Deputy...

Last week, Brian Downey, a Republican who serves as deputy mayor of Airmont, New York, was taken into custody for "purchasing a rifle suppression device over the internet."  
Authorities later executed a search warrant on his home and found at least 13 illegal suppressors and 16 unregistered assault weapons, including a short-barrel rifle and sawed-off shotgun.

 Law enforcement officers also found a small locked box, to which Downey claimed he did not have the combination.

After forcing the box open, it contained "numerous federal badges and credentials" bearing Downey's name from various agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It was not immediately clear what Downey intended to use the bogus federal badges and unregistered firearms for.

NYS gun laws are very restrictive but give the illegal guns a bigger rule over legal.

Offices...

 

In the last few weeks, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple have all said they will push their return into 2022. Now, Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, has published a blog post explaining why that company plans to do the same. 

As offices continue to reopen, we hope to see more teams coming together where possible, whether it be for regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions around a whiteboard, or outdoor socials. For some locations, conditions are starting to improve, yet in many parts of the world, the pandemic continues to create uncertainty. Acknowledging that, we'll extend our global voluntary return-to-office policy through January 10, 2022 to give more Googlers flexibility and choice as they ramp back.

To simplify, it is hazardous to place people close in offices, buses, subways cart, but the politicians want to collect taxes. Just a thought.

Pot Smoker...

 

Amazon.com Inc. has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers.

The company is advising its delivery partners — the mom-and-pops that operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon vans — to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use, according to correspondence reviewed by Bloomberg and interviews with four business owners.

Doing so can boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%, Amazon says in one message, without explaining how it came up with the statistic. Conversely, the company says, screening for marijuana cuts the prospective worker pool by up to 30%.

Know it...

 

We know how to create and enter a conflict. Never know when it ends and when to leave.

We create enemies in the process and name them through the media.... 

Things changed but the media remember and continue with creating what we call our enemies. Just a thought.

History...

 

Face...

 

Assure...

 

Collapsed...

 

The carnage comes days after Hurricane Ida barreled ashore Sunday in Louisiana packing 150-mph winds.  

Two days later, in a span of four hours the transportation system in NYC collapsed. This is 10 years after Sandy Storm that was 10 times stronger.

Then the politicians couldn't blame any one's negligence, so it is Climate Change.

Change...

 

Sitting...

 

We know that spending hour after hour sitting down isn't good for us, but just how much exercise is needed to counteract the negative health impact of a day at a desk? 

A 2020 study suggests Up to 40 minutes of "moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity" every day is about the right amount to balance out 10 hours of sitting still, the research says – although any amount of exercise or even just standing up helps to some extent.

That's based on a meta-analysis across nine previous studies, involving a total of 44,370 people in four different countries who were wearing some form of fitness tracker.

The analysis found the risk of death among those with a more sedentary lifestyle went up as time spent engaging in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity went down.

"In active individuals doing about 30-40 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity, the association between high sedentary time and risk of death is not significantly different from those with low amounts of sedentary time," the researchers wrote in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) in 2020.