A Texas dog owner was "shot" by his pooch when the animal’s paw mistakenly got jammed in the trigger of a firearm, cops said.
"Imagine having your pistol tucked inside your waistband and while picking up your dog, a paw gets lodged in the trigger and fires the weapon, sending a bullet into and through your thigh. Well, that happened here in Plano," the Plano Police Department said this week in a Facebook post.
Police officer David Tilley said the injury was not life-threatening and the man was able to bring himself to the hospital.
"Fortunately, it was just a through and through shot — it didn’t hit a main artery or anything," Tilley told the Dallas News. "He took himself to the hospital and he’s fine."
[Washington Examiner] In 1997, the British ceded administrative control of Hong Kong to the Chinese under the "one country, two systems" stipulation that the defiantly democratic region would maintain most of its independence until 2047. Yet in violation of this pact, and after years of pressure by the Chinese Communist Party to prevent international recognition and support for Hong Kong, this June, the party forced Hong Kong to pass an extradition bill that represents the end of the semiautonomous territory’s independence. The national security law ensures that Hong Kong, which was one of the freest and most prosperous regions in the Far East, is subject to the same authoritarian restrictions on speech and commerce as the communist mainland. Now, Taiwan fears it could be next, and it is speaking out in an effort not to go so gently into that good night.
A Sept. 18 headline for an editorial run by the Global Times, a propaganda newspaper run by the Chinese Communist Party, is terrifying: "PLA Friday drills not warning, but rehearsal for Taiwan takeover." The People’s Liberation Army is China’s military and has with increasing frequency been running what the paper calls "real-combat military exercises near the Taiwan Straits."
While Taiwan is not formally recognized as an ally, the United States maintains relations with the East Asian country. The Chinese Communist Party sees this as "provocation." According to the Global Times, these military exercises, which it calls "restrained," are necessary responses to U.S. meddling. "Every time a high-ranking U.S. official visits Taiwan, the fighter jets of the PLA should be one step closer to the island," asserted the editorial. "If the U.S. secretary of state or secretary of defense comes to Taiwan, the PLA should fly its aircraft over the island and conduct exercises above it. The missiles we test should also fly over Taiwan, even its ’Presidential Office Building.’ If Taiwan authorities continue to act aggressively, such scenarios will definitely come true."
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So if the election stays hung past Trump's term of office, the presidency becomes vacant... or Pelosi grabs it which is the same thing.... what a gift of timing for the Middle Kingdom to pacify their rebellious provinces. And if you don't think the CCP is supporting the current disruption, you haven't been paying attention.
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So if the election stays hung past Trump's term of office, the presidency becomes vacant... or Pelosi grabs it which is the same thing.... what a gift of timing for the Middle Kingdom to pacify their rebellious provinces. And if you don't think the CCP is supporting the current disruption, you haven't been paying attention.
[ScienceMag] Ewing worries the fight has left permanent scars. He says at least three more members of the Vetenskaps forum are considering leaving Sweden, as Brusselaers did. And even if it turns out that the country has built up enough immunity to evade a new wave of disease, he says, the price has been too high.
"I worry that countries around the world are going to say, ’We can try what Sweden did.; But we have killed too many people already."
[ZH] It was already expected that should Trump take a second term in office a key cabinet post for immediate turnover would be Defense Secretary, especially given Mark Esper and Trump have been known to be publicly at odds.
NBC on Thursday afternoon cited three unnamed current defense officials to say Defense Secretary Esper has prepared an undated letter of resignation, also ahead of a possible presidential transition, which is common practice at the end of an administration's term even if they stay on.
However in Esper's case he's definitely expected to be pushed out following the election. This also after protests and riots broke out on American streets through the summer. Esper reportedly strongly opposed Trump efforts to send active duty troops to hot spots that had seen widespread rioting and looting.
Currently a key issue of contention with the White House is his attempts to rename all US military bases that bear the names of Confederate leaders.
President Trump has long been on record as vowing to veto any defense bill that attempts to change such iconic base names as Fort Hood in Texas or Fort Bragg in North Carolina along with at least eight other Army posts.
Last summer at the height of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests the issue got renewed attention, during which time Esper moved to ban the display of Confederate flags or symbols at any DoD site or function. Individual branches such as the Marine Corps also issued orders that personnel could not display them.
Trump has consistently opposed the influence of what he's blasted on Twitter and in other statements as "Cancel Culture".
I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator @JimInhofe, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!). Like me, Jim is not a believer in "Cancel Culture".
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2020
Meanwhile, Esper plans to extend the fight over Confederate base names right up until the end or even after his tenure.
"As his tenure may be coming to an end, Esper is helping members of Congress draft legislation that will strip names of Confederate leaders from military bases in a move that could put him further at odds with President Donald Trump," NBC writes.
"While Esper considered issuing a directive that would order the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force to change the names in their respective services ‐ an order that could be overturned by Trump, who has strongly opposed renaming bases ‐ he now plans to work with Congress to put language in the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) so the name changes will be written into law," the report continues.
Again even though transition resignation letters are somewhat 'routine', Esper's preparations were no doubt intentionally put out there to the press in a well-timed moment while the fate of the election is as yet unknown. It's perhaps by design to create the impression of Trump's own officials prepping for an exit.
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.
[NYP] Hey, keep your paws off!
'Climate Mitigation' and 'charitable foundations' are little more than money laundering vehicles, and have been for decades.
