From the Trenches World Report
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The Daily Caller – by Jonah Bennett
An 84-year-old Korean War veteran killed a home intruder Friday with a single shot right to the chest, and he’s crediting God with his success.
Two robbers tried to break into Korean War veteran Don Lutz’s home early on Friday morning in Lawrence County, Penn., but were quickly dissuaded by some serious firepower. Continue reading “84-Year-Old Korean War Vet Kills Home Intruder In One Point-Blank Shot”
One out of every three American adults take statins, and if you think that sounds like good news for statin manufacturers, you’re missing the bigger picture. All of Big Pharma benefits when people take statins. In fact, statins can really be thought of as gateway drugs. After all, they have so many side effects that you will likely end up taking several other medications after you start statins just to deal with them. Continue reading “Statins are gateway drugs for Big Pharma: Take one and you’ll need four or five more prescriptions for the side effects”
Aldi has offered to give all its unsold fresh food away to charities and good causes when its stores close on Christmas Eve.
The supermarket chain issued an appeal on social media urging organisations across the country to collect items left over after its branches have shut up shop for the festive period. Continue reading “Aldi to give away all its unsold fresh food to ‘less fortunate individuals’ on Christmas Eve”
ST. LOUIS • A pizza delivery man shot and killed a robber who attacked him late Thursday in south St. Louis, police say.
The dead man was identified as Lavon Courtney Jr., 17, of the 5300 block of Grant Street. He was shot about 10:20 p.m. Thursday in the 4600 block of South Spring Avenue.
Police Officer Michelle Woodling said police believed the shooting was justified. Therefore, the death of the robber does not count toward the city’s total homicides. Continue reading “Pizza delivery man kills robber who attacked him in south St. Louis”
The Daily Caller – by Nick Givas
Baltimore is experiencing its second deadliest year on record, with 319 homicides committed in the city so far in 2017.
The deadliest year on record occurred in 2015 with 344 homicides, reported The Baltimore Sun.
Baltimore’s Democratic Mayor Catherine E. Pugh called the violence in 2017 “out of control,” and said she would be increasing the number of police officers to 3,000, according to The Baltimore Sun. Continue reading “319 Murdered — Baltimore Sees Second Deadliest Year On Record”
CBS Local — U.S. health officials are bracing for a devastating flu season this winter that many people won’t even be able to ward off with their annual flu shot.
The possibility of a “flu-pocalypse” is being talked about after record numbers of patients were diagnosed with influenza in Australia, whose flu season just ended. In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a group of infectious disease doctors say that Australia’s vaccination against the flu was only effective 10 percent of the time this year. Continue reading “‘Flu-pocalypse’ Predicted Due To Ineffective Flu Shots, Doctors Say”
The Daily Caller – by Eric Lieberman
Australian authorities upheld the firing of a man who allegedly used empty snack bags to block GPS tracking mandated by his employer.
The labor grievance commission in Australia ruled that Tom Colella, a 60-year-old electrician from Perth, rather resourcefully used the flexible food containers so he could leave work and play golf without anyone noticing, according to an official report. It’s believed he played a round of golf more than 140 times while he reported that he was working offsite for necessary repairs. NPR first reported the confirmation of his termination. Continue reading “Man Blocked GPS Tracker With Chip Bags So His Bosses Wouldn’t Know He Was Out Golfing, Says Report”
Women in three pictures:
The Daily Caller – by Amber Athey
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee did an entire interview on MSNBC Monday morning with what appeared to be a nosebleed dripping down her lip.
Continue reading “Sheila Jackson Lee Does Entire MSNBC Interview With… A Nosebleed?”
Concealed Nation – by Brandon Curtis
ROCKLEDGE, FLORIDA — A gunman opened fire outside an auto shop in Florida on Friday, killing one and injuring two others. With no apparent connection to anyone at the auto shop, the suspect opened fire indiscriminately.
You won’t hear about it in the headlines, because it was a thwarted mass shooting. Multiple employees at the auto shop were armed and ready to defend. And they did so, successfully. Continue reading “Mass Shooting Stopped By Armed Citizens In FL, But You Won’t Hear About It In The News”
Police have evacuated a mall in New York’s Hudson Valley amid reports of a shooting during a crowded holiday shopping day.
State police say two people have been injured but it’s unclear whether they were shot.
The reported shooting happened on Sunday at about 3.15pm at the Galleria at Crystal Run in Middletown, about 70 miles north of Manhattan. Continue reading “Two people injured in New York mall shooting during crowded holiday shopping day”
An off-duty police officer shot and wounded a man suspected of stealing from a store at The Parks at Arlington mall Sunday afternoon.
The officer responded to a report of a theft about 4:30 p.m. at the Sunglass Hut at the mall in the 3800 block of South Cooper Street, near Interstate 20, police Lt. Christopher Cook said. Continue reading “Suspect shot by police at The Parks at Arlington; mall evacuated”
ST. LOUIS • One person was killed and eight others injured in unrelated shootings throughout the city over 15 hours Friday.
Police released few details about the seven shootings, which began in the early morning and ended in the late afternoon with a triple shooting in south St. Louis that took the life of one male victim. Eight other victims were hospitalized for their injuries. At least one of them was in critical condition. Continue reading “1 dead, 8 injured in 15 hours of shootings in St. Louis”
Concealed Nation – by Johannes Paulsen, The Truth About Guns
The text of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault rifle ban bill is now available on her website and, contra Nick’s expectations, it isn’t simply a copy-and-paste re-run of the failed Clinton era assault rifle ban language. It’s worse. Much worse.
How bad is it? In the first four pages, it bans the popular GLOCK 17 9mm pistol, a gun that’s commonly used for shooting sports and personal self defense by hundreds of thousands of Americans. Continue reading “New ‘Assault Weapons’ Bill Would Ban GLOCK 17 And Many Other Popular Pistols”
A Baltimore homicide detective was killed with his own service weapon as he was preparing to testify against fellow officers indicted in a drug-running scheme.
Sean Suiter, 43, was fatally shot in the head on Nov. 15 and authorities said there was evidence of a struggle, The Baltimore Sun reported on Wednesday. Continue reading “Slain Baltimore cop was set to testify against fellow officers”
If you have the uncomfortable sense someone is looking over your shoulder as you surf the Web, you’re not being paranoid. A new study finds hundreds of sites—including microsoft.com, adobe.com, and godaddy.com—employ scripts that record visitors’ keystrokes, mouse movements, and scrolling behavior in real time, even before the input is submitted or is later deleted.
Session replay scripts are provided by third-party analytics services that are designed to help site operators better understand how visitors interact with their Web properties and identify specific pages that are confusing or broken. As their name implies, the scripts allow the operators to re-enact individual browsing sessions. Each click, input, and scroll can be recorded and later played back. Continue reading “No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move”
Activist Post – by Patricia Burke
On November 14, 2017 the Environmental Defense Fund and the Citizens Utility Board of Illinois released the results of a study “New Smart Meter Data Shows Potential of Real-Time Pricing to Lower Electric Bills.”
The report concluded that “Ninety-seven percent of a sample of Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) customers would have saved money in 2016—without changing their electricity use—had they participated in a ‘real-time pricing’ program in which power prices change hourly.” Continue reading “New EDF/CUB Smart Meter Data Report Shows Potential for Abuses of Power and Collusion”
