“All 50 of #Portland #police’s highly trained rapid response unit voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday during a union meeting in response to the recent indictment of Officer Corey Budworth for allegedly assaulting a photographer with his baton” https://t.co/Bk2QNsue9Q

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) June 17, 2021

And Antifa is already making plans for tonight:

In response to the news that all officers in @PortlandPolice‘s riot response team has resigned, antifa announced an event in the Pearl District for tonight. They have gathered in the area multiple times since last year, targeting businesses, homes & residents with violence. pic.twitter.com/yLiDt6WbE3

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 17, 2021

To our Portland readership: be careful.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco police arrested a man hours after he allegedly stabbed a 94-year-old Asian woman Wednesday in an unprovoked attack.

Officers responding to a report about a stabbing found the woman with several wounds and treated her before medics arrived. The victim was taken to a hospital, where she is expected to survive, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.

Detectives found a knife near the crime scene and circulated a photo of the suspect to all police officers. Two hours later, officers arrested Daniel Cauich, 35.

Man arrested in stabbing of Asian woman in San Francisco – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

There is also the story in the San Francisco Chronicle, both pretty much saying the same and both missing something available: A photo of the suspect.

Why I found the photo after a quick search? Because him and his brother were charged with murder back in 2016. And perhaps because the last name Cauchic is from Mexico and not Anglo Saxon as the #StopAsianHate Narrative demands it.

If needed, I figure he will be identified as White Hispanic just like Zimmerman.

Poole told Local 10 News’ Ian Margol it happened Saturday night at the indoor trampoline park, when her son was mistaken for someone else, who had called a girl a rude name.

Mother wants justice after her teenage son’s brutal beating was filmed at Broward trampoline park (local10.com)

This is way past defending the honor of a female. This is a pack of animals attacking without mercy just because they are not afraid of the consequences. They are minors from a privileged group and know nothing of importance or consequence will be done to them.

And then in their future, they will meet destiny in the form of somebody who will not take a beating/stabbing/shooting and will exercise some deadly force of their own. And if that somebody happens to be from the non-privileged groups, the Feral Human will be elevated to the category of saint and his blood will be used to further even more asinine progressive policies like the one that led to his death.

I fear this will not change till bodies are stacked 50 deep and at least half of that high.

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It has to do with California’s regulatory landscape, which could be compared to a vampire, or a huge blanket of strangling kudzu.

I find it darkly hilarious, myself. California was oh so proud of how forward thinking they were, and then they turned around and strangled the legal suppliers so badly it’s still more profitable to grow pot and sell it on the sly.

This reminded me of a story I believe I told already but bears repeating. I am not a fan of the European Union. It is what happens when you leave a bunch of mid level bureaucratic idiots with a low-level real life IQ have to much power controlling people.

In the early 90s IIRC, the EU went full blast regulating the production of grape-based alcoholic products. The old joke about you can only call it champagne if it comes from that region of France? Yup, that EU effort.  So they decided in Brussels to control every single aspect and quantity of the production in order to preserve the quality and reputation of the wines and spirits, at least that is what they said.

Now wine in Spain is like soda in the US: Everybody drinks it in almost every meal and some in every meal, including breakfast. There are no Soda-like manufacturing industries, nor they could be done as we are talking different processes and basic products other than water. So what was done back in the day is that towns would depend on local vineyards for their regular supply of wine and a lot of times it would take several small vineyards to keep the equivalent of a county happy with the red liquid.

To make a long story short, the EU decided those mom & pop places could no longer operate “out of boundaries” and they had to follow the same procedures as they imposed on the big boys. One particular vineyard was owned by a family of a dear friend of mine. It had been in the family for almost a century and the owner at the time was the uncle of my buddy. He got the notification from the EU alongside a trio of 4 inch 3-ring binders full of rules and paperwork he had to follow so they would not be fined and shut down. After going through the binders, he decided that keeping the local county in wine was not worth his effort or patience in dealing with the EYU, so he retired and passed the torch to his three adult kids.

The kids, all grown ass adults with university degrees in real fields, had to hire “experts” to help them understand the reams of bureaucratic bullshit and what would financially take to comply. After several months of planning, they reached a decision with the father’s consent: They bulldozed the vineyard, sold some of the property to developers and used that money to create a landscaping farm to grow decorative bushes and flower plants and anything related to gardening which was unregulated by the EU.

As for the town’s wine supply? probably and as it happened with many other towns, they had to buy the less quality and more expensive stuff sold by mass producing facilities.

And to make it more identifiable for us, imagine DC regulating the BBQ industry to include your local family BBQ pits that has been source for pulled pork and ribs since your grandpa was a boy.

J. Kb sent me this:

Airbnb has a secretive team to keep disaster stays out of the press and gives staff blank checks to help rape victims and pay to clean up dismembered human remains, according to a report.

The short-term property rental company, which went public in December, has spent an estimated $50 million every year on payouts to hosts and guests when things go wrong, according to Bloomberg Businessweek which interviewed several former members of the secretive safety team.

‘Airbnb has a secret ‘black box’ team that forks over $50 million a year in settlements’ | Daily Mail Online

Most of you guys know I worked Hotel Security for several years and the last thing I am going to do is pontificate how regular hotels are safer than some short term rentals without any basic set of security procedures.

Hotel chains have security for one reason alone: Lower number of lawsuits and/or lower amounts to be paid off.  The unspoken truth working hotel security is we were there as evidence of “Reasonable Effort” so the company would not be take to the cleaners when the inevitable lawsuit landed at their feet. To put it in other terms. I wasn’t working for your safety but for the Company’s bottom line. This is why I still do not trust hotels to provide me safety when I go on a trip and I add measures of my own.

What happens when you do not have an structural corporation with firm assets and standards for safety?

The unidentified Australian woman, who was 29 at the time, and a group of friends had rented a first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, close to Times Square.
The group had picked up the keys for the apartment from a bodega close by without having to show any identification, Bloomberg reported.
They went to a party together, but the 29-year-old returned back to the property alone – ahead of her friends.
The suspect, 24-year-old Junior Lee, was allegedly already inside the apartment hiding in the bathroom when she returned.
He raped her at knifepoint. 
Lee then returned later that night when police were there and was arrested and charged with predatory sexual assault.
Police said he had a set of keys to the apartment on his person at the time. 

Hotel keycards do provide for a measure of security from the random predator or average thief.  They are generated at the moment of your check in and the lock will reprogram itself to that particular key card the first time you use it. Old keys will be invalidated if they are not expired by the time you check in. If procedures are followed and you are also a bit safety conscious, easy access to your room is difficult which makes ambushes also difficult. And hotels only deal with one door for entrance while an Airbnb being a normal domicile may have several entry/access points which can be accessed.

Locks you do not have control of or not are changed are just a juicy invitation for crimes to be committed. An enterprising criminal or gang can spend some money renting several locations for one night, get the keys, make copies and then go back at their leisure when another guests are occupying the places.  Hell, if they are smart, they will wait for you to leave before coming in and check your belongings in peace and decide if you are worth robbing or raping, maybe do nothing but copy your personal information, making copies of the keys of your house for later burglary or grave bodily harm.

Be paranoid: It pays.