NC deputy sheriff blocked from Kay’s for wearing gun

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - An Iredell County deputy attempting to pick up a pre-purchased engagement ring from a Kay Jewelers Tuesday was turned away because his uniform, which contained a service weapon, didn't meet store policy, officials say.

The uniformed deputy used his lunch break to pick up an engagement ring at Kay's on Turnersburg Highway in Statesville. The deputy had already paid for the ring and was informed by jewelers that the ring was sized and ready for pick up.

The deputy says when he got to the store, he was told he wasn't allowed to wear his service weapon on their premises.

The sheriff says the deputy spoke with the manager, telling them he was in uniform and his marked patrol car was in the parking lot. He said it would be a violation of policy to remove his service weapon while in uniform.

"This policy is in place for not only the safety of the deputy, but the general public as well," the sheriff's office said, backing the deputy's claims.

According to the deputy, the manager told him he would need to return to the store when he was not armed.

"The reaction our deputy encountered is very difficult for us to comprehend, and we earnestly hope situations such as these are few and are diminishing," the sheriff's office posted on Facebook.

Kay Jewelers responded on Facebook, saying they "sincerely apologize for the mishandling of this matter." The business said they were in the process of reaching out to the deputy involved.

"We have tremendous respect for law enforcement, and we thank the Office for bringing this to our attention. We will be sure to reinforce store training regarding our firearm policy with specific regard to uniformed law enforcement," Kay's posted.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-deputy-picking-up-engagement-ring-turned-away-from-store-over-service-weapon/2055222748?fbclid=IwAR1yN72LR_J_VEovwHBsV0kxFJs46riYWYwGRRLFl3-rRRxPSrVe7jxk46o

Some art for sale

No ad money to me.

http://jonmcnaughton.com/

Last Sobibar uprising survivor dies

“Semyon Rosenfeld, who was the last living Holocaust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp, died Monday at the age of 97 in a hospital in Rehovot, near Tel Aviv.

“Rosenfeld, who moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, was survived by his two sons and five grandchildren. He had been living in a retirement community in Yad Binyamin in central Israel.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/last-survivor-of-sobibor-death-camp-uprising-dies-aged-97/

Don't write about slavery unless you were a slave

“Before the manuscript had even reached the presses, however, a furor erupted when Zhao, a 26-year-old banker born in Paris and raised in Beijing, was accused of racism. Armed with merely the blurb and a handful of excerpts from the book, her critics — many of them fellow authors, editors and bloggers in the Young Adult genre (known as YA) — repeatedly tore into Zhao on sites such as Twitter and Goodreads, outraged by, among other things, the novel’s depiction of indentured labour. For despite Blood Heir’s Slavic setting, her detractors assumed the plot was inspired by American slavery and thus something Zhao had no business writing about because she is not black. In a tirade that might surprise students of Russian antiquity, one critic reportedly raged: “[R]acist ass writers, like Amélie Wen Zhao, […] literally take Black narratives and force it into Russia when that shit NEVER happened in history.’”

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/05/writers-blocked-even-fantasy-fiction-is-now-offensive/

You might expect an author to reply with manners or even a bunch of “F--- you” remarks.

But, nooo.

“For Zhao, the onslaught proved too much and in January she released a statement titled ‘To The Book Community: An Apology’ in which she confirmed she had withdrawn Blood Heir from publication. However, in a volte-face last month, Zhao revealed that, with help from multicultural scholars and ‘sensitivity readers’, she had re-written the novel and would now be publishing it in November.”

Do what? “Multicultural scholars and sensitivity readers?” Those are commonly known as “censors.”

As these works are in the field of young readers, there is the distinct possibility that those “multicultural scholars” and “sensitivity readers” are part of the first wave of newly-educated millennials who know nothing of fantasy or history.

Interesting statistics

I started using another solitaire site after MSN changed the one I had played for several years.

Checking statistics a few minutes ago, I discovered:

I have played 12 hands at the new site and won 5, for a win percentage of 41.7.

Worldwide, 569,240,787 hands have been played, with 180,798,052 wins, a percentage of 31.76.

My average score is 2,800 of 5,200, or 53.84%.

Global average is 2,400 of 5,200, or 46.15%.

My total play time is 49 minutes, 39 seconds.

Global play time is 8,008 years, 10 months.

The religion of peace in 1948

“'For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter,' Abdullah el-Talal, a commander of the Muslim invaders, had boasted. 'Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible.' In his memoirs he wrote, 'I knew that the Jewish Quarter was densely populated with Jews who caused their fighters a good deal of interference and difficulty…. Only four days after our entry into Jerusalem the Jewish Quarter had become their graveyard. Death and destruction reigned over it.'”

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/06/liberating-our-jerusalem.html

El-Talal brags about wiping out in four days 1,000 years of Jewish occupancy in part of Jerusalem.

"There will be peace when all the Jews are gone. That much is certainly undeniable. Just look at Gaza or Egypt or Iraq or Afghanistan, which has a grand total of two Jews, both of them in their seventies. Or Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria where peace reigns now that the Jews are gone. Some might say that violence seems to increase proportionally with the number of Muslims, but we all know that would be Islamophobic. On the other hand suggesting that violence increases with the number of Jews living on land that Muslims want, that's just diplomacy. A common sense fact that everyone who is anyone in foreign policy knows to be true."

A joke

During a baseball game, the coach called one of his 9-year-old players aside and asked, "Do you understand what co-operation is? What a team is?"

"Yes, coach," replied the little boy."

"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose together as a team?"

The little boy nodded in the affirmative.

So, the coach continued, "I'm sure you know, when an out is called, you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the umpire, or call him an asshole. Do you understand all that?"

Again, the little boy nodded in the affirmative.

The coach continued, "And when I take you out of the game so that another boy gets a chance to play, it's not a dumbass decision or that the coach is a shithead, is it?"

"No, coach."

"Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your grandmother."