To begin with, this is your president. This ought to be one of the most shameful things ever said by a sitting president.
"Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?"
BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have."
"Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?"
BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024
We must have spent too much money on Ukraine to help Americans in distress. I don't…… [read more]
Mike does a very good job of the review in this video.
I was hoping that it was a hammer fired gun. It is. I wouldn’t have been even a little bit interested if it was a striker fired gun.
I also very much like the operating system, and the narrowness of the frame. It’s narrowness means that it would be easy and comfortable to conceal for IWB carry at the 3:00 position (my preferred position). I don’t appendix carry.
Finally, I like the price point. So this gun meets all of my criteria. But I will have to say that that gap he’s talking about between the slide and frame is similar to the M&P design. I’ve never picked up an M&P that didn’t have that same gap. Apparently, the S&W engineers prefer that design for some reason. Maybe someone who knows about this will weigh in.
My hog gave me shoulders (what you would know as the ham), ribs and backstraps (what you would know as pork tenderloin). A lot of all of it. Feral hogs are too lean to give you bacon.
Anyway, feral hogs aren’t just a problem in the South as the link alludes to (” … an invasive species in the southeastern United States“). Where do they get these “journalists” anyway? That’s very old and outdated information.
Based on this report, I pointed out that “They reproduce faster than lethal removal can take them out, they’ll adapt to their surroundings, they’ll dig up the ecosystem to the point it looks like a rototiller came through, they’ll kill indigenous game, and they’ll come after humans too.”
They’ve adapted to the harsh, cold weather in Canada. If you consider these like any other animal you’ve ever studied, you’re on the wrong track. They defy your expectations. They’re warm weather animals. They’re cold weather animals. They’re nocturnal, and they eat in daylight too. They will come after you. They will even attack horses. On the other hand if they see a means of escape, they’re runners and refuse to “bay up” and even the dogs can’t catch them. They reproduce at a rapid rate, they’ll eat virtually anything. They destroy everything around them, and are costing millions of dollars in damages to farmers.
Today, around six million feral swine run hog wild in at least 35 U.S. states, where they can grow more than five feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds. They’re adaptable creatures, capable of thriving in nearly any environment. For instance, the animals are also increasingly widespread on myriad Caribbean Islands and in Mexico, from the Baja to the Yucatán Peninsula, as well as Canada, where even deep snow and bitter cold can’t slow them down.(Read how feral hogs are moving into Canada and building “pigloos.”)
What’s more, females can begin reproducing at just eight months of age, and each can produce up to two litters of four to 12 piglets every 12 to 15 months. This allows the species to multiply rapidly and colonize new territory with unparalleled efficiency. Feral swine also ravage agricultural crops, and can harm people who corner them. But those outcomes aren’t what really worry experts.
It’s their diseases.
According to the USDA, feral swine can carry a litany of pathogens that could potentially spread to people such as leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, swine influenza, salmonella, hepatitis, and pathogenic E. coli.
But there’s another concern—new diseases we don’t even know about yet.
“Swine, in general, are considered a mixing vessel species, because they’re susceptible to human viruses, like influenza viruses,” says Vienna Brown, a USDA staff biologist with the agency’s National Feral Swine Damage Management Program. “And when those get into swine,” she says, they could “create a novel influenza virus.”
“So I would argue that our risk from swine is greater than it is from other, more traditional wildlife species, in part because of their gregarious nature, our proximity to them, and just sheer numbers.”
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Scientists are also tracking how diseases move through feral swine in the wild. Officials in Great Smoky Mountains National Park started monitoring feral swine health in 1959, but it wasn’t until 2005 that it saw its first case of pseudorabies. Like ASF, this virus is not a threat to humans, but it can cause aborted fetuses in pigs and death in other animals, such as wild raccoons and opossums and even pet cats and dogs. (Learn more about the battle to control America’s most destructive species.)
“The prevalence increased from basically zero to roughly 20 to 40 percent, depending on the year,” says William Stiver, supervisory wildlife biologist for the national park. “But it’s certainly here, and we’ve watched it sort of migrate across the park through the pig population.”
Leptospirosis, which is caused by a bacterium, has also been found in the park’s feral swine. If left untreated in people, it can cause kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure, respiratory distress, and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kill them when you see them. You benefit society when you do that. There’s the added benefit of good eating, but make sure to cook them well.
New surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News shows Hollywood police officers dragging a 69-year-old condominium owner into an elevator after shooting him last year.
On Feb. 26, 2022, Cottes asked neighbors to call Hollywood police, because he thought someone was breaking into his condominium at around 8 a.m.
Cottes was a longtime resident of 3505 South Ocean Drive.
“He said someone was in his apartment, in his condo, he comes out with his gun licensed to carry and everything,” Christina Cottes, David’s daughter, said.
After police arrived to the 14th floor, they shot Cottes, the condo’s board president, in the chest.
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Cottes said her family needs answers.
“Why they would they treat him in such a way or drag him into an elevator, they already have him handcuffed behind his back,” she said. “He’s wounded.”
Cottes’ family says it took more than 30 minutes to get him help and they want to know why.
“He’s asking for police to help,” Christina Cottes said. “When police come to help, my dad is dead.”
They said they weren’t allowed to visit David in the hospital before he died weeks later, so he took what happened to the grave.
“It’s been a year waiting for forensic and ballistics (evidence) because they want to see who shot first,” private investigator Victor Elbeze said.
There’s video at the link. He obviously has a sucking chest wound in the video. Quick medical help might have saved him, but it’s a safe bet the cops didn’t want him to be saved.
There’s more. He lived for three weeks after this shooting. The police prevented his family from seeing him. You heard that right. The cops wouldn’t allow the family of an innocent man they shot to pass away with his family around him (or hear his story).
As I’ve said before and will continue to say, you’re never in more danger than when the cops are around. If you love your own life and the lives of your loved ones, don’t call the cops. Solve your problems yourself. Getting the cops involved only ensures that some innocent person will be shot.
This is in West Virginia, where John H. Bryan (aka, The Civil Rights Lawyer), has been a one-man wrecking crew for the corruption. Here are the relevant documents.
But you know this sort of thing happens everywhere. It’s just that John is good and persistent enough to root it out.
Poignant and timely, history applied both personally and nationally. Oh, that America would tear down its alters to neopaganism, the worship of Baal, and the sacrifice of Moloch; repent on bended knee, building the altar of sacrifice upon our hearts unto Christ Jesus, the one true living and resurrected Saviour. God is a consuming fire.
The hour is late; evil unleashed is setting in, and on the final day, Christ will return for those that are His and no others. Woe to those He finds standing at the altar of Baal and woe to those worshipping what they know not in pagan darkness, gods that are dead and never living. Jesus Christ is He that liveth, and behold He is alive forevermore. Amen.
“They blew me off.” It’s not the same MC today as even when my son served in Fallujah.
Hi @USMC. My dad will be 100 yrs old on 2/24. A Marine during WWII. 5 assault landings. We'd love it if a uniformed Marine came for a visit – say "HI" to him. Few WWII Marines are left alive. Sent a message thru the Marine Corp portal. They blew me off. Thanks pic.twitter.com/V273AE648O
Terreton, Idaho — An Idaho resident shot and killed an adult male moose after it charged him, making him fear for his safety, according to reports.
According to Idaho Fish and Game, the moose had been making himself known in residential areas around Terreton and Mud Lake for better than a week, and had apparently become “increasingly agitated.”
Before the man was forced to shoot this moose, he reportedly attempted to “haze” the moose out of the yard. This behavior is not unheard-of, according to New York State’s amusingly-named Moose Response Manual.
Though specific to New York, this manual has some interesting items.
The moose reportedly charged the unnamed man, and the man tried to stop the attack by shooting the moose, and he succeeded. According to Idaho Fish and Game, the moose was “only a few yards away” from the man when he killed it. The man managed to avoid injury.
No word on the caliber or type of firearm. Moose are very dangerous animals.
Source: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Moose Response Manual
First, at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show, ATF confirmed that braces that are removed from firearms do not necessarily have to be destroyed or altered in a way that prevents them from being reattached to a firearm. While the rule claims that destruction or alteration is required for owners who choose the option of simply removing the brace from their firearm, that requirement would be contrary to the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.
Under Thompson/Center, possession of a firearm and parts that can only be assembled into an NFA “firearm” constitutes possession of an NFA firearm. But, if the parts can be assembled into multiple lawful configurations, then the parts are not considered an NFA firearm (unless an unlawful configuration is actually assembled).
This should mean that a person who possesses an AR-15 pistol with a stabilizing brace and also possesses a 16-inch barreled upper receiver and/or a registered NFA lower should be able to keep the brace without destroying it or altering it. But, a person who only possesses a pistol with a stabilizing brace may have to dispose of or alter the brace to avoid creating an NFA firearm (in ATF’s view).
Other than making remarks to its own readership, I don’t know what – if anything – the NRA is doing about all of this except buying Wayne new suits.
This one looks like murder. She had the chance to leave and didn’t but stopped, opened the door, and shot.
We’re speculating but strongly suspect that she drew a handgun in the few moments when she first pulled away. Also, it appears that they may have known each other. Extracting yourself from a situation is preferable to what was done. The object of self-defense is to get the assailant to disengage; this was accomplished had she kept driving off.
