Friday, July 07, 2023
Thursday, July 06, 2023
The short version: "How dare you tell us we can't partner with the .gov to censor speech!"
Longer part:
“Mr. Jaffer added that the government has to balance between calling out false speech without stepping into informal coercion that veers toward censorship,” the NY Times reported. “Unfortunately Judge Doughty’s order doesn’t reflect a serious effort to reconcile the competing principles,” Jaffer told the newspaper.
“Some of the facts Judge Doughty describes in this opinion raise serious constitutional questions, but his order would insulate social media cos from criticism, not just coercion,” Jaffer tweeted from his personal account. “He should narrow the order, or the appeals court should do it for him.”
With, of course, the Beings of Superior Reasoning like himself deciding what's false, or 'misinformation'.
“Mr. Jaffer added that the government has to balance between calling out false speech without stepping into informal coercion that veers toward censorship,” the NY Times reported. “Unfortunately Judge Doughty’s order doesn’t reflect a serious effort to reconcile the competing principles,” Jaffer told the newspaper.
“Some of the facts Judge Doughty describes in this opinion raise serious constitutional questions, but his order would insulate social media cos from criticism, not just coercion,” Jaffer tweeted from his personal account. “He should narrow the order, or the appeals court should do it for him.”
With, of course, the Beings of Superior Reasoning like himself deciding what's false, or 'misinformation'.
Things have gotten awful sporty in France,
and when politicians are this insistent that 'There are no private citizens doing this to the rioters' it does make you wonder how many there are.
And a number of other countries are being very happy they didn't let the hordes of 'immigrants' in.
Especially when so many of said immigrants are young males who have zero intention of blending into the country.
And a number of other countries are being very happy they didn't let the hordes of 'immigrants' in.
Especially when so many of said immigrants are young males who have zero intention of blending into the country.
Wednesday, July 05, 2023
These people have lied to us so much, why would this surprise me?
In April 2020, Hershel Smith wrote The Truth About Hydroxychloroquine.
He said, “This is a conclusion statement by a NIH study on Coronavirus (Covid-19 is SARs, Bat-SARs + some proteins that mimic HIV). This study, entitled ‘Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread,’ was completed and published on August 22, 2005, a study of which Dr. Fauci is certainly aware.
“The truth about this effective and safe medication is far more sinister. For political reasons, the administrative state is opposing the very prophylaxis they recommended in 2005 for this disease.
“The same bureaucracy is still selling the snake oil that this virus is zoonotic. The two videos below show, based on both genetic analysis and paper trail, this virus has an extremely low probability of being zoonotic. This virus has been studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in Canada, Harvard, and at the Wuhan institute. Actual biological material was stolen from the study in Canada, and the Obama administration actually stopped the funding for the study (apparently too late) when they saw the supercharging of the SARs virus that the researchers were pursuing — with the same visiting collaborating Chinese researcher in all instances.”
And, oh yes, there's more.
He said, “This is a conclusion statement by a NIH study on Coronavirus (Covid-19 is SARs, Bat-SARs + some proteins that mimic HIV). This study, entitled ‘Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread,’ was completed and published on August 22, 2005, a study of which Dr. Fauci is certainly aware.
“The truth about this effective and safe medication is far more sinister. For political reasons, the administrative state is opposing the very prophylaxis they recommended in 2005 for this disease.
“The same bureaucracy is still selling the snake oil that this virus is zoonotic. The two videos below show, based on both genetic analysis and paper trail, this virus has an extremely low probability of being zoonotic. This virus has been studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in Canada, Harvard, and at the Wuhan institute. Actual biological material was stolen from the study in Canada, and the Obama administration actually stopped the funding for the study (apparently too late) when they saw the supercharging of the SARs virus that the researchers were pursuing — with the same visiting collaborating Chinese researcher in all instances.”
And, oh yes, there's more.
But- but Philadelphia has all those gun laws,
how could he have had such a gun? Oh, right, Philadephia, PA.
The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.
Back in his history,
Carriker had been arrested in 2003 and charged with possession of a weapon without a license, carrying a firearm in public and drug possession, according to Philadelphia court records.
He eventually pleaded guilty to having a firearm without a license and the other charges were dropped.
He was placed on three years’ probation and made to pay over $1,000 in costs.
And, of course, Biden & Co. are yelling for bans of whatever they think they can get away with.
The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.
Back in his history,
Carriker had been arrested in 2003 and charged with possession of a weapon without a license, carrying a firearm in public and drug possession, according to Philadelphia court records.
He eventually pleaded guilty to having a firearm without a license and the other charges were dropped.
He was placed on three years’ probation and made to pay over $1,000 in costs.
And, of course, Biden & Co. are yelling for bans of whatever they think they can get away with.
Once more, can you say 'The fix was in'?
A prosecutor who signed off on the documents charging Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes previously worked with one of the First Son’s business partners, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president’s son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings.
Weiss’s deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter’s criminal prosecution.
According to Hines’s LinkedIn account, he previously worked as Special Counsel to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh at his private company, Freeh Group International Solutions, a lobbying and ‘risk management’ consultancy that teamed up with Hunter on overseas business currently under scrutiny by lawmakers.
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This story is just astonishing to me. Even if one is to assume that Hines’ connections to Hunter Biden didn’t influence the deal, is there really any excuse for the federal government to be this incestuous? Am I really to believe that the DOJ couldn’t manage to put a full team of prosecutors on such a contentious case without one of them having a connection to Hunter Biden’s business dealings? AG Merrick Garland could have appointed a special counsel years ago to ensure none of this was an issue, and for that matter, so could both of Donald Trump’s attorneys general.
No one did, though, because this is all seen as normal in Washington. Backslaps, winks, and nods are the name of the game.
I'll say it again: people need to be in cells for this.
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president’s son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings.
Weiss’s deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter’s criminal prosecution.
According to Hines’s LinkedIn account, he previously worked as Special Counsel to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh at his private company, Freeh Group International Solutions, a lobbying and ‘risk management’ consultancy that teamed up with Hunter on overseas business currently under scrutiny by lawmakers.
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This story is just astonishing to me. Even if one is to assume that Hines’ connections to Hunter Biden didn’t influence the deal, is there really any excuse for the federal government to be this incestuous? Am I really to believe that the DOJ couldn’t manage to put a full team of prosecutors on such a contentious case without one of them having a connection to Hunter Biden’s business dealings? AG Merrick Garland could have appointed a special counsel years ago to ensure none of this was an issue, and for that matter, so could both of Donald Trump’s attorneys general.
No one did, though, because this is all seen as normal in Washington. Backslaps, winks, and nods are the name of the game.
I'll say it again: people need to be in cells for this.
Sunday, July 02, 2023
Another civil rights victory, this one
on the 2nd Amendment and reining in power-hungry bureaucrats.
In another blow to President Joe Biden’s war on guns, a federal judge has reversed an ATF ban on so-called “ghost guns,” ruling that the president and his gun agency overstepped their jurisdiction.
And there was great rejoicing among people of good will.
“The issue in this case is whether ATF may properly regulate a component as a ‘frame or receiver’ even after ATF determines that the component in question is not a frame or receiver. It may not. Logic dictates that a part cannot be both not yet a receiver and receiver at the same time. Defendants’ reliance on that logical contradiction is fatal to their argument,” wrote the judge.
And this does not bode well for the "We said it was legal and then changed our minds, making up the law each time" mess on wrist braces.
In another blow to President Joe Biden’s war on guns, a federal judge has reversed an ATF ban on so-called “ghost guns,” ruling that the president and his gun agency overstepped their jurisdiction.
And there was great rejoicing among people of good will.
“The issue in this case is whether ATF may properly regulate a component as a ‘frame or receiver’ even after ATF determines that the component in question is not a frame or receiver. It may not. Logic dictates that a part cannot be both not yet a receiver and receiver at the same time. Defendants’ reliance on that logical contradiction is fatal to their argument,” wrote the judge.
And this does not bode well for the "We said it was legal and then changed our minds, making up the law each time" mess on wrist braces.
Saturday, July 01, 2023
A bit earlier than usual,
but I'm a bit more wiped out than usual.
So, without further delay, the seventh eve video data is here.
So, without further delay, the seventh eve video data is here.
If your definition of a 'successful operation' includes 'al Qaeda isn't there
and the Taliban is helping us', you really are out of your damned mind.
Not to mention the whole "Clusterfuck for the ages" aspect of what you were in charge of.
Not to mention the whole "Clusterfuck for the ages" aspect of what you were in charge of.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Why, you'd think these people had things to hide...
“As you know, I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly,” wrote David M. Morens, a high-ranking NIH official, in a September 2021 email, one of a series of email exchanges that included many leading scientists involved in the bitter Covid origins debate. “Stuff sent to my gmail gets to my phone,” he added, “but not my NIH computer.”
After noting that his Gmail account had been hacked, however, he wrote to the group to say that he might have to use his NIH email account to communicate with them instead. “Don’t worry,” he wrote, “just send to any of my addresses, and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
After noting that his Gmail account had been hacked, however, he wrote to the group to say that he might have to use his NIH email account to communicate with them instead. “Don’t worry,” he wrote, “just send to any of my addresses, and I will delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Seems Governor Hair Gel can't remember the stuff that happened during his reign
Hair Gel:
Among the responses:
Including that Californicated voters rejected an attempt to end the ban, as noted, during Gel's reign.
Article here
Article here
Monday, June 26, 2023
Bud Light & Co. have not lost nearlyenough money
Bud Light is serving as an official sponsor of the Toronto Pride parade, where video footage shows naked men standing around and riding bicycles in clear view of children attending the event.
And yes, there's a lot more at the post.
A bunch of people are selling the chant as satire; put it along with all the rest, and if it is they're idiots. If you have naked people on public streets parading in front of kids, twerking and all, and you start chanting "We're here, we're queer, and we're coming for your children!", people will take you at your word. Especially after all the shit that's been coming out of schools. And that leads to bad things.
And yes, there's a lot more at the post.
A bunch of people are selling the chant as satire; put it along with all the rest, and if it is they're idiots. If you have naked people on public streets parading in front of kids, twerking and all, and you start chanting "We're here, we're queer, and we're coming for your children!", people will take you at your word. Especially after all the shit that's been coming out of schools. And that leads to bad things.
As I sit here recovering
from the heat or something, I will say that I think I found my 'try it at longer ranges when I can' loads with .45-70.
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with that low-right I'm pretty sure I pulled.
All the same except with 62.0 grains of the same powder,
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You bet I'm happy with both. Both of them gave good groups before and this shows both are consistent, those previous groups weren't just chance or luck.
Using that 525-grain Steve Brooks bullet cast of 30-1 alloy, 60.0 grains of 1.5f Swiss powder in Starline cases, at 200 yards gave this
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All the same except with 62.0 grains of the same powder,
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I will note that the same 62.0 grain load in Winchester cases was not good, but with 60.0 grains not bad at all. And yes, I'll try that again.
One of the things I've learned is that Winchester brass indeed having thinner walls, the same dose of powder does not fill the case as much. 60.0 in Starline gives a slight amount of compression, in Winchester cases it appears none, the wad just being right on top of the column. With 62.0 grains in Starline more compression(about 1/10" I think), just a tiny bit in Winchester. Which makes me like Starline with that 60.0 load because with that bit more I know there's no air space; the Winchester having so little compression worries me. Yes, I know that if it has any it would have to be a space that would need a micrometer to measure, but I want NONE. And to be certain of it.
Hornady has ballistics tables you can use for free, and I ran these loads through it, using the ballistic coefficient from the Lyman manual for their 535-grain Postell bullet, the Brooks being virtually identical but ten grains lighter, and it gave me elevation settings out to 500 yards. Beyond which I don't think I could see the target well enough to shoot. I will be interesting finding out if these settings match up to what actual shooting shows.
Hornady has ballistics tables you can use for free, and I ran these loads through it, using the ballistic coefficient from the Lyman manual for their 535-grain Postell bullet, the Brooks being virtually identical but ten grains lighter, and it gave me elevation settings out to 500 yards. Beyond which I don't think I could see the target well enough to shoot. I will be interesting finding out if these settings match up to what actual shooting shows.
About those problems with analysis of stuff from crime scenes,
went looking for something I remembered reading, and found some of it. This one is from 2003:
A panel of government scientific advisors has found that an FBI forensic technique long used to link bullets with assailants is scientifically flawed and potentially misleading to juries -- a finding that could affect hundreds of past convictions.
The method, which measures the likelihood of a chemical match between bullets found at crime scenes and those found in the possession of a defendant, has been used for more than three decades in criminal cases involving gun violence. The Times obtained a draft of key sections of the report, which is expected to be formally released by the National Research Council in early December.
More here on the same FBI mess.
A panel of government scientific advisors has found that an FBI forensic technique long used to link bullets with assailants is scientifically flawed and potentially misleading to juries -- a finding that could affect hundreds of past convictions.
The method, which measures the likelihood of a chemical match between bullets found at crime scenes and those found in the possession of a defendant, has been used for more than three decades in criminal cases involving gun violence. The Times obtained a draft of key sections of the report, which is expected to be formally released by the National Research Council in early December.
More here on the same FBI mess.
Add this to other "No, you cannot say this matches that" rulings
The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that firearms experts will no longer be able to testify that a bullet was fired from a particular gun. The decision is likely the first by a state supreme court to undercut the widespread forensic discipline of firearms identification, which is used in criminal cases across the country.
In a 4–3 decision first reported by The Baltimore Sun, the Maryland Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Kobina Ebo Abruquah after finding that a firearm expert's trial testimony linking Abruquah's gun to bullets found at a crime scene wasn't backed up by reliable science. In the majority opinion, Maryland Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader wrote that "firearms identification has not been shown to reach reliable results linking a particular unknown bullet to a particular known firearm."
In a 4–3 decision first reported by The Baltimore Sun, the Maryland Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Kobina Ebo Abruquah after finding that a firearm expert's trial testimony linking Abruquah's gun to bullets found at a crime scene wasn't backed up by reliable science. In the majority opinion, Maryland Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader wrote that "firearms identification has not been shown to reach reliable results linking a particular unknown bullet to a particular known firearm."
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