An Update On The Salt Lake Church Shooting

 The video I had linked to the other day suggested that something that the Church could have done to avoid the shooting was to cancel the funeral. But a news report from KUTV indicated that police did not notify the Church about the tip off they received of potential violence. From the article:

    KUTV asked UPD whether they notified the local church about the “problems” tip, and, if so, when that notification was made; whether there was any discussion of sending everyone away with the possibility of a problem; and, if no notification was made, why?

    UPD Assistant Chief Justin Hoyal said officers were not aware of the funeral until they received the tip shortly before the shooting.

    Police did not notify the church because of how “last minute” the information was, and there was no credible threat, according to Hoyal.

So This Was How USAID Wasted Our Tax Dollars?

The AP article, "Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive," reports:

For nine years, Lama — who is transgender — had devoted her life to conducting HIV outreach in Nepal’s marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ sex workers who wait by this highway each night. But after the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, Lama and more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide found themselves out of a job. 

So Americans were working their butts off to pay taxes to be spent providing 280,000 jobs to do this type of work? 

    Of the more than 281,000 jobs lost due to Trump’s dismantling of USAID, just 23,000 were American, says Sadie Healy, who runs a global health consulting firm and has been tracking the job losses worldwide. The rest were overseas — many of them belonging to impoverished locals living in conflict zones or economically depressed regions where other employment options are scarce.

    In Nepal alone, an estimated 35,000 aid workers lost their jobs amid the USAID cuts, says NGO Federation of Nepal President Arjun Bhattarai. With the country already facing high unemployment, the fallout was devastating.

I don't think we have an obligation to provide make-work jobs oversees for pet leftist projects. 

The Lake Dolores Waterpark: Then And Now

The photos are from this New York Post article: "Forgotten waterpark footage perfectly captures ‘unabashed California culture that is long gone’." Per the article:

    Nearly 65 years ago, America’s first water park was created and home to over 250 acres deep in the Mojave desert. Right off I-15, its remote location proved to be a spot where kids across California drove hundreds of miles for a chance to drift down one of 10 waterslides.

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    The park had tons of legal and other financial troubles which ultimately led to its closing back in 1980s. Lake Dolores rebranded almost 20 years later, and reopened in 1998 under the new name “Rock-a-Hoola.”

    Shortly after opening, an employee was paralyzed after an accident resulted in a $4.4 million judgment against the park, forcing the investors into bankruptcy, according to Jam Press. But the park was resilient, in 2002, it was again trying its luck with a new name — Discovery Waterpark.

    The move was short-lived as it was only around for two years after closing for a third time in 2004. Reports show that slides were sold off to other major parks and the once-climbed structures were left to rubble. 

 

 

Louve Jewel Thieves Hired By "Sponsor"

 In a July 14 article, the Robb Report relates: "The Louvre Jewelry Heist’s Suspects Say a ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them." The article begins:

    The two prime suspects in the infamous 2025 Louvre jewel heist claimed they were recruited by a “mysterious sponsor,” according to statements made to Paris judicial authorities that were published by Le Monde over the weekend.

    Arrested one week after the robbery and indicted on charges of “organized gang robbery,” Abdoulaye N., 40, and Ghelamallah A., 36, remained silent for months in pre-trial detention. In June, however, they appeared before investigating judges and, for the first time, offered an expanded account of the theft of the French Crown Jewels from the museum’s Apollo Gallery. According to the men, they were hired two or three days before the crime by a sponsor whom they do not name. That sponsor is reportedly still sought by police.  

    The alleged mastermind reportedly sent the pair a video filmed inside the Apollo Gallery, showing the royal jewels on display, along with concise instructions: break the gallery’s windows and retrieve the jewelry from the display cases. Abdoulaye N., a former motocross social media star who, by his own admission, was in desperate need of money, said he was promised between 15,000 and 20,000 euros to break into the Louvre—“maybe more,” depending on the outcome.

There's a lot more, so be sure to read the whole thing. As far as I can find, it appears that a total of 7 people have been arrested in relation to the crime, but the stolen jewelry has not been recovered. As you have probably already deduced, the suspects sort of named in the article are not really French. ABC News indicates that "[o]ne of the suspects has dual citizenship in France and Mali, and the other is a dual citizen of France and Algeria, investigators said, adding that both were already known to police from past burglary cases." 

IRA Threatens Riots Unless Migrants Expelled

"New IRA 'may bring riots' to British Isles after issuing 'civil war' warning"--Daily Star. The article begins:

    The terror group the New IRA have threatened to bring “civil war” to the British Isles as experts have warned the group could trigger riots in their attempts to form an “United Ireland.”

    Experts fear the proscribed terror group the New IRA are plotting to capitalise on tensions around migration. And could use the anxieties to launch an intimidation campaign against vulnerable communities. In a recent video a masked spokesperson for the terror group took social media to make a chilling ultimatum.

    The man stated: "It is now going to be time for civil war, and that is exactly what these guys are going to be doing and can you blame them?

    "This will be a major wake-up call for the authorities. These guys will show them how it's done and give them 24 hours to leave." He added: "They will take control, and they will give an ultimatum, not to politicians but to the illegal migrants who are in the country."

It think it odd that this New IRA is being described as a "terror group" when it is the government that is terrorizing its own people. 

Maybe Congress Could Write Their Own Bills

Politico reports: "AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws." The problem:

    Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools, many of them riddled with errors and shoddy language.

    The strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel is increasing as more congressional offices and outside groups rely on generative AI to draft legislation, according to interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the office.

    They said AI’s ability to quickly generate mountains of text is forcing the OLC’s lawyers to spend significantly more time reviewing and rewriting the proposals. And in many cases, the drafts are plagued by mistakes that could ripple well beyond Washington — tying up the passage of legislation and risking lawsuits over erroneously cited statutes or incorrect legal definitions. 

The real solution would be to require the elected Representatives and Senators to personally handwrite all bills that they submit for consideration. 

Aero Precision Gets New Owners

The Truth About Guns reports that "Aero Precision Isn’t Dead: New Owners Take Over as Manufacturing Restarts," stating that "[a] source inside Aero Precision confirmed to TTAG that the receivership process has been completed and Aero Precision, Ballistic Advantage, Stag Arms and VG6 are transitioning to a new family investment group" and private-equity firm White Wolf Capital is out. The author adds:

    Whatever you think about Aero Precision specifically, its survival matters to the broader firearms industry.

    Aero became one of the companies that helped move the AR market away from the old model where consumers bought complete rifles and toward the massive build-it-yourself ecosystem we have today.

    For a lot of shooters, an Aero lower became almost the default starting point for an AR build. I’m included in that group. I have an M16A2 clone built on an Aero Precision lower, along with a 10.5-inch M4E1 upper that gets swapped onto a couple of my retro-inspired CAR-15/Mk18 builds. I’ve put plenty of rounds through both over the years and haven’t had an issue with either. 

Shades of Epstein: Hayden Panettiere Trafficked At Age 18

Seems like a rite of passage in Hollywood. From the New York Post: "Haunting Hayden Panettiere interview about being betrayed and sex trafficked at age 18 resurfaces after her death." Key bit:

    A haunting interview in which Hayden Panettiere talked about being betrayed by a friend and sex trafficked to a “very famous man” on a yacht at age 18 has resurfaced after her death on Sunday.

    The troubled actress, who died of suspected cardiac arrest and overdose at age 36, described being “basically told to perform sexual acts” when she was still an up-and-coming child star.

    Panettiere said the unidentified female friend was somebody she “had grown to trust and see as a protector” before she led her onto the boat when she was 18.

    “There was no hints of anything like that happening, so it took me by surprise,” she said.

    Panettiere made the comments on the May 11 episode of Jay Shetty’s podcast, “On Purpose with Jay Shetty.” 

Trebechet Terminal Ballistics

From an article published by Smithsonian Magazine entitled, "A Medieval Man’s Injuries Reminded One Archaeologist of Modern-Day Car Crash Victims. They Turned Out to Be the Work of an English Trebuchet":

    As Jo Buckberry, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Bradford in England, announced at a recent meeting of the Paleopathology Association, a skeleton excavated at the Scottish castle bears more than 160 fractures sustained at or around the time of death, with most of the injuries concentrated on the skull and the ribs. Buckberry argues that the man’s remains represent the first known evidence of trebuchet trauma in the archaeological record.

    “It looks like he was hit from behind by something traveling at a great velocity,” Buckberry tells Science magazine’s Andrew Curry. “The most similar cases I was finding were car crashes and people hit by trains. But how do you get from there to a guy in medieval Scotland? What is large and moving very, very quickly in 1304?”

    The answer, Buckberry concluded after comparing the man’s injuries to other documented cases, was probably a large stone that struck his right shoulder and the back of his head with great force, pinning him to the ground. “The scale of the fractures of his body suggest his death was thankfully instantaneous,” the researcher says to the Daily Mail’s William Hunter. 

VIDEO: Quit Aiming Your Shotgun

This is for those shooting clays or hunting birds, rabbits, etc. Obviously you need to aim a defensive shotgun.  

 VIDEO: "Quit Aiming Your Shotgun! | How to Shotgun 4"
Target Focused Life (6 min.)