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*** Mass Shooting in Kentucky: One Dead, Four Wounded ***

"One person was killed and four were wounded, including two childen, in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert in Kentucky on Saturday evening.

Gunfire erupted in downtown Lexington a little over a mile from where Governor Andrew Beshear (D) was delivering a speech at the Kentucky Democratic Party's Moving Forward Together dinner at the Hyatt Regency."

~snip~

Source: Kentucky.com

Below, people scrambling and ducking for their very lives.


In an average year, 880 people die and 1,857 are wounded by firearms in Kentucky, which has an overall grade of "F" for gun laws.

Kentucky has a population of 4,629,682 people, similar to Alberta Canada (5,057,077 people).

But Alberta suffered a grand total 98 homicides -- by firearms and other means -- in 2024.

Thanks to gun violence, besides deaths and terrible wounds, PTSD is spreading throughout the US population.

Imagine Woodstock and "Black Woodstock" in 1969 if firearms were so proliferant back then?

Endnote: On 6 Dec 1969, a Hells Angels member stabbed and killed Meredith Hunter (who was armed with a .22 for self-defense) at the Altamont Free Concert.

NYS Judge Juan Merchan and daughter Lauren.


NYS Penal Law Section 65.20

Sentence of unconditional discharge


Criteria. The court may impose a sentence of unconditional discharge in any case where it is authorized to impose a sentence of conditional discharge under section 65.05 if the court is of the opinion that no proper purpose would be served by imposing any condition upon the defendant's release. When a sentence of unconditional discharge is imposed for a felony, the court shall set forth in the record the reasons for its action.

Sentence. When the court imposes a sentence of unconditional discharge, the defendant shall be released with respect to the conviction for which the sentence is imposed without imprisonment, fine or probation supervision. A sentence of unconditional discharge is for all purposes a final judgment of conviction.

Between NYS Judge Juan Merchan and ex-USAG Merrick Garland, we have Trumpf 2.0.

Muchas gracias, Juan y Merrick!

@#4 ... the 100-year-storm that happens every few years now. ...

Why 'Hundred-Year' Weather Events Are Happening More Than Once Every 100 Years (2025)
time.com

... Environmental scientists have gotten so good at reading weather history that they can characterize some severe storms or floods as likely to occur in a given area only once in 100 years"or even 500 years or a thousand years.

That's where the oxymoron comes in. As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, the one in 100 -- or 500 or 1,000 -- year events are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows. Since 1999, there have been nine storms along the North Carolina coast that qualify as hundred or thousand year events.

From 2015 to 2019, one suburb of St. Louis experienced three major floods, two of which met the criteria for hundred-year events.

One study by the Montreal-based carbon removal project Deep Sky calculates that the frequency of deadly hurricanes has jumped 300%, with 100-year storms now forecast to occur once every 25 years. ...


@#205 ... Well, since the IAE said they were complying, Trump's tearing up the agreement was the lynchpin. ...

Lynchpin, indeed.

www.wordnik.com

...
figuratively a central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.
...

Camron Harris (19) threw his life away and authorities haven't disclosed any possible motives for this mass shooting.


In an average year, 1,226 people die by firearms in the Commonwealth of Virginia (pop 8.8m) which has a gun law rating of C+.

By contrast, Quebec Canada, with a similar population of 8,501,833 people, suffered a total 97 homicides in 2024. Nationally, there were 287 firearm-related homicides in Canada in 2024, with handguns being the most common weapon (56%).

Charges in a complaint are merely allegations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Woodstock (2019)
Three days that defined a generation.
www.pbs.org

... In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.

Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. A sense of an America in transition -- a handoff of the country between generations with far different values and ideals -- was tangibly present at what promoters billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music.

Woodstock turns the lens back at the audience, at the swarming, impromptu city that grew up overnight on a few acres of farmland. What took place in that teeming mass of humanity -- the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people -- was nothing less than a miracle of teamwork, a manifestation of the "peace and love" the festival had touted and a validation of the counter-culture's promise to the world.

Who were these kids? What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgur's farm? ...

[italics theirs]


@#18 ... "Summer of Soul" ...

Summer of Soul
en.wikipedia.org

... Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a 2021 American independent[3][4] documentary film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in his directorial debut.[5][6]

It had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the documentary categories.

It had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. by Searchlight Pictures on June 25, 2021, before expanding and being released for streaming on Hulu the next weekend. ...


Another view ...

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (July 2026)
futurism.com

... Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports.

Influencers, mostly men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously -- and non-consensually -- capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they've then posted online for content. Some wearers have even attempted to extort victims of covert recordings for cash. That's on top of serious allegations of alleged privacy breaches by Meta itself.

And then, of course, there's the simple fact that a lot of people just really don't like the idea of the world's largest and most powerful social media giant, which has a history of misusing biometric information and other data, facilitating abuse and surveillance in this way -- especially as Meta has taken highly controversial steps to infuse facial recognition capabilities into the tech. ...




According to the FBI, one of Andrew Buzzell's online handles was "Princesspantyboy."

Andrew Buzzell (34) faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in federal prison. The church where Buzzell served removed him from leadership and membership in a unanimous vote and asked everyone to pray for his wife.

Charges in a complaint are merely allegations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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