Those asshat who think the PRC has the right idea on allowing speech?

Here are the authors:

Jack Goldsmith Harvard Law School professor

Andrew Keane Woods Professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law

Harvard Law School is currently the No. 2 ranked law school in the country.  The University of Arizona College of Law is ranked as No. 47.
Miguel may have the right idea: maybe not all lawyers, but most of the law professors as tree decorations.

Get rid of qualified immunity entirely

If not entirely, then it needs to be VERY narrowly restricted.  Cops and prosecutors who violate the law and people's rights start having to pay personally for damages, a lot of this crap will stop.  Fast.

Well said

Daughter made a point of asking why I referred to the Wuhan Flu as, well, the Wuhan Flu - are you trying to make a point?

Yes, that it’s the Wuhan Flu, and that’s what everyone called it until there was a general agreement amongst our chattering betters that we should call it COVID-19, as if we’d always used technical scientific terms instead of colloquial names based on origin, right or wrong. I used the term because it horrified people who seem to think that the term will make dumb-bubbas go cruisin’ around lookin’ for Asian people to beat up. I use the term because China would prefer that I not to. Want more?

Speaking of Governors who need a reminder that they're not an emperor,

the clown in Washington really needs a reminder that he's not royalty, he's an employee.
“I don’t know any other way to characterize it, when we have an order from governors, both Republicans and Democrats, that basically are designed to protect people’s health, literally their lives, to have a president of the United States basically encourage insubordination, to encourage illegal activity.
Insubordination, 'Insubordinate implies failure or refusal to submit to the authority of a superior:' ...  See what I mean about 'thinks he owns us'?

More:
“To have an American president to encourage people to violate the law, I can’t remember any time during my time in America where we have seen such a thing,” Inslee continued.
You made orders, that does not make them law, far as I know.  So screw you, Inslee.

Governor Blackface McKlanhood needs to take a long walk

off a short dock.  Soros is really getting his money's worth from that bastard.

At least there are some judges who'll tell him to piss off.

This is the dickhead who started the "Millions Will Die!" crap,

and he's done it before.
In 2009, Ferguson and his Imperial team predicted that swine flu had a case fatality rate 0.3 per cent to 1.5 per cent. His most likely estimate was that the mortality rate was 0.4 per cent. A government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ was that the disease would lead to 65,000 UK deaths. 
...
 In 2001 the Imperial team produced modelling on foot and mouth disease that suggested that animals in neighbouring farms should be culled, even if there was no evidence of infection. This influenced government policy and led to the total culling of more than six million cattle, sheep and pigs – with a cost to the UK economy estimated at £10 billion.
It has been claimed by experts such as Michael Thrusfield, professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, that Ferguson’s modelling on foot and mouth was ‘severely flawed’ and made a ‘serious error’ by ‘ignoring the species composition of farms,’ and the fact that the disease spread faster between different species.
So why the hell is he still in that position, and why is anyone listening to him?

Don't you just love it when some idiot who depends on the 1st Amendment

wants it taken apart?

One more idiot politician trying to get sued

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has signed an executive order temporarily suspending open carry for Jackson residents in an effort to lessen the occurence of violent crimes during the COVID-19 civil emergency.
First, unless he's a complete idiot, he knows he can't 'suspend' a state law.  So he knows this is illegal, without power, and nothing more than a way to push his "I want this law gotten rid of!" view.

Second, I hope someone does sue his ass off.

I disagree

League says if you’re an essential employee and are in this situation, the best thing you can do is show the judge everything you’re doing to protect your child.
I'm inclining toward 'The best thing you can do is kill the judge.'

This "I have a black robe, therefore I am God" bullshit needs to stop.  One way or another.

A nice evening out there for those not under house arrest

or telling their mayor and/or governor to piss off.  In either case, some study materials to look over

And some stuff clearing

Friday, nice weather,

check the data after the outside stuff is done.  Unless you're stuck in a place where the control freaks want you locked indoors.

I finally had a chance at the range day to check velocities on some loads

with .45-70.  Breakdown:

Lyman 340-grain hollowpoint over 29.5 grains A5744 averaged 1654fps.

Had some Lee 405-grain round-nose flat points that I'd sized to .452 and paper patched to .459" over 29.0 A5744.  Average 1375fps.

Lyman 525-grain Postell over 24.0 A5744(yes, I like that powder) averaged right at 1200fps.

Wasn't able to run any black loads that day, hopefully in the future.

If correct, yet another reason the EffingBI needs a serious cleaning out

If we keep it at all.
And, unfortunately, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were doing this.

Californicated will appeal without doubt,

but it's at least a slap in their face.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in San Diego ruled in favor of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which asked him to stop the checks and related restrictions on ammo sales.
From what I've been hearing this thing has been a nightmare of errors.  Which was probably intended by the asshats who wrote it.

Governor Howler has a moment of clarity

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that his stay-at-home order for the entirety of New York State was “probably not the best public health strategy.”
Gee, ya think MAYBE?
And how bad was the news he got that he's willing to admit this?

In other news, a piece on the clusterfuck, the experts and idiot politicians have made of our health-care system.

Another "Man-Caused Global Climate Change Is Melting The Glaciers!" type demonstrating they don't actually believe this crap.


Holy crap... "How dare you save our jobs!"


It's not 'bordering on', it IS unethical.  And bullshit.
Fortney challenged Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s lockdown orders as inconsistent, deeming some businesses essential over others. While government construction projects may continue Fortney points out, private contractors remain out of work.
“As I arrive to work at the courthouse, I see landscapers show up each day to install new landscape and maintain our flowerbeds,” Fortney wrote. “However, a father who owns a construction company and works alone while outdoors is not allowed to run his business to make a living to provide for his wife and children?”

“This contradiction is not okay and is bordering on unethical,” said Fortney.

Biden hasn't liked ANY part of the Constitution he disagrees with for a looong time,

so this crap is no surprise.

That he has to lie to try to support it is also par for the course.

There was a range day,

which was followed with the rest of the day being spent mowing, on the roof cleaning gutters and pruning, and cleaning off the carport.

I can honestly say "I ache all over my body."

More later, though I will throw this in from Babylon Bee:

The man is right

The bottom line is that costs can be concealed but not eliminated. Moreover, if people only look at the benefits from a particular course of action, they will do just about anything, because everything has a benefit. Political hustlers and demagogues love promising benefits when the costs can easily be concealed. By the way, the best time to be wrong and persist in being wrong is when the costs of being wrong are borne by others. 

The absolute worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly its most unrecoverable damage, is the massive power that Americans have given to their federal, state and local governments to regulate our lives in the name of protecting our health. Taking back that power should be the most urgent component of our recovery efforts. It's going to be challenging; once a politician, and his bureaucracy, gains power, he will fight tooth and nail to keep it.

It appears the Dark & Fascist State of NJ is doing all it can

to go full "Bow before the King".

April 19, something about that date...