incident (i.e. confusion) occurred in Russia in 1997, when Hong Kong ceased to be a British colony and was returned to China. In Russian writing circles, not particularly literate philological Nazis began to rage, claiming that the Beijing authorities had authoritarianly renamed Hong Kong to Hong Kong and everyone should now write only Hong Kong in Russian. Although in fact no one renamed anything, just two characters meaning “fragrant bay” were and are read in northern, state Chinese as Hong Kong, and in the southern dialect they also sound like Hong Kong.
But no one renamed Tibet either. In Chinese for a very long time it has been precisely Xizang, that is, “Western pantry,” or even “Western treasury.” Do you think the locals call it Tibet? Nothing of the kind, they would rather use another word - Bod. Then where did it all come from? And, for example, from the traveler Guillaume de Rubruk (XIII century).
The word he gives is "Tibet" almost of Sogdian origin, but in the end it became... Yes, yes, English. And let’s not forget that the British at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries had such thoughts - how to take Tibet into their hands after India, but it didn’t work out (in including Russia interfered). It remained Chinese, as it had been for centuries before, except for short periods of relative autonomy.
You may think that our conversation is about the fact that more and more often, all over the world, countries and peoples are correcting such mistakes of the colonialists. Calcutta became Kolkata, Madras became Chennai, Burma became Myanmar. Not to mention the fact that Delhiis gradually accustoming the world to the fact that the country has long been called Bharat, and India is the same thing, but more like a favorite geographical name of the British, rather than a “power”.
All this is sad, because colonialism gave rise to a variety of romances of robbery and murder, as well as delights in the conquered exotic. In addition, relearning is long and tedious for us. But if we are seriously talking about the decline of the colonial era, which lasted five centuries, then a lot of things will change here, except for British names, and a lot of things will have to be slowly relearned.
So, is this what the Tibet story is about? Not really. In China they just started calling it Xizang in their English-language publications, but in Chinese it already sounded like that. And note that it is not in the Chinese style to force foreigners to change something in their language and other habits. So, a gentle hint at how the world is changing.
But the real story is not philological, it is completely different, it is something about an elephant that no one noticed. Let's say it again: what kind of document became the reason for the “renaming scandal”? Andhere it is, entirely and in English, is called “The Policy of the Chinese Communist Party in Tibet in a New Era: Approaches and Achievements.” Here is a report on the reign ofXi Jinping (since 2012) plus some ideas for the future.
This is an event, because there is a sea of facts and other statistics. For example: over the specified period, the Tibetan economy grew 2.28 times, an average of 8.6 percent per year. That is, the mountainous region, difficult to live in, was among the record holders even against the backdrop of other Chinese miracles.
There is also such a figure - 30 million tourists a year. This is for those who think that repression, suppression of local culture and other horrors are happening in Tibet: if the region is open to such an extent, then there will not be much atrocity there. Conferences, exhibitions, the opening of more and more border crossings, for example withNepal. As for culture, we note the revival of the unique Tibetan opera, the restoration of monasteries, the protection of ancient relics, and the creation almost from scratch of the University of Tibetan Medicine, with the introduction into scientific circulation of up to 600 ancient books on it.
In fact, there is another topic here, it concerns not the departure from colonial names, but what development and culture are. Tibet has always been a legend because even in the middle of the last century it was a mountainous territory frozen in the deep Middle Ages - with ancient secrets, but also with wild poverty. And the mystical glory of Tibet lay precisely in this.
But if a region becomes rich, open to the world, if its culture is dug up from burial grounds and studied in universities, does this mean that the old Tibet has been destroyed? There are many such places on the planet. I remember a discussion about the lifestyle of the Orang Asli tribes inMalaysia: they are happy to wear jeans and take modern medicine - is this good or bad? This is clearly one of the most difficult questions for humanity.
[We Are the Mighty] Remington is a legendary name among firearm manufacturers like Colt, Smith & Wesson, and Beretta. While Beretta holds the title of oldest firearm manufacturer in the world, Remington claimed to be the oldest U.S. factory still making its original product. The Ilion, New York, facility began producing firearms in 1816. Although it has seen layoffs, temporary closures, and bankruptcies, Remington's 2020 bankruptcy was the beginning of the end for the historic factory.
On July 28, 2020, Remington filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company's assets, including iconic brands like Bushmaster, DPMS, and Harrington & Richardson, were divided and sold off. Vista Outdoor purchased the Remington brand name and licensed it to the new company, Remington Arms. Although the new RemArms, LLC announced plans to relocate its headquarters and open new manufacturing facilities in Georgia, the Ilion Facility continued to employ about 270 workers.
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And the Union is really pissed. The International President of United Mine Workers released a statement calling the closure "extremely disappointing" and the holiday announcement "a slap in the face." Local officials also lamented the shuttering of the Ilion Facility, highlighting the loss of revenue for the area and the displacement of local workers, some of whom are legacy Remington employees.
A joint statement by local and state Republicans also expressed goals to assist employees facing the coming layoffs while decrying New York's regulations and taxes which, they say, continue to force businesses and companies to leave the state. "It is because of New York Democrats’ unconstitutional gun grab policies that the oldest gun manufacturer in the country has been run out of the state," Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) said in her own statement.
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All of the liberal politicians and policies were fostered with union dollars.
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..and as we are seeing, a lot of 'Jewish' dollars which are now redeploying as we type. Wonder if the DNC has noticed their Marxists have set fire to their broad coalition tent.
BLUF:
[Gateway] Rep. Clay Higgins: was the beginning of a executive action by the TSA to use its authority to instruct America’s air marshals to track and follow Trump supporters that have been charged with no crime. They were guilty only of arriving by air into DC on January 4, 5th or 6th, and those manifest were turned over to the FBI. The FBI went through those manifests and every American that they identified, that the FBI identified as a Trump supporter that was on those manifests was added to the FBI’s suspected domestic terrorist watchlist... The TSA administrator used his authority to instruct the air marshals of America to track those Americans wherever they fly. Still today, it’s still happening.
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Not exactly Christian, as the bible is full of warnings about listening to the quiet words of a wise man instead of spectacle for spiritual fulfillment.
But at the end of the day it is their money and they want to do it and I really don't give a shit if they do.
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Been going on 25 years, they knew what their donations were going to, other than a bit gaudy like the flame things doing the Thriller dance, what's the deal?
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A newly created news channel presented entirely by artificial intelligence avatars has been revealed. Channel 1 is launching in February and includes virtual anchors and reporters, but to showcase what is possible its owners released a demo episode on X and its own website.
In the episode, a very real-looking avatar opens the show much like a human anchor would on a news channel. There are real and generated clips reflecting what the anchor is saying. It moves to a second avatar to explain the concept in more detail.
Channel 1 is a technology and media startup by Adam Mosam and producer Scott Zabielski. It has been designed for global distribution, with every video translated into different languages and output changing to reflect the interests of viewers.
The promotional video seems to suggest that Channel 1 stories will be drawn from sources around the world, much the same way many news websites operate. The difference is that story selection and editorial decisions will be taken in part by artificial intelligence. - cite
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I would probably rather nap in an elevator through an outage rather than do a fireman assisted egress. I guess it would depend on who was keeping me company.
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I was trapped in an elevator once for 20 minutes. I had my lunch with me so I sat down and ate it. I tried the phone in that is supposed to be used for such occasions but I got a busy signal so I pressed the alarm button. It worked.
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[Regnum] The most powerful in recent times The flare was recorded on the Sun for six years. This was reported on December 14on the website of the Phobos weather center.
Think it’ll impact the weather?
It is specified that a flare with intensity X2.8 was recorded on the Sun at about 20:00 Moscow time. This is the most powerful flare since the beginning of the year; the previous record-breaking flare in intensity was registered on February 17, its intensity was X2.2 points.
As noted at the Phobos weather center, the last time a flare of such strength on the Sun was observed six years ago, in 2017.
It is noted that before the powerful flare, two more were recorded, of medium intensity - M5.8 at 10:44 Moscow time and M2.3 at 16:48 Moscow time.
Phobos center experts warned that active events on the Sun of this kind are usually harbingers of a magnetic storm, the closest of which is expected on Saturday, December 16.
Earlier IA Regnum reported that at the end of November due to a strong solar flare in Moscow an aurora was observedcaused by a strong magnetic storm.
On November 6, residents of some Russian regions saw an aurora of an unusual red color in the sky. The phenomenon was observed in the Donbass, Crimea, Rostov and Omsk regions.
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.
[Breitbart] A male-born transgender athlete appears set to be awarded one of only 12 female volleyball scholarships at the University of Washington, a report finds.
[FoxNews] The Satanic Temple's display inside the Iowa State Capitol was destroyed on Thursday, according to police.
[MSN] Thousands of Pfizer employees from around the world were watching through their computer screens in October when Chief Executive Albert Bourla and other executives at the giant drugmaker stepped onto a stage for a company town hall.
Your cell phone tells them who and where you are. It may soon be against the law to leave home without it.
