Nearly two months before the march of Cadets and Midshipmen into Gillette Stadium for the annual Army-Navy game, another battle is brewing in Massachusetts.

The fight is far more consequential than a football game and revolves around the state’s 40-year-old right-to-shelter law, which guarantees families with children a place to stay if they meet certain criteria.

One of the most storied rivalries in sports, dating to 1890, the meeting of the service academies will take place in New England for the first time on December 9. It coincides with a growing influx of migrants in Massachusetts – the only state with a right-to-shelter law.

The disparate events collided in recent days when a New Jersey-based travel agency said 60 of its reservations for game weekend were canceled by a hotel management company that needed the rooms to house migrants.
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Massachusetts state Rep. Peter Durant, a Republican, told CNN Saturday the state’s right-to-shelter law is outdated and needs to be amended. A possible fix could be guaranteeing shelter to families who have been legal residents of Massachusetts three years or more, he said.

In response to the canceled reservations during Army-Navy game weekend, Durant said he’s pushing legislation requiring hotels to “keep their commitments to those who have already booked rooms.”

Army-Navy game hotel cancellations lead to scrap over Massachusetts’ right-to-shelter law | CNN

Oops! And it is going to get worse. What we haven’t heard yet is how much this is going to cost taxpayers in the end. It is not just the standard fee hotels charge, but I can bet there will be substantial billing for cleaning and damages that may force hotel owners to shut down the property for complete renovations. And that only if they ever get to move the illegal aliens out of the hotel and the good neighborhoods. If they can’t, they will simply become public-housing-like properties.

Without Gun Culture.

Palestinian Fighters are continuing to roam the Streets in Southern Israel where they are continuing to Massacring any Men, Women, and Children that they see. pic.twitter.com/yxo5Bpvq5G

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 7, 2023

With Gun Culture: Same video but the caption reads “Palestinian Fighters roaming the Streets seconds before the place became a sniper’s paradise.”

B.L.U.F.
This is the frames and receivers rule.
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On October 5th, 2023, the DoJ applied on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket for the court to vacate the injunction issued by the N.D. Texas.

As we have discussed for the circuit courts, the Supreme Court has an “administrative panel”. Each circuit court has a Justice charged with overseeing that circuit. Overseeing is a massive overstatement.

When a case is appealed out of the circuit to the Supreme Court, it can come as a merits-based request for certiorari, or it can come as an emergency request. If it is an emergency request, it goes to the Justice that oversees that circuit. In this case, it is Justice Alito.

The state requested that the injunction issued in the N.D. Texas be vacated pending appeal. This is different language than I am used to seeing. Normally, the request is for a “stay pending appeal”. My understanding is that vacating a finding is to throw it out.

Justice Alito issued a temporary stay for 10 days to allow the parties to file briefs. You can expect the usual suspects to dog pile as well.

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The uncle of a Canadian man who was mauled to death by a grizzly last week alongside his partner in Alberta’s popular Banff National Park has revealed that he received a final message from the couple.

Colin Inglis told the Calgary Herald he received the SOS call from Doug Inglis and Jenny Gusse’s Garmin GPS device around 8:15 p.m. last Friday after hearing hours earlier that they were delayed in reaching a camping location in the Panther Valley area of the park.

“Bear attack bad.” was the message Inglis recalled getting in a call from the couple’s Garmin inReach device. “The alarm bells were going off, ‘this is not good’ — that means there’d been some engagement. You’re completely helpless to know what’s going on.”

Inglis also said he was told by Parks Canada officials that the tent the couple was using “was crushed and their e-readers were open” at the scene of the attack, where their 7-year-old border collie Tris died as well.

“One can of bear spray had been fully discharged, but this bear was not to be deterred,” he reportedly added.

Banff grizzly bear attack: Uncle reveals chilling final message he received from Canadian couple before deaths | Fox News

I am not disparaging OC sprays. I carry one can every day because I believe situations can present where this will be an appropriate defensive tool to use. But you cannot have only one defensive tool at your disposal, or you are limited to its “potency” which might be insufficient to the threat you are facing.

I am sure you have seen videos where police deploy Less Lethal weaponry, but there is always one or more officers with lethal means in hand and aimed at a suspect as back up. We must apply the same idea: Use the Less Lethal if you deem is needed and resolves the situation, but ready to use the firearm if things do not de-escalate and your initial assessment turns out to be wrong.

To coin a phrase: “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.”

Today is the day I start shipping the Velcro backers for those people who purchased them. I’m going to lead J.Kb. through the process so he can ship the patches. Thank you for your patience when I jumped the gun.

Miguel noticed my Tuesday Tunes was Sing, Sing, Sing and called me on not posting the best version:

The one version that everybody must hear — Miguel.

You can read about it: The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

Numerous briefs have hit in the Rahimi case at the Supreme Court. The Court will be hearing oral arguments in November. I’ll start looking at these briefs this coming week. This should be easier as they are all in defense of The People and the Second Amendment.

J.Kb., did you give one of our “Dick Shooters” patches to Clint?

… while on duty, I was sad to see another consequence of the infamous “One Punch” attack. Handsome young fella, not even 25 if I were to guess wearing head protection, walking unsteadily assisted by an older woman I presume was his mother by the resemblance. I found out that the young man was at a public location when he saw some ‘Ungentleman’ being rough with a woman, he intervened, and for his effort got the infamous one punch which made him lost balance and struck his head on a table.

I had not realized, but we have focused the one-punch kills, not realizing that there were bound to be an equal or even bigger number of grave one-punch bodily harm events we simply don’t find out in the news and could be almost as equally devastating.

Please be careful out there.

Because “good” criminal ideas propagate.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – More than $50,000 worth of Gucci merchandise was damaged and thousands more stolen by shoplifting suspects on Friday, Sept. 29 at the Gucci store at Green Hills Mall, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Police said three suspects, a woman and two men, entered the Gucci store and took thousands of dollars worth of merchandise before running out of the business.

As the suspects fled the store, one of them pepper sprayed the store causing more than $50,000 worth of damage to Gucci merchandise.

More than $50K in Gucci merch damaged, thieves steal thousands more from Green Hills Mall (wsmv.com)

Yup, Nashville is on its way to become a Rhinestone Frisco.