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Anybody here from Seattle? I mean the Bronx ain't no paradise, but sheesh!

Mail theft in Seattle reportedly forced the United States Postal Service to pause deliveries for an entire ZIP code to pause this month, according to local reports.

The Postal Service announced mail delivery for the 98118 ZIP code resumed Tuesday after delivery was halted since last week for "less than 900" residents, The Seattle Times reported. Residents in the ZIP code were told to pick up their mail from the local post office while delivery services were paused.
 

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California Officials Investigating Loss of 30-Ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals

Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.

A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.

The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state Office of Emergency Services last Wednesday.

Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It’s also an ingredient in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track) called Saltdale about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.

“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the company said through a spokesperson. A Federal Railroad Administration representative, though, says the investigation points to one of the hopper car gates not being properly closed.

Dyno Nobel says the trip lasted two weeks and included multiple stops. The company says it had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific moved it through the country. It says the railcar is being transported back to Wyoming for inspection. And it says it hopes to understand how the shipment was lost and will work to prevent something similar happening again. The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific and Dyno Nobel are investigating the incident, according to their representatives.

Congress passed a law in 2007 to regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate to prevent its use in acts of terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security issued proposed regulations in 2011 (PDF) but stopped short of formally adopting them.

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Alec Baldwin will love this. P320s firing by themselves

I have no idea what makes this thing work - some sort of striker from the looks of it, no visible hammer. I have and still occasionally carry a SiG p220 in .45ACP but that's a decades old proven design that only shares a general appearance and name with this new model. This model apparently has some sort of caliber quick change feature - because ..... why ? Not a new idea and is it really such a consideration? I guess so.

I remember when Heckler & Koch made their cool P7 squeeze cockers that a number of NJ State Troopers managed to shoot themselves in the leg with before they were withdrawn. Those are worth $$$ now. I bought a Glock 19 when they first came out and they were packaged in a weird little tupperware boxes - importantly with a center post to go through the trigger guard. Meaning, if you put a loaded pistol into that case it'll depress the Glock finger tab safety and fire the gun. Boxes with holes in the sides of them are probably collectible now.

SiG will figure this out, eventually.

One of America’s Favorite Handguns Is Allegedly Firing On Its Owners​

One of America's Favorite Handguns Is Allegedly Firing On Its Owners
 

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California Officials Investigating Loss of 30-Ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals

Some 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.

A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.

The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state Office of Emergency Services last Wednesday.

Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as fertilizer. It’s also an ingredient in high explosives and was used in the homemade bomb detonated in the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car similar to those used to ship coal — fell from the car on the way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track) called Saltdale about 30 miles from the town of Mojave in eastern Kern County.

“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the company said through a spokesperson. A Federal Railroad Administration representative, though, says the investigation points to one of the hopper car gates not being properly closed.

Dyno Nobel says the trip lasted two weeks and included multiple stops. The company says it had “limited control” over the railcar as Union Pacific moved it through the country. It says the railcar is being transported back to Wyoming for inspection. And it says it hopes to understand how the shipment was lost and will work to prevent something similar happening again. The Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific and Dyno Nobel are investigating the incident, according to their representatives.

Congress passed a law in 2007 to regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate to prevent its use in acts of terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security issued proposed regulations in 2011 (PDF) but stopped short of formally adopting them.


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Wild footage shows mob of FORTY teenagers jump three Marines on a California beach before unleashing savage beat down on Memorial Day weekend after they were called out for being unruly


Hunter Antonio (left) was one of the three self-identified Marines who were viciously attacked by the mob of about 40 unruly teenagers on a beach in San Clemente, California on Memorial Day weekend. The men enjoying some rare time off from Camp Pendleton in Oceanside during when the crowd began setting off the fireworks. When a piece of debris hit him in the face, Antonio said he politely asked them to leave. The men were soon attacked with footage showing two of them (right) cowering on the ground as the wild mob pummeled them with their feet. Police are investigating the horrific attack and the unknown teens could all soon face charges of assault with a deadly weapon for the beat down due to the size of the mob.

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Are you ready to pay double at the pump this summer? Because the experts are warning about a huge price spike as fuel inventories continue to shrink, especially as OPEC+ slashed oil production, and the Saudis are telling US short-sellers who are betting prices will fall to “watch out.”


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NYC Mayor Eric Adams says migrants should be housed in 'private residences' as many buildings have spare rooms

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has suggested putting migrants in 'private residences' to deal with the influx of economic dependents seekers in the Big Apple. The statement came while Adams announced a partnership with New York houses of worship to give migrants a place to stay across the city.

'It is my vision to take the next step to this faith-based locales and then move to a private residence... They have spare rooms,' Adams said Monday afternoon. Adams said when the church-based program is fully operational, they hope to be able to host up to 1,000 asylum seekers at a time.

Since April 2022, more than 70,000 migrants have arrived in NYC after governors from Republican states like Texas and Florida sent buses to the liberal-led city.


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REVEALED: Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 MILLION to Black Lives Matter-related social justice groups before it collapsed

Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related social groups in the years before it collapsed, while Signature Bank donated a total of $850,000, a database released by the conservative Claremont Institute shows. The revelation comes as the banks have been derided for being too woke and not focusing enough on the red flags that were building up at their companies.

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Check your pockets! This 1999 Georgia quarter is worth an incredible $7,200 - so do you have a secret fortune sitting in your change jar?

Experts are urging Americans to check their small change to see if they might unknowingly have a fortune languishing in their wallet.

One Georgia state quarter has been estimated to be worth over $7,000 due to a particular production error.

The rare coin was minted in 1999, when the US Treasury began the state quarters program.

At the time, it was also working on a new gold-tinted alloy for coins, which was eventually used for the Sacagawea or 'golden' dollar which came out in 2000.

'Curious how the alloy would look on quarters, a bunch of Georgia state ones were minted using it,' said the US Coins Guide. 'The Treasury decided not to go with the alloy on quarters, but the ones minted with it were still released and are now very much desired by collectors.'


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Check your pockets! This 1999 Georgia quarter is worth an incredible $7,200 - so do you have a secret fortune sitting in your change jar?

Experts are urging Americans to check their small change to see if they might unknowingly have a fortune languishing in their wallet.

One Georgia state quarter has been estimated to be worth over $7,000 due to a particular production error.

The rare coin was minted in 1999, when the US Treasury began the state quarters program.

At the time, it was also working on a new gold-tinted alloy for coins, which was eventually used for the Sacagawea or 'golden' dollar which came out in 2000.

'Curious how the alloy would look on quarters, a bunch of Georgia state ones were minted using it,' said the US Coins Guide. 'The Treasury decided not to go with the alloy on quarters, but the ones minted with it were still released and are now very much desired by collectors.'


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Oh Jesus. I had a friend who was a huge coin collector, literally. Big guy, lotsa coins. He always carried ten tons of crap in his pocket including a number of special coins. I head about his famous '89P' quarter for months and months - like this coin it was a $core. Unfortunately, one of his other obsessions was Diet Coke and he wore a groove in the office floor between the vending machine and his desk.

Then one day he went into total Red Alert. He the valuable coin - the one mixed up with all the other **** in his pockets - in the damned soda machine. Talk about kannipshins. He stalked it for several days until the guy came to stock it and believe me, I found it all highly entertaining. He handed the young feller $20 and asked him to dump the coin box so he could look. I didn't even know they could do that - but this one certainly did. They hold a LOT of coins.

No 89P quarter after all. Ooops.
 

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Yet another train derailed...

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Train derails into Montana's Yellowstone River

A train derailment was reported Saturday in Montana near Columbus.

The train reportedly went off its rails and into the Yellowstone River amid a bridge collapse, according to local outlets.

"I’m monitoring the train derailment in Stillwater County, and the state is standing by to support as Montana Rail Link and county officials assess their needs," Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte wrote on social media Saturday just before noon.


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I drive close to a 100 miles a day during the weekdays, most of those miles are attributed to commuting to work and back...A 'by the mile' tax will really hit my wallet...

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States weigh charging by the mile as fuel taxes plummet

States are looking for ways to keep the funds coming in order to maintain the nation's roads. Gas taxes have been used for more than a century for the purpose.

The problem that has developed is those taxes are generating less each year due to inflation, fuel efficiency and the rise of electric cars.

States are experimenting with various ideas that could eventually replace those taxes. One proposal that seems to be gaining in popularity would be to charge drivers by the mile instead of the gallon.

Other ideas that have been presented include taxing electricity from public vehicle charging stations. Another is to tack charges onto door-to-door package deliveries. States are now weighing whether to start making the programs mandatory.

In 2015, Oregon began a pilot program charging motorists by the distance their vehicle travels rather than the gas it guzzles. To participate, drivers plug a device into their vehicle and create an account to capture mileage data.

The federal government is about to pilot its own program, funded by $125 million from President Biden's infrastructure measure that he signed in November 2021.

So far, only three states, Oregon, Utah and Virginia are generating revenue from road usage charges.

Hawaii will join them next.

Last year, Colorado began adding a 27-cent tax to home deliveries from Amazon and other online retailers to help fund transportation projects.

Other states have been testing electronic toll systems.

Electric car sales in the U.S. rose from just 0.1% of total car sales in 2011 to 4.6% in 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. S&P Global Mobility forecasts they will make up 40% of the sales by 2030.

The National Transportation Finance Center at San Jose State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute has conducted national surveys every year since 2010.

According to the institute's director, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, there is growing support for mileage-based fees, special rates for low-income drivers and rates tied to how much pollution a vehicle generates.


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White undercover NYPD detective and former Marine sues city for discrimination claiming he was almost killed twice when colleagues of color refused to back him up because of his race

A white former NYPD detective is taking legal action against city claiming that his colleagues of color discriminated against him because of his race. The undercover detective, John Olsen, said that Hispanic, Asian and black officers would not back him up during violent confrontations because of his race, leading him to quit the force in fear for his life. The former Marine filed a lawsuit against the NYPD on Tuesday at Manhattan Supreme court, for unspecified damages, citing discrimination based on race and military service.

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