Painfully manual and inefficient processing to get gold out of computer circuit boards. It looks like they are adding sheets of lead, probably to bind non-gold materials. I am pretty sure that making aqua regia (hydrochloric and nitric acids) which dissolves gold. I do not want to see the livers of these Indians or Pakistanis doing this awful work. The only advanced technology I see is a 5L Pyrex beaker.
Last month, we received a report from a whistleblower who claimed that illegal aliens were staying in San Francisco’s homeless shelters. Following up on the tip, we visited numerous publicly funded shelters in San Francisco, and spoke to employees and residents about their policies, sometimes through a translator.
We discovered not only that the shelters were housing illegal immigrants but also that they were apparently housing a population of male-to-female “transgender” illegal aliens, who had hoped to obtain “gender-affirming care.” And, to our shock, state and local governments apparently are providing it.
Not only providing an unnecessary service but for illegals. According to some that they interviewed, this is widely known back home that break the law to come here and California will do your sex-change for you. Of course, California's Medi-Cal program (Medicaid but handled by California) is only administered by California. All U.S. taxpayers are paying for it.
DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WLS) -- Law enforcement officials are saying a Chicago-area woman's claims of being detained for two days were a hoax.A Wisconsin sheriff is now suing Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi for defamation, claiming she lied to the public last month, when she said she was held in the Broadview U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility and transferred to Dodge County, Wisconsin....Schmidt, in his lawsuit, outlined what he calls a hoax allegedly carried out by 28-year-old Naqvi.Naqvi's supporters spoke out last month, after the Evanston native claimed she was detained at O'Hare airport by Customs and Border Protection for 30 hours.Her family said she was then sent to the ICE detention facility in Broadview and later taken to a facility in Dodge County, where they said she was released Saturday, March 7.According to the lawsuit, Sheriff Schmidt says Naqvi was actually staying at a hotel near O'Hare and allegedly sending text messages from her room."She checked into the Hampton Inn and Suites in Rosemont, Illinois for the entire duration of this alleged event, traveled from the Hampton Inn and Suites in Illinois to the Holiday Express in Beaver Dam, (Wisconsin), was done to complete this hoax. She scammed a victim out of thousands of dollars in pursuit of this hoax against the federal government and the Dodge County Sheriff's Office," Schmidt said.
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4/15/26 KETV. Police responded to a kidnapping:
Investigators said officers arrived at the location and immediately found 31-year-old Noemi Guzman near the southern parking lot entry, standing by a shopping cart with the child inside.
Omaha police said Guzman was making multiple threats with the knife, and officers gave multiple verbal commands for her to drop the knife. She refused to drop it and cut the boy, officials said.
Two officers shot the woman, Noemi Guzman, after she cut the boy and refused to drop a knife she had stolen from the store, the police department said in a news release....
Omaha police said Guzman is the same woman accused of stabbing her father and breaking into the rectory of an Omaha church.
In 2024, investigators said Guzman doused her father with a flammable liquid and cut him with a knife.
That previous crime ended up:
Guzman pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, arson, burglary, and criminal mischief. She was later found not responsible by reason of insanity. The case is still open. KETV Investigates is continuing to examine the court documents.
I understand that there may have been good reason to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. (This incident seems to confirm it.) But why would you put someone out on the street with a history of insane violence? She could not lawfully buy or possess a gun, but as she demonstrated, getting hold of deadly weapons is not hard. In addition to risk to others, it is hard to imagine that she would be safe on her own. She certainly was not in this situation.
Adults who have never been married are at a significantly higher risk of developing cancer than those who are married or have been in the past, new research suggests.
A team from the University of Miami found that incidence rates of cancer were 68 percent higher in never-married men and 85 percent higher in never-married women.
Interesting especially when you get into the details:
Some of the biggest differences were seen in anal cancer for men (around five times the rate in never-married men, compared to men who were married or who had been previously), and cervical cancer in women (nearly three times the rate in never-married women, compared to women who were married or who had been previously).
Why do single men get anal cancer. Because some single men get something that carries HPV in close proximity to their anus, just like women who are single and get that same high-risk HPV carrier in intimate areas.
I know it is unpopular to say this, but STDs spread with the square of the increase in sexual partners per period of time. Double the number of different partners per month and you quadruple the STD spread rate. Quadruple the number of partners and it spreads at 16x the rate.
I would not make a means-end argument for the constitionality of traditional laws against sodomy and extramarital sex. But the left keeps making the means-end argument for gun control laws. I rather doubt that they would find this argument persuasive.
Drewes said she met Swalwell three times as she was growing her fashion software company and toying with the idea of a political career.
On the third occasion, she said, she believed he drugged her glass of wine. She said they were supposed to go to a political event and they stopped by his hotel room to retrieve some paperwork.
She said she found herself incapacitated despite having had only one drink.
“He raped me and he choked me and while he was choking me I lost consciousness and I thought I died,” she said. “I did not consent to any sexual activity.”
Do I find this believable. Sure this is the guy who had an affair with a Chinese spy named (I kid you not) Fang Fang, while sitting on the House Intelligence Committee. Intelligence is obviously not one of his strong points.
Let's say you want to cut a piece of aluminum angle in 1.5" segments on a chop saw with a 100 tooth blade. It is rough on blades but cuts well.) I would prefer 1.5" wide -0", +.05". Can anyone suggest a method of doing this? Yes, I should use a band saw but I do not have one right now.
Solution: dig through my scrap pile to find a 1.522" wide piece that I milled. Put it against the blade. Press a piece Delrin against and clamp it in place as a stop against the back fence. Remove 1.522" piece. Push workpiece against stop.
The first two slices after running over the belt sander were 1 517" and 1.509". Taking them down to 1.50" on the mill will be easy
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.
And 4/12/26 The Hill reports our Navy is clearing mines to open passage for other nations.
I wish Trump would be clearer when he makes statements on Truth Social.
Ironically, the special guest who made this suggestion during the Building a Stronger, More Competitive Canadian Economy panel which also featured federal ministers Mélanie Joly, Rechie Valdez, and Lena Metlege Diab, is a Canadian who left Canada for better opportunities himself.Patrick Pichette was born and educated in Montreal and left Canada for work in the U.S. accepting a role as senior vice president and CFO of Google in California in 2008. He now lives in London, U.K., holds a Canadian passport and is a partner at Inovia Capital.Inovai Capital says Pichette paid Canadian taxes continuously from 1989 to 2008 and paid an exit tax on all his assets at the time. Pichette currently pays both Canadian and U.K. taxes.
I am still several months out from moving. Theoretically, you can mail long guns to yourself, even c/o X, as long as X does not open the gun and hands it over to you when you get there. The handgun mailing ban repeal is in the public comment stage but should be complete by the time that I move.
4/10/26 AmmoLand:
For years, gun owners have watched blue-state politicians pass one unconstitutional restriction after another while the federal government mostly stood on the sidelines. That may be changing.
In a April 10, 2026, letter to Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon put the Commonwealth on formal notice: if Virginia enacts a slate of anti-gun bills now sitting on the governor’s desk, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is prepared to sue.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States had started “clearing out” the Strait of Hormuz, just as the first direct peace talks between Iran and the U.S. began in Pakistan.
“We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
There are some technical issues that I have seen discussed but it can be done. Yet more America doing the heavy lifting for countries that could do their part.
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A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.
Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman – including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.One woman who connected online with Swalwell over her interest in Democratic politics says she ended up extremely drunk inside his hotel room after a night out with the congressman, with little memory of what occurred. Earlier in the night at a bar, he kissed her and touched her leg without her consent, she said.
In mid-September 2025, Delta State University student Demartravion “Trey” Reed, was found hanging from a tree on the Mississippi campus, as The College Fix previously reported. Within three days of Reed’s death, the state medical examiner concluded and released a statement on its autopsy report, which confirmed the findings of the local coroner.
However, a group of black activists began circulating a theory that someone or a group of people actually lynched Reed. They came to this conclusion partially because Reed (pictured, right) was found 50 miles away from where Emmitt Till was lynched 70 years prior.
Yes and you multiply 50 times 70 you get 3500 which means, I do not know, but it clearly shows he was lynched!
I suspect that if you progressively draw larger and smaller circles around this young man's place of death you would find all sorts of horrible crimes.
I am actually sympathetic to concerns about coroner's inquests. In the early 1970s, an Arizona inquest found that a black man with his hands tied behind his back hanging from a tree was a suicide. Yeah, I find that most unlikely. But vague geographical connections?
A Canadian province spent thousands of dollars on a coffee truck promotion to recruit American healthcare workers, a taxpayer watchdog revealed.
The government of British Columbia sponsored the coffee delivery stunt, which lasted approximately two days in June 2025.
It involved a branded pink-and-purple truck driving across Seattle to hand out 1,000 cups of coffee and napkins.
The paper cups said, 'Fill your cup. Follow your heart to BC,' and included a link to the government's healthcare careers website...
However, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) revealed the province's government spent on $165,000 CAD ($119,134 USD) the promotion.
That breaks down to each coffee costing approximately $165 CAD ($119 USD) per cup.
That must be a very attractive employer if you need to spend that much money to recruit employees
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed a new technology dubbed "Ghost Murmur" in the high-stakes operation to retrieve the second U.S. airman from deep inside Iran over the weekend, according to a new report.The tool is able to pick up human heartbeats across long distances, and then uses artificial intelligence (AI) to sift out background noise, two unnamed sources told The New York Post.
The mountainous terrain of southern Iran was an "ideal first operational use" for the technology, one of the sources said....
The Ghost Murmur was reportedly developed by a secretive, experimental branch of Lockheed Martin's operations, known as Skunk Works.
U2, SR71. Dark Star? Is the Death Star beyond their capacity? I think not. For all we know, the Skunk Works might be building the Millennium Falcon in Area 51.
Tattoos are generally considered safe, but growing scientific evidence suggests tattoo inks are not biologically inert. The key question is no longer whether tattoos introduce foreign substances into the body, but how toxic those substances might be and what that means for long-term health.
Tattoo inks are complex chemical mixtures. They contain pigments that give color, liquid carriers that help distribute the ink, preservatives to prevent microbial growth, and small amounts of impurities.
Many pigments currently in use were originally developed for industrial applications such as car paint, plastics, and printer toner, rather than for injection into human skin.
I talk to people who are at or near retirement age and I wish that I had a time machine to go back and ask them to read my guide to becoming wealthy. (And maybe me too at 18.)
A relatively modest investment in a diversified equity mutual fund in 1980 would have you independently wealthy today. If you are 25 or 30, get started on becoming wealthy.
I have mentioned this series before.
While NASA does have photos of the moon from satellites such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, experts told NPR that the ability for humans to observe parts of the moon for the first time — and relay details in their own words — is vital to lunar understanding.
Beckwith v. Frey, No. 25-1160 (1st Cir. 2026) pp. 7-8 uses means testing approach based on homicide and suicide rates purportedly reduced by waiting periods. Concerning persons at risk of domestic violence during the waiting period:
A representative of the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence ("the Coalition") also submitted a statement that domestic violence advocates advise victims not to obtain a firearm as part of their safety plans because, statistically, victims are more likely to have the firearm used against them than to make helpful use of it during a confrontation. The Coalition's representative also opined that victims who believe firearms are necessary for their immediate safety would not be harmed by the Act because the Coalition offers services designed to keep victims safe during the seventy-two-hour waiting period.
No evidence presented that domestic victims are at greater risk even if it were true that gun owners in general are at higher risk. The claim that gun owners are more at risk of their guns being used against them is based on a study in King Co., Washington, that found that owning a dog or renting was even a higher risk factor than owning a gun. The study looked only deaths by gun, not if the gun used was owned by the dead person. That people who die by gun might be drug dealers or other low-lifes seems not to have been considered.
I am also pleased to learn that the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence is able to provide protection for domestic violence victims more effectively than the police.
On pp. 12-13:
To support the threshold contention that the district court should have stopped at step one of Bruen, the Attorney General argues that the Act does not curtail conduct covered by the Second Amendment's plain text and therefore presumptively does not violate the Amendment. He contends the Amendment literally "says nothing about any right to purchase or otherwise acquire arms, much less to do so immediately." Thus, he says the Act does not infringe the right to "keep" and "bear" arms because purchasing and acquiring firearms are materially distinct from, and necessarily antecedent to, possessing and carrying them....
The four modern Supreme Court cases interpreting the Second Amendment do not provide clear guidance for resolving this dispute because none of them deal with the sort of regulatory regime we consider here.
So the freedom of the press does not include the right to obtain a printing press or computer printer.
Ahead of his 8 p.m. ET deadline, President Trump announced that he has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, provided Iran agrees to a "COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING" of the Strait of Hormuz, while negotiations mediated by Pakistan continue. Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran provided a 10-point peace proposal, calling it a "workable basis on which to negotiate.Israel has also agreed to the contours of the ceasefire agreement, a White House official told CBS News.
Using XRDP, I am able to do all my development from my office now:
In this case, Georgetown. 4/7/26 Daily Caller:
A Georgetown University professor is under fire for telling people who share concerns about Muslim “rape gangs” to “get over it.”
Professor Jonathan A. C. Brown, chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown, posted the dismissive remark twice on X in response to users discussing a link between Islam and an escalating crisis of rape gangs in the United Kingdom, archived versions of the now-deleted posts show.
I understand Catholic universities are only nominally under Church authority, and it shows.
According to a media release from Hegseth’s office, the undersecretary of war for intelligence and security will be responsible for updating the War Department Manual, which lays out physical security measures for the DOW. This update “will authorize permitting officials to review service member requests to carry personally owned firearms.”
In his video, Hegseth states, “If the rejection of an application is necessary, the rejection shall be in writing and explain the objective, clearly describable, and individualized basis for such decision. The review shall be a dispassionate and commonsense application of applicable law and standards.”
There might be aspects of a particular soldier that justifies not allowing him or herself to be armed, although i find myself wondering why you would trust such a person with arms in an official capacity.
Hiding alone in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines, the injured American airman knew exactly what to do: survive and evade.
For more than a day, the weapons systems officer whose F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down inside Iran avoided being captured by encroaching Iranian forces. At one point, he scaled the rugged terrain to a ridgeline 7,000 feet above sea level, equipped with little more than a pistol, a communication device and a tracking beacon.
It was into the high mountains that a team of American commandos, accompanied by US aircraft dropping bombs to clear the area, swarmed to locate the officer, bringing him and themselves to safety.
The FBI arrested a married couple Thursday accused of fraudulently billing Medicare for $7.45 million while running a hospice with a survival rate reported to be more than 97% after five years. They were the first in a series of arrests planned Thursday, federal officials told CBS News.
A high survival rate at a hospice provider is one of a series of red flags identified by state auditors for fraud because most people enter hospice care in the final stages of a terminal illness. In past cases of fraud, operators were found to be using false or stolen identities to collect federal reimbursements for palliative care.
This depressing chart shows more than $1 trillion dollars of Medicare spending in 2024. Other coverage reports that the task force examining this hospice fraud was named "Never Say Die."
You wonder how much of our hopeless deficits might disappear if the fraudsters were defanged. Also, how many people in need of medical care are shunted aside by the fraudsters.
The Post Office is requesting comment on allowing mailing of handguns. This has been banned since 1927. This will include:
Out-of-State Mailings by Non-FFL Owners: Non-FFL owners may mail Mailable Firearms to themselves or another person in another state for lawful activities under the following conditions. The mailpiece must: 1) Be addressed to the recipient. 2) Include the “in the care of” endorsement immediately preceding the name of the applicable temporary custodian. 3) Be opened by the recipient. 4) Be mailed using a class of mail, product, or Extra Service that provides tracking and signature capture at delivery.
I will be able to mail all my firearms to my son-in-law to hold for me while flying there. Details on the procedures of the proposed rule changes are here.
Quality assurance and control measures – including wearing gloves when handling laboratory materials and samples – seek to reduce overestimating microplastic abundance. However, commonly used laboratory gloves release non-volatile residues, including stearate salts, that exhibit vibrational spectra similar to microplastics. In this work, we illustrate that dry surface contact with nitrile and latex laboratory gloves can cause overestimations of microplastics (mean 2000 false positives per mm2) when using traditional library matching approaches.
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.
Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, research by cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric.
“Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”
Although people anywhere can BS each other – that is, share dubious information that’s misleadingly impressive or engaging – the workplace not only rewards but structurally protects it, Littrell said. In a work setting where corporate jargon is already the norm, it’s easy for ambitious employees to use corporate BS to appear more competent or accomplished, accelerating their climb up the corporate ladder of workplace influence.
Corporate BS seems to be ubiquitous – but Littrell wondered if it is actually harmful. To test this, he created a “corporate bullshit generator” that churns out meaningless but impressive-sounding sentences like, "We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing” and “By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.”
He then asked more than 1,000 office workers to rate the “business savvy” of these computer-generated BS statements alongside real quotes from Fortune 500 leaders. Divided into four distinct studies, the research verified the scale as a statistically reliable measure of individual differences in receptivity to corporate bullshit, then, through use of established cognitive tests, made connections between receptivity to BS and analytic thinking skills known to be essential to workplace performance.
Near-weightlessness “causes [sperm] to flip around, to go upside down.… They don’t really know which way is up or down,” Nicole McPherson, a study co-author and a biologist at Adelaide University in Australia, tells the Guardian’s Tory Shepherd. The cells do “not really understand or know which direction they’re going in.”
LOS ANGELES — The case of a lifetime started with a putrid smell and a green garden hose sticking out of the side of a supposedly vacant warehouse in California farm country.
Inside the sprawling building on I Street in Reedley, code enforcement officer Jesalyn Harper found vials filled with liquid — some marked in English or Mandarin, others with just a code — that bore frightening labels such as “Malaria,” “COVID-19” and “HIV.” Refrigerators, lined up in columns along a wall, had labels that read “blood” and “Ebola.”
As she walked deeper into the warehouse, passing lab workers filling pregnancy test kits, she located the source of the smell that had brought her there — droppings from 1,000 lab-tested mice, she told The Times during a recent interview. The workers were nice enough, she said, but when she started asking questions she could feel the mood change.
“I realized I’m in trouble, and I need to get out of this building without tipping them off that I’m scared,” Harper said.
Her discovery blew open an elaborate criminal case with ties to California, Las Vegas and China. The investigation in Reedley found that the lab was part of an elaborate scheme to import COVID tests from China and pass them off as American made.
But there are some who fear the operation was much more complex than that. A congressional committee uncovered payments topping $1 million made to the operator of the Reedley business from banks in the People’s Republic of China.
Kickstarter is trying to drum up funding for "The first garment that tracks your sleep."
My BiPAP does that already, thank you very much.
I am pleased that TSA employees are again getting paid but it appears that a lot of them did the right thing and kept showing up for work anyway. My wife, daughter and her family flew Boise to Los Angeles and back again this last week. At Boise, quick movement through TSA Precheck. Two minutes at LAX.
A potentially deadly disease known as "the white plague" has been rising in the U.S. since the pandemic, health officials have warned.
Tuberculosis (TB) gets its nickname from the pale appearance of those affected with the disease in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, according to historical medical literature.
After a dip in 2020 with the onset of COVID – likely due to underdiagnosis and reduced screenings, according to health experts – cases of TB have increased every year since.
Of course the doctors interviewed emphasize COVID-19 screwed up everything (because we panicked over a disease that was really only a serious risk to a small part of the population who needed extraordinary protection). They do finally acknowledge the elephant in the room:
Another factor is a return to international travel and increased migration from countries where TB is more prevalent, according to Vivekanandan.
Gee, do you think admitting millions of people from the Third World without even a pretense of medical screening might increase exposure to a population that has not been immunized could be dangerous. Not as dangerous as losing control of Congress!
LEGOLAND, CA — Representatives from LEGO gathered at Legoland in San Diego to unveil a new series of building sets called ‘California Home' that requires kids to fill out building permits and wait two years before starting construction.
I mentioned that my wife put the kibosh on carbon fiber composite machining. The dust gets everywhere and it is not the healthiest stuff to have blowing around, even if you are wearing a respirator. Before I put these pieces on eBay, I though I would all of you a chance to buy these pieces. You will be amazed at its lightness, stiffness, and tensile strength. I do not really have a price for any of these. If you can pay me for postage, that would be fine. These are all Dragonplate Economy Plate CFC:
Random scrap, mostly 1/2" and 1/4" thick. I have no idea for what these little scraps might be used, but they are amazingly stiff and strong.
An abortion doula provides physical and emotional support to a patient during their abortion process. It's an added level of care outside of the actual medical care where providers are attuning to whatever the patients' needs are, to make them as comfortable as possible during the process. That can look like making sure they're warm enough or making sure that they have food or drinks or just whatever is going to make them feel supported. The doula can step in and advocate for the patient and offer the patient options. This also looks like some level of physical support with breathing exercises or visualization exercises to help take the patient's mind off any pain or discomfort that they may be experiencing because, sadly, with any medical procedure, there can be some level of discomfort. The abortion doula is there to really walk them through that.
