Random News and Notes 3 September
On this date:
- 1189 – After the death of Henry II, Richard Lionheart is crowned king of England.
- 1260 – Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
- 1346 – Edward III of England begins the siege of Calais, along the coast of France.
- 1650 – The English under Cromwell defeat a superior Scottish army under David Leslie at the Battle of Dunbar.
- 1777 – The American flag (stars & stripes), approved by Congress on June 14th, is carried into battle for the first time by a force under General William Maxwell.
- 1783 – The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end.
- 1838 – Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life.
- 1855 – General William Harney defeats Little Thunder’s Brule Sioux at the Battle of Blue Water in Nebraska.
- 1895 – The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe wins 12-0.
- 1914 -Giacomo della Chiesa is elected to the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church, becoming Pope Benedict XV.
- 1914 – The French capital is moved from Paris to Bordeaux as the Battle of the Marne begins.
- 1916 – The German Somme front is broken by an Allied offensive.
- 1918 – The United States recognizes the nation of Czechoslovakia.
- 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson embarks on a tour across the United States to promote American membership in the League of Nations.
- 1928 – Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming.
- 1939 – After Germany ignores Great Britain’s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
- 1939 – The British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30 Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary.
- 1943 – British troops invade Italy, landing at Calabria.
- 1944 – The U.S. Seventh Army captures Lyons, France.
- 1945 – General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio.
- 1967 – Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam.
- 1976 -The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
- 1989 – US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Columbia for use against that country’s drug lords.
- 1994 – Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.
- 2001 – Protestant loyalists in Belfast, Ireland, begin an 11-week picket of the Holy Cross Catholic school for girls, sparking rioting.
We start the news with a couple of shootings that happened yesterday.
The first happened at an elementary school in Virginia. A 19-year-old gunman got inside a Virginia elementary school about 30 miles west of Charlottesville on Wednesday morning, injuring an adult staff member before turning the gun on himself. No students were in the library at the time of the shooting.
Waynesboro Police identified the gunman as Anthony Ignatiadis-Isabelle, who had no connection to the school district. Authorities have not revealed a motive, the weapon used, or any link between the gunman and the injured staff member. The investigation remains active.
Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell praised the school’s lockdown protocols, saying staff notified law enforcement immediately and the building went into lockdown. “Our safety and security protocols and procedures worked. Every student and staff member is safe and returned home to their families,” Cassell said.
I have seen reports claiming the injured staff member was a domestic partner of the shooter. That has not been confirmed by law enforcement. I expect this to be an example of Coulter’s Law.
The second shooting happened in that gun free paradise, Minneapolis. Carlton Johnson II, 35, shot at least 11 people, killing 2. He was later found dead. 3 Minneapolis police officers were injured. One officer went in for surgery, another officer has a non-life-threatening injury to the leg, and another has a non-life-threatening injury from being hit by a vehicle while they were responding to the shooting scene.
The incident started as a domestic assault in the lobby. The shooter’s girlfriend/wife was shot and then the shooter went up to an apartment on the 9th floor and continued to shoot. About 20 cops went in after him.
Anyway, no need for a trial and 30 years of warehousing for this skell. Thanks to whoever ended him, it saved the taxpayers a great deal of money.
There was another shooting that you probably didn’t hear or read about. This one happened Monday night, and as plugged in as I am, I just found out about it today. And given the fact set, you’d think it would be a huge story.
Ousman Ceesay, 44, of Oklahoma City shot and killed two men outside a gay bar in Tuscon Monday night. Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, were shot by Ceesay in the parking lot of Venture-N, a bar in midtown Tucson. Ceesay had a list of gay establishments with him when he was found by Tuscon police. Ceesay was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds when the cops arrived. He died in the hospital several hours later. Tuscon cops are calling it a hate crime.
The reason you haven’t heard of this one is simple. Ousman Ceesay is a black muslim immigrant from The Gambia. He married an Oklahoma woman to get a green card. Apparently being a gay antifa supporter ranks lower than a muzzie African migrant on the prog ladder. And yes, Capara was a well-known local photographer and left- wing political activist who spent years documenting pro-Palestine marches, anti-ICE actions, anti-Trump, anti-fascism rallies, and anti-capitalist “No Kings” circles.
On to the next story. . .
This next one pisses me off mightily. Derrick A. Durall used to be a K9 officer for the Dexter MO PD. He neglected police dogs Apollo and retired Knox at his home from September 2023 to February 2024, despite the department providing food. Apollo died on February 18, 2024, severely underweight with sunken eyes and protruding bones; Knox suffered heartworms, weight loss, and neglect without vet care for over a year. The Dexter Board of Aldermen voted to fire him from the Dexter Police Department on April 1, 2024.
Durall was charged with two felony counts of animal abuse, alleging the suffering was “torture, consciously inflicted.” The matter was set for trial later this year.
Well, on Aug. 24, Durall was allowed to plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanor animal abuse. He initially was sentenced to one year in the Dunklin County Jail. However, the judge suspended the execution of the sentence, giving Durall supervised probation for two years. He will also serve 15 days in the Dunklin County Jail. Durall was also ordered to pay the city of Dexter $8,900 as restitution for his negligence, which caused the death of the K-9 Apollo.
This stinks to high heaven. There should not have been a plea deal on the table. And the measly year – he should have done the 7 that the felony count carried – shouldn’t have been suspended. Worse, the judge and prosecutor are just as culpable.
Gloria Steinem has died. The feminist was 92.
Next.
In a bit of good legal news, the DC circuit has affirmed that district courts have no authority to review the military’s court-martial judgments. The case this ruling arose from was the Bowe Bergdahl desertion conviction.
The Supreme Court really needs to start squashing these out of control district court judges. It seems pretty clear that – at least in this case – the judge invented standing/jurisdiction that did not exist in statute.
Regardless, Bergdahl still a convicted deserter.