Thursday, July 7, 2022
Clock Drive Again
To my surprise and pleasure the Edward Byers company (for many years, the premiere clock drive maker) is still in business selling a complete clock drive gear set. Made in USA.
Sing the Bee Gee's Tragedy As You Watch This
Aussie military procurement specialist explains why the Bundeswehr spends way more than France but still has a joke of a military. When he finally shows the ship whose refit was 13.5x estimate, try not to cry.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Worst Bad Choice of 2022
6/6/22 NBC News:
'A Texas police officer had the Uvalde gunman in his sights but never fired a shot, believing — perhaps incorrectly — that he needed permission to fire, a new study of the mass killing revealed Wednesday."
I am sorry, but until police officers develop the sense of a turnip, I refuse to be held responsible for what some idiot with a gun did.
I Am Sure That You Read Gulliver's Travels
He makes fun of the desire for immortality with a country where no one dies. They just get more and more infirm in their 100+ and 200+ range. Yes. I do not feel a need to live forever but to feel 20 or 30 or even 50 again.
I Just Cannot Stay Up That Late
Old age catches up with you. I did not have the energy to stay up until I could see Polaris to get polar alignment with the new mount. Maybe when fall arrives.
Red Flag Laws Work So Well!
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., July 5 (Reuters) - The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois "red flag" law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday....
Sergeant Chris Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said earlier in the day that Crimo had legally purchased a total of five guns, including the suspected murder weapon, despite having come to law enforcement's attention twice for behavior suggesting he might harm himself or others.
The first instance was an April 2019 emergency-911 call reporting Crimo had attempted suicide, followed in September of that year by a police visit regarding alleged threats "to kill everyone" that he had directed at family members, Covelli said....
According to Covelli, police responding to the second incident seized a collection of 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from Crimo's home in Highland Park, Illinois, the Chicago suburb where the shooting occurred on Monday. But no arrest was made as authorities at the time lacked probable cause to take him into custody, the sheriff's sergeant said.
"There were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims," Covelli explained....
Later on Tuesday came a separate statement from the Illinois State Police recounting that the agency had received a report from Highland Park Police declaring Crimo a "clear and present danger" after the alleged threats against relatives in September 2019.
At the time, however, Crimo did not possess a state "firearm owners identification (FOID)" card that could be revoked or a pending FOID application to deny. So state police involvement in the matter was closed, the agency said....
Three months later, at age 19, Crimo applied for his first FOID card, under his father's sponsorship. But because no firearm restraining order or other court action against Crimo had ever been sought, "there was insufficient basis to establish a clear and present danger and deny the FOID application," state police said.
Crimo passed four background checks in the purchase of his guns, all of them conducted in 2020 and 2021, well after the 2019 incidents that drew police attention, according to the state police.
Are you worried red flag laws might be used to disarm law-abiding people? I wouldn't.
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