[PJ] Sadly, America has experienced yet another maniac shooting up innocent people at a house of worship. On Saturday, a man armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (which is NOT an "assault rifle" since it cannot fire automatically as only a true assault rifle can) and three semi-automatic pistols murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue and wounded several others (including four police officers). This kind of attack on houses of worship is no longer unheard of.
Last year, the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, was attacked, with 26 killed and 20 wounded. In 2015 Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., was attacked and nine were murdered in cold blood. Christians and Jews are not the only ones targeted. Last year, a gunman invaded a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, and murdered six people. In 2012, a killer entered the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and gunned down six innocent people.
When people gather to worship, unless there are some well-thought-out security measures in place, the worshipers are going to be sitting ducks for any nut case out there who wants to come in with guns blazing. What are some specific things you and your people can do right now to harden your house of worship from an active shooter?
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Michael Ledeen writes about the background to this attitude here, and his frustrations trying to fight it at his own synagogue. As he says, “Yet we should have learned one of the lessons of the Holocaust, namely that we must defend ourselves, and fight our enemies.”
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People in my congregation would pee their pants if they knew there was a gun in building. I believe there are some of them who would rather die than fight back. I do not believe that Jesus intended us to be defenseless.
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Abu Uluque, the rabbis ruled in the Torah is not a suicide pact back in the early days of the Maccabean revolt, as I recall.
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When people gather to worship, unless there are some well-thought-out security measures in place, the worshipers are gathering is going to be sitting ducks
[Breitbart] New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says a caravan of at least 7,000 Central American migrants are headed to the United States for welfare, not to seek asylum.
During a debate on FOX11 Los Angeles, Coulter said the caravan of previously deported illegal aliens and job-seekers from Central America are merely looking for public benefits rather than asylum, as the establishment media has repeatedly claimed.
Coulter said:
None of these are asylum cases or they’d stop in the first country they get to. The idea of asylum is something like there’s a holocaust, there’s a potato famine. No this is how these people always live which is why all of different countries want to come to the ... biggest welfare state in the world, that is the United States. [Emphasis added]
Dumping poor people on America is not making us better. They are far more likely to be receiving welfare. And that’s just your average illegal immigrant and immigrant. [Emphasis added]
Coulter said that if the caravan of migrants were looking for asylum, they would be stopping in Mexico. Instead, as Coulter notes, the migrants are continuing to head for the U.S.
"Asylum applicants don’t have to wait at all, they instantly get given food, housing, everything, but they aren’t asylum cases," Coulter said. These aren’t people fleeing ... otherwise, they’d get to Mexico and say ’Home free! I’m in Mexico!’ No, they want to come to the biggest welfare state in the world."
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DHS is drafting a check ( section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)) on economic migrants by making them prove they aren't a 'public charge' and receiving benefits on the taxpayers dime excludes them from green cards, immigrant visas, & extensions if already here. There won't be any extended family members to join if they continue the caravan and will just enable DHS & ICE to identify & locate more illegals already here for deportation. Jobs, not mobs.
[PJ] Sources close to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi are saying that it's possible he was killed because he was about to reveal Saudi Arabian use of chemical weapons in Yemen. The Sunday Express story also says that British intelligence knew that Khashoggi would be kidnapped when he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and tried to warn off Saudi intelligence -- to no avail.
Last night a close friend of Mr Khashoggi revealed that he was about to obtain "documentary evidence" proving clams that Saudi Arabia had used chemical weapons in its proxy war in Yemen.
"I met him a week before his death. He was unhappy and he was worried," said the middle eastern academic, who did not wish to be named.
"When I asked him why he was worried, he didn't really want to reply, but eventually he told me he was getting proof that Saudi Arabia had used chemical weapons. He said he hoped he be getting documentary evidence.
"All I can tell you is that the next thing I heard, he was missing."
While there have been recent unsubstantiated claims in Iran that Saudi Arabia has been supplying ingredients that can be used to produce the nerve agent Sarin in Yemen, it is more likely that Mr Khashoggi was referring to phospherous.
Khashoggi was, at one time, a consultant to Saudi intelligence and is generally believed to have been a regime insider. It's seems plausible that, if anyone could get his hand on documents exposing Saudi use of white phosphorus against civilians, it would be Khashoggi.
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Okay....
White Phosphorous (WP, AKA Willy Pete, smoke and/or incendiary munitions) equals Chemical War Agent equals WMD equals '!!Crimes Against Humanity!! News at 11'. Here we go again....
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...generally believed to have been a regime insider.
I wonder if some day it comes out that Kashoggi seduced some Saudi Princeling's Wifey #4 and that was the reason he got whacked?
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1. He was "not" an American journalist.
2. He fled to the U.S. when there was a change of politics in SA.
3. He was close to bin Laden.
4. He was critical of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
5. It is an internal affair of SA.
6. Supposedly, as reported this a.m., Britain was aware of the plot.
7. His family was very wealthy.
8. It is reported that he tended to embrace the MB.
9. The left in the U.S. jumped on his murder and said DJT has punish SA.
10. The story has dominated the news cycle longer than usual.
11. He worked for WAPO, the same newspaper(?) that John Podesta works for which is largely owned by Jeff Bezos and bankrolled to the tune of $600 mil by the CIA.
Why should we do anything about this SA affair? Why did Khashoggi not go to the SA embassy in Washington to clear up his records issues? It seems that Khashoggi was more of an operative than a journalist.
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Couldn't get to comment section on the site. 33 ADS & 20 TRACKERS. Take WAY to long to clean & clear. SO forget it I will wait fr DR LOTTS research.
[American Thinker] Virtue-signaling by Dick’s Sporting Goods has a cost that goes beyond alienating gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. When the national announced at the end of February this year that it would no longer sell assault-style firearms, high-capacity magazines, and not sell any guns to people younger than 21, it left some of its suppliers in the lurch. One of them, ammunition maker, BBM, which supplied house-brand ammunition to the company, has sued.
Chris Egger of Guns.com reports
Citing breach of contract and fraud, Nevada-based Battle Born Munitions filed suit in federal court against Dick’s Sporting Goods this week.
At the root of the filing is what BBM says was the failure by Dick’s to hold up their end of a contract for the ammo distributor to supply the retailer with Field & Stream-branded ammo for resale in their stores. The delay by the big box sporting goods outlet, argues the filing, resulted in BBM losing out on a multi-million dollar contract to supply helicopters to an overseas U.S. ally.
The 11-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Pennsylvania federal court details that the two companies entered into an agreement in January 2016 to supply ammo packaged with Dick’s trademarked Field & Stream packaging. Acting on the contract, BBM paid two ammo manufacturers ‐ Bosnian-based Igman and Hungarian-based RUAG ‐ a total of $4.5 million for the product and made the munitions available to Dick’s by November of the same year, a delivery timeline stipulated by the contract. However, BBM says Dick’s then left them holding the bag for almost a year, refusing to pay them or take delivery of the ammo.>Citing breach of contract and fraud, Nevada-based Battle Born Munitions filed suit in federal court against Dick’s Sporting Goods this week.
At the root of the filing is what BBM says was the failure by Dick’s to hold up their end of a contract for the ammo distributor to supply the retailer with Field & Stream-branded ammo for resale in their stores. The delay by the big box sporting goods outlet, argues the filing, resulted in BBM losing out on a multi-million dollar contract to supply helicopters to an overseas U.S. ally.
The 11-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in a Pennsylvania federal court details that the two companies entered into an agreement in January 2016 to supply ammo packaged with Dick’s trademarked Field & Stream packaging. Acting on the contract, BBM paid two ammo manufacturers ‐ Bosnian-based Igman and Hungarian-based RUAG ‐ a total of $4.5 million for the product and made the munitions available to Dick’s by November of the same year, a delivery timeline stipulated by the contract. However, BBM says Dick’s then left them holding the bag for almost a year, refusing to pay them or take delivery of the ammo.
Tying up the available cash of this company in inventory and then refusing to pay for the custom goods ordered, could have driven BBM out of business. As it happened, the company managed to survive the cash flow crisis, and Dick’s ultimately paid up. But in the interim, unable to fund other business prospects, the company says that it lost out on a lucrative contract elsewhere.
We’ll let the jurors in Pennsylvania sort out the liability. I suspect that the case may be eligible for triple damages, not enough to tank a company of the size of Dick’s, but enough to reward BBM for their pain.
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Missing the Saturday in Guns column, Ah'l report the following...
Smith&Wesson bought Thompson/Center firearms.
Academy Sports is discount selling the Thompson/Center economy line of Compass rifles at $274. S&W is offering a $50 rebate on a prepaid debit card for each rifle purchased. Academy Sports is giving a $25 store credit for each purchase. I bought a new 22" 6.5 Creedmoor for $200.
Supposedly 6.5 ammo is expensive. Federal is offering a $5.00 rebate on each box of 20 rounds, so @$11.00/box off the shelf. Discount online ammo shops may have deeper discounts.
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Just shot a 6.5 Creedmoor a week ago. Very impressive pattern, even for an old, blind man. My standard is hitting a soft ball size circle at 100m. One fellow was hitting a golf golf ball size groups at 100m, a ragged few keyholes as well. Imagine what he'll be able to do when he gets to be my age.
[THE LOCAL at] A century after their dismemberment in the aftermath of World War I, Austria and Hungary take two very different approaches to their Habsburg past -- one choosing Imperial kitsch, the other a return to strident nationalism.
Both countries were carved out of the Austro-Hungarian empire after its defeat alongside Germany in the First World War. And both were stripped of swathes of territory and millions of inhabitants under the 1919 Treaty of St Germain, concluded with Austria, and the Treaty of Trianon signed with Hungary the next year.
But a hundred years on, that upheaval resonates in very different ways in Vienna and Budapest, according to Oliver Rathkolb, director of Vienna University's Institute of Contemporary History.
"In a study a few years ago we asked people in the two countries if Saint Germain and Trianon still meant anything to them. We got two totally different results: In Austria, it had no importance, in contrast to Hungary," Rathkolb told AFP.
"The myth of Trianon and the dismemberment of Greater Hungary has been promoted for internal political ends even in the communist era, and even more so after 1989," he says.
Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has even risked the ire of neighbouring governments by cultivating Hungarian minorities on his country's borders and offering them Hungarian citizenship.
Even if many ethnic Hungarians in other countries "don't quite identify with Orban's strongman version of democracy, he is able to spin a national fairy-tale that resonates", says Nandor Bardi, a historian of ethnic
minorities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
According to Bardi, "it is no coincidence that he makes keynote speeches -- for example the famed speech about moulding Hungary into an 'illiberal state' -- in Tusnad in Transylvania," a region of modern-day Romania that belonged to Hungary under the empire.
[The Local fr] Next month's list of what changes in France contains important information for Ryanair passengers, those who rent apartments and anyone who uses gas.
Ryanair to charge for cabin luggage The Colmar artist 'Hansi' depicts the departure of a German soldier from the Alsace circa 1918.
Ryanair have services to and from 31 different destinations in France so this is potentially important information for many passengers.
From November passengers on Ryanair flights will still be allowed to take one "small personal bag" into the cabin, as long as it will fit under the seat in front.
The size limit has been set at 40cmx20cmx25cm.
But they will have to pay if they also want to take a 10kg bag, such as a pull-along suitcase, on board (unless they reserved their ticket before August 31st, this year).
Passengers will have to pay €8 for the cabin luggage if they include it in their reservation or €10 if they pay online at a later date.
If you don't pay the fee online in advance you will have to pay €20 at the bag drop at the airport or €25 euros at the boarding gate
Ryanair insist the move is not aimed at making money but was intended to "improve punctuality and reduce boarding gate delays".
Winter truce begins
Landlords in France might not enjoy November although those tenants in trouble for not paying their rent can breathe a sigh of relief.
As of Thursday November 1st the annual winter truce (treve hivernal) , as it is called comes into force which basically forbids landlords and courts from evicting tenants until the weather warms up next April..
What is the truce exactly?
La trêve hivernale runs for five months from November 1st and marks a period when French landlords are not legally allowed to evict their tenants for any reason.
The truce is meant as a humanitarian measure to ensure people don't become homeless and end up sleeping on the cold winter streets.
Basically the end of the truce coincides with the arrival of spring and warmer weather.
From April 1st, police or bailiffs can start carrying out eviction notices that have been piling up throughout the winter months or weren't carried out before the truce came into effect.
The rules of the truce also prevent landlords and providers from cutting off gas and electricity to tenants during the time period. Although it doesn't cover those living in squats or buildings deemed dangerous.
Gas prices
Bad news for those who use gas to heat their homes and for cooking. In November tariffs with the provider Engie will rise by an average of 5.79 percent from November 1st compared to prices in October.
The breakdown of the rise in gas prices will see those who use gas just for cooking pay around 1.9 percent more, those who use it for cooking and hot water will pay around 3.6 percent more and those who use gas to heat their homes will have to fork out around 6 percent more.
[NYPOST] For the first time since 1972, New Jersey Republicans find themselves with a real chance to elect a US senator ‐ and rightly so, since incumbent Bob Menendez stands exposed as blatantly corrupt. Which is why The Post is happy to endorses GOP challenger Bob Hugin.
Hugin probably wouldn’t stand much chance in deep-blue Jersey. But Menendez has richly earned his massive unpopularity with Garden State voters.
Hugin promises New Jersey "a senator we can be proud of." And Menendez is anything but that ‐ simply put, he’s an embarrassment.
Although his trial for corruption ended with a hung jury, no one denies that Menendez received lavish gifts ‐ free vacations, watches and $600,000 in campaign donations ‐ from Solomon Melgen, a wealthy eye doctor.
Just as no one denies that he intervened with federal agencies on behalf of Melgen (later convicted in a $73 million Medicare fraud scheme), including obtaining visas for the doctor’s "girlfriends" from Brazil, Ukraine and the Dominican Republic.
A Supreme Court ruling raised the bar high for public corruption convictions, and prosecutors were unable to prove an actual quid pro quo. But the Senate Ethics Committee severely admonished Menendez, saying he’d broken the law.
Little wonder that Jerseyans seem to have reached their own verdict on Menendez ‐ with polls showing more than half of them saying ethics is the major factor deciding their vote.
On the issues, Menendez is a cookie-cutter Democrat, with one key exception: He’s been a leading supporter of Israel and stood nearly alone in his party opposing the Iran nuke deal. On the other hand, in the Trump era he’s been more in lockstep with other Democrats on both issues.
But is his opponent, a political novice, up to the job of replacing him? We believe so.
Hugin, who served 14 years in the Marines and just retired as CEO of a highly successful cancer-drug company, is a straight-up centrist, probably the only kind of Republican who can win in Jersey.
He’s socially liberal ‐ pro-choice, pro-same-sex-marriage, pro-equal-pay-for-equal-work ‐ and a self-described fiscal conservative.
He’s been extremely cautious in his approach toward Trump, embracing some policies and distancing himself from others.
But on key economic issues, he appears committed to common-sense Republican principles. Pushing for lower taxes, he says he’ll work to eliminate or at least raise the cap on state and local tax deductions.
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Ummm...they couldn't get rid of their Governor.
[The Federalist] James Madison had already been buried in his Montpelier grave in 1836 when territorial leaders named the place that would become the capital of Wisconsin after him. But it’s safe to presume the "Father of the Constitution" who advocated for the "numerous and indefinite" powers of state governments would have appreciated the honor ‐ at first.
It’s less clear ‐ given the massive infusion of federal money into state capitols and the accompanying loss of local control ‐ that he would be all that pleased today. Federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments have grown from just $7 billion in the 1960s to an estimated $728 billion in 2018. Almost a third of the money in many state government budgets now comes directly from Washington, D.C.
In Wisconsin alone, the equivalent of approximately 5,000 full-time state workers are paid with federal funds. That doesn’t even include the thousands and thousands of University of Wisconsin System employees who are similarly compensated.
The problem is pervasive. The name of the Badger State’s big job-training agency is the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. But with the federal government essentially issuing paychecks for almost three-fourths of the department’s employees, perhaps the United States Department of Workforce Development would be more accurate.
Approximately one-fifth of employees in Wisconsin’s departments of Health Services and Natural Resources are paid with federal money. In the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, it’s one-fourth. In both the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, it’s close to half.
Along with the paychecks comes a lot of obligation to Washington ‐ and an enormous bureaucracy. More than 1,100 of these federally compensated "state workers" appear to be engaged merely in administrative work. Even those government employees in Wisconsin who are not paid with federal dollars still often are bound by federal directives, both in Madison and in our smaller towns and cities.
As part of the Badger Institute’s Project for 21st Century Federalism, we conducted numerous email surveys of educators. Among Wisconsin school administrators, 83 percent said it is likely there would be more innovation if they had more discretion over how federal funds are spent. Eighty-one percent said accountability would improve or at least stay the same. A majority of teachers surveyed told us federal paperwork is taking time away from students.
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As the nation increasingly fractures along urban/suburban/rural lines, where do most state government bureaucrats live and work. Where is their recruitment base and what is the full demographic analysis of it? Add in special recruitment programs that have made the civil service workforce in large states disproportionately represented in government and you get the answer.
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Please be advised State Dept grants also subsidize 'refugee' locational services to include transportation, housing and employer salary reimbursements.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says a caravan of at least 7,000 Central American migrants are headed to the United States for welfare, not to seek asylum.
[American Thinker] Virtue-signaling by Dick’s Sporting Goods has a cost that goes beyond alienating gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. When the national announced at the end of February this year that it would no longer sell assault-style firearms, high-capacity magazines, and not sell any guns to people younger than 21, it left some of its suppliers in the lurch. One of them, ammunition maker, BBM, which supplied house-brand ammunition to the company, has sued.
[THE LOCAL at] A century after their dismemberment in the aftermath of World War I, Austria and Hungary take two very different approaches to their Habsburg past -- one choosing Imperial kitsch, the other a return to strident nationalism.
[The Local fr] Next month's list of what changes in France contains important information for Ryanair passengers, those who rent apartments and anyone who uses gas.
