Cripes, did the Chinese build this?
Could be *hundreds* of people in there. Reports of screams from the rubble.
More footage. pic.twitter.com/xKtTZkP6GE
— Jamal Akakpo 🇬🇭 (@AkakpoJamal) June 24, 2021
More footage and a different angle from another guest of the hotel. pic.twitter.com/kkdsjO2s9l
— Jamal Akakpo 🇬🇭 (@AkakpoJamal) June 24, 2021
So apparently some kids set fire to a fireworks display at a HyVee in Eagan, Minnesota. I’ve seen fireworks fires before; when I lived in Colorado many, many years ago I came across the raging inferno that was a truck loaded with fireworks. It was a sight to behold, and the firefighters on scene did the only thing they could: stood the hell back. Fireworks come complete with their own oxidizer; you ain’t putting that ᛋᚻᛁᛏ out with water, believe you me. So when the HyVee fire started, an employee was spotted not doing a whole hell of a lot about it. Maybe because he couldn’t be bothered. And maybe because he was smart enough to know that there wasn’t jack he could do about it.
Side note: the news article I linked to points out that “youths” have been arrested for this. Hmmm. Eagan is part of Minneapolis, home of the Fentanyl Floyd Fires.
What *can* one say? Other than “mumble grumble something something society is going to hell argle bargle.”
Shooting at Oakland CA Juneteenth celebrations last night, leave 1 dead and 5 injured. This is how people reacted when the EMTs arrived. pic.twitter.com/AcFPciJuzq
— Anthea (@Anthea06274890) June 21, 2021
Add this to the holiday traditions of fireworks on the 4th of July, turkey on Thanksgiving, gifts on Christmas…
You don’t get a choice.
Used to be, readin’, writin’, ‘rithmatic. Many complained – not without cause – that it was a machine that only served to prepare kids for a lifetime of drudgery in industry. But now it often doesn’t even seem to do that; instead, the focus seems to be on instilling a sense of worthlessness and guilt and failure and fatigue. The worldwreckers want anything but kids who are enthused and proud and well educated in science and math and skeptical thinking.
— George Alexo-BOO-los 🎃 (@GPrime85) June 14, 2021
One bonus of the world grinding to a halt to deal with the CommiePox has been that a lot of parents have seen what nonsense their kids are getting fed at school thanks to a lot of schooling having been done via Zoom. As schools return to normal a lot of that will end… but with luck a lot of kids will record their teachers and the insane political indoctrination that goes on. There is a debate on the legality of recording a teacher in a classroom, and it seems to vary from state to state; but if a teacher is promoting vicious ideologies like socialism or critical race theory or creationism in a public school classroom, then a good argument can be made that the law is an ass. If a teach was physically abusing students, who would really file charges if a student recorded that?
🚨Please Share@NYPDDetectives need your help identifying & locating the 2 men seen in this video shooting another man near 1551 Sheridan Ave. in the Bronx.
Yes, those are children with the victim, who were very fortunately not injured.
Call @NYPDTips at #800577TIPS with info. pic.twitter.com/jiQE9MdKep
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) June 18, 2021
Biden gave Putin a list of high-priority targets for Russian hackers to take down. How did *anyone* think that was a good idea?
1: It comes off as weakness: “Please don’t attack us!” Thus inviting attack.
2: A list of stuff Biden thinks shoudl be off limits not only points out vulnerabilities, it’s the wrong frikken’ message. Instead of “please don’t attack these,” which implies that it’s ok to attack *other* entities, the message should be “we will respond in a way that seems good to us. Remember that you hare highly economically dependent upon things like pipelines. It sure would be a shame if the software controlling your pipelines causes an explosion. Again.”
Someone stole from the wrong guy:
According to court documents, Michael Scott Campbell told police he was sleeping in his Ford F-150 around 3:45 a.m. Saturday when he was woken up by someone attempting to saw the catalytic converter off his truck.
Campbell told police he saw two legs sticking out from under the truck when he opened the passenger door and fired “straight down” at the suspected thief. Campbell said he then fired two more shots at the man, according to court documents.
The man attempted to get into his vehicle but collapsed, court documents say. Campbell told police he then tied the man to the ball hitch of the F-150. Campbell said he dragged the man into a nearby field and left him.
No heroes in this story. Also, no real victims. Campbell *clearly* went buggo. But the thief was… well, a thief. Such people are a burden on society. That one more is gone is…
I’m sure the end result of all this will be spectacular.
I’ve seen some bad lawyers before, but… yeesh.
Seems like a champ.
What happens when you:
A) Defund the police
B) Decriminalize “small” thefts?
Let’s find out:
The Walgreens here will likely either close down or institute new security procedures, such as locking up pretty much anything worth stealing. If it was up to me, I’d recommend the former. Close the doors, box everything up, move out of town and leave behind nothing but posters showing this incident and quotes from local politicians about Proposition 47, which effectively made it legal to steal anything under $950.