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MEME: Yoda on “Mystery serum”
Saturday, August 23, 2025
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GUNS: A burglar shot and killed … on parole
Saturday, August 23, 2025https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15011581/shelby-hurd-joliet-illinois-burglar.html
Burglar shot and killed by mother protecting her baby during home invasion is identified – and his past is terrifying
By MARYANN MARTINEZ and JIMMY MCCLOSKEY, US DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS
Published: 14:19 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 18:13 EDT, 18 August 2025
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A burglar shot and killed by a mother as she hid her baby in a closet during a home invasion was a serial criminal who’d only recently been freed from jail.
Shelby Hurd, 36, died last Tuesday after being blasted in the head with a bullet while entering the unidentified mother’s home in Joliet, Illinois.
Patch reported that Hurd was only freed on parole in February this year over a slew of previous burglary convictions.
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Sadly some people never change or learn. Guess he can be nominated for a Darwin Award. Does not say if he was a “father”. It does say a lot about the Illinois prison and parole system. As a felon with multiple convictions, parole should NOT be considered.
As far as the lack of a “stand your ground” law in Illinois, I’m not surprised given that it is a “blue state”. The criminal must be afraid of the citizen. That can only happen when people have the means of “self defense”.
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. … The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” ~ St. George Tucker 1803
Remember if having guns in civil society was a problem, given the number of guns and gun owners in the USA, we’d known it.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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POLICY: Seems like the jury was blinded to the facts by the judge?
Friday, August 22, 2025Dad who ‘tried to strangle daughter in Muslim ‘honor killing’ is jailed for 32 months after shock verdict
By NIC WHITE, US SENIOR INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER
Published: 17:33 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 17:43 EDT, 18 August 2025
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A father accused of trying to strangle his teenage daughter in a Muslim ‘honor killing’ has been jailed for almost three years.
Ihsan Ali, 44, stood trial for second-degree attempted murder alongside his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, over the October 18, 2024, attack.
A Thurston County Superior Court jury found them not guilty on July 31, but convicted Ihsan of lesser charges against his daughter Fatima Ali.
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It’s obvious that this was a miscarriage of “justice” to this girl.
The report doesn’t say what their immigration status is.
Regardless of what it is, the husband and wife should be either deported or denaturalized and deported.
It further apparent that they have not be good “citizens” hence the felony convictions.
I like Japan’s treatment of “muslims” due to their conduct and failure to live peacefully in civil society.
Islam is NOT a “religion”; it’s an ideology that seeks to fundamentally change society.
Hence, as a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, they should depart from the USA and return to wherever they came from. They are not … …
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
… … “yearning to breathe free” and as such are not welcome to share in the American experiment.
Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: What was he doing out after ONE DWI charge?
Thursday, August 21, 2025https://savejersey.com/2025/08/journalist-ratioed-dwi-illegal-alien-ocean-county-new-jersey/
Journalist ratioed for declaring illegal alien fatal DWI suspect (with two prior arrests this year) had “largely clean driving record”
August 14, 2025 Matt Rooney
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His conviction record may be light? After all, he came here illegally from somewhere else! But to suggest a man with three pending DWI charges in a single year has a “largely clean” driving record is, at best, grossly manipulative particularly since the debate is over whether Phil Murphy’s sanctuary statehood regime prevented this asshole from being deported; had he been deported after either of the other alleged DWIs this year, then a mother and her child would still be alive today.
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What was he doing out after ONE DWI charge?
If I was the judge, I’d have found a way to keep him off the road. And, after the third charge, I’d say he was a “near and present” danger, and needed “quarantining”.
Lock him up until the trials.
Argh!
And, maybe the judge should be recalled or retired?
Argh!
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HEALTHCARE: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites
Wednesday, August 20, 2025LPT: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites
A relative of mine was at CVS picking up Treligy and paid a $150 copay. The lady clerk advised her to go home an check the Galaxo website for a coupon for a year’s free copay. If ok, come back with the coupon and receipt and she get a refund. When she did, she found it and the Rx was for someone not on Medicare or Medicaid, she got the coupon and got a refund.
Lesson learned: When taking a brand name med, always check the maker’s website for coupons. Only takes a few minutes and may pay off big time.
FWIW YMMV
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ENCOURAGING: Samaritan’s Purse is a great example of “foreign aid”
Tuesday, August 19, 2025https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/a-flourishing-garden-of-faith-in-liberia/
A Flourishing Garden of Faith in Liberia
- In her desperation, Tutu cried out to God. He answered through a Samaritan’s Purse urban gardening project, which is now blessing her and others in need.
© Copyright 2025 Samaritan’s Purse. All rights reserved.
Samaritan’s Purse
PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
828.262.1980
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Hunger and malnutrition are constant threats in Liberia, with few safety nets to catch families when they fall. Here, in one of the poorest nations on earth, parents often face incredibly difficult choices.
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The Samaritan’s Purse team brought shovels, hoes, rakes, a wheelbarrow. There were also seeds for lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pepper, and cabbage.
Our team showed Tutu how to build raised garden beds, how to space her crops for sunlight and airflow, and how to grow vegetables in sacks—a method she’d never seen before but one critical for avoiding erosion and soil diseases.
“I already knew a little about planting cassava—that’s a common food here—but I had never seen a garden with all these things,” she said. “Especially one growing in bags. That was new to me.”
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I love when a true charity sparks in the dejected impoverished individual entrepreneurship and that lifts them out of poverty and spreads dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) organically in civil society. What more can someone ask for their personal “foreign aid” donation that to truly change the world?
I’ve read many times small charities distribute livestock to needy families or villages and eliminated starvation and poverty by introducing “capital animals” to spark optimism, hope, and industry.
Just recently, I read about “camel’s milk” becoming an “industry” by the introduction of some knowledge (i.e., camel care; processing milk) and some technology (i.e., milking tools and technique). How much could that have cost? And the “uplift” is enormous.
Western civilization has uncovered “capitalism” as the key that unlocks the prison of poverty. No better way to get hostile individuals to cooperate than by demonstrating “win win” solutions.
I’ve often thought badly about USA’s “foreign aid” which is described as “poor people in the USA donating to rich people in foreign countries”. What better way to transform it than to get “We, The Sheeple” to support these transformative charities. Gooferment can’t do “charity” efficiently or effectively. Private organizations can focus on worthy causes and individuals. Time to end Gooferment “foreign aid”.
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ENCOURAGING: Maybe AI isn’t so good after all
Monday, August 18, 2025Ask AI Why It Sucks at Sudoku. You’ll Find Out Something Troubling About Chatbots
- How much can you trust a generative AI tool if it can’t explain itself honestly or accurately?
Jon Reed — Aug. 8, 2025 4:00 a.m. PT
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That’s what researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder found when they challenged large language models to solve sudoku. And not even the standard 9×9 puzzles. An easier 6×6 puzzle was often beyond the capabilities of an LLM without outside help (in this case, specific puzzle-solving tools).
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You might expect LLMs to be able to solve sudoku because they’re computers and the puzzle consists of numbers, but the puzzles themselves are not really mathematical; they’re symbolic. “Sudoku is famous for being a puzzle with numbers that could be done with anything that is not numbers,” said Fabio Somenzi, a professor at CU and one of the research paper’s authors.
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That’s some “wonderkid” you’ve been celebrating in the press. “AI will revolutionize … <insert favorite profession>”!
So we have kids using it to cheat in school; NBD — no big deal.
Legal opinions cite incorrectly or cites non-existent court cases — BIG deal!
And, now it can solve a 6×6 sudoku. Or gives the wrong answer?
With the final straw, it can’t “show it’s work” (i.e., the steps it used to reach the “solution”).
Pardon me if I declare AI “not ready for prime time”!
The human equivalent is the Titan submersible suffering a catastrophic implosion and you want me to let is drive a truck? We don’t need AI to make disasters. Humanity can do it quite well without help.
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SECURITY: No technology needed for this hack; just call up and lie
Sunday, August 17, 2025https://www.wnd.com/2025/08/helpdesk-havoc-why-clorox-is-suing-indian-company/
Why Clorox is suing Indian company for $380 million
- In Clorox’s telling, the hacker didn’t crack advanced encryption or spear-phish executives. He just called Cognizant on the phone and lied
By Amanda Bartolotta — August 7, 2025
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In a San Francisco courtroom, the Clorox Company recently dropped a legal bombshell – a $380 million lawsuit against Indian-American information technology company Cognizant, alleging gross negligence in a 2023 cyberattack.
In the complaint dated July 22, 2025, Clorox contends a hacker simply called Cognizant’s helpdesk, lied about being an employee and was handed network credentials – no identity verification, no oversight, just a password transfer. The resulting cyberattack ended up paralyzing Clorox’s operations, costing upwards of $49 million in remediation and much more in lost business.
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Way back when I ran an information security desk, long before “password managers”, in the “yellow sticky note” era, I was challenged to reduce the number of password resets my group was doing. Not for security; a cost saving attempt. (We figured that every call cost the company about 50$ in lost productivity.) So my team came up with a great solution, when a call came in for a forgotten password, we’d just have the person have his supervisor call in for a reset. Laugh! Calls dropped dramatically. It was trivial to verify the supervisor since we’d just call them back at their number listed in the company phonebook. (Those still existed.) Then the supervisor would connect the employee and we’d do the reset. Call dropped so much we had weekly pool when the next one would come in. (Dollar a head per week. Pool grew about 20$ per week.) Sometimes we went a month without a reset.
Guess outsourcing your help desk was NOT so cost effective?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When the Gooferment dosn’t stand up for property rights …
Saturday, August 16, 2025https://voxday.net/2025/08/06/a-conquered-people/
A Conquered People
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The British people still haven’t figured out yet that neither their police nor their government represent them or are on their side. And they’re still too “law-abiding” and respectful of “authority” to take matters into their own hands, even when their homes are literally being occupied by foreigners. From 4chan:
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My husband wants to break in and throw them out with his brothers. I’ve told him not to do this.
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If you won’t even defend your homes, your wives, or your daughters, you are a conquered people. You WILL be dispossessed and no one will shed any tears for you. Notice that the wife has actively dissuaded her husband from doing the only thing that will recover their home in a reasonable amount of time.
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How many times in the past few years have we read about “squatters” (usually illegal immigrants) taking over someone’s property? And, all attempts to get them out have failed. “Squatters” magically become “tenants” with “rights” and “due process”. And, if and when they are tossed out, the places is in ruins. That’s just not right.
- Why if they present a “false document” are they not immediately arrested for fraud? (Maybe leases have to be filed with the courts like deeds for a small recording fee? On a blockchain to be easily seen by authorities?)
- Why when they do get tossed are they not held liable for damages?
- And, if they are illegals, why are they not IMMEDIATELY deported?
- Why is such behavior tolerated by civil society?
In short, the Gooferment is lax in their protections of property.
Argh!
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GUNS: The FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9mm) was designed by Jacob Duygu and the genie is out of the bottle big time
Friday, August 15, 2025https://reason.com/2025/08/08/making-the-world-freer-with-homemade-guns/
Making the World Freer with Homemade Guns
- DIY firearms aren’t just an end-run around the law; they represent a libertarian political movement.
J.D. Tuccille | 8.8.2025 7:00 AM
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Recently, while touting gun seizures in a city that has some of the most authoritarian gun laws in the United States, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch lamented, “the number of illegal guns that we’ve seen used in New York City has exploded since 3D technology has come about.” She’s not alone. Homemade guns are increasingly sophisticated and available almost everywhere. That’s a good thing.
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Summarizing events at June’s MoneroKon conference in Prague, an annual meeting devoted to “privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems,” security expert Zoltán Füredi described a presentation by the pseudonymous Zé Carioca, designer of the recently unveiled Urutau, a 9mm select-fire firearm designed to be constructed with a 3D printer and components purchased at any hardware store. Rather than focus on his creation, Zé Carioca instead championed 3D-printed firearms as companions to cryptocurrency in challenging the power and reach of governments.
“His speech blurred the lines between technology, ideology, and extreme libertarian politics,” commented Füredi. He added of the speakers’ message, “Just as the freedom to transact (via cryptocurrency) is now seen as a fundamental human right, so too should be the right to bear arms—worldwide.”
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The (God given) Human Right to self-defense is essential the embodiment of the little L libertarian First Principle of Self-Ownership. If we don’t “own” ourselves, then who does?
Somewhere in the Libertarian An-Cap literature is the recognition that “rights” are: (a) something we have all agree that every human has; or (b) those things that an individual will die defending. To me, either definition is acceptable. There might be be another criteria around somewhere that a “right” is whatever and whenever a human can asset and defend it. Not so sure about that; do babies and fetuses have rights?
Interesting that the gun grabbers (i.e., politicians and bureaucrats) can NOT keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Sometimes they even get into their “jails”. And, like drugs, they can keep humans from finding way to get what they want.
So too, guns are merely tools and as such can’t be kept away from any human who is motivated and wants one.
I’m interested in how the WWII “liberator” handgun was used to arm the Nazi resistance. Why is today’s Gooferments beginning to look like Nazi Germany? (Remember the Japanese internment?) Tyrants and their regimes can not exist if the population just refuses to be terrorized. Ghost guns are the perfect solution to prevent that. Even here in the USA.
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