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2010-11-29

Hmmm ... interesting that such a hard-case would roll over with such alacrity. I wonder how many seconds it was after the arrest until his successor had consolidated his position...
I can't imagine everyone else not doing this ...

2010-11-26

That definitely took some stones ...
Not real heavy on details ...
You can have peaceful, quiet communities (on both sides of the border) or you can have a War on Drugs, but you can't have both ...
Includes a cool pic ...
If true, it sounds like a good reason to find another island to fire their artillery from ...
This is interesting primarily because it shows what the issues are even when you have surveillance video. The gross anatomy is very similar but when you go to compare the guys ears or hairline in the surveillance video to the ears/hairline on the TV video, there is more than enough errata on the surveillance video to put significant doubt in your mind ...
He doesn't appear to be controlling or even covering the customers very well. If either customer had been so inclined and properly armed, it looks like they had several opportunities to pop-a-perp ...

2010-11-23

I can't really figure out what the defense part is for (it's not like they could protect themselves from us if we actually felt like going in), so my suspicion is that it's ALL internal order and they're trying to keep from being strung up while they slowly abandon central planning (without admitting that it was an abject failure) ...
Hmmm ... I wish he wouldn't go on Alex Jones and I wish he wasn't right so often ...

2010-11-19

Video of an extremely well-executed, armed robbery ...

Assuming you HAD a concealed blam-blam, one would be hard-pressed to bring it into play in the amount of time available. Toward the end, the baddie appears to look away (down) from the clerk while in range of some effective techniques but it's happening so fast that the clerk is probably still wondering whether he's going to die from gunshots or heart failure. Unfortunately, the only cure for this sort of thing is a man-trap entryway and having one definitely sends a message to potential customers about the neighborhood they're fixin' to stay in.
Interesting essay by debunker with a solid reputation ...
Escalating the Drug War is a strategy without much past success to recommend it ...
Some cool pics of what could only be described as some big-assed subs ...

Plus, somewhat less cool pics of somewhat smaller subs ...
Apparently, they don't get a lot of real terrorism, thereabouts ...

2010-11-17

It looks like it might be a disguise ...
Doesn't sound like they're any closer to finding it ...
Plus a hi-res photo here ...
Plus some cool video ...
Fascinating ...

2010-11-16

There seems to be some HEAVY backlash building up over this. Now that the legis-weenies are all feeling insecure, it will be interesting to see how many come up with the right answer ...
Looks exceptionally unpleasant ...
Anything to avoid acknowledging that nasty old 'elasticity of pricing' model ...
News you can use ...

2010-11-07

Oh boy ... can't wait for our cavity checks ...
This happened to me once (at the old Maxim on Flamingo Rd.) but the area was a fire stairwell out of the basement (one-way door at the bottom) and some construction/renovation guys had piled steel beams outside of the door to the outside. I was finally heard by a guest in the fire stairwell several floors up (it was about 12 feet to the bottom of the upper fire stairwell, so I couldn't climb out) who then called Security. It was a quiet night so they hadn't even realized I was gone.

2010-11-03

Hmmm ... a puppy heist ... what's this world coming to ...
I've mentioned before that my view is that if you don't have the means to interfere with the flight then it doesn't matter who you are, so the checking of documents is a gimme and isn't actually necessary ...

2010-11-01

It's always a good idea to spend plenty of time learning and vetting the system you're going to use before committing your data to it ...