Alleged Intruder Enters Home Through Window, Gets Shot Dead
AWR Hawkins3 Jan 202396
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An alleged intruder entered a Lake County, Florida, home through a window Monday and was shot dead by a person inside the house.
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Baring further evidence, it seems that this is a sad but necessary outcome.
Hard to imagine this is his first attempted break in.
While I’m pro-life, I think this is the best possible outcome — only the bad guy pays.
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New Evidence Unearthed by Podcasters Frees 2 Men Wrongfully Imprisoned for 25 Years
By Andy Corbley – Dec 29, 2022
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Two men wrongfully-imprisoned for more than two decades were able to spend Christmas with their families after a podcast and non-profit advanced evidence of their innocence.
Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey were just teenagers when they stood trial for a murder of their 15-year-old friend he died of gunshot wounds at a party in 1996.
Clack had all the charges against him dropped after a motion for a new trial was field on his behalf by attorneys from the Georgia Innocence Project. He was released Thursday along with Storey.
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The details go like this. At a party, 15-year-old Brian Bowling shot himself in a game of Russian Roulette with a gun allegedly provided by Storey. Manslaughter was to be the original charge, but Bowling’s distraught family urged for the charge to be stiffened to murder, and charged Clark who had a corroborating alibi of his absence from the whole situation, in a conspiracy to murder.
The Proof podcast hosts interviewed the party hostess, who admitted that the police had coerced her into making false statements regarding Clark and Storey’s testimony. The second witness was a hearing-impaired man, and Simpson and Davis got him on record as not being able to separate the Bowling murder details with a very similar case from ten years later in 1976.
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The “death penalty” eliminates any chance of rectifying an injustice.
The police coerced a false statement; they should be punished severely.
Qualified immunity is a joke. I’m sure all involved are enjoying their pensions.
Argh!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/are-you-thought-criminal
Thoughtcrime is a word coined by George Orwell in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It describes a person’s politically unorthodox thoughts, such as beliefs and doubts that contradict the tenets of Ingsoc (English Socialism), the dominant ideology of Oceania. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of the Party controls the speech, the actions, and the thoughts of the citizens of Oceania.
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Are You A “Thought Criminal”?
YES!
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Six years of Trump tax returns published by House Ways and Means Committee
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So now let’s see the tax returns for ALL politicians and bureaucrats.
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Buffalo man hailed as hero for rescuing 24 people during winter storm
By Nicholas McEntyre
December 30, 2022 7:19am Updated
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Around 6 a.m. on Christmas Eve, and after taking turns running the engine and napping, Withey’s truck ran out of gas and the trio was forced to find proper shelter.
“Off to the left, I could see there was a school about 600, 700 feet away from us. I knew the power would be on, there would be heat in there and I was guaranteeing there would be food in there,” Withey told the station.
After some quick thinking, Withey identified others around him who were also stranded and decided to break into the school.
Withey and his crew, a total of 25, including seven senior citizens, made their way into Pine Hill Primary Center and took shelter — respectfully setting up only what was needed. They set up their main area in the cafeteria, helping themselves only to the food they needed and nothing in the fully stocked freezer, according to police.
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I found it astonishing that he had to break in.
One would think with the approaching storm, the Gooferment — at all levels — would order all public buildings to be unlocked. Same for the Churches. I’m sure every school has a Principal and a Custodian. Someone should be authorized to take emergency action.
Argh!
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https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/12/28/bb-guns-live-ammo-n65667
Thai man arrested for modifying BB guns to fire live ammo
By Tom Knighton | 8:30 PM on December 28, 2022
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Like I said, creative.
Yossakorn would allegedly buy BB guns for about as much as 8,000 baht, or around $230, and sell them for 15,000 baht, or about $430.
Not too shabby of a profit, really.
Understand, Thailand has all that gun control. If gun control works as advertised, how could anyone turn a BB gun into a fully-functional firearm?
And I’m trying to figure out what video he watched on YouTube, especially since the site is known to be hell on anyone showing American audiences how to build guns, even though that’s perfectly legal here. So I’m curious just what he was watching and when did he watch it.
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Put this in the “Criminals Are Not Law Abiding” and people have God-given inalienable right of self-defense.
Feel sorry for this poor guy trying to make a few bucks empowering others.
I too am interested in what YouTube video he watched.
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New Biomarker Test Can Detect Alzheimer’s Neurodegeneration in Blood
12/27/2022
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PITTSBURGH — A group of neuroscientists led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher developed a test to detect a novel marker of Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration in a blood sample. A study on their results was published today in Brain.
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Now there is a medical trial I could volunteer for. That has to be a disease that needs to be “cured”. Finding a test is step 1.
How little we really know is demonstrated almost daily.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/whats-your-line-sand-25-burger
What’s Your Line In The Sand? The $25 Burger?
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Dec 22, 2022 – 09:22 AM
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Everyone has a line in the sand when it comes to inflated prices they refuse to pay. For one Walmart shopper I observed, it was a carton of eggs for close to $10. She announced her line in the sand verbally, with great force and sincerity.
What’s your line in the sand, the point at which you simply refuse to pay the asking price? Is it the $25 burger? Or is it the $50 for two burritos and two beverages?
Each person’s line in the sand reflects their income, wealth, budget, social status and value system–what’s important to them. For some higher income folks, it might be the ridiculous “resort fee” that’s tacked onto the already overpriced resort room, hotel tax, excise tax, parking fees and the extra-special charge for Internet service.
For others, it might be the outrageous estimate for repairing a system failure in a nearly-new vehicle that is (surprise!) no longer covered by the manufacturer’s warranty. Hundreds of dollars for what?
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Hmmm, now that’s an interesting pot question.
For me, it has to be the $9 “craft beer”. I switched at my local bar from draft to bottles when the price was 7$ for a draft and 3$ for a bottle. Maybe I have to start looking at price per ounce? Or, milliliter!
Dining out has become a $100 proposition. Isn’t that far beyond the average working stiff? It certainly is getting there for the senior citizens and people with rug rats.
Sad.
And it’s all caused by the politicians and bureaucrats “printing” money.
Where does the merry-go-round stop?
Soon I think.
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Some day soon we might be making popcorn with infrared poppers (3 minute read)
Scientists from Iran have figured out how to make popcorn with infrared cooking. Popcorn pops when it is heated above 180 degrees Celsius due to trapped water within the kernel’s endosperm. When it is heated, the pressure from the superheated steam ruptures the kernel, and the starch within is released in a foam. The Iranian team found that heating up kernels using 700 W IR power at a distance of 10 cm produced the highest yield and highest rated popcorn.
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Hey I’d prefer they work on this rather than atomic bombs!
HNY
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https://jeffjacoby.com/26644/real-id-was-a-real-mistake-and-congress-should
Real ID was a real mistake and Congress should scrap it at last
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
December 28, 2022
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“If fully implemented, the law would facilitate the tracking of data on individuals and bring government into the very center of every citizen’s life,” warns the American Civil Liberties Union. Real ID would make Americans’ personal information available to a vast network of federal, state, and local officials — an irresistible lure to overreaching government snoops, to say nothing of a mother lode for identity thieves. Even worse, the requirement that all driver’s licenses and ID cards have an unencrypted barcode puts that personal information within the grasp of anyone with an electronic scanner.
In authoritarian countries, it is taken for granted that citizens must always have their identification forms with them and that governments have a presumptive right to demand information about any individual at any time. That is not the American way. Here, the presumption is that the national government does not have an automatic claim to personal information and may not track individuals at will without probable cause to suspect wrongdoing.
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“Where are your papers!”
Every Nazi-involved movie always had this trope in it. And, it should be a warning of the slippery slope.
Americans don’t need Gooferment “papers” to exist.
And, after we have seen how respectful the Deep State is to the First Amendment, why would we give them anything that could be misused.
#repealrealid #endthefed #endthefbi #endthecia
And on … and on … and on!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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