I think it more means the recruiting numbers suck and someone high enough at the Pentagon decided for better theatrics.

The Army’s New Recruitment Video Means Only One Thing

The U.S. Army on Monday released a recruitment ad that critics argue is a sure sign the military is gearing up for war.

There are no signs of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the 30-second spot, which features white males jumping out of a plane.

“Your greatest victories are never achieved alone,” text in the ad reads. “Be all you can be.”

It comes two years after the Army pushed an animated video series, “The Calling,” that checked all the woke boxes.

 

I think it wouldn’t take an actual Police Investigator™ to have deduced that

Investigators say a homeowner shot an intruder in Reeds Spring, Mo.

REEDS SPRING, Mo. (KY3) – Investigators say a home intruder died after the homeowner shot him in Stone County.

The incident happened Saturday night in Reeds Spring. Investigators say the homeowner shot the intruder when he was violently attacked.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division took over the investigation.

Gun rights groups to seek Supreme Court ruling on assault weapons

Gun rights advocacy groups say they intend to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state’s assault weapons ban after a federal appeals court on Friday refused to block enforcement of the law.

In a statement Saturday, the Illinois State Rifle Association said it was not surprised by the 7th Circuit panel’s 2-1 decision, which said plaintiffs in the consolidated cases had not met their burden to show they were likely to win in a constitutional challenge to the law.

“It has always been and is our intent to take our case to the U.S. Supreme Court where we believe we can get a favorable ruling for law-abiding gun owners in Illinois,” the organization said. “We will continue to stand up for the Second amendment and Illinois law-abiding gun owners and against our anti-gun Governor Pritzker and General Assembly.”

In addition, the National Foundation for Gun Rights – which provided attorneys involved in the consolidated case – said it will appeal as well.

“Semi-auto bans like Illinois’ strike right at the heart of the Second Amendment and are completely inconsistent with multiple Supreme Court precedents,” the organization said in a statement. “We will keep fighting and are preparing to appeal this outrageous ruling.”

The 7th Circuit’s decision on Friday left in place the state’s assault weapons ban as well as local bans enacted by Cook County and the cities of Chicago and Naperville.

The state of Illinois and the city of Naperville both enacted their bans in response to a mass shooting last year at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park that left seven people dead and dozens more injured or traumatized.

Authorities say the alleged shooter in that incident used a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 semiautomatic rifle and carried three 30-round magazines. That type of gun and magazine are now banned under the state’s assault weapons law.

The majority opinion from the 7th Circuit focused on whether that type of weapon, or others like it, were protected under the Second Amendment.

That opinion, written by Judge Diane Wood and cosigned by Judge Frank Easterbrook, drew a distinction between the types of “bearable” arms commonly used for self-defense and the type of weapons typically reserved only for military uses.

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November 8

1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters planning on blowing up Parliament in London, is killed in a gunfight with his pursuers  at Holbeche House in Staffordshire

1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts -later Mount Holyoke College – the first of a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States.

1861 – During the American Civil War, The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship RMS Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US, with President Lincoln finally releasing the envoys.

1887 – John ‘Doc’ Holliday dies in bed, with his boots off, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, age 36.

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1923 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government later called the ‘Beer Hall Putsch‘ due to the Nazi beginnings at the Bürgerliches brewery’s Bürgerbräukeller in Munich.

1932 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent President Herbert Hoover.

1933 – During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed during the winter of 1933-34

1950 – Over Korea, U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down 2 North Korean MiG-15s, the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight.

1957 – Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu with the loss of all 44 passengers and crew aboard. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

1960 – John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States

1965 – American Airlines Flight 383, a Boeing 727, crashes in Constance, Kentucky on final approach to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, killing 54 of the 57 passengers and 4 of the 5 crew aboard.

1966 – President Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the American Football League.

1972 – American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.

1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay $2.9 million.

1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon – the father of Alexander the Great – at Vergina.

1988 – Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st President of the United States.

1994 – The midterm election demoncrap losses result in massive Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. The passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act which included an ‘assault weapon’ ban is seen as playing a significant part in this.

2002 –The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves resolution 1441 on Iraq, warning Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.

2011 – Asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth – about 201,700 miles – the closest known approach by an asteroid of its size since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

2016 – Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States

2020 – Alex Trebek, noted longtime host of Jeopardy!, dies, age 80, of pancreatic cancer, at his home in Los Angeles

 

“Isn’t it odd that people break laws with AR15s every time there is a gun control push…”

Armed man with AR-15 ARRESTED on Capitol Hill: Cops confirm suspect Ahmir Lavon Merrell, 21, in custody after emergency call from outside congressional offices

U.S. Capitol Police arrested a 21-year-old man with an AR-15 rifle outside the Capitol complex Tuesday afternoon.

Police confirmed that the suspect apprehended on the Senate side of the Capitol was in custody after receiving an emergency call around 12:30 p.m. ET.

‘USCP Officers just arrested a man with a gun in the park across from Union Station. At this time we have no reason to believe there is an ongoing threat,’ Capitol Police wrote on X.

‘We are working to gather more information and will put out more details when they are confirmed,’ continued the post.

An officer told reporters that the ‘man with an AR-15’ was identified as Ahmir Lavon Merrell. Police do not believe that he had a particular motive or target.

However, Chief Tom Manger said ‘the fact that he was on Capitol grounds, is a concern.’

According to videos from the scene, the suspect – a black man wearing a bright orange sweat suit – was loaded into an ambulance. Police said the man was tased following a standoff with an officer before being arrested.

The man was spotted in handcuffs with his hair and beard full of leaves following his capture. Merrell is from Atlanta, Georgia, and a registered sex offender who has mental health challenges, according to reports.

Hence the alteration of Massachusetts into a less flattering version

18-Year-Old Massachusetts Man Arrested on Gun Charges After Shooting Knife-Wielding Attacker

A teen from Brockton, Massachusetts is facing numerous charges and is being held behind bars without bail after shooting a man who was armed with a knife at the teen’s place of business.

Khamani K. Anderson has been charged with carrying a loaded firearm without a license, unlawful possession of ammunition, and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, but so far hasn’t been charged with any violent offense in connection with the shooting. Meanwhile, the man Anderson is accused of shooting is facing a number of charges of his own, the most serious of which is a count of assault with a deadly weapon.

According to police reports filed in court, [26-year-old Brandon] Theodat, a regular customer who some people had suspected of shoplifting in the past, entered the business on Campanelli Industrial Drive around 11:35 a.m. Sunday.

One store employee told police she overheard an argument between Anderson and Theodat, and that Theodat at one point said words to the effect of, “cam called me a broke [expletive],” court papers said.

An assistant manager told police he overheard the argument at Anderson’s register and told Anderson to walk away as it started to escalate, and as he was informed that Theodat had a knife.

The assistant manager told police Anderson headed to the break room but Theodat followed and refused the manager’s request that he leave the store, records show.

Anderson emerged from the break room with a fanny pack slung around his shoulder, the assistant manager told police, and the manager said he observed Theodat holding a knife as the argument continued by an electronics aisle, according to legal filings.

The assistant manager “stated both ended up to the east of the front door when the customer was approaching Khamani and he heard a gunshot,” the filings said, adding that the assistant manager “showed us where he observed Khamani Anderson when the shot went off, and pointed us towards a bra rack, which is where the shell casing was located.”

Legal filings said the assistant manager didn’t see a gun but did see Theodat “grab his right leg and start limping out of the store.” Anderson left the area.

Police found Theodat still in possession of the knife when they arrived on scene, while Anderson turned himself over to authorities “without incident” on Monday.

In most states, Anderson wouldn’t be facing charges at all (at least for possessing a firearm or ammunition without a license), but thanks to Massachusetts’ incredibly restrictive gun control laws the 18-year-old is looking at a mandatory minimum sentence of 18 months behind bars if he’s convicted of the non-violent, possessory offense. Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, meanwhile, could lead to a fine and several months of jail time, though there is an exception for “the lawful defense of life and property,” which may very well be the case here.

It’s impossible for Anderson to have legally possessed any gun, for self-defense or any other lawful purpose, since Massachusetts requires applicants for a license to carry (which also serves as a license to possess) to be at least 21-years-old. There are several cases percolating around the federal court system challenging gun bans for under-21s, including Reese v. ATF in the Fifth Circuit, which heard oral arguments on the issue on Monday.

I’ll be curious to see if Anderson or his attorney raise a Second Amendment claim at any point in his criminal proceedings (presuming he fights the charges). If the only barrier to Anderson lawfully exercising his right to keep and bear arms is the fact that the state says he’s too young to do so, he has a very good argument that Massachusetts is infringing on his fundamental right to armed self-defense.

Domestic violence suspect shot after barging into Fresno home. Police say he crashed a car, ran

A fight between a motorist and his occupant that may have led to a vehicle crash ended Sunday with the driver being shot by a Fresno homeowner after he allegedly made his way into the home while trying to flee.

The incident unfolded at 1:45 p.m. at North Island Waterpark Drive, near West Shaw Avenue.

Fresno Police Lt. Skye Leibee said officers assisted the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office in a domestic violence incident while the vehicle was being driven. The sheriff’s helicopter was overhead and was able to view the vehicle traveling southbound on Island Waterpark Drive.

Deputies attempted to catch up to the vehicle to investigate the complaint of domestic violence.

No pursuit took place, Leibee said, but deputies saw a cloud of dust in the area and noticed a crash.

Deputies saw the vehicle disabled in the middle of the roadway after it struck with a parked vehicle. Deputies saw the alleged suspect, described as a man in his 50s, fleeing into a nearby home. There, he began fighting with the home’s occupants.

One of the residents pulled out a gun and fired on the suspect at least once.

Leibee said the suspect was taken to a hospital with an injury not considered life-threatening.

Officers tracked down the original victim of the domestic violence complaint and interviewed her.

Officers had set up a perimeter in the neighborhood after the wounded suspect refused to surrender.

He was later taken into custody without incident, Leibee said. Leibee said the suspect is expected to face several charges.

The two occupants of the home where the suspect entered were not injured.

Out: “Firey But Mostly Peaceful Protests”
IN: “Passionate Protests”
An ABC “News’s” chief White House hack offers her unbiased on the pro-terrorism/pro-Jew-slaughter mayhem that invaded DC this weekend:

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Passionate attempts to pound open the White House gates.

Passionate scaling of the White House fence. Remember, grandmothers are in federal prison for 5 years for simply “parading” in Congress.

As Paul observed, it’s a moslem speaking.

Sorry, Obama: ‘We’ Aren’t Complicit. It’s You Who Has Blood on Your Hands.

In 1953, the Swiss novelist Max Frisch published a play called The Arsonists. It’s a pitch dark comedy about a small town ravaged by a group of maniacs disguised as traveling salesmen, who sweet-talk their way into people’s homes and then set them on fire. Its protagonist is a dolt called Biedermann—bieder being German for honest, respectable, and upright. He’s aware of the danger, and yet, when the arsonists knock, he lets them in. The tragedy, Frisch argues, is that he almost has no other choice: The arsonists are such smooth talkers that it’s easy, when listening to them, to ignore the large drums of kerosene and the matches they’re holding in their hands.

I thought of The Arsonists this week when I heard snippets of a podcast interview featuring former president Barack Obama on the Middle East. “Nobody’s hands are clean,” Obama said. “All of us are complicit.”

Nah, man. Not all of us are complicit. It’s just you.

It’s you, because you’re the one who gave that stentorian speech about red lines in Syria and then sat by and did nothing as those red lines were crossed and Assad continued to slaughter his own people, allowing the Iranians and the Russians to creep in and fill the vacuum left by your devastating lack of leadership.

It’s you, because you’re the one who came up with the idea of empowering Iran, the world’s premiere exporter of terrorism, Holocaust denial, and chaos, all the while telling the American people you were merely trying to stop Teheran from getting a nuclear bomb. Billions of dollars and thousands of dead later, we can all see how well this idea—which you, with the eloquence only a professor could muster, called “regional integration”—is working.

It’s you, because you’re the one who delivered a parting gift to the region, ending your final term as president by reversing four decades of American bipartisan support of Israel and abstaining from a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements, while funneling $400 million in annual payments to the despotic Palestinian Authority, which then promptly used this money to fund its pay-for-slay program, doling out large cash payments to any Palestinian who murdered Jews.

So, please, Mr. President: Spare us your opinions.

November 7

680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, France.

1504 – Christopher Columbus returns to Sanlúcar, Spain from his fourth and last voyage.

1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, offering freedom to slaves who abandon their colonial masters and fight with Murray and the British.

1811 – North of present day Lafayette, Indiana, near the convergence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers, U.S. forces under the command of William Henry Harrison repulse an attack by Shawnee warriors and continue on to drive them from their settlement.

1861 – At Belmont, Missouri, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements under Gen. Leonidas Polk arrive.

1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly magazine, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.

1893 – Women in the state of Colorado are granted the right to vote

1910 – The first air freight shipment, from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to Congress.
Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President.
Boston Elevated Railway Company’s streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, and plunging into the Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.

1917 – красный октябрь – Red October – Bolsheviks storm the Russian Imperial Winter Palace in St Petersburg, beginning the Russian Communist Revolution. Due to the Russians having not changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar at the time, the commies use the date of 25 October.

1919 – The first anti-communist/radical raid by U.S. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, 4 months after the bridge’s completion.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for a record 4th term as President of the United States.

1957 – A report titled Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age submitted to the National Security Council by the chairman of the Office of Defense Mobilization, H. Rowan Gaither, calls for a strengthening of US missile technology, along with offensive and defensive military capabilities.

1967 –President Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1972 – President Richard Nixon is re-elected as President of the United States.

1973 – Congress overrides President Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

1983 – A bomb set by the Resistance Conspiracy of the May 19th Communist Order, explodes inside the United States Capitol causing only building damage.

1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.

2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

2004 – U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq.

2016 – Janet Reno dies after a long illness of Parkinson’s disease

2020 – Joe Biden is reported to have been elected the 46th president of the United States.

Nashville Mayor Furious Over Leak of Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto, Demands Investigation

After months of false promises regarding the release of transgender shooter Audrey Hale’s infamous manifesto, parts of the document finally leaked on Monday.

Hale committed mass murder in March, killing six people, including three children, at a Nashville Christian school. Further carnage was stopped by police officers who quickly arrived on the scene and stormed the building in order to eliminate the threat.

Steven Crowder obtained pictures of Hale’s manifesto, and they revealed disturbing new details about her motives. In one instance, she described those she was about to go kill as “little crackers.” In another, she ranted about the supposed “white privilege” (she misspelled the latter word) of the children who attended the Christian school.

In response, Nashville’s Democrat mayor appears to be furious. He immediately demanded an investigation into who leaked the manifesto, claiming that the release threatens the security of “Nashvillians who are grieving.”

Following the leak of the transgender Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said that the city has launched an investigation into how the images of the writings were released.

“I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians who are grieving,” O’Connell said in a statement, according to WSMV.

If there was any question about whether the photos released by Crowder were real, this answers them. You don’t start an investigation into the leak of something that doesn’t exist.

Still, it’s odd to see Mayor Freddie O’Connell so upset with the fact that this went public. How does knowing the killer’s state of mind and possible motive put anyone in Nashville at risk? Aubrey Hale is no longer among the living, having been dispatched the day of the shooting.

While the topic is obviously very sensitive, it is fair to ask why those in charge have taken such desperate measures to keep this information out of the public eye. Given that manifestos are very often released in other cases, specifically when the shooters fit a certain profile, why only in this case are things expected to be different? One would be forgiven for suspecting that politics is playing a role in this case.

I can’t think of any legitimate reason why the shooter’s anti-white racism should have been kept a secret for nearly the past year. Even if the authorities wanted to not release the actual wording out of concern for the families involved, the public should have been made aware of the situation with a basic description. Instead, false promises were made in what appears to be an attempt to completely memory-hole the entire ordeal.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press doesn’t seem interested in reporting on the matter at all. We know from past instances that they’ve jumped all over other shooter manifestos, but they aren’t interested in this one for some reason. Again, one would be forgiven for suspecting that politics is at the root of that decision.

Wonder what took him so long to realize this

Home Depot Founder Calls Biden A “Dunce,” Says President Is A “Puppet”

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who has railed against “socialism,” corporate “wokeness,” and the Biden administration, recently spoke with FOX Business Charles Gasparino about why he is in a “particularly pissed-off mood” these days.

“I’ve said this to all of my friends, anybody who would listen: if this election goes the way the last one went, this country will be a Third World country,” the 94-year-old billionaire told Gasparino.

Marcus blames the social and economic mess consuming the country on President Biden, calling the president a “dunce” and saying he’s the “most divisive president we’ve ever seen.” Labeling half the country as a ‘MAGA Republican’ was never a way to promote ‘unity,’ he continued.

The billionaire then talks about Biden’s deteriorating mental state, saying, “Somebody is feeding him like a puppet.” He warned against the massive spending increase and numerous policy errors that triggered high inflation and an explosion in debt.

Marcus acknowledges some positives during the Trump administration, such as increased wages, higher employment among minorities, and low inflation. However, he expresses concerns about Trump’s personality, particularly his inability to “keep his mouth shut . . . I’m afraid if he’s elected, the first thing he does is go after his enemies, starting with the Republicans.”

Marcus said, “I think [Trump] has the policies if he would just follow the script and do what he has to do.”

Gasparino asks the billionaire if he could build another Home Depot in today’s environment. The short answer is ‘no’: “Regulations and all this woke crap” have made starting a public company near impossible, he said.

He added: “I ran a business for 60 years… I would never get involved with a social issue outside of business. That was not my business.”

Marcus said there was some hope for the future of the company as Americans were quickly turning on radical leftists. The example he gave was the Bud Light boycott:

“They were No. 1 . . . and they turned stupid overnight,” he said. “The American people remember; their sales are going to stay down.”

He concludes by saying the American people are worth saving from what he believes is a progressive apocalypse…

In a separate interview earlier this year, Marcus told Americans to “wake up” to the reality that the economy is in “tough times” following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Months before that, in December 2022, he railed against “socialism” for why nobody wants to work and warned capitalism is in dire straits.

Marcus’ warning is similar to co-founder and retired CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, who recently warned that “socialists are taking over” and ‘capitalism cannot be replaced with disastrous socialism.’

The positive takeaway is that the Bud Light boycott serves as a barometer of American sentiment, indicating widespread discontent with progressive policies across the corporate world to local, state, and federal governments.

For all the strict gun control laws there, California actually has some of the better use of force in self defense laws and case law.

Mid-City homeowner fires on would-be robbers

LOS ANGELES – A Mid-City homeowner said he thought he was going to die after a group of suspects pulled guns on him as he approached his home over the weekend– and the attempted robbery was captured on his home surveillance cameras.

The terrifying incident happened around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4. The homeowner is seen on camera walking up to his house, drink in hand, taking his keys out of his pocket.

Then, a person dressed in all-black clothing is seen rushing up to him from behind. The homeowner told FOX 11 that he was wearing earbuds at the time “which I never should have done, and I just felt someone run up behind me. Put a gun to me.”

The video shows it all happened within seconds. The homeowner threw his drink at the suspect, who ran off. The homeowner was seen on camera then pulling a gun out of his waistband and opening fire. He said he has a concealed carry permit.

Another camera angle showed there were actually two alleged perpetrators. They jumped the home’s front yard fence as the homeowner was walking from his car to his front door. The shots scared them both off.

The homeowner told FOX 11 that he wasn’t sure if he hit either of them.

The Los Angeles Police Department said the department was investigating the attempted robbery.

The homeowner said he hopes something like what happened to him Saturday doesn’t happen again.

“If anybody else ever tries to come, they’re going to die for trying to come in this house,” he said. “There was one shot to get in, and that was it.”