A San Francisco Walgreens. Due to the theft that the local government has enabled, they lock up almost everything behind glass panels. *Almost* everything. Note that the sunscreen in the lower right is left un-locked. Apparently the thieves don’t go after sunscreen.
Don’t you *dare* draw any sort of message from that. Just don’t do it.
Well, here is where we are. While the Florida state senate voted on whether or not to strip Disney of their special tax district status, a number of people in attendance – I *assume* visitors, not actual state senators, but these days who knows – shrieked like maniacs. That as much as anything shows the importance of standing up to these bullying groomers. With luck those who threw this little tantrum were caught on video somewhere clear enough for facial recognition to figure out who they were so that they can be put under psychiatric evaluation, and to keep them away from children. I won’t be at all shocked to find that at least some of them are teachers of small children. And if so, hopefully soon to be *former* teachers of small children.
One of the more creepifyin’ of the political class seems to have a case of the shakes, assuming that this isn’t a result of some digital trickery. Assuming it’s legit, I wonder at the cause. Could it be barely repressed rage at being called out on her massive policy failures? Is the demonic posession starting to shake loose? Time will tell.
A security camera caught a string of events. First, a security guard gets out of his vehicle. Another person walks up behind him and shoots the security guard in the head. A witness in the background watches this and does not react. The shooter then bends over, steals the guards pistol and something else, then wanders off, going past the witness. Neither react to the other. Witness gets up, walks past guards body, continues nonchalantly on his way. Then three more people happen upon the guards body; one bends down and rifles through his pockets and takes something; the other two stand there for a bit and seem to look at the loot, then they all wander off, unconcerned.
Where did this spectacular display of inhumanity take place? Mogadishu? Iran? North Korea? Cartel-occupied Mexico? Nope.
Atlanta.
One murderous dirtbag? Well, these things happen, in a sense. But a whole collection of people seemingly utterly unconcerned with concepts of “justice” and “right & wrong?” These were not, so far as is known, a group of hardened criminals who all planned to gather there; they were apparently a random selection. That they were *all* this awful says a lot about the local culture, and none of what is says is good or complimentary.
It’s a fundamental principle of American jurisprudence that the courts cannot try you twice for the same crime if you have been acquitted. The feds have of course found ways around that, by charging, say, cops who killed someone in the line of duty and been acquitted of using excessive force with federal “hate crimes” charges. Sure, you were found not guilty of murder. But did you use harsh language? Guilty! It’s a shameful practice. but at least in in the US, “double jeopardy” is *usually* the standard. The feds playing tricks is normally reserved for a tiny number of politically explosive cases, where the goal is to have a show trial in order to placate unthinking violent mobs.
Britain, though, seems to not even have that thin and perforated veneer of civilization. If you are charged and acquitted, the courts can appear and charge you again, it seems.
Short form: a man made a cardboard “model” of a building and burned it on a bonfire. That’s it. That’s the crime. He didn’t burn the building itself; the cardboard was his, the bonfire was his, the bonfire was legal and there were no laws against burning cardboard. He was charged with being, essentially, rude, because the building in question was “Grenfell Tower,” a massively badly made high rise building that had recently caught fire and killed a bunch of people. It would be akin to someone in, say, November of 2001 burning a cardboard model of the World Trade Center. Offensive? sure. Criminal? Ummm…. *how?* So not only are actions which harm no one and damage nothing illegal in Britain, the courts can go after you time and again until they get what they want.
Donal Trump had a relationship with the truth that was, shall we say, a bit strained, especially when it came to touting his greatness. But Joe Biden? Yeah, the guy’s either a nonstop liar or outright delusional.
In looking up the latest news about the war in Ukraine, Google News decided I needed to see this:
In short: CBS had a pilot and decided not to go forward with the show, but Netflix picked it up. The pilot was helmed by one Jordon Nardino, a “co-executive producer” on Star Trek: Discovery. This show now to be produced by Netflix is described thusly:
Coming to Netflix: Miss Benny (they/them/theirs) will star in GLAMOROUS as Marco Mejia (he/him/his), a young gender non-conforming queer man whose life seems to be stuck in place until he lands a job working for a legendary makeup mogul.
Uh huh. This explains a *lot* about modern Star Trek and why it sucks so badly and is so unlike actual Star Trek. In Star Trek: TOS, it was made abundantly clear that mental illness was almost entirely eliminated, with the Federation having something like 15 incurable nutballs until some new medicine comes along that cures even them. In all actual Star Trek, what is celebrated is someone trying to actually do something meaningful and useful with their lives. This new Netflix show is the polar opposite… as are modern debased Star Trek.
After far too long of letting unhinged lunatics do whatever the frak they want, it’s nice to see the cops sometimes come in and sweep these loons off the streets. In Pittsburgh, some anti-civilization insurrectionists were illegally blocking the streets, the police showed up to shuffle them off, they became even *more* unhinged, and one alleged “person” tried to go hands-on with a cop and discovered that not all cops are pushovers.
The video below is from The Young Turks, which includes not only additional footage but also “analysis.” Given that it’s The Young Turks, the analysis is reliably 180 degrees off to reality.
An Italian bus caught fire. Nothing too terribly newsworthy, except that it was fueled with compressed propane or natural gas. Still not overly newsworthy except that the emergency valves seemed to open (as they were supposed to) and released impressive jets of fire. Had the valves not opened, the fire likely would have eventually cause the gas tank(s) to burst, resulting in one massive fireball. This occurred out in the boonies; had it happened in town there would have been collateral damage.
The video is quite something.
While digging up this video I stumbled across another one, about an Italian bus fire from 2019. While the one from a few days ago seems to have been an accident with no passengers on the bus, in 2019 a “migrant” bus driver in Italy set a bus on fire with 51 Italian children on it as a “protest.”
The goal there was apparently to kill every last one of those kids as a way to make the Italians more sympathetic to their invaders and colonizers.
And here’s a bus kerplosion from Stockholm. Seems the CNG tank is up top and the bus tried to go into a tunnel that was too short for it. Whoopsie.
Pop quiz, hotshot: how tall is your friggen’ bus?
Bet these won’t get a whole lot of national airplay:
“…22-year-old Jewayne M. Price, who was one of three people initially detained by law enforcement as a person of interest, remains in police custody …”
And this one is brand-new, with little detail. Yet I get the feeling we won’t get bombarded with news stories about this:
“The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. during a party at a short-term rental property where there were more than 200 people inside – many of them underage… Police said as many as 50 rounds were fired inside and several more were fired outside. Shell casings from rifles and pistols were found at the scene, Pittsburgh police commander John Fisher told WTAE-TV. Police are processing evidence at as many as eight separate crime scenes spanning a few blocks around the shooting scene, police said.”
I’ll bet a nickel that neither one of these stories will end up involving 3D printed guns, or”ghost guns” manufactured from kits, or even legally owned firearms wielded by CCW license holders. Neither story will end up being perpetrated by Trump voters or NRA members. Neither story will end up being useful for The Narrative, and thus neither story will end up being much more than a momentary local news story. One or both stories will likely end up being less of a “gun err bad” story and more of a “criminals should be removed from the streets” story, and we can’t have that.