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 I built this shop during the winter of 16-17 and installed the kitchen during the spring f 2017.  I installed a small 4-gallon water heater under the sink so that we could wash dishes. I came in from the range yesterday and found that it was leaking.  Well, hell.

Went online to Lowe's and Stine's and didn't see anything there I liked.  Belle searched Amazon and found a small on-demand heater for less than $100.  Overnight shipping, it came in this morning. I snatched the old one out from under the sink, made a trip to the hardware store, came back and installed the new one. It's different, but it works.  Plug and play. The temperature of the water is dependent on how fast the flow.  Wide open, it's just over body temp, but if you throttle the flow down to a trickle, it gets hot enough that you don't want your hand under it.

We'll try this out and see how it works. There may be a learning curve, but if we don't like it, it is easy enough to snatch out of there.

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• Data and privacy in the age of autonomous weapons.


• Airbnb hosts mad they can't use guests as housekeeping staff anymore.

One man was left injured in a Midtown shooting after firing shots at suspects trying to break into his vehicle as he was sleeping inside of it early Thursday morning, police say.

Police spoke with a man who told them he was asleep in his vehicle parked at the back of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall at 1870 Madison Avenue.

The man said he was awakened from his sleep after hearing what sounded like glass breaking. He began shouting, and the suspects opened fire at him before he was able to grab his handgun and return fire, officers said.

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9/11/26 Department of Justice:

A Brooklyn woman was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison in connection with her leadership of a vast $64 million Medicaid fraud and illegal kickback scheme at her two social adult daycare centers and home health care company. The defendant was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and to forfeit $5 million in fraud proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized during a search of her home, as pictured below. 

10/21/26 Gothamist:

10/22/26 New York Post:

Feds busted Los Angeles medical fraudsters accused of stealing $2 billion Thursday, cuffing white-collar thieves for unneeded surgeries, hunting the homeless for rehabs and billing the government for phony hospice care.

Department of Justice officials charged 15 defendants in all, including medical professionals, for making fraudulent claims to government and private health care programs – including $1.6 billion sham rehab case, the largest of its type ever.

The California Post was there as Federal SWAT teams sought their suspects in a series of predawn raids, targeting high-class criminals such as Dr. Hany Malek, 61, an allegedly armed-and-dangerous chiropractor accused of keeping an arsenal in his $2 million Tarzana mansion.

“Come out with your hands up,” called an FBI agent in the huge, gun-toting team of camouflaged officers who encircled Malek’s massive suburban home with a swarm of armed vehicles.

Agents cut Malek’s security gate and placed ladders against his tall fences, training guns on his home. Three flash-bang grenades exploded and sirens were activated.

After a few moments, the FBI brought their man down in handcuffs and placed in him an armored truck.

Worse than stealing billions from people who really needed treatment: 

Malek is accused of working with Dr. Harold Tabaie, 78, of Anaheim, a cardiothoracic surgeon, of stealing $134 million in fraudulently billed to Medicare claims for unnecessary atherectomy procedures that resulted in injury to patients.

Authorities say Malek posed as a medical doctor and diagnosed patients with arterial disease, recommending that they receive the invasive procedure in which a bladed catheter is used to clear plaque from arteries.

Tabaie then performed the procedures on patients who did not actually have disease, executing repeat atherectomies on some who he previously treated unsuccessfully with the procedure, prosecutors say.

Wow! Remember, if you or someone you know was planning to vote Democrat next month because you are pissed off about gas prices, this is probably a bigger financial burden.

10/22/26 Fox News:

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., denied Wednesday that she married her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to commit immigration fraud and pushed back against claims that they are related.

But when asked if there's any familial relation with her ex-husband, Omar admitted, "Not to my knowledge." 

I would hope she would have some knowledge of this. For me, Christmas and Thanksgiving gatherings, birthday parties, and parental wedding anniversary parties usually did a pretty good job of telling me which of these boys and girls were siblings. 

10/22/26 NBC News:

NORFOLK, Va. — Federal authorities on Thursday charged a prominent Virginia Democrat with racketeering and a money laundering conspiracy as part of an alleged public corruption case involving a cannabis business she co-owns.

Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump who is one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, surrendered to authorities Thursday. She was also charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana. A half dozen others, including Lucas’ daughters, were also in custody and charged in the alleged scheme.

The investigation into the 82-year-old Lucas predates the Trump administration, NBC News previously reported. But the Justice Department’s move, just 12 days before a midterm election, is unusual, as federal authorities have typically avoided taking overt investigative steps against political figures so close to an election. Lucas is not up for re-election this year but has ties to prominent Democrats who are on the ballot....

The indictment alleges that members of the conspiracy “used various business entities” to “disguise the proceeds of illegal marijuana distribution,” and that Lucas “used her political position in the Virginia state senate to insulate” the enterprise “from criminal scrutiny, to further the goal of wealth accumulation.”

In one intercepted phone call in February 2026 with an alleged co-conspirator who has not been indicted, Lucas allegedly said that this was their “last chance at generational wealth,” adding “I’ve gotten too old to not be greedy.”

Lucas has been a proponent of marijuana legalization in Virginia. The state now allows for possession of marijuana for adults over 21, but recreational marijuana sales remain unlawful.

That is set to change; this summer, the governor and state legislators announced an agreement to allow the licensed retail sale of marijuana beginning July 1, 2027.

Greed is ugly when it involves invention and new technologies but so pretty when the greed is setting up a generation for mental illness. 

 Knife Rights v. Blanche (5th Cir. 2026):

This case presents a Second Amendment challenge to the Federal Switchblade Act (FSA)’s restrictions on switchblade knives. Applying the framework articulated in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, we hold that the FSA is unconstitutional. We determine that switchblade knives qualify as “Arms” and are covered by the “plain text” of the Second Amendment. Because the regulation implicates the amendment, the government bears the burden of establishing that the FSA comports with well-established principles of the Second Amendment and its regulatory tradition. The government fails to meet its burden. Specifically, the FSA’s restrictions on the introduction, manufacture, transportation, and distribution of switchblades fail step two’s “how” analysis. The plaintiffs, however, fail to satisfy the stringent requirements for mounting a facial challenge to § 1243.

 Accordingly, we conclude that this regulation violates the Second Amendment. We REVERSE the district court’s grant of the government’s motion to dismiss as to the § 1242 claim. We AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal of the § 1243 claim, and we REMAND for further proceedings.

Are any of you upset enough about gas prices that you are willing to vote for mutilating children and restrictive gun laws? 

In a good way.  There is a serious need for more (a lot more) small escort ships, and the Old Way of doing business (DDGX and LCS) have been disasters.  Basically, NAVSEA piles tons of change orders on a program that gets further and further behind.  

Instead, the Navy is using the existing Coast Guard Cutter platform as the base for a new class of frigates, the FF(X).  Is it perfect?  No.  But it will be delivered soon.  Quantity has a quality all its own.

A Webster Parish homeowner fatally shoots a man who was breaking into his home. Investigators say 44-year-old Billy McFarland got into an argument with a woman as she was driving along U.S. Highway 80; and during the argument, McFarland jumped on top of her, causing her to crash while the vehicle was going more than 100 miles an hour. Sheriff Jayson Parker says after the crash, McFarland walked to a nearby mobile home and broke into it.

“He went around to the back side of the house with a pocketknife and cut out the screen and actually entered the home through the window which he was met by the homeowner; and he was hit multiple times,” Parker said.

Sheriff Parker says the homeowner had no idea who McFarland was.

“He told him, ‘You’re not getting into my house;’ and I believe Mr. McFarland said, ‘There’s no way you’re going to keep me from not coming in the house,'” Parker explained.

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An investigation determined a security guard approached a man accused of shoplifting, leading to a struggle that resulted in the guard shooting the suspected shoplifter, according to Durham police.

Police said both the security guard and the suspected shoplifter were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Ah, another person who finds that the tried and true Core-Lokt is still a very good round, and quite capable of taking care of any problem that the more modern, computer designed bullets can take care of.

I came to the Core-Lokt in 1974 when I bought my first centerfire rile. Up until then, I had been a shotgunner, hutting squirrels, rabbits, ducks and geese.  I came to deer hunting in college and decided that I needed a rifle, rather than shooting them with buckshot.  So, I saved my pennies and bought a Marlin Model 336 in .35 Remington.  Quite a purchase, it cost me ~$100, which represented a week's pay for a pore, starvin' college student who was living in his first apartment.

For ammo, I picked up a box o Remington's 200 grain ammo and never looked back.  I hand been reading all the literature and knew that deer run away when shot.  When I got my chance a month later at a middling buck, I was a bit surprised when he dropped straight down. He was Dead Right There, in the middle f the trail where I spotted him. I hunted with that rifle for the next 15 years and never had to track a deer.  They all flopped.

In 1991 I decided that I needed a new rifle.  While brewing the used gun racks, I found a Remington Model 7 in 7mm-08.  It had a Leupold scope and the tag said $400.  I bought it and the counter guy threw in a box of Remington's 140 grain load. (As I think about it, that rifle also represented a week's pay.) That rile shot that ammo like a laser beam, throwing those Core-Lokt bullets into the same hole with boring regularity. I made some great shots with that rifle.  I lost it during a financial crisis stemming from the Great Divorce. Truth be told, I mourned the loss of the rifle more than the loss of the woman.  Funny how that worked out.  I never bought another 7mm-08.  Too many old memories, I guess.

Don't get me wrong, I have used other bullets.  I'm a big fam of Sierra's whole line, and I like the Nosler Ballistic Tip.  I've used the Barned Triple-Shock  And, I have a load in .243 Winchester that uses the Hornady VLD.  Bullet technology is amazing these days.  But for sub-3000 fps and under 200 yards, it is hard to beat the Core-Lokt.  It just works.

 Oakland, Cal. (1974)

01/31/1974: Someone hacked to death three people in a mortuary as they attempting to escape their attackers. Police later arrested a man, 20, for the murders and theft of “several bottles of embalming fluid.” His father brought him to the police station in response to an arrest warrant for rape in an unrelated event.

The embalming fluid theft, and the murders probably caused by the theft, while at first bizarre, has a rational basis. Drug dealers in the 1970s used “embalming fluid” as a street name for PCP into which marijuana cigarettes were dipped. “This eventually led to the actual use of embalming fluid when lacing both cannabis and tobacco cigarettes.”

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: robbery 

Weapon: other sharp[1]

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Reading the Wikipedia article about the Zebra killings, their racial motivation, their reputed connection to Nation of Islam, the deranged political response to attempts to find the murderers is pretty depressing. If you think our current societal madness is bad, 1974 was not so wonderful, either.

 Heeter and Wurtenberg v. James (W.D.N.Y. 2026)

New York enacted a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting law-abiding residents who are not engaged or employed in an eligible profession- from purchasing body armor for self-defense. New York enacted this legislation "to further strengthen gun laws." New York's body armor legislation, however, violates the Second Amendment. This result is dictated by the teaching of the Supreme Court's cases addressing individual Americans' right to keep and bear arms. Indeed, body armor is an "Arm" protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. As such, regulation in this area is permissible only if the State demonstrates that the new enactment is consistent with the Nation's historical tradition of sufficiently analogous regulations. New York fails that test. 

You may wondering, even before the constitutional question comes into focus, how banning most people from buying body armor strengthens gun laws. Body armor kills no one. The reason is that some mass murderers have worn body armor to protect them from police or even, horror of horrors, civilians defending themselves or others. Doubtless done for that reason and once this was widely reported "because all the cool mass murderers are doing it." (Journalists could leave this detail out, along with the attention-seeker's name: the ignominy of forgetting an evil person's name.) I am pretty sure every mass murderer got to the scene of the crime by motor vehicle. Would limiting possession of such be similarly justified?

Of course, all body armor does is require a murderer to get close for a head shot. If you are wearing body armor, you better be ready to return fire. The analogy to armored knights is really clear. Once you unhorsed a knight, even if by making his horse a longbow pincushion, the hoi polloi still needed to get in close enough to hack him apart with axes and halberds. (The skeletons with halberd injuries are horrifying to see.)

The real issue here is that body armor makes people safer, or at least makes people feel safer. Nothing terrifies the gun banners more than people being safe. How much fascism can you build on top of people who feel safe?

Back to the constitutional question:

The State points to the Statute of Northampton for support for its position that there is a long-standing tradition of restricting who can purchase body armor. See Dkt. 77-1 at 29-31. The law prohibited anyone to "go, nor ride armed by night, nor by day, in fairs markets, nor in the presence of the justices or other ministers, nor in no part elsewhere, upon pain to forfeit their armor to the King and their bodies to prison, at the king's pleasure." ...

The State's analogy to the Statute of Northampton is an attempt to justify its body armor ban by speculating that individuals only wear body armor to terrify the public. See Dkt. 77-1 at 37-38. Yet, this ignores the reality put forth by Plaintiffs, that the public is more likely to reach for body armor to protect themselves from terrifying circumstances. Dkt. 80 at 42. In Rahimi, the Supreme Court concluded that "[a]n individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment." Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 702. Here, however, the State is suggesting that a merely broad-based suspicion over the population at large is sufficient to justify a universal ban on the sale and purchase of a specific type of arm. And to the extent that the State analogizes this to prohibiting criminals from purchasing body armor, other statutes already criminalize the use of body armor while committing violent crimes. See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 931(a); 34 U.S.C. § 10534(d)(l); U.S.S.G. § 2K2.6; N.Y. PENAL LAW§ 270.20. The State's categorical prohibition of a specific type of arm to law abiding citizens at large, is untethered from any historical tradition-including the Statute of Northampton. 

I would have also pointed out that even within the historically irrelevant Statute of Northampton meaning. Legal writing after 1328 recognized that the Statute prohibited wearing armor not carrying arms. In the nineteenth century, a manual for justices of the peace discussing the Statute explained that “A man cannot excuse the wearing of such armour in public.”[1] Even as to wearing arms in the modern sense, this volume is clear that “no wearing of arms is within the meaning of this statute, unless it be accompanied with such circumstances as are apt to terrify the people…”[2] Concerning those wearing armor under their clothes: “And persons armed with privy coats of mail, to the intent to defend themselves, against their adversaries, are not within the meaning of this statute, because they do nothing in terror of the people.”[3]

 Wichita, Kan. (1974)

01/15/1974: Police were puzzling over a crime scene where the phone line was cut, the parents were bound, gagged, beaten, then strangled to death. The son was also bound with three plastic bags over his head; he likely suffocated. The daughter was hanging in the basement, toes two inches from the floor. Their other three children were at school. There was no sign of robbery, although the murderer appears to have stolen their car. Police later suggested there was some sort of fetish to the murders but refused to describe what had been done to the bodies in support of this theory. The B.T.K. murderer eventually claimed to have done it.

Category: family non-resident

Suicide: no

Cause: mental illness

Weapon: strangle, hang[1]

 10/20/26 Fox News:

A winery co-owned by the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was shuttered amid fraud claims, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said.

Comer said over the weekend that the winery had been selling empty barrels to investors under the guise of "wine to be aged."

"I can tell you from our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form that there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued," Comer told Trey Gowdy on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America."

"First of all, not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form. That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud."

This could well explain the bizarre changes in her net assets over the last several years. 

US Representative Ilhan Omar's net worth became a talking point after her 2024 financial disclosure showed a sharp increase in the reported value of businesses owned by her husband, Tim Mynett. The disclosure, filed in May 2025, valued his venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital LLC, at between $5 million and $25 million.

His winery, eStCru LLC, was valued at between $1 million and $5 million.

Of course, Islam does not approve of alcohol. Perhaps those empty barrels of wine were halal. 

 You doubtless remember that when Moses demanded Pharoah:

 Performing a little overdue maintenance on my carry gun, a Smith & Wesson 432UC in .32 H&R Magnum.

Awhile ago I'd done some practice with .32 S&W Long ammo. The H&R Mag case is a lengthened .32 Long case, so you can safely shoot Longs in it. The problem is that this can cause a ring of crud to get deposited in the chamber, which can and did cause sticky extraction when shooting Magnums. (This also applies to firing .38 Specials in .357 Magnum chambers.)

I tried an overnight soak in Kroil to get under the crud rings and then remove them with wet patches but it wasn't enough. So, today I removed the cylinder and then chucked a section of cleaning rod in my drill and mounted a .32 caliber bore brush. With the drill turing I ran the brush in and out of each chamber.

After checking with some cartridges and still getting some stickiness on a couple chambers, I repeated the drill treatment and now have the chambers soaking in Boretech C4 carbon remover. If I need to I'll repeat the cycle.

Brownells sells handgun chamber brushes for .40/10mm, .38/.357/9mm, and .44 Special/Magnum, .45 ACP, and .45 Colt. Unfortunately, they don't list them for .32 Long/Magnum. Chamber brushes are oversized vs. bore brushes and so clean the chambers better. I have them for .38/.357 and they work well.

My remedy to prevent this annoyance in the future will be to load up practice rounds in .32 H&R Mag brass.

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Officials said a 19-year-old woman was walking home when three men began verbally harassing her. After ignoring the men, the victim said multiple rounds were discharged in her direction, and she was shot in the arm.

Deputies said the victim’s father heard the commotion, came outside and began firing at the men who left the scene.

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A suspected burglar ended up hospitalized after a Mesquite resident opened fire on him inside a home on Brushwood Lane early Saturday morning, according to Mesquite police. The homeowners told officers that loud banging woke them up before one resident spotted a man entering the house and fired a weapon that struck him.

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