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With restrictions lifted, Sheriff Villanueva says gun permits will rise in L.A. County – Los Angeles Times (Me: Don’t vote to re-elect him in LA County this fall.)

Villanueva said the Sheriff’s Department is seeing an increase in so-called concealed carry permit applications. He speculated that eventually 50,000 people in L.A. County could receive permission to arm themselves in public.

“We are retooling our operation to a shall-issue standard,” Villanueva said during a live social media broadcast on Wednesday, referring to a lenient standard under which law enforcement agencies must issue a weapon permit if the applicant has satisfied some minimal requirements.

Source: With restrictions lifted, Sheriff Villanueva says gun permits will rise in L.A. County – Los Angeles Times

Open Thread | If You Aren’t Registering People To Vote, Telling Them to Check on Their Voter Registration… | 3CHICSPOLITICO

I have voted in every election since I turned 18.
Very few candidates “inspired ” me. But, I wasn’t looking to date them. I was looking for at most, policies to improve my life. At least, folks that would not harm me or people like me. Every inch of progress in this country has come from DEMOCRATS.

Source: Open Thread | If You Aren’t Registering People To Vote, Telling Them to Check on Their Voter Registration… | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Monkeypox soars in Europe, with more than 4,000 cases | CIDRAP

New data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization European regional office shows the monkeypox outbreak in Europe has grown to 4,177 cases in less than 2 months, with the United Kingdom producing 25% of those cases.

Germany has surpassed Spain and Portugal with a national total reaching 838 cases, compared to 736 cases in Spain and 365 in Portugal. France has 350 cases.

One day after the White House pledged more monkeypox vaccines would be deployed to states seeing outbreaks, the United States is also reporting a significant uptick in cases. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US total now stands at 351 cases from 28 states and Washington, D.C. after 45 more monkeypox cases were confirmed yesterday.

 

Source: Monkeypox soars in Europe, with more than 4,000 cases | CIDRAP

Remembering the World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret off the California Coast – Atlas Obscura

The commandos who trained on Catalina Island were primarily attached to the OSS’s Maritime Unit, assigned to insert into enemy territory by sea for reconnaissance and sabotage. To fill its ranks, the agency recruited top swimmers from throughout the armed forces. Korean prisoners of war, released after showing a commitment to fighting the Japanese, also participated in OSS training on Catalina.

Recruits with Japanese ancestry, such as Hamada and Yempuku, were invaluable as linguists and translators, and for their ability to infiltrate Japanese-controlled territory. Hamada grew up in Hawaii where, on December 7, 1941, he’d aimed a telescope at the sky and witnessed swarms of Japanese aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor. Even as Japanese Americans like him were being locked in internment camps by the U.S. government, he’d volunteered to serve his country as a member of the OSS—despite rumors that commandos had a 10 percent chance of survival.

To improve those odds, the recruits drilled in hand-to-hand combat, cryptography, map reading, and radio operations. For conditioning, they did calisthenics on the beach and took long runs up Catalina’s peaks and along its ridges. They also participated in multi-day survival exercises. Equipped with just a knife and a length of fishing line, the men built primitive shelters in the mountainous interior and hunted the island’s wild boar and feral goats. (Catalina also had a large bison herd, which had been brought to the island for a Hollywood film shoot in 1924. There is, however, no record of an OSS man ever bagging a bison.) Yempuku, another native of Hawaii, had trapped animals as a boy and proved adept as a survivalist, even catching the fast-moving quail that skitter through Catalina’s chaparral. Hamada was less enthusiastic, particularly when his team had to skin and gut a goat. “That was kind of nauseating,” he said. He preferred using a grenade to detonate his dinner, recalling: “You drop a hand grenade in the ocean and you’d see all kinds of fish…crab, abalone.”

Source: Remembering the World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret off the California Coast – Atlas Obscura

California’s Change To Concealed Carry Permits Would Reduce Wide Variations Among Counties | LAist

Sen. Anthony Portantino, a Democrat from Glendale, introduced legislation that he said would “update” the state’s concealed carry law to make it more restrictive, while also complying with the highest court’s latest dictate.

The bill, which was authored by Bonta’s office, would create a new statewide application process that explicitly disqualifies applicants who have committed certain felonies or are the subject of restraining orders. Applicants would also need to be at least 21, provide three character witnesses and take an additional firearm storage and safety course.

Beyond the additional hurdles required of applicants, the bill would expand the number of designated “sensitive places” where even a concealed carry license holder would not be allowed to take their firearms. That exception is taken directly from the Supreme Court ruling, which held that the government is allowed to prohibit guns in certain areas, namely schools and government buildings.

 

Source: California’s Change To Concealed Carry Permits Would Reduce Wide Variations Among Counties | LAist

Postcards from Saint-Malo

De malinha pronta

If you never say goodbye to the best things in your life there are things you don’t appreciate at all.

Lighthouse Family

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Van Morrison

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami

Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Two Thought Thursdays, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) p2e6: ¿Por qué es importante la empatía?/ Why is Empathy Important?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

1.) Los que no la tienen son peligrosos, cierto, Berlin? / Those without empathy are dangerous, right Berlin?

2.) Que creen ustedes, Cuidados@s Lector@s, al respeto de la importancia de la empatía? / What do you think, Thoughtful Reader, about the importance of empathy??

       My reactions will simply summarize in English from here on until I get  comments in either language.

     People like Berlin should never be allowed to walk free in this world. 

Excellent, Allison!!

Moscou?

Oh, No!!

    Last week’s review was Two Thought Thursday Lessons from La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) p2e5, ep. 18 on Belief

and

Next weeks will be ep.  ;

  “Somos la resistencia.”   ?De veras?

   “We are the Resistance.”  Really?

Shira  

Action Prompts:

1.)  Share your thoughts on how we can be part of the Peaceful Resistance…

2.) Write a book, story, post or…

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