Random News and Notes 24 July
On this date in 1847, after 17 months and many miles of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 pioneers into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Gazing over the parched earth of the remote location, Young declared, “This is the place,” and the pioneers began preparations for the thousands of followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) who would soon come.
On this date in 1897 20 troopers and 2 officers of the 25th Infantry – a “buffalo soldier” formation – completed an arduous journey from Fort Missoula, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri. What made the journey special was the fact that they did it on bicycles rather than on horseback. The grueling 1,900 mile expedition tested how men and machines handled harsh western terrains, ranging from mountain passes and unpaved trails to railroad tracks and muddy flatlands. Despite crossing flooded rivers, facing severe weather, and dealing with extreme heat, the corps completed the trip in 41 days,
On horseback, the same 1,900-mile trip would have taken roughly 63 to 126 days to complete safely. According to 19th-century U.S. Army Cavalry Regulations, a sustainable continuous march for a body of horses was only 15 to 20 miles per day. Pushing past 25 miles was considered an urgent march that exhausted the animals.
The deadliest US maritime disaster happened on this date in 1915 and odds are fewer than half of you know about it. The SS Eastland, a charter boat that brought passengers to and from picnic sites along the Lake Michigan shore, capsized at the dock killing at least 800 people. The vessel had been chartered to bring Western Electric employees to one of those sites. At some point during the loading process, the ship – originally designed to carry 650 passengers – began to list. The reasons are unclear, but she rolled onto her side trapping the victims belowdecks.
Police divers pulled up body after body, causing one diver to break down in a rage. The city sent workers out with a large net to prevent bodies from washing out into the lake. Twenty-two entire families died in the tragedy.
28 years ago one of the most impactful 9 minutes of cinema made its way into theaters. Saving Private Ryan was released on this date in 1998.
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We start today’s news in Milwaukee where a 33 year old woman decided it was a good idea to shoot a 12 year old over a water bottle sales turf dispute. You read that correctly: she shot a kid over a spot to sell water. 33-year-old Cosetta Burrell allegedly fired shots at the boy after he argued with her son over vending turf, wounding the boy in the leg, grazing his brother, and hitting a nearby home with children inside. She led police on a 5.7-mile chase at speeds up to 83 mph with her four young children aboard, who were crying and shaking when removed from the vehicle.
It gets better – or worse I suppose – she had just been released from prison 11 days before. Burrell, who has prior convictions involving child abuse, has been charged with 18 felonies and four misdemeanors, including reckless injury, child abuse, reckless endangerment, and child neglect. She remains in the Milwaukee County Jail on a $100,000 bond. Her next court appearance is scheduled for July 28, 2026.
Anyone remember Shiloh Hendrix? She is the white woman that was accused of calling a child the N-word over a playground dispute. Well her trial ended yesterday. She had been charged with 2 counts of disorderly conduct over the incident. She was acquitted of the DisCon against the kid, and convicted of DisCon against the Somali that recorded her. Her sentence is a $1,000 fine and 200 hours of community service.
Let’s take a look at the Somali. Sharmake Omar is the Somali man who filmed Shiloh Hendrix on the playground in Minnesota that day in April 2025. In January 2022, he and another Somali man “allegedly” spent two days raping an underage foster care runaway in a trailer, keeping her falsely imprisoned. In March 2025, all charges were dismissed “in the interest of justice.”
Then there was an incident in April 2020. That’s when Sharmake Omar, our favorite Somali videographer, along with another Somali friend of his (separate from his alleged co-raper), committed a violent assault in the street. Omar threw a rock at a car, then attacked and beat the 16-year-old driver. A bystander tried to intervene, but Omar’s accomplice threatened him with a knife.
For this, Sharmake Omar was charged merely with DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Yes, for hurling a deadly weapon at a vehicle, then beating the teenage driver while his criminal pal held off onlookers at knifepoint, Omar faced the EXACT SAME CHARGE that Shiloh Hendrix faced for saying a word that Omar asked her to say, as she held her child in her arms and fled the playground before Omar could assault her, too.
The U.S. Secret Service placed a member of Vance’s protective detail on administrative leave amid probes into leaks that revealed agent frustrations with his last-minute ‘off-the-record’ travel demands, like a $16,000-to-$24,600-per-hour Marine Corps helicopter flight for Vance and his son. Officials from the Secret Service, FBI, and White House expressed alarm, with one calling the leaks ‘treasonous’ for exposing movements of Vance’s family, including a minor.
This is bad, like long prison sentence bad. There is something seriously wrong at the USSS and there does not seem to be a fix.
A sperm bank in Denmark is now screening donors for IQ. The Donor Network in Aarhus uses the Cattell Culture Fair Test to screen donors, rejecting those below 85—the low end of the normal range—along with anyone with criminal records. CEO Jakub Knudsen says this ensures high-quality donors, noting IQ’s links to health, success, and heritability of 50-80%, and lists scores on profiles for transparency.
Of course the retards and their defenders are crying racism. Why? Because the average African/Muslim immigrant IQ in Europe is lower than 85.