The Press has been going on about the Trump Administration denying Russians were involved in election tampering.  From Military Times article:

“We all saw what happened in 2016 when the Russians, and possibly others, but the Russians for certain tried to do both influence operations and actually get in and corrupt some of the election process,” Mattis told reporters Tuesday during a Pentagon ceremony for British Secretary of State for Defense Gavin Williamson.

Moreso, in line with what the intelligence community has concluded, Mattis said: “I believe it is official Russian support” for the meddling. “However, that is not exclusive. There’s also other activities that went on that perhaps are not directly ascribed to the official Russia. But we watch for all of it and we can trace at least parts of it back to the Russian government.”

and then later in the article:

However, after intense public criticism following similar comments during his summit last month with Putin in Finland, Trump said: “I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place.”

Secretary Mattis goes on to say:

“We are focused on protecting the elections themselves,” Mattis said. “So we’re looking at both this influence peddling and the corrupting, the violating the integrity of the elections, and those activities are in direct support of law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security. “

I just wanted to put that somewhere I can easily find it.  Of course the Russians tried to alter the elections, every election, for many decades.  I can also report that their efforts did not sway my selection for any office, particularly the Oval Office.  I don’t know anyone who did change their mind because of it.  I have enough Russian meddling to deal with as it is.

From Titusville, FL

Florida armed bystander stops gunman at crowded back-to-school event at park, police say.  An armed bystander shot a man who opened fire at a Florida park filled with over 100 people — including children — for a Saturday back-to-school cookout, officials said. The Titusville Police Department said in a news release the man was involved in a fistfight with another person at the Issac Campbell Park and left around 5:20 p.m. — only to return with a gun minutes later and start shooting.

A bystander, who was lawfully licensed to carry a firearm, then shot the gunman. “We are extremely grateful that nobody else was injured in this incident,” Deputy Chief Todd Hutchinson said in a statement. “This suspect opened fire at a crowded public park. This could have been so much worse.”

From Charlotte, NC

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed in southeast Charlotte Monday morning after he allegedly broke into a business, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.  The owner of the American Beauty Garden Center, a gardening center on East Independence Boulevard, called 911 to say he was responding to an alarm at the store around 4:30 a.m., about the same time as officers responded to a call from the alarm company.  A few minutes later, the owner called back and said he had shot someone, according to a CMPD press release. The owner, who has not been identified, was still at the scene when officers arrived.

Justin Tyler Anderson was found behind the store. He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Police believe Anderson smashed the glass front door of the gardening center and ran back out through that door when the owner arrived. That’s when he was shot, police said, and then he ran around to the back of the store.

From CITRONELLE, AL

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and Citronelle Police are investigating a homicide that happened early Sunday evening. Police say an argument between two men led to the shooting at a residence on Walter Stewart Road in Citronelle.  The Sheriff’s Office at on Monday said the homeowner and shooter is Robert Wesley Ezell. The man who was shot was Yusuf Jerome Mabry.

The Sheriff’s Office said Ezell shot Mabry as he entered Ezell’s residence armed with a revolver. Ezell was detained on the scene, authorities said. “What basically happened was as far as we can gather right now is there was a quarrel amongst them, and it escalated to a gun being produced,” said Citronelle’s acting police chief, A.J. Moore. “Once that occurred there was a struggle over the weapon and the shot was fired and the individual wound up getting shot.”

The Sheriff’s Office provided the following: “Ezell told MCSO Investigators that he recently met Mabry through mutual friends.  Two days prior, Mabry brought an ATV to Ezell’s residence to be worked on.  When he returned to residence on August 5, the ATV had been moved to another location and Mabry became angry pulling a revolver threatening to shoot whoever moved the ATV.  Ezell retreated to his bedroom and armed himself with a 12 gauge shotgun.  Ezell warned Mabry to leave and not enter his bedroom.  Mabry refused and entered the room.  Ezell fired a single round striking Mabry in the thigh. Ezell and Mabry began to wrestle over control of the revolver.  The altercation moved outside and was witnessed by several bystanders.  One of the witnesses called 911.”

Witnesses on the scene told MCSO detectives that they did hear Ezell shouting and warning Mabry to not enter his room, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Based on witnesses and the evidence thus far, the shooting appears to be self-defense.

I am sure most of you have seen the story about Alejandra Juarez who was given the boot back to Mexico recently.  I put off posting about it until the dust settled.

Military News –

The 16-year-old American daughter of a former Marine held back tears as long as she could Friday before her family was split in two. Her mother, Alejandra Juarez, was finally leaving for Mexico, rather than be sent off in handcuffs, after exhausting all her options to stop her deportation. “My mom is a good person. She’s not a criminal,” Pamela said, cursing at the immigration agency before her mother checked in for her flight from Orlando International Airport.

Alejandra and Temo Juarez, a naturalized citizen who runs a roofing business, quietly raised Pamela and their 8-year-old daughter Estela in the central Florida town of Davenport until a 2013 traffic stop exposed her legal status.Afterward, she regularly checked in with U.S. Immigration and Customs officials, which typically went after higher-priority targets like people with criminal records.

Temo didn’t figure his vote for President Donald Trump would affect them personally. That was before the enforcement of Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal immigrants.

Now, the Juarez family will be divided in two: Estela will join her mother in Mexico after she gets settled, while Temo cares for Pamela and pays the bills.

So, she has been here 20 years without fixing her status and is being deported.  I get it. It’s sad for her family.

Alejandra petitioned to become a citizen in 2001, but was rejected because she was accused of making a false statement at the border when she sought asylum in 1998, said her attorney, Richard Maney. He said she was asked about her citizenship and told authorities she had been a student in Memphis, Tennessee for a short time, so border officials apparently thought she was falsely claiming to be an American citizen.

U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., who couldn’t get the votes in Congress for legislation to allow Juarez to remain, called her situation disgraceful. “We’re not going to give up,” he told her with a hug at the airport. “It’s an absolute disgrace by the Trump administration to be deporting a patriotic spouse,” Soto said. “Her husband, Temo, served in the Marines … while she was at home on the home-front, raising two young women. What justice does this serve?”

It seems she probably was making false statements to officials.

“My husband fought for this country three times. The administration, yourself, you think you are punishing me. You’re not just punishing me,” she said, referring to her family. “I hope this make him happy. Perhaps we will forgive him.”

Señorita,  your husband should have marched your ass down to Family Services while he was in uniform.  Better yet, she should have just showed up while he was deployed.  Almost all of those in her position that did were taken care of.  Curious if there is some UCMJ violation for providing shelter to an undocumented alien.  Did she have a Dependent ID?  How much Tricare was she using?  20 years is a long time to let something fester, even Obama urged her to get the process moving.

I have a friend who posted about this and somehow managed to twist the whole thing into some kind of Liberal hallucination about marijuana laws under Trump.  Its really sad to  watch what was an intellectually sharp and intuitive mind be consumed by the dulling of “medical marijuana”.  Sadly,  he is probably one of the least caustic Liberals that are twisting the pain of others to feed some deeply disturbed fixation caused by Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Slick Willy had to pay $850,000 for sleeping with his amateur harlot, The Great Orange Ape only paid $130,000 for a professional.  It’s all about the art of the deal.  We all have to pay for things we do wrong, there is always a price of some kind.  It is not always fair but if fair is what you are looking for…There is one coming up in Lousiville .

I will make a wager she is back in the US with all her papers within  180 days, if not maybe they can seek freedom from all this treachery south of the border.