#Angels Mount One of the Most Spectacular Comeback Victories in Franchise History (VIDEO)

Needless to say, I'd written off the Angels. I mean, it was the top of the 9th and the Rangers had come back to take a 10-6 lead. I was resigned to it. All I could hope was that the Astros would lose to the Diamondbacks tonight, heh.

But then, as Yogi Berra might say, "It ain't over 'till it's over."

Watch, MLB's YouTube page, "10/3/15: Angels' five-run 9th keys comeback win."

At the Los Angeles Times, "Angels beat Rangers with miraculous ninth-inning rally, keep alive playoff hopes":

The Angels staged one of the most improbable comebacks in franchise history on Saturday, rallying for five runs with seven hits in the ninth inning for an 11-10 victory over the Texas Rangers that kept their slim playoff hopes alive.

With the Angels trailing, 10-6, Erick Aybar and Kole Calhoun opened the ninth with home runs to right field off Rangers closer Shawn Tolleson to cut the deficit to 10-8.

Right-hander Ross Ohlendorf replaced Tolleson and got Mike Trout to ground out to shortstop. Albert Pujols reached on a bloop double that dropped when the gloves of first baseman Mike Napoli and second baseman Rougned Odor collided in shallow right field.

With a Globe Life Park crowd of 37,277 on its feet in anticipation of the Rangers clinching their sixth American League West title, the Angels followed with four straight two-out singles to take the lead...

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Also at the O.C. Register, "ANGELS STAGE TEXAS-SIZE RALLY TO STUN RANGERS, STAY ALIVE."

.@Rangers are THREE OUTS AWAY from winning the AL West. pic.twitter.com/p6XTmJvpel

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

BACK-TO-BACK! 💪💪 @Angels cut it to 10-8 with no outs in the 9th.

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

Bloop double for Pujols, tying run at the plate in Murphy with one out. #Angels

— Angels (@Angels) October 3, 2015

.@Angels within ONE!

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! @Angels score 4 in the 9th, tie @Rangers 10-10.

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

And the @Angels take an 11-10 lead! This is WILD.

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

I've covered some 3,000 MLB games in last 20 years ... this might be the craziest.

— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) October 3, 2015

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. http://t.co/bPTP0ZYj3M #WhatAComeback pic.twitter.com/Xw4ahzq5c0

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

Last time @Angels scored 5+ runs in the 9th to win a 9-inning game by 1 run was Aug 29, 1986. pic.twitter.com/5AnWPVajCw

— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) October 3, 2015

True definition of team win today...WOW!!! One of the best comebacks I been a part of...lots of work still to do!!! pic.twitter.com/rr4zDtBljN

— Shane Victorino (@ShaneVictorino) October 3, 2015

A rally for the ages. http://t.co/TqS6tvdeYH #ThrillOfTheGame pic.twitter.com/LV4arhVH6p

— MLB (@MLB) October 3, 2015

Last time #Angels scored five or more runs in ninth to win a 9-inning game by one run was Aug. 29, 1986.

— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) October 3, 2015

VIDEO: Two F-35C Lightning II Landings Aboard the U.S. Navy's USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)

Via Lockheed Martin on Twitter.

Kelly Rohrbach for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's 'Fill in the Dots' Series (VIDEO)

She's beautiful.

Roseburg Grieves After Attack at Umpqua Community College

This is the lead front-page story at today's Los Angeles Times, "'This is a time to grieve,' mayor tells town in wake of Oregon college shooting."

'This is a time to grieve,' mayor tells town in wake of Oregon college shooting http://t.co/CEfLZWez0f pic.twitter.com/CzjJ09gySV

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 3, 2015

Ben Carson Surges in New IBD/TIPP Poll

I don't love Ben Carson, but he's definitely an outsider, and that's what the voters want this season.

At IBD, "Donald Trump Falls: Ben Carson Surges to Lead in Poll":

Donald Trump has boasted that he's "leading every poll and in most cases big." Not anymore. The latest IBD/TIPP Poll shows him in second place, seven points behind Ben Carson.

The nationwide survey found that 24% of Republicans back Carson, compared with 17% who say they support Trump.

Marco Rubio came in third with 11% and Carly Fiorina fourth at 9%. Jeb Bush, once considered a prohibitive favorite, ranked fifth with just 8% support, which was a point lower than those who say they are still undecided.

The IBD/TIPP Poll has a proven track record for accuracy, based on its performance in the past three presidential elections. In a comparison of the final results of various pollsters for the 2004 and 2008 elections, IBD/TIPP was the most accurate. And the New York Times concluded that IBD/TIPP was the most accurate among 23 polls over the three weeks leading up to the 2012 election.

The October poll, conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, included 377 registered voters who are Republican or registered independents who lean toward the Republican Party, with a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points...

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Thousands Attend Funeral for Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin, Who Were Murdered by Arab Terrorists in Front of Four Children (VIDEO)

At Astute Bloggers, "MURDERED IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN."

And at the Times of Israel, "Israeli mother and father shot dead in West Bank terror attack," and "Israeli parents gunned down in terror attack were ‘dream couple’."

Her Majesty's Secret Server: For Hillary's Eyes Only

From American Crossroads, via Theo Spark.

Russia Now the World's Sole Superpower

Yeah, well, Russia's sure acting like it.

From Joshua Muravchik:

Obama's "reset." 2008: US is the world's sole superpower & Russia is a pathetic has been. Today the roles are reversed.

— Joshua Muravchik (@JoshuaMuravchik) October 2, 2015

Astros Beat Diamondbacks 21- 5 in Massive Blowout

I mentioned this prevouisly, when I scheduled my blog post it was 17-2 in the eighth inning.

Just wow.

At Bleacher, "Astros Score 21 Runs vs. Diamondbacks: Stats, Highlights and Reaction."

And at MLB on YouTube, "10/2/15: Astros' offense runs wild on the D-backs."

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Chris Harper-Mercer's Voter Registration Was 'Independent Party'

The fucker wasn't a "conservative Republican." Not in a million years.

He was a Christian-hating radical leftist.

At Red Alert Politics.



Yeah, and ICYMI, "The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted."

The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted

Yes. Curious.

At iOTW Report.

Correcting the New York Times’s Absurd Vision of the Modern Man

By Stephen Miller, at National Review, "New York Times' “27 Ways to Be a Modern Man”: A Rebuttal":

Yesterday, the New York Times published a list of “27 Ways to Be a Modern Man.” The Times’s attempt to reach out to metropolitan pseudo-intellectuals too highbrow for cat memes and Saved by the Bell gifs is so absurd as to warrant a point-by-point rebuttal. What follows, then, is the original list, corrected to reflect the defining characteristics of a real modern man.

RTWT.

I posted on it here, "The 'Modern Man' Is the Man Who Has Been Castrated."

Added: At American Digest, "'The Modern Man' Fisked.... By Hand."

Umpqua Community College Massacre Puts Focus on Campus Security (VIDEO)

At the Wall Street Journal, "Oregon College Shootings Put Focus on Campus Security":

The shootings that left 10 dead at an Oregon community college on Thursday are focusing attention on security measures on U.S. campuses and stoking debate over whether firearms should be allowed on campus for protection.

Federal officials said Friday that six guns had been recovered from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., where the shooting took place, along with a steel-enhanced flak jacket and five magazines of ammunition. Seven more guns were found at the alleged gunman’s nearby apartment, officials said.

In recent years, colleges across the U.S. have implemented measures to identify potentially violent students and respond more effectively to mass shootings. Many of the changes came in the wake of the 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech that killed 33 people, in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.

Colleges have focused broadly on two areas: improving emergency notifications to people on campus and responding quickly and forcefully to crises, said S. Daniel Carter, director of a campus-safety initiative at VTV Family Outreach Foundation, which was formed as a result of the Virginia incident. “The campus-security landscape has changed profoundly since the 2007 shootings,” he said.

The number of campus attacks at colleges has increased in recent decades, according to a 2010 study by a group of federal agencies, including the U.S. Secret Service. Under the study’s definition of such incidents, they grew to 83 in the 2000s—including data only through 2008—from 79 in the 1990s and 40 in the 1980s. Data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for stricter gun controls, show that shootings at colleges increased to 31 in 2014 from 14 in 2013. Thursday’s incident was the 17th this year, according to the group.

More broadly in the U.S., federal authorities also have reported an increase in mass shootings in recent years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified 160 shootings from 2000 through 2013 that it defined as “active shooter” events, or an “individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.” There were an average of 16.4 active-shooter incidents a year between 2007 and 2013, up from an average of 6.4 a year from 2000 to 2006. A total of 486 people were killed and 557 wounded in the incidents.

The Virginia Tech shootings highlighted weaknesses in identifying potentially troubled students and intervening to prevent them from acting violently, security experts say. Though the gunman had raised concerns among numerous people on campus who encountered him, there was no centralized system to gather such warning signs.

Since then, many colleges have implemented “threat-assessment programs” that bring together law enforcement, administrators, counselors and others to share information and investigate worrisome reports, said Gene Deisinger, managing partner at Sigma Threat Management Associates and a former deputy police chief at Virginia Tech. “Once you’ve got an initial concern, you don’t wait,” he said.

Institutions also have rolled out far more robust emergency notification systems to alert people about dangerous situations. The University of Texas has a system that can send text messages to 68,000 students, faculty and staff within three to four minutes, said Bob Harkins, associate vice president for safety and security at the Austin campus. It can also send warnings by email, social messaging and to desktop computers around campus.

Colleges are also increasingly replacing security guards with police officers they have hired or enhancing existing police departments on campus, said William Taylor, president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. Agencies are outfitting officers with equipment such as body armor, ballistic helmets and rifles. And they are providing more training on how to respond to active shooters.

One program at Texas State University has been adopted as a model by the FBI. The main areas of training involve how to neutralize a gunman on a rampage—moving in quickly rather than waiting to establish a perimeter—and how to tend to victims before medical personnel can arrive, said J. Pete Blair, executive director of the program.

Yet many of these reforms are concentrated at larger four-year colleges with greater resources. In contrast, at Umpqua Community College, there is only one, unarmed security guard on campus at a time...

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English Professor Lawrence Levine Murdered in Umpqua Community College Massacre

More sadness.

Professor Levine was a gentle soul who lived next to the North Umpqua River, and liked to help other fly fishers. That's a Christian life if there ever was one, just what leftists hate. It's why he was murdered by the Christian-hating Chris Harper-Mercer, just one more hateful leftist in a long line of murdering hateful leftists.

In any case, at the Oregonian, "Oregon college shooting: Lawrence Levine had simple needs, passion for writing."

More, "Umpqua Community College instructor becomes Oregon's 12th workplace homicide victim since 2011."

Angels Win Game 2 Against Rangers, in Final Series of Season, Staying in Playoff Contention

It's a four-game series in Arlington, and the Angels can't lose another game, or else they'll be eliminated from the wild card race.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Angels keep pace in playoff chase with 2-1 win over Rangers."

And at the O.C. Register, "Final: Mike Trout sparks Angels to critical victory over Rangers."

As this post was being scheduled, the Astros were up over the Diamondback 17-2 in the eighth inning in Phoenix. Nobody in the American League West is giving up just yet.

Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer Had Substantial Ties to Los Angeles Area (VIDEO)

Following-up from yesterday, "Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer Was Discharged from Army, Had History of Mental Health Problems (VIDEO)."

And here's more information, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Oregon Mass Murderer Had Many Ties to Southland."

Social Media Self-Defense

Helpful hints for the paranoid hacker, here. (Via Oakland Elle.)

Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59, Former Orange County Woman, Murdered in Umpqua Community College Massacre

Sad.

At the O.C. Register, "Former Orange County woman killed in Oregon shootings; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59, is being mourned by husband Eric Dietz and others."

REPORT: Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer Worshiped Satan, Claimed 'I Serve Darkness'

He was evil. An evil far-left murderer.

At People Magazine, "'I Serve Darkness': Oregon Gunman Wrote About Obsession with Satan in Reported Manifesto, Says Source."

People Magazine hasn't confirmed the existence of the Satan-worshiping report, although Mercer did leave behind written statements. Here's a lengthy piece at the New York Times, "In Note Left Behind, Gunman ‘Did Not Like His Lot in Life,’ Officials Say."

More at the New York Post, "Oregon gunman singled out Christians during rampage."

Hateful. Demonic. Leftist.

BONUS: Watch this video, at KOIN 6 News Portland, "Sheriff: Umpqua CC shooter had 13 weapons." The dude had serious mental infirmities. He was loner who sat in his room all day, lurking on his computer. Apparently the local sheriff knows more about the shooter's writings, but isn't speaking about them now.