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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Yay!
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Worth Reading in Full
Pay Attention to Your Mutual Fund Returns
Friday, April 26, 2024
Boise Growing Up
Jewish Nazi Funding Anti-Israel Protests
Is J. Norman Heath Here?
He is a remarkably diverse person: circus rigger for Cirque de Soileil and historian. If you have an email address for him, let me know.
Do You Have This Book in Your Collection?
James H. Willibanks, Machine Guns, An Illustrated History of Their Impact. I need pages 22-23. If you have a SCRIBD subscription, I think you can find it at https://www.scribd.com/doc/73220163/Weapons-and-Warfares-Machine-Guns-an-Illustrated-History-of-Their-Impact.
Jonathan B. A. Bailey, Field Artillery and Firepower 187 n. 192. (Naval Institute Press, 2003). I need p. 182 n. 192.
Washington State is making an absurd discovery demand. They want links to every cited source. These two items I must have read on paper.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Successful Education
"The unidentified students rattled off their clueless rationale on the steps of the NYU campus in downtown Manhattan as a slew of NYPD cops clad in riot gear stood in the background, as seen in footage viewed more than 3 million times since being shared by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani late Wednesday.
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop … I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” one admitted when asked about the protest’s purpose."
And what is Columbia teaching about critical thinking (or even uncritical thinking)
Not Just the Marmots Taunting the Dogs
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Work Cited in a Knife Self-Defense Case
CARLOS LORENZO GONZALEZ, Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District.
The defendant argued successfully that the trial court erred in failing to give his claim of self-defense proper consideration. The case cites DC v. Heller (2008) for the right to armed self-defense of one's home and a law review article by Dave Kopel, Joe Olson and myself about how arms are protected by the Second Amendment.
Reading the appellate court decision, I find it entirely plausible that the defendant was engaged in lawful defense of his home against a guy with a BAC of .335%.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Boise State University Must Be Moving Up in the World
Sunday, April 21, 2024
An Interesting Exchange Program
"It's kind of hard to say no to a free trip, but I had this obsession with just seeing everywhere I can, especially parts of the country. It's amazing to see, especially the Midwest," Z.J. Schwartz, a program alum from California, told "Fox & Friends Weekend."
"The American Exchange Program gives high school seniors from places like New York City and Los Angeles a taste of rural America and vice versa, dispelling misconceptions about the different ways of life and opening minds to new opportunities – all to bridge gaps within the divided nation."
This seems like a big win all the way around. As I was growing up, I was startled at how many Angelenos had never been eàst of Yosemite. Yes, the results were very much like the View of the world from Ninth Avenue cartoon.
Shortly after I moved to Boise to work for HP, a friend in California lost his job. I called to tell him there were jobs open at HP. "Boise?" I had to reassure him that we had flush toilets, no one I knew married their sister, and it had been a long time since we burned any Jews or heretics at the stake.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Identifying Separation Anxiety
When I Was Young, We Knew This Was a Darwin Award Winner
"The group of about six people was caught on video Tuesday pulling three scared black bear cubs out of a tree over a fence at a Buncombe County apartment complex, ABC 13 News reported."
Black bears are seldom dangerous to humans except when you get between them and food or their cubs. Human mothers are supposed to be similarly dangerous if you threaten their children.
Let Us Now Praise Great Small Kitchen Appliances
Friday, April 19, 2024
Weird Size
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Do We Need to Change the Name?
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Home Invasion Goes Bad
No, Two Items Lost in the Move
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
I Only Lost One Item in the Move
Sunday, April 14, 2024
How Stupid Do You Have to Be to Admit a Felony on the Stand?
"In January 2024, we reported that Carroll disclosed holding a firearm at her home during her defamation trial against former President Donald Trump. This revelation, according to a police report, led Warwick, New York police to visit Carroll’s residence on February 15 to address the weapon."
I am unclear how this came up in a defamation trial, but talk about dumb. The TDS heroes are none too bright.
The Future of Demeaning Low-Skill Jobs
Do Any of You Have a Cadillac CT4, CT5, or CT6?
The Walls of Genital Mutilation Start Tumbling Down
"Writing in the Daily Telegraph, she criticised NHS England practitioners, in response to a landmark review into gender care practices.
"The Cass review said children had been "let down" by a lack of research on the use of puberty blockers.
"It called for gender services to match the standards of other NHS care."
The Cass Review found that many of the traditional claims,such that gender mutilation reduces suicide for example were not supported by the science. He also found that there was a lack of transparency from the transgender specialists of the NHS.
Who knows? Perhaps sanity will fall on America. But the number of children sterilized and adults mutilated is now huge.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Gun Control in Australia Works!
Another Nice Aspect of the New House
New TV
Thursday, April 11, 2024
If This Was a TV Show Episode Script It Would Never Sell Because of Implausibilty
New Biden Administration Gun Laws
Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new gun sale rule in a bid to crack down on the so-called "gun show loophole."
In a press briefing, Harris said the rule stipulates all gun dealers must now conduct background checks on the people who purchase firearms.
The Context
The Biden administration has pushed for universal background checks throughout his time in office.
As it stands, gun stores are required by law to conduct a background check for every gun sale. But dealers who sell weapons elsewhere, like through social media or via gun shows, have been able to sell guns without checking the details of those who purchase them.
The Biden administration has been working on the rule to change that since last spring, and it was issued under a provision of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
As you doubtless know, federal law already requires dealers to do background checks anywhere they make a sale. Private party sales in most states do not. Yet news organizations reported this as something new.
I now see. They are going to use the new language defining gun dealers to include not only those making a living from resale (the old definition) to include those reselling at a profit. A true private party sale is still legal. Showing at a gun show and selling guns for more than you paid for them even 20 years ago would make you a gun dealer. One would likely present no problems, but a friend reports seeing tables at a gun show a few years back offering quite an assortment of guns with a "no background check" placard. This was almost certainly unlawful under the old definition as well as the new. This would be a bad way to become a test case challenging the law under Bruen, although I think it might have a winning result.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
We Have Some Unmet Education Needs
The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston.
“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event."
The ignorance goes to 11 later in her remarks. I fear where a country goes when people this ignorant get elected and re-elected to Congress where she was the ranking Democrat on the space subcommittee. I do not expect every member of Congress to understand "event horizons" or even the gravitational force equation but I do hanker for them to know as much as my 11-year-old grandson.
I Am Unsure If This Is a Good Sign or Bad
- Recent high-profile examples of second citizenships include billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, who added a citizenship in New Zealand, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who applied for citizenship in Cyprus.
- The top destinations for supplemental passports among Americans are Portugal, Malta, Greece and Italy, according to Henley & Partners."
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Completely Unpacked
Monday, April 8, 2024
Hoist by Their Own Petard?
"The Secretary of State's office sent a letter April 5 to Ohio Democratic Party Chairwoman Liz Walters that alerted her to the issue.
"The Democratic National Convention meets August 19 to nominate its candidate for president but Ohio law sets a deadline of August 7 to certify presidential candidates for the November ballot."
The GOP did not do this to Biden. The Democrats did this to Biden. I have read that no one has been elected to the Presidency without Ohio in a century. It is not the electoral votes but that Ohio is very close to the mainstream of American values. Still in a close race, guaranteed loss of Ohio might be enough.
Friday, April 5, 2024
One of Those Cases Calling for a Second Amendment Challenge
Zero Click Ordering is Coming
Thursday, April 4, 2024
This Makes Sense Now
At a special screening in Los Angeles on Tuesday, writer-director Alex Garland explained the “intentional” decision to unite the two, saying it was “partly to get around a kind of reflexive, polarizing position that people might fall into, that’s one thing, but actually that’s not the main thing. The main thing is to do with how the president is presented and what can be inferred from that.” The president, played by Nick Offerman, has disbanded the FBI, has used air strikes on American citizens and has established himself as a three-term leader.
Offerman also weighed in, noting that after all the online chatter ahead of its release, “when you see the movie you’re like, ‘Oh shit, it’s actually just super-intelligent and a kickass movie that none of us can legitimately get mad about because it’s just a beautiful piece of art.'” He additionally noted that any comparisons to his character and Donald Trump while shooting “didn’t even come up. It’s so unrelated to any actual factions or politicians,” and commended Garland for not including real-life political points in the story.
Beyond Trans Madness
"A non-binary Ontario resident is locked in a legal battle over public funding for surgery to create a vagina while leaving the penis intact"
Aren't you glad that the Canadian healthcare system has so much spare capacity and zero length waiting lists for specialist care that this is an issue for Canadian courts to consider?
Partial Solar Eclipse Visible April 8th
A friend is going to threaten Democrats that if they do not reprent and vote for Trump, a dragon will eat the Sun.