Click on the pic to go to the Funny. And if you laugh, you must go to confession even if you are not Catholic.
(Good news: Catholic services last under 45 minutes. You can get a table at the IHOP faster.)
Observing the somber lessons of the recent fifth anniversary of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident, we at the ProArms Podcast present George Zimmerman’s own story in his own words. It was presented in February 2016 by Zimmerman and his co-counsel, Don West, at a Massad Ayoob Group MAG-40 class in Florida. This intense two-hour presentation offers the evidence the mainstream media didn’t touch. This is one of the most compelling things we’ve ever posted at the ProArms Podcas
Go to the website or download to your favorite device. I have not heard it yet, but so far I have never been disappointed at any of the ProArms episodes.
Those awful calls making the Jewish community understandably nervous. And you know all was related directly to Trump’s elections and the rise of the White Supremacists who are getting ready to start throwing People of Color in concentration camps and electrocuting gays…
In 2014, a white supremacist murdered two people outside a Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas. In 2006, a man fired shots at the Jewish Federation of Seattle, killing one woman and injuring five others. Five years before that, another man opened fire at the JCC in Granada Hills, California, wounding five people, including a 5-year-old boy.In 2014 and 2015 the FBI tallied more than 1,270 hate crime incidents targeting Jews, far more than any other religious groups, and some Jewish leaders say the situation is getting worse.In the past several months, synagogues and schools have been vandalized, swastikas have been scrawled in New York City subway cars and Jewish families have been harassed by neo-Nazis
Deputies found a 24-year-old man dead inside the home and a 15-year-old boy being detained by the resident, Christianson said. In addition to the male resident who shot the intruder, a woman and a child live in the home, he said. The woman answered the door at the home Thursday afternoon. She said she had her 7-year-old daughter hid in a closet when the suspects broke in, but she declined to comment further about what transpired.
Not saying that a dedicated armed robber won’t make his/her way inside a house, but why make it easier for them by opening the door?
We live in an era where safety items are affordable and available with one click of our computers. Besides the well-mentioned deep bolts and other mechanical devices, you should invest in cameras to see who is outside knocking on your door.
You can start on the inexpensive side and for just under $50 you can get a basic peephole camera that comes with a small monitor for the inside of the door. It is battery operated and comes with great features like low light and automatic picture-taking every time anybody rings the bell. Some models with fewer features will cost less, so it is up to your budget
Then we have basically the same system as above, but instead of screen, it goes via WiFi to your smart phone or other device. The obvious advantage is that you can monitor from anywhere in the house or even away from home. The disadvantages are that you depend on a dependable internet connection and reliable electrical service.
Zmodo seems to be a popular system.
The most expensive of the wireless systems would be the ones that generate their own signal to transmit the images from the cameras to the stand-alone receiver. Depending on the number of cameras and other goodies, we are talking about at least a couple of hundred bucks for the most basic system and old school with hard drive recording. Modern ones are slimmer and tabletbased, but they will be more expensive.
Security is all about layers: the more you can place between you and a criminal, the better. It does not make sense to willfully peel a layer so important as the front door because we cannot see who is calling and decided it is worth the risk to open it.
“I don’t think it had ever occurred to me that man’s supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain’s capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
PS: Yes, I know there are classic optical peepholes, but even a Luddite like me can appreciate the advances in electronics, that is why I also did not cover wired surveillance camera systems. The idea of having to lay cable all over the house and waste a weekend doing it will not be appreciated by most people. Most of the wireless systems are Plug and Play.
Sorry guys I don’t think there’s any information I can link to.My understanding is that Advanced Systems is shut down entirely, as is the Custom Shop. Colt Canada will be stripped down to little more than the C8 production line and the extraneous people just had their jobs eliminated. The SWORD and MRR programs sound like they’re shelved. From the sounds of things, a lot of job losses.
