Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Monday, April 06, 2026

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- We can (and do) solve crimesThe problem with using AI to help solve crimes is that AI is also helping defense attorneys present better cases for exoneration.

- So, while you still have CSAR in your SCAN. I too want to hear the story of this combat search and rescue in Iran.

- Many a truth is said in jest.

- Masters 2026 - ranking the field.

Saturday, December 20, 2025

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The Misfit Tree.

- Douglas Murray: Trump cleaned up crime in DC.

- Judge ends injunction against Miami land transfer for Trump library. 300 acres of prime Miami land. 

- Modernizing the Army-Navy game. If college football tries to make changes to make the schedule for this day - we make the change and make college football taxable. 

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Monday, May 08, 2023

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- SpaceX's Starlink now has over 1.5 million subscribers. That's over $140 million a month in revenue. Amazing!

- Heh Heh

- Always remember to put the glass down. Great advice!

- One of the great problems in society nobody talks about. And we let the crazy roam free until they do something violent or criminal. This is not compassion.

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well." - Paul Graham

"One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims." - Thomas Sowell

"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." - Frank Costello The Departed

"You can't explain to stupid people that they're stupid. Because they're stupid." - Ed Latimore

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Just When You Thought the FBI Couldn't Sink Any Lower

The FBI is now robbing banks:

The FBI told a federal magistrate judge that it intended to open hundreds of safe deposit boxes seized during a March 2021 raid in order to inventory the items inside - but new evidence shows that federal agents were plotting all along to use the operations as an opportunity to forfeit cash and valuables.

Around $86 million in cash, gold, jewelry and other valuables were seized from people who were never charged with a crime and who were using safety deposit boxes for their intended purpose - to hold valuables that people wanted to keep safe.

This has to be one of the biggest attempted bank heists in history - and it was attempted by the FBI. Let that sink in. The more your read of this article - the worse it gets too. 

Thanks Kim.

Friday, June 25, 2021

The Warning of Sideshow Bob!

From The Simpsons episode The Black Widower where Sideshow Bob marries Bart's aunt Selma with the intention of murdering her on their wedding night by blowing her up in a hotel room full of natural gas (oops sorry for the spoiler):

Sideshow Bob, "But wait, if you saved Selma, why did the room explode?"
Chief Wiggum: "Me and the boys were celebrating a job well done," [cut to Wiggum, Homer, and a few cops smoking cigars] "When I threw my match in the vicinity of the crime scene."
The police start to take Sideshow Bob away, and he yells, "I'll be back. You can't keep the Democrats out of the White House forever. And when they get in, I'm back on the streets, with all my criminal buddies!" (Maniacal laughter).

Monday, April 05, 2021

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- West Virginia implements the most expansive school choice program in the country. Good for West Virginia! It will be interesting to see how this program effects state standardized test score. (HT Instapundit)

- Personal data from over 500 million Facebook users leaked online. Why anyone is still on Facebook is beyond me.

- Why is Africa the global COVID "Cold Spot" and why are we afraid to talk about it?  When science isn't politically correct it becomes cancelled.

- Cracking the Case of London's Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves

Thursday, January 02, 2020

Business Lessons from a Crime Boss

Interesting quick read article on the business start-up lessons to be learned from a crime boss. Lessons include

- Don't sell rocks when you can sell mountains
- Cut out the middleman
- Don't shit where you eat
- If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense
- Closed mouths don't get fed
- Be a badass

All common sense lessons but voiced in a manner you may not have seen before.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Over 140 "new" Nazca Lines discovered in Peru

- Interesting look at how the American Bison shapes its environment

- Paint me like one of your French girls Jack

- Slate's list of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25-years. Love book lists but puzzled by this one. I've only read one book on this list (and I wouldn't recommend that book to another person)

- How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13 million from the Sacramento Kings. "David was earning a low-to-mid-six-figure salary. But he had a desire for more." Greed is an awful thing. 


Tuesday, January 01, 2019

99 Good News Stories You Might Have Missed in 2018

99 good news stories you probably didn't hear about in 2018.

Although some of these stories could be bad news depending on your point of view. Half the world's counties are now below "replacement level" birth-wise? Is that actually good news for the economies of those countries? California going carbon neutral by 2045? That's going to wreck their economy (unless they change their mind on nuclear power).

Trying my best not to be a "cup half empty" type but it is a struggle.

There is no denying that we live in an age of abundance though.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

This is amazing... If I were a CSI investigator every time my wife handed me something I'd bag it and declare "Now it's evidence!" until my wife stopped handing me things or divorced... "True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust. El Mano Negra." Long read but a chilling account about a deadly hit man responsible for about 35 murders... They say that Saint Augustine did something very bad as a youth and it was his guilt that turned him to Christianity. I wonder if what he did was worse than the re-make of Murder on the Orient Express... Heh heh - David Sedaris as Billie Holiday... One of life's great mysteries is how simply placing a piece of white bread with a batch of home-made cookies can keep the cookies from going stale in the cookie jar... Brain Grenade would be a good name for a band (or a hipster poet)...