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An interesting bit about the wanna-be Trump assassin:

“According to federal prosecutors, the sniper nest with two backpacks, an AK-47 and Go-Pro was set up 12 hours before the foiled plot.”

No one noticed him there for twelve hours?

Shots fired at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was golfing. It appears someone with a gun penetrated the Secret Service’s security perimeter (which extends beyond Mar-a-Lago proper), but no one pulled Trump inside until after shots were fired.

But who knows. It’s been three hours, and “news” reports are all over the map.

SS saw the guy and investigated, then fired when they saw a possible gun barrel. Or…

The suspect began shooting at the golf course, and SS returned fire. Or…

It was just a shoot-out between the suspect and the SS agent. Or…

Only the SS agent fired.

Alternately, both shooters were off Mar-a-Lago grounds, or the suspect was on the grounds. (I think some reporter is Googling “mar-a-lago shooting” to see other reports to plagiarize and don’t realize they’re seeing reports of a July shooting outside of Mar-a-Lago mixed in with the recent results.)

Most stories seem to agree that no one was shot. The suspect supposedly fled in an SUV, but was caught in another county.

The suspect’s weapon was an AK-47/AR-type/assault rifle/high-power rifle. He may have left his magically morphing weapon at the scene with a Go-Pro camera.

By tomorrow, I hope they’ll have settled on the preferred version of the events. Which you can choose to believe or not.

Update: Apparently the “AK-47/AR-type/assault rifle/high-power rifle” was actually a SKS.

Right?

Secretary LaRose Reminds Elections Officials to be Vigilant After Investigation Uncovers Illegal Voter Registration Forms
The office’s Election Integrity Unit recently concluded an investigation into the origins of an illegal voter registration form translated into the Haitian Creole language. The Clark County Board of Elections reported this form to our office after rejecting its submission by a local applicant.

“The Board confirmed they’ve only received one of these unauthorized forms, but they rightly recognized it as illegal and worked with my team to track down its source with the help of a county government assistance office,” said Hun Yi, Director of Investigations for the office’s Public Integrity Division, in a memo to elections officials. “The form was erroneously included among others outsourced to a foreign language translation service. It garnered national attention considering the high number of Haitian refugees that have recently migrated to the Springfield area, and it serves as an important reminder that boards and designated voter registration agencies should be vigilant about the use of forms submitted to their office.”

One does not “erroneously” print, distribute, fill out, and turn in an illegal registration form. It was deliberate, every step of the way. And yes, Springfield — noted for recent trends in unusual cuisine, and newly 25% Haitian — is the county seat of Clark County, where this form turned up.

Funny thing: fluency in English is a requirement for naturalization. So why is anyone printing any foreign language voter registration form?

I knew a pretty Vietnamese lady who had long since met every other requirement,  but still had trouble with English. She used to spend her breaks practicing English with me. Finally she came in to work, and proudly announced she passed the proficiency test, and had become a citizen at last.

I don’t think these idiots are going to get much sympathy from the public.

Boeing workers vote to strike after contract negotiations rejected by members
Factory workers at Boeing will walk off the job Friday after members voted late Thursday evening in favor of a strike, according to a report.
[…]
He then announced roughly 30,000 workers who produce Boeing’s 737 MAX and other jets on the U.S. west coast voted 96% in favor of striking and subsequently halting production of the planemaker’s strongest-selling jet.
[…]
Initially, IAM leadership recommended that its members accept the contract, but many workers responded angrily. Many of the dissenters argued for the originally demanded 40% pay rise and lamented the loss of an annual bonus.

If the strike slows, or better yet stops, the fielding of lethally defective aircraft on the market, I’m all for it. The longer they go without building another, the better.

I don’t think clowns assembling planes, that when they aren’t falling out of the sky are shedding parts, really rates a 40% pay jump. Bonuses? Maybe their “reasoning” is that a bonus is due when they don’t kill anyone that year.

I don’t think they rate the 25% raise Boeing was willing to give them.

I don’t follow baseball, but the first story I heard about this was weird enough to catch my eye: a guy was about to make MLB history by being the first to play for both teams in the same game. Then I saw this follow-up story.

He did it.

Quirky History: MLB Catcher Plays for Both Teams in a Game

Not only did he play for both teams, but by an odd coincidence…

He played catcher for himself at bat.

Sorta. His old team used a pinch hitter to sub for him.

Since my voter registration status has ZERO to do with health, that’s a pretty serious ethical breach.

Did You Know? Democrats Are Using Organization with 50,000 Physicians and Software Giant Epic to Sign Up Patients to Vote – Includes a Script for Undocumented Aliens – Led By Harvard Dr. Linked to Kamala Harris
Vot-ER is a group of 50,000 physicians who are signing up patients to vote in the 2024 election. The group is led by Dr. Dr. Alister Martin who served as a White House Fellow in the office of Kamala Harris.

Added: This aspect is interesting.

“Doctors have used Vot-ER’s tools to register patients in cancer hospitals, emergency rooms, substance abuse clinics, palliative care departments,”

Palliative care? They’re registering dying people? So they someone can vote after they die?

But there’s more!

“…even neonatal intensive care units.”

I’m fairly sure that no state allows newborns — that being what any patient in a neonatal ward is — to legally vote.

And if I were ever stupid enough to run for federal office, I would hire a lawyer who specializes in the field.

But filing your Statement of Candidacy, using someone else’s ID number instead of your own, just so you can access his campaign’s money seems… kinda dubious. “Identity theft,” and “fraud” come to mind.

Every now and then, I take a look at how things are going in the rest of the world.

Here we have the “official” results of the Venezuelan presidential election.

Interesting math.

Guess what they’re blaming it on.

US infant mortality increased in 2022 for the first time in decades, CDC report shows
The infant mortality rate in the United States rose in 2022, the first jump in 20 years, according to data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Got your guesses ready? Here it is.

Covid-19 also probably played a significant role in the rise in infant mortality in 2022, Stevenson said. Infections in pregnant women who were exposed to the coronavirus during the major surges in 2021 could have affected infants who would be born in 2022.

You got it, didn’t you?

If it was caused by ChinCOVID, I would have expected the increase to begin two years earlier in 2020…

…when ChinCOVID started making major inroads in America (the first cases were actually found in late 2019, via antibody testing).

I blame the pseudo-vaccines. In fact, I predicted we’d see an increase like this after the pseudo-vax was authorized.

I always take polls with a fifty pound grain of salt, but this is kinda interesting. When Quinnipiac — with its insanely left-biased methodology — says Trump leads Harris by four points, it’s likely that the reality is closer to 12-16 points.

July Polls: Trump Crushes Harris in 13 National Surveys
Nine:

QUINNIPIAC: July 19-21

• 45% President Donald J. Trump (+4)
• 41% Kamala Harris