Clayton Cramer.
Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Trying to prevent Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.
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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%.