Man accused of shooting 2 teens and killing one in Aurora is a U.S. Space Force sergeant

A 27-year-old Space Force sergeant remained in the Adams County Jail Tuesday on a $500,000 bond. Sgt. Orest Schur is accused of killing one teen and wounding another he believed had been trying to steal a family car.

An affidavit from the case now details some of what happened the night of July 5 at his Aurora home and a few blocks away where police say two teenagers crashed a stolen car Schur fired at as he pursued them.

The series of events began late on July 5 when there were calls from Schur’s wife saying her husband was out after car thieves. It was the third time, she told the 911 call taker, that someone had tried to steal one of their cars, which was a Hyundai Elantra. They had not succeeded in stealing the car, but made two attempts, explained the witness in the affidavit.

She reported hearing shots and a speeding car. Then there was a call from a man who said he had pursued the thieves who had tried to steal his wife’s car. He said he’d been shot at by the thieves. He said he had chased them down and he had shot at them.

They had crashed in the 19500 block of East 58th Circle. He declined to give his name when asked and said he was going back home.

A short time later on the other side of the home where the car crashed they found the fatally wounded teenager, who had been shot in the back and head. The other teen, 13 years old, later showed up at an urgent care for treatment of a gunshot wound to the back and was transferred to Children’s Hospital Colorado.

I get it, thieves had tried to steal his car twice before.

That would absolutely piss me off to the point where I’d like to kill someone.

But you can’t chase people down and shoot them in the back.

I wish you could.  I sincerely wish you could use lethal force in the defense or recovery of stolen property.  That would bring the current crime wave of theft to a dead stop.

But you can’t.

That is not self defense under the law.

One the thieves run away, you can’t chase them.  You become the pursuer and you are the criminal now.

This sergeant fucked up and murdered someone.

My only hope is that the accomplice who took a bullet to the back is also charged with the murder under the felony homicide rule.

Earlier this year I made myself the promise on just read book for entertainment purposes.  A lot of the previous books were heavy in history and not the nice kind, and my mind was like “Dude! I need a break here!” So I went the old route of Stephen hunter with The Bullet Garden, The first James Reece books by Jack Carr and Michael Critchon’s Prey. Pure unadulterated fiction and fun.

Listening to Michael Bane’s podcast, I found about James Tarr’s The Fallen Republic Book On: Cascade which I already briefly posted about. I finished it in record time and found out there was part two out already: The Snarling Sea and bought it on the spot. I just finished this one about 20 minutes ago and it confirms a thought I had about the story.

It is NOT a zombie book even though the word keeps being “misused” by some of the characters. But it is a “controlled” bioterror attack that goes off the rails because there are egotistic idiots that firmly believe they can control a chaotic event for their benefit because they acquired the reins of power.

The characters are people we may know, including ourselves and will make you re-evaluate your lifestyle and preparations.  And that thought I mentioned earlier is what makes the books so frightening is how plausible is the story. You realize that all the pieces are there in the real world and it will not take much to create a similar crap show.

 And book three is coming. You bet your butt I will be buying it.

That’s what I felt like, working issues yesterday. There was always another problem to fix.

German Eco activist screams in pain after emergency service workers try to unstick his hand after he glued himself to the road.

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 15, 2023

Jose Perez stuck in traffic in a tropical shithole country and finds out the reason he is not moving and will be getting late to work is because some 21st century hippies glued their hands to the pavement.

By the time the police arrive, they will find a bunch of one-handed eco assholes crying in pain on the side of the road and some mangled appendages still attached to asphalt as drivers drive by.

Traffic restoration brought to you by machetes.

Another one punch kill tip from Mr. Scrappycrow.

Delafield man punched over tattoos dies, Brookfield man charged

A Delafield man died Wednesday, July 12, nearly a month after he was punched in the head outside a Hartland bar. Family said he was targeted over his tattoos. A Brookfield man is charged.

Family said Josh Davies was out on a date night with his wife on June 17 when a man he never met before made comments about his tattoos before throwing a punch.

Jamie Davies spoke with FOX6 hours after her older brother passed away.

“The suffering and pain my brother endured for the last 26 days was not his fault,” said Jamie Davies.

The group told police a stranger punched Davies, causing him to fall backward and hit his head on the cement. He suffered skull fractures and brain bleeds.

Prosecutors say witnesses heard Sehmer instantly make comments about the victim’s tattoos inside the bar, saying he was “going to hell, and God would not save him.”

Outside the bar, the complaint says witnesses saw Sehmer throw a stool at the victim before throwing a punch.

This is consistent with every other one punch kill I’ve documented.

The initial punch causes a loss of consciousness.  The victim falls and his their head on hard ground, usually concrete.  That impact causes a brain bleed and/or swelling, which is fatal.

I’ve documented deaths occurring days later, but I believe that 26 days post punch is the longest I’ve seen so far.

Traumatic brain injuries are fickle.  Patients can linger in comas for years.  Sometimes the brain heals, sometimes it doesn’t and the person dies, never regaining consciousness.

This is tragic and terrible.

I will continue to post this, unarmed doesn’t mean not dangerous.

A sucker punch can be lethal.

If some asshole gets in your face with malicious intent, distance is your friend.

Stay out of arms reach.  De-escalate of you can and be prepared to defend yourself if you can’t.

Whatever you do, don’t let your guard down and get clocked in the head.  You may never wake up again.

Cambridge schools are divided over middle school algebra

Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school, something that could hinder his son Isaac from reaching more advanced classes, like calculus, in high school.

The district’s aim was to reduce disparities between low-income children of color, who weren’t often represented in such courses, and their more affluent peers.

“The students who are able to jump into a higher level math class are students from better-resourced backgrounds,” said Jacob Barandes, another district parent and a Harvard physicist. “They’re shortchanging a significant number of students, overwhelmingly students from less-resourced backgrounds, which is deeply inequitable.”

This is not the first time this debate has raged in Cambridge, and the same questions are being debated around the country. The California Board of Education, for example, is expected to pass a new state math framework that discourages eighth-grade algebra. Leaders there say the controversial measure is necessary because when the state pressured districts to offer eighth-grade algebra, many students were unprepared for the course and had to repeat it.

Farming is both difficult and skilled work.

During the Soviet Revolution, farmers that had both the work ethic and technical knowledge to farm and successful at it were deemed Kulaks.

Their success was seen as coming at the expense of less successful farmers.

The Kulaks were liquidated, i.e., killed or sent to gulag, and their land was redistributed to the other farmers.

Those farmers had neither the skill or work ethic to farm adequately and the result was a famine that killed as many as 20 million Soviets.

Years later, Chairman Mao did something similar and that famine killed as many as 50 million Chinese.

In Massachusetts and California, it appears that the same attitude has been applied to math education.

Some students have the intelligence and work ethic to get good at math.

Others don’t.

That is “inequitable.”

So the solution proposed is to liquidate the intellectual Kulaks.

The advanced children will have their advanced math taken from them, and they will be forced into the same lower math as everyone else.

This will not make the dumb kids smarter.

It will make the smart kids miserable.

And then everyone will be at the same low level of performance.

The lesson the children are being taught is that hard work and skill is a liability, not an asset, and success will be punished in favor of “equity.”

Just like in the Soviet Union and Maoist China, this will also lead to famine.  Just one of a different kind.

Our best and brightest children will not have the ability or desire to succeed academically.

They won’t pursue high value college degrees, no medicine, engineering, science, etc.

We will suffer a famine of highly skilled professionals, and then the resulting societal problems that ensue.

We will have a shortage of doctors.

Our bridges will fall down.

Airplanes will fall out of the skies.

The lights will go out.

Our infrastructure will crumble.

But at least we will have equity in the dark.

NEW YORK – Even during a year of sobering economic news for media companies, the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prizewinning editorial cartoonists on a single day hit like a gut punch.

The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of a general trend away from opinion content in the struggling print industry.

Losing their jobs were Jack Ohman of California’s Sacramento Bee, also president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists; Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky; and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Ohman and Siers were full-time staffers, while Pett worked on a free-lance contract. The firings on Tuesday were first reported by The Daily Cartoonist blog.

“I had no warning at all,” Ohman told The Associated Press. “I was stupefied.”

McClatchy, which owns 30 U.S. newspapers, said it would no longer publish editorial cartoons. “We made this decision based on changing reader habits and our relentless focus on providing the communities we serve with local news and information they can’t get elsewhere,” the chain said in a statement.

Editorial cartoonists’ firings point to steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers | AP News

I did a quick check on their work and unsurprisingly, the three are rabid Liberals who right now have to be pissed off about doing their master’ work and still being canned?

How come McClatchy did not fire Conservative cartoonists? Probably because they don’t have any.