Beware The Elk

You might think that you are most likely to be attacked by bears when in the woods, but according to this article, "The animal behind most aggressive wildlife encounters may surprise you," elk may pose more of a danger. It notes that "[o]ut of nearly 3,000 wildlife incidents in Canadian national parks, more than half involved an elk, researchers report July 2 in Frontiers in Conservation Science." 

    Landles and Balakrishna analyzed 2,878 aggressive wildlife incidents from 2010 to 2023 involving five animals: black bears, grizzly bears, elk, coyotes and mule deer. Aggressive behaviors included chasing, attacking or bluffing a charge. The analysis identified which animal–human activity combinations were especially risky. 

    Elk topped the list, involved in 62 percent of all the incidents. One of the riskiest combos was elk and camping — the animals turned up in 84 percent of campground incidents. This may be because Canada’s peak camping season aligns with when the animals mate and give birth — times of heightened aggression for the species.  

    “Elk are herbivorous herd animals that don’t immediately inspire fear like a carnivore does,” Balakrishna says. Visitors may underestimate how aggressive they can be.    

Grizzly bears and black bears accounted for 14 percent and 13 percent of the total, respectively. 

The Mysterious: The Ghoul of Whitmire Cemetery

In 1957 and 1958, North Pensacola, Florida, suffered a series of ghoulish events: a series of grave openings and desecration of bodies, all female, at Roberts Cemetery and Whitmire Cemetery. 

    The first desecration was discovered on July 12, 1957, by a groundskeeper at Roberts Cemetery on Creighton Road. A half-ton slab protecting the grave of a recently deceased woman had been moved to the side and the grave was opened. The woman's clothing was, according to reports, "disheveled."

    Authorities converged on the scene and found that the body of the woman, a 22-year-old who died during a recent child birth, was soaked from the previous night's rain. Her right leg had been pulled up and was dangling over the edge of the coffin.

    On July 15 at nearby Whitmire Cemetery, a man went to visit the grave of his recently deceased wife, clutching flowers for her grave. When he arrived at her burial site, he was horrified. Her grave's slab had also been removed. Her pajamas, the report said, had been pulled down.

The local sheriff called a press conference and ordered sex criminals rounded up and his deputies to "check all haunts or dives where odd ball character congregate." Patrols of the cemeteries commenced and things quieted down. 

But on Feb. 23, 1958, a woman visiting the Whitmire Cemetery found the desecrated grave of a young girl who had been killed by an automobile on Nine Mile Road only a few months earlier. The slab, this time 1,200 pounds, had been moved, the lid of the casket smashed, and her clothes tampered with.

A reward for the ghoul's capture rose to $1,500, nearly $17,000 in today's money. But that was not the end.

    On March 8, 1958, a woman visiting her husband's grave found a nearby gravesite had been disturbed and notified authorities. The body of an 11-year-old girl was missing, removed by the ghoul.

    A team of deputies and other law officials began searching the cemetery and found nothing. A city patrolman arrived on his horse Trigger to search near the cemetery, which was surrounded by thickets of brush and bushes and swamp land to the northwest. About 250 yards away, in that swampy area, the body was found on the edge of the swamp. Her clothes were described, again, as "disheveled" but this time matches were found next to the girl's body.

    Her body was taken to a mortuary for an examination. Doctors found that lipstick and rouge that had been applied to the girl before burial had been wiped away.

    They also found that her body had been burned, and authorities speculated that's what the matches were used for. 

No one was ever prosecuted. Jacki Wilson, a retired archivist for the University of West Florida Historic Trust, who has relatives buried at Whitmire Cemetery, "has heard whispers and theories too, though no suspect was every publicly named."

"There was some lore that it was a prominent person, though I never heard a name," she said. "It was all hushed and I have nothing to back that up, but it was just something that came down through the years. Either way, it was horrible if you have family members here."

But others believe the ghoul might have been the serial killer Ed Gein, who was the inspiration of the “Texas Chain Massacre.”  

    A file obtained from the Sheriff's Office by a local newspaper showed that the Sheriff had, over the years, investigated several leads, including a similar incident from Feb. 18, 1965. In that case,

    Dirt had been removed down to the casket boards and the casket of Maxine Cooper, a Black female around 47, opened. Investigator Otis Davis wrote the clothes had been disarranged, and her slip “had been pulled up exposing the pelvic area,” and the “area of clothing around the breasts apparent molested.” A shovel was found near the grave. Cooper had been buried four days earlier.

    The Benboe Funeral Home told the investigator that the woman had been sick a long time and had died at home. No jewelry had been buried with the body. An additional examination found the body had no indications of being mutilated or disfigured. The file had no additional information on the crime.

    No more reports of grave robberies were in the folder, but the documents did contain a sheet of paper with this note—“This case has not been cleared—it is filed with murder cases—do not destroy. Ghoul of Whitmire Cemetery.”

Idaho Ready To Begin Executions By Firing Squad

They could have made a small fortune auctioning off tickets to participate, but instead the state will be using experienced law enforcement officers that volunteer to be part of the firing squad. From the article:

    Beginning July 1, Idaho became the only state in America where condemned inmates will, by default, face a hail of bullets instead of lethal injection—a dramatic policy shift prompted by last year’s botched attempt to execute convicted murderer Thomas Eugene Creech.

    Republican Gov. Brad Little, who seeks a third term this November, signed both firing squad bills into law. The 2025 bill delayed implementation so IDOC had time to rebuild its execution chamber. 

I would point out that Creech is a serial killer and seriously evil. It is an affront to all that is good that Creech is still alive. Anyway, after an attempt to execute him with lethal injection went wrong--the doctor spent over an hour unsuccessfully trying to find the vein, which sounds a lot like the phlebotomist at my doctor's office--the legislature and governor had enough and a bill was quickly passed changing the preferred execution method from lethal injection to firing squad. 

    Of course, being the government, they had to waste as many tax dollars as possible. Law enforcement insisted on a special facility to conduct executions at a cost of $1.2 million. And for some reason also insisted on the latest and greatest rifles: "five Daniel Defense DD5-P [sic: probably the DD5-SBR] rifles chambered in .308 Winchester, fitted with scopes, suppressors and bipods, at a cost of more than $24,000." I'm pretty sure that five Ruger American bolt action rifles would do a better job at a fraction of the cost. And bipods? And scopes? Seriously? It's in a room at a distance of only 10 yards, not hundreds of yards across a canyon up in the mountains.  

Not Wasting Any Time

From the Daily Mail: "Indian migrant murdered wife at $1.3m mansion just six days after he arrived in Canada." He claims he only "accidentally poked" her in the stomach once and has no memory of how the other six stab wounds happened. 

Democrats Have Different Priorities From Normal Humans

"Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz pardons illegal migrant PEDOPHILE who raped girl aged 10 to stop the predator from being deported"--Daily Mail. Tou Lue Vang had "admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing the child for four years when he pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2006, and at the time he justified his actions by claiming it is a 'cultural thing' to 'marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.'" Vang, it should be noted, had initially entered the country illegally. 

Global Warming Fail

A headline from the New York Post states: "NYC bakes as Central Park hits 100 degrees for first time in over a decade amid blistering heatwave." How can it be the hottest in decade if every year for the past decade has been the hottest on record? The hottest temperature recorded in Central Park was 106° in 1936, and the other big years for heat with 4 days each where it was more than 100° were in 1953 and 1966. 

See The Violence Inherent In The Transgender

Following up on news earlier today of a transgender shooter who was apparently stopped before committing a mass shooting, we have another incident where a transgender killmonger,  "Teha Delaruelle, who briefly volunteered on the campaign of Wisconsin Democratic Socialist Katrina deVille, who is also transgender, sits in front of a dry-erase board scrawled with 'kill your local Republican' in black marker" and "vowed to unleash 'trans jihad' against the 'animals' in the MAGA movement in a series of unhinged videos on social media." 

Test Of Buckshot For Home Defense

 "12 Gauge Buckshot Range Report" by Ben Adams, Appalachian Tactical Academy. A comparison between Federal Tactical 00 8-pellet Buck with Federal’s Flitecontrol wad and Remington Express Tac 12 00 8-pellet Buck, pattern tested at 5, 15, 25, and 35 yards. At 5 yards, the Remington had already opened up a lot more than the Federal, although both patterned within the A-zone on the target. At 15 yards, however, the Remington pattern was significantly larger than the Federal. At 25 yards, the Federal load's pattern was about the size of the Remington's at 15 yards, while the Remington had opened up enough that some pellets were no longer striking on the silhouette. At 35 yards, the Federal was still doing pretty well (1 pellet off the target), but the Remington pattern was so large that it was no longer going to be effective. 35 yards is far beyond any distance you would ever need to shoot in a home defense scenario (unless you lived in a mansion), but could be well short of a property line (or border of your curtilage). Just something to keep in mind. In any event, the author concludes:

    The Federal load I tested is the clear winner over the Remington, but what does that actually mean for you as the end user? Don’t assume that the Federal load is automatically superior for your purposes. A 25+ yard shot just may not be a reality for your individual situation, so why stress about ensuring you have ammo to meet a situation that you are not going to experience?

    Both loads do just fine at distances of 15y and in, which accounts for the longest indoor shot 99% of Americans might have to take. Keep that in mind when choosing a load for your gun. With all that said, my preference is still going to be for the tighter-patterning load, all other things being equal. But what if all other things aren’t equal? Price and availability have to factor into your decision-making process as well.

The latter has certainly played into my selection of shotgun ammo. It was years after I first started hearing about the Federal Flitecontrol 8-pellet buckshot load before I ever came across it in any of the stores in this area, and supply has been very spotty. And when I check online, it seems to always be out of stock or on back order. Consequently,  most of my supply is more standard 00 loadings. 

Many DSA Leaders Are Communists

 In case you doubted me, Just The News reports: "Many Democratic Socialist leaders are self-professed communists, DSA caucus statements show." The article begins:

    In the wake of the shocking victory of several Democratic Socialist candidates in the New York City primary elections, President Donald Trump is warning that the candidates are “hardcore Godless communists” and a serious threat to the United States. He received immediate pushback, not least from CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, who said that Democratic Socialist candidates are not communists. 

    “While Democrats themselves have been wrestling with what Tuesday night means for the direction of their party, socialism, much less democratic socialism, is not communism,” Collins said on air earlier this week.

The same Democratic Socialists of America often identify as Marxist or Communist

    Collins may have missed the fact that many of the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), belong to internal party caucuses that explicitly define themselves as Marxist and advocate for achieving communism. 

    These groups control a significant portion of the DSA’s National Political Council, the body responsible for governing the party, according to a review of party records, social media posts, and caucus platforms. In fact, 10 members of the 25-person body belong to a caucus that espouses communism or have explicitly supported the ideology in public statements.   

The article then goes on to discuss specific DSA leaders and politicians who have either said they are communist, support communist goals, or praise communist leaders. 

More Trans Violence - Las Vegas Police Intercept Trans Mass Shooter

From the New York Post: "Trans gunman caught in alleged casino terror plot with huge cache of weapons — as cops release chilling footage." The article relates that "Allison Howlett, 36, who was born a man but lives as a woman, was arrested Saturday on charges of making terroristic threats, assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, gun theft and other offenses." Howlett's former spouse informed police that Howlett had stolen her car and had firearms inside, and they tracked him to a hotel parking garage.

    The officers were shocked to see that Howlett had been sitting on a handgun and had an MP5 submachine gun sitting on the back seat.

    When cops searched Howlett’s car, they recovered 22 other guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

    Cops who searched the suspect’s home in Henderson found 30 more firearms, including automatic rifles, plus ammo, grenade launcher attachments and silencers. 

    Officers said Howlett made several threats going back years, a including a 2024 call where Howlett threatened a mass shooting.