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SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WSMV) – People in the Southern Springs Retirement Community are upset about the possibility of a fire station replacing their old sales center.

Jim Elliott is part of the petition opposing the station. As of Thursday, they had received 550 signatures. He lives just ten feet away from the potential site.

He says when he purchased his new home in October, developers never mentioned the possibility of a fire station.

“The noise and the traffic would be really bad. And we just feel like there’s many other spots in Spring Hill that they could put another fire department,” Elliott said.

Backlash from Southern Springs community over potential fire station (wsmv.com)

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This is a neighborhood where the need for quick emergency response should be a priority in the minds of the people living there. But you want to go NIMBY?

I hope they are successful, and the Fire Station is built somewhere else, and as far as possible that way the residents can stroke out and die in peace and silence.

In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.

23andMe also confirmed that another group of about 1.4 million people who opted-in to DNA Relatives also “had their Family Tree profile information accessed,” which includes display names, relationship labels, birth year, self-reported location and whether the user decided to share their information, the spokesperson said. (23andMe declared part of its email as “on background,” which requires that both parties agree to the terms in advance. TechCrunch is printing the reply as we were given no opportunity to reject the terms.)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch

Who does not know by now that anybody with cash can access the information millions of people paid the company to have access to? DNA companies actually have done better than social media in that sense because people actually pay to be the product to be sold.

Oh well.

This video has gone viral of three people at Farley’s East Coffee House harassing and intimidating a elderly Jewish customer.

A Jewish woman is refused entry into a bathroom after complaining about anti-Semitic graffiti in it at Farley's East Coffee House in Oakland, CA.pic.twitter.com/Bf2Sut2qEQ

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) December 7, 2023

Mike Tyson famously said: “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”

That’s 100% accurate.

You know these people say horrible antisemitic shit on X and TikTok and Facebook.

Since they never faced and real consequences for that, they felt emboldened to treat an elderly Jewish woman this way.

Look at this guy:

That pudgy stupid fuck is a bulky to old ladies because he’s a bulky online.

It’s obvious nobody has ever made his front teeth touch the back of his throat for saying shit, and he desperately needs it.

I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of these Leftist antisemites would pipe down and stop harassing Jews if they caught a good shot to the gob.

This article just came across my feed:

Police: ‘Transnational gangs’ targeting mansions in Bloomfields, Grosse Pointes, for thefts

The videos show men dressed all in black, in teams of three or four, using special equipment to quietly breach windows, enter mansions in Oakland County and escape quickly with currency, jewelry, costly purses and safes.

One man holds “a jammer” to disable wireless burglar alarms, enabling what authorities said were among more than 30 break-ins of high-end homes in Oakland County since September.

The gangs are “very well trained. The surveillance video we have makes them look all white. That’s because it’s filming at night. They’re all in black.

“They very often try to approach homes in a secluded manner – from woods, for example. They’re looking for jewelry, cash, safes, even a larger safe. They’ll take that with them and try to brute-force it open later,” he said.

“If you’ve got a high-end home, you may be a target,” Bouchard said. The gangs don’t appear to be violent, he said. “In one of the few times when they went into a house and the people were home, as soon as they found out, they ran,” he said.

Here are some points to consider:

Miguel and I are big fans of security systems. The wireless ones are cheaper and easy to install. They are also easier to disable.  If you have expensive stuff, you might want to invest in a wired system that is more resistant to being disabled.

Security should be in layers.  Having cameras facing your house is good, but if you have a large yard or you face the woods, cameras pointed towards the open spaces that can see long distance is an improvement.  If you have a long driveway, add cameras and monitors to see who is approaching your house from a distance.

Safes are great, but only if they are anchored down.  These guys carry off safes and break them open later.  I have several posts on anchoring safes into both concrete and OSB subfloor if you want advice on how to do it.

These guys are not violent now, but there is no guarantee they will stay that way.  Homeowners need to be prepared to face multiple home invaders with tools.  You need high capacity magazines.

Thieves are getting bolder and more aggressive.

We’re seeing it with shop lifting, it was a matter of time until it came to people’s homes.

Prepare accordingly.

December 7th, 1941. A day that will live in infamy.

B.L.U.F.
The state filed their reply in opposition to having the Seventh Circuit Court’s denial of an injunction on the Illinois gun and magazine ban overturned.

This was done on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. Justice Barrett required a response from the state, by 1700 Wed. Which they did file.

The application and reply will be distributed to the Court, which will issue a response in the coming days. I actually expect something by Friday. The court will either grant an injunction or deny the injunction. There maybe an opinion issued with that order.

We live in interesting times.
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History

In September 2022, Robert Bevis and the National Association of Gun Rights filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois federal District court. This was a challenge of the Naperville Municipal Code “assault weapon” ban.

By December, the District court had stayed the implementation of the “assault weapon” ban.

In January 2023, the plaintiffs (good guys) and amended their original challenge to include the state law, PICA.

In February, District Judge Virginia Kendall stated that … although the plaintiffs have standing to bring this lawsuit, they are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claim because Naperville’s Ordinance and the Protect Illinois Communities Act are consistent with the Second Amendment’s text, history, and tradition.

Virginia profoundly erred when she ruled:

The plaintiffs appealed to the Seventh Circuit court.
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One of the issues I have had is that my brass continues to disappear at the range. I’ve had some luck getting range brass from friends, but not nearly as much as I want.

My last “big” score was 125 pieces of 8mmx57 Mauser for “only” $75.00. Of course, that was my frequent flyer discount along with the fact that it was part of “discount the brass, or I’m not going to buy this here $1000 rifle”.

I was pleased with my last reloading session and wanted to finish filling my ammo cans with 5.56×45. Somebody mentioned Diamond K Brass, so I went looking.

Their prices were so low that I was concerned they might be a scam. They most certainly are not.

When I buy brass from the standard places, if they tell me they are sending me 100 pieces of brass, I’m going to get 100 pieces of brass. Maybe I’ll get 101 pieces.

I took the plunge and ordered 1000+ of .223/5.56 from Diamond K. There was shipping, I was about to walk away when I did the math and decided it was acceptable at $22.00 for insured to me.

What arrived was a boat load of brass. The brass was cleaned but no deprimed. That was my first step.

There was a mix of head stamps. The mix seemed to be about 50/50 .223 and 5.56.

Of the 1000+ cases, I had 4 cases that were too damaged to use. I might have been able to rescue 2 of them, as it was just the case mouth. With a bit of time with the proper tool, I could have opened up the mouth enough for the sizing die to correct any remaining damage.

There was one .300 blackout case. There was one .22LR case. There were two cases that had no powder, but the bullet was still inside the case.

My biggest issue was that one of the head stamps has a primer flash hole that is too small. I can’t get my decapping pin to fit through to punch out the primer. I destroyed one decapping pin when I pushed too hard.

I have a tool on order to bring the flash holes to the correct nominal size. That will happen this weekend. At which time I will be able to finish decapping the cases.

Was the price right? YES. This is good-looking brass. I will be placing more orders with them shortly. Looking at 2000+ .45 ACP, 2000+ 9mm, more .223/5.56, and maybe some strange brass as well.