Man shot after beating another man with stick during dispute over food

ATLANTA — Two men are recovering after officials say one of them shot the other during a fight over food.

Atlanta police said on Saturday at 4:09 p.m., officers received reports of a person shot on Pryor Street Southwest. When officers arrived, they found a 32-year-old man shot in both arms. According to the investigation, the man was involved in a verbal altercation with another man over food before he was shot.

The fight quickly escalated when police said the 32-year-old man grabbed a large stick and beat the other man. During the assault, police said the victim pulled out a handgun and shot the 32-year-old man in self-defense.

Both men were taken to the hospital stable. Their identities have not been released. The 32-year-old was taken into custody. Police have not specified what he is charged with.

The investigation remains ongoing.

A Silly Argument: The Second Amendment Insurrectionist Purpose

U.S.A. — One of the silliest arguments about the purposes of the Second Amendment is put forward this way. The newly formed Constitutional government would never have created an amendment with the purpose of destroying the government just created. Here is an example from the far-left eugeneweekly.com:

That newly created narrative included the supposed purpose of arming citizens in order to enable them to rebel against the very constitutional government which the Founders were establishing with its checks and balances. This despite the Founders having defined treason as taking up arms against that very government.

But this glaring contradiction persisted and found a home within the halls of the Supreme Court, whose collective wisdom may have suffered from the influx of unreported gifts by billionaires to a number of justices weighing in on the question.

The writer does not appear to have read the history of the Revolutionary War, the Federalist Papers, the arguments surrounding the Bill of Rights, the rudiments of the political theories the Constitution is based on, or the Constitution itself. Knowledge of any one of these fields provides ample refutation of the argument above.

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Utterly stupid and ignorant cluelessness and I’m not just referring to that fraud of a ‘reverend’, but those morons listening to that like it’s some sort of profound statement instead of laughing him off the set.

August 3

435 – Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed and exiled for heresy by Emperor Theodosius II

1342 –  During the Spanish Reconquista, the Castillian forces of Alfonso XI assisted by the fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Republic of Genoa besiege the port city of Algeciras, the main port of the Marinid Sultanate in southern Spain, one of the first engagements where gunpowder weapons are used.

1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain on his first voyage to the new world

1678 – French explorer Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

1795 – The Treaty of Greenville is signed by the Wyandot and Delaware tribes ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

1829 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca tribes, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

1914 – Germany declares war against France.

1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner, retired Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.

1958 – The nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

1960 – Niger gains independence from France.

1972 – The U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union

2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies in Moscow, Russia

2019 – At a WalMart store in El Paso, Texas,  Patrick Crusius opens fire with a rifle, killing 23 people and wounding another 23 before he flees.

 

Illegals Committed 430K+ Criminal Offenses in Texas Since 2011.

“[T]his massive new population of needy foreigners will burden and transform [Americans’] communities without their say-so.” Todd Bensman of Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) outlined the many harms illegal migration inflicts on Americans in his recent Congressional testimony. During that testimony, he noted that illegal aliens have committed over 430,000 criminal offenses just in Texas since 2011, and up to 6 million new illegals are likely to enter America before Biden’s presidential term ends.

Bensman discussed the financial burden on cities (and thus taxpayers), the drain on government resources, the overloading of the school system, and other issues caused by illegal immigration in his testimony (available on CIS). He specifically called out the Biden administration’s disastrous border policies, explaining how they exacerbate the illegal migration crisis (transcript from CIS):

The [Biden] administration put a freeze on required border enforcement measures and fast-tracked release of the majority of illegal crossers into the country where they and most experts know they will stay forever.

And on their cell phones, which every immigrant has, they sent word of this incredible bonanza down trail, to home villages and all along the migration trails. And in this way, those first tens of thousands who began crossing on inauguration day quickly became hundreds of thousands a month, and then millions a year. Counting an estimated 1.7 million never apprehended, probably more than 4 million have entered the country from the border in a mere 30-month span. Perhaps as many as six million largely uneducated and needy people will be in the country before the Biden policies might first be reversed in the 2024 national elections and the floodgates closed.

Those millions of policy-enticed entries in so short a time already are – and will have – transformative impacts in the form of unplanned-for demands on public welfare and assistance programs, health care systems, Social Security, housing, labor markets, schools, and the criminal justice system.

Then there’s the issue of criminal offenses committed by illegal aliens. As Bensman said, every single one of those crimes ought to be preventable; these illegals should not be in America to begin with. Certainly, the government should be attempting to lessen illegal migration and crime from illegals as much as possible. Instead, the government is obfuscating data and facts that could clearly illustrate how many crimes illegals commit.

It’s difficult to get honest statistics on illegal alien crime because it’s not something the government — either state or federal — really wants to be honest about, Bensman noted. Texas does have some statistics that can help illuminate the problem, however:

The Texas Department of Public Safety learns the immigration status of suspects booked into local jails through a program that submits fingerprints to the FBI for criminal history and warrant checks, and to DHS…

The glimpse is limited and not a reflection of much almost certain higher totals, but it is telling about the trend line ahead across America. Between June 1, 2011, and July 31, 2022, these 259,000 illegal aliens were charged with more than 433,000 unnecessary, preventable criminal offenses.

Those included 800 homicide charges (resulting in 374 convictions as of July 2022), 822 kidnapping charges (resulting in 265 convictions), 5,470 sexual assault charges (resulting in 2,593 convictions), 6,485 sexual offense charges (resulting in 3,065 sexual offense convictions), and 4,945 weapons charges (resulting in 1,723 weapons convictions).

That’s hundreds of thousands of preventable crimes over a decade’s time. It’s an ongoing problem, with Border Patrol arresting 12,000 criminal illegals in Fiscal Year 2022. Unfortunately, the Biden administration hardly makes catching and punishing criminals one of its priorities.

Study proves there is NO CORRELATION between gun control laws and mass shootings

A new study by researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder has found that there is no correlation between the strength of gun control laws and the number of mass shootings that occur in each state.

The United States has more than 10 times the number of mass shootings than any other developed country in the world. In the study, the researchers looked at 4,011 mass shootings – defined as four or more gun deaths in the same short period, not including the shooter – between Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2022. (Related: RFK Jr.: Seizing lawful firearms will not STOP mass shootings.)

Illinois, with its restrictive gun laws and comparatively low gun ownership of 22 percent, had 414 mass shootings and a per capita rate of 3.6 mass shootings per million people.

Washington, D.C., despite not being a state, was included in the study and the researchers were shocked to find that the district had the highest rate of mass shootings per capita at 10.4 shootings for every one million people. This is despite the fact that the country’s capital has some of the strongest gun control laws in the nation.

For states, Louisiana had the highest rate of mass shootings per capita at 4.3 shootings per million people – less than half the per capita rate in Washington, D.C. despite the lax gun laws and 52 percent gun ownership.

Hawaii and North Dakota had zero mass shootings from 2014 to 2022. They are followed by New Hampshire, Vermont and Wyoming, which all had one each, Idaho with two and Maine with three.

Environmental and sociocultural factors more likely to lead to mass shootings

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Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind

There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see — the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with.

You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their decisions can bankrupt companies, silence voices and fundamentally shift cultural norms. Who are these people and how do they do this?

Well, at the top level you have a network of global elites who have created a universal framework full of guidelines and ratings designed to enforce “approved” narratives and punish disapproved ones. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, except it isn’t a secret and we’re not guessing.

First, you have the World Economic Forum, the WEF, and their platform for shaping the future of media, entertainment and culture. Second, you have the World Federation of Advertisers, the WFA, who represent mega-corporations that control 90% of global advertising dollars. WFA members are a who’s who of global business and include some of our recent wokeified favorites like Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev, Hershey, Procter & Gamble, Lego and Disney.

There is barely a billionaire Fortune 500 CEO, heavyweight philanthropist, government or woke nonprofit that isn’t associated with the WEF or the WFA.

In 2019, the WFA established the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM. Within months, the WEF adopted GARM as part of its platform for shaping the future of media, entertainment and culture. GARM is a cross-industry alliance that brings these mega-corporations — the advertisers — together with Big Tech companies like Meta, who owns Facebook and Instagram; Google-owned YouTube; the CCP’s TikTok; and even Snapchat and Pinterest.

This unholy alliance created something they call the Brand Safety Floor & Suitability Framework. Think of Brand Safety as a dog whistle for censorship. They say it themselves: The Brand Safety Floor means, “Content not appropriate for any advertising support.” In other words, if you publish content that violates these guidelines, you will be blacklisted from 90% of the advertising revenue in the marketplace.

So, what have these global elites decided to put in their censorship framework? They started with things we can all universally agree on, like preventing the distribution of child pornography or the advocacy of graphic terrorist activity. But they don’t draw the line at what is objectively criminal, abusive or dangerous. They continue expanding the guidelines to include far more subjective parameters.

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In reality, there are 4 branches of government:
– Executive
– Legislative
– Judicial
– Jury,  as in Jury Nullification
This is an example

In first trial for feeding homeless outside Houston library, jury finds Food Not Bombs not guilty

The first of a controversial series of tickets Houston has issued the volunteer group Food Not Bombs went to trial Friday. And before the end of the day, a jury found the volunteer, Phillip Picone, not guilty of violating city law for feeding those in need in front of the Central Library.
The ordinance was put in place by City Council in 2012 but largely had gone unenforced for over a decade, municipal records show. The city began issuing tickets after funding its own dinners at a police parking lot just outside the courthouse doors where the trial was being heard. Houston has declared that the lot is the approved public site for any group that wants to give away meals.
In an emailed statement, a city spokesperson explained that the meal program Houston is funding at the police parking lot is designed to use food to attract people to a place where they can engage with an array of services “on a reoccurring basis.”
“This is why we fight back,” Picone said after the verdict.
As of the hearing, Food Not Bombs had received 45 tickets, each seeking $254, for continuing to pass out meals at the library instead. Volunteers have argued that the law is immoral and violates their freedoms of expression and religion.Nine more tickets are scheduled for court Thursday and Friday.
“The City of Houston intends to vigorously pursue violations of its ordinance relating to feeding of the homeless,” said Houston city attorney Arturo Michel said in a statement emailed Sunday evening. “It is a health and safety issue for the protection of Houston’s residents. There have been complaints and incidents regarding the congregation of the homeless around the library, even during off hours.” The city has also decided to stop using the Central Library as an official cooling center during heat emergencies like the one unfolding this week.
During jury selection Friday, Picone’s lawyer, Paul Kubosh, explained the Houston law to potential jurors with slices of cake wrapped in cellophane.
One by one, he placed them atop a wooden partition separating him from the jurors, recalled two Food Not Bombs volunteers present. If he gave five slices to people in need, without permission of the property owner, he was fine, he said, according to the volunteers. If he gave six, he’d be violating the ordinance. And if he gave them to people who were not in need, that was also fine. (Kubosh is representing a number of people in Picone’s situation free of charge.)

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“Nothing shady is going on with Hunter Biden and his overseas business.”

“Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation.”

“Okay, the laptop is real but it doesn’t prove anything.”

“There is no proof who ‘the Big Guy’ is.”

“Okay, the Big Guy is Joe Biden but he still didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Joe Biden never got paid for Hunter’s overseas business dealings.”

“Okay, Hunter Biden said Joe got paid but there is no proof.”

“Joe Biden had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings.”

“Okay, Joe knew about the dealings but he didn’t partake in them.”

“Okay, Joe took business calls with Hunter but they were just talking about the weather!”

You are here  👆

August 2

338BC – The Macedonian army led by Philip II with him commanding  the left wing and his son Alexander, the right, defeats the numerically superior combined forces of Athens and Thebes near Chaeronea in south central Greece, effectively ending opposition to Phillip’s rule of almost all of Greece.

216BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats the numerically superior Roman army at Cannae

932 – The city of Toledo, Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba, Abd al-Rahman III.

1610 – While on expedition to discover a northwest passage to the Pacific, Henry Hudson discovers a large bay.

1776 – The final ‘engrossed’ copy of the Declaration of Independence is completed and signed.

1790 – The first United States Census is conducted

1869 – Japan’s strict social class system, with the Shogunate as the de facto ruler,  is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms and begins Japan’s rise as a modern era commercial, industrial and military Asian power

1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco

1876 – James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok is assassinated by Jack McCall while playing poker at the No. 10 saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota.

1914 – The German army invades and occupies neutral Luxembourg during World War I.

1923 – Vice President Coolidge becomes President upon the death of President Harding.

1932 – The antimatter counterpart of the electron, the positron, is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

1934 – Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.

1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act is passed in America, the effect of which renders marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to President Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear weapon.

1943 – Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at the Treblinka death camp.
The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 under the command of Lieutenant Junior Grade John Kennedy is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri

1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 136 of the 163 passengers and crew aboard and 1 person on the ground.

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait

Illinois Gov. Pritzker Allows Non-US Citizens to Become Police Officers With New Law: ‘Fundamentally Bad Idea’

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D., signed a bill into law that allows non-U.S. citizens to become police officers in the state, angering critics who slammed the idea of foreigners arresting American citizens as “a fundamentally bad idea.”

Illinois House Bill 3751 will no longer require U.S. citizenship as a qualification to become a police officer in the state. The bill was signed by the Democrat governor on Friday and will go into effect on January 1, 2024, despite facing heavy opposition from GOP lawmakers and prominent police groups.

The bill “provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of police officer, subject to all requirements and limitations, other than citizenship, to which other applicants are subject,” HB3751 reads, adding that non-U.S. citizens must be able to obtain, carry, purchase, or otherwise possess a firearm under federal law to apply for the job.

Immigrants who remain in the country under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act, are also entitled to apply for a position to join law enforcement, the bill states.

Illinois Rep. Mary Miller, a Republican, voiced her outrage over the new law on Twitter over the weekend, writing that “no sane state would allow foreign nationals to arrest their citizens.”

“At 5 p.m. yesterday, when no one was paying attention, Pritzker signed a bill to allow illegal immigrants to become police officers, giving non-citizens the power to arrest citizens in our state,” she tweeted. “No sane state would allow foreign nationals to arrest their citizens, this is madness!”

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Memphis, Tennessee, police shoot suspect after he fired shots outside Jewish school

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police on Monday said officers shot a suspect after he attempted to enter a Jewish school with a gun and fired shots after he couldn’t get into the building.

Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe said the suspect, whose identity has not been released, approached Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South around 12:20 p.m. He fired several shots and then left in a maroon truck.

“Thankfully, that school had a great safety procedure and process in place and avoided anyone being harmed or injured at that scene,” Crowe said.

Officers soon found the suspect’s vehicle “shortly after that,” Crowe said, adding that officers then shot the suspect after he exited the truck with a firearm in hand. The suspect was sent to a hospital, where he is in critical condition.

August 1

46 BC – While in the process of creating the calendar system named after him, Julius Caesar adds 2 days to the 8th month Sextilis 

30 BC – After his army deserts him, and Octavian brings Alexandria under the control of Rome, Mark Antony commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner.

8 BC – The Roman Senate renames the month Sextilis in honor of Emperor Augustus.

902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the moslem conquest of Sicily.

1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

1571 – Famagusta, the last Venetian stronghold in Cyprus, surrenders to the Ottoman army, concluding the moslem conquest of Cyprus.

1620 – The ship Speedwell leaves Delfshaven, England for America with the pilgrims aboard

1664 – Ottoman moslem forces are defeated at the Cistercian monastery of St. Gotthard in Hungary by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli.

1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley confirms the prior discovery of oxygen, termed Sauerstoff by German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

1779 – Francis Scott Key is born in Carroll County Maryland.

1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1801 – During the First Barbary War, the American USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan Tripoli in action off the coast of Libya.

1819 – Herman Melville is born in New York City.

1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

1893 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.

1903 – Martha ‘Calamity Jane’ Cannary dies of pneumonia at the Calloway Hotel in Terry, South Dakota.

1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot’s test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.

1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I.

1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

1950 –  President Truman signs the Guam Organic Act making the island an  unincorporated territory of the U.S.

1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

1961 – Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the military’s version of the civilian Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

1965 – Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune is published.

1966 – Shooting from the tower of the University of Texas at Austin, Charles Whitman kills 15 people outright and wounds 31 more, before being killed by the police.

1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the U.S.

1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 crests at St. Louis at 49.6 feet, 20 feet above flood stage.

2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145 more.

2008 – On mountain K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, 11 mountaineers from international expeditions die in an ice avalanche occurring at an area known as “the Bottleneck”. To date, the worst single accident in mountaineering.