Divemedic

Griner

Many people are up in arms about Britney Griner receiving a nine year jail sentence for smuggling marijuana into Russia. The most numerous claim I have seen is that the sentence is out of line with the crime she committed, or that the sentence was politically motivated. That is immaterial, as the nine year sentence was not out of line with what other people in Russia have received for the same crime.

Griner also complained in court that no one read her her Miranda rights. That is just class A stupidity. A person has no rights in Russia, and even if they did, Miranda is a US court decision under US law and wouldn’t apply in Russia. Griner is supposedly a college graduate, even though I could find no mention of her major. Every article I could find only talked about her accomplishments as a college athlete and not as a scholar. With her applying logic like this, it had to be a degree in something inane and easy so that she could qualify for sports.

What makes her claimed defense under Miranda even worse is that the MSM then ran with that, claiming that this raised “procedural questions about her arrest.”

All of those defenses became moot when she pled guilty. Admitting guilt would mean that she was going to face the full wrath of the court. A court, I would add, that she denigrated in the press every chance she got. I am sure that they were not inclined to go easy on her after that.

People need to understand that the rest of the world isn’t the United States. These morons take a knee to protest the US, claiming that it is fundamentally unjust without stopping to consider what the rest of the world is like. You think 9 years for drug smuggling is harsh?

Do you remember the teenager who got caned in Singapore back in 1994 because he stole some traffic signs and vandalized 18 cars? Americans thought that was harsh, but sentence was carried out.

In Iran, you can be executed for being of any religion except Muslim.

Speaking of Iran, it is one of the ten countries that officially allow executions for being homosexual. There are other countries that executed homosexuals, but it is unofficially carried out. Saudi Arabia has executed people for that offense as recently as three years ago.

Try going to North Korea and saying that Kim Jong-Il was lying when he claimed to have played golf once, where he got 5 holes in one, and finished with a 34 before he declared that the game was too easy and resolved never to play again. You will get life in prison if you are lucky.

Go to China and protest against the government. Take a knee during the Chinese National Anthem before declaring that the government is oppressing you. See what happens.

So Griner, who spent years taking a knee during the National Anthem because she believed that the US was unjustly treating blacks, has an all new perspective on what justice means. Or she should, but I am betting that this self important knucklehead hasn’t learned a thing from all of this.

Well, she has nine years to think about it.

By Divemedic, ago

Proof of Life

The White House today announced that Biden is still COVID positive and will continue to isolate. At this point, one has to wonder what is REALLY going on. Are the Democrats hiding the fact that he is out of his mind? Dead? He has been COVID positive for two weeks. Do they really expect us to believe that he is still contagious, even when experts say ten days is enough and the CDC says five? Aren’t we “following the science?”

At this point, I think COVID is being used to keep his senile ass out of the public eye, even though they need him to remain President.

By Divemedic, ago

Our Kids are Watching

Some of you have asked why we should care when people like Demi Lovato make it into the news when they declare that their pronouns have changed. Again.

We should care because your kids are watching. They see someone who is on the children’s shows that they watch, telling them that they can be trans. This is just another way of grooming children.

Instead of ignoring them, ceding the field to them, letting them have the megaphone, we should be opposing them. We should be calling them out for this. Don’t let them be the only ones who get to talk to your kids about this. Children are impressionable. Let’s give children the other viewpoint.

By Divemedic, ago

Refuse to Do Business

Yesterday, I wrote that small businesses should refuse to do business with people who live in California, because they are exporting their police to enforce California law on other states. Now here comes New York, going after large businesses.

They are investigating whether Tyson foods violated New York anti gouging laws by charging higher prices for meat during the COVID lockdowns. Tyson is refusing to comply with the subpoena, claiming that they cannot be investigated in New York for the price of meat charged by them in Arkansas.

This has a logical outcome. If the state of New York wants to mess around and force companies to sell food at a loss, then companies will simply stop selling there. No matter how large the market, if profits aren’t there, then there is no reason to sell there. It’s like the old SNL skit.

The original skit ended with “People ask us how we can make money, when all we do is make change. The answer to that is simple: volume.” For some reason SNL removed that line from the bit. Maybe because people today wouldn’t get it.

New York doesn’t get it. No matter how many people who live there, if there is no profit, companies won’t do business there. That is the essence of the national split we see today. The cities can’t impose their will upon the rural areas without limit. There will be push back, and there lies the source of our national split.

We as a nation are headed for divorce. The people in the middle of the country will only be pushed so far. The cities will have to play nice, or they will found out just what cold, dark, and hungry are.

By Divemedic, ago

Florida is the Key to the Presidency

Florida became a state in 1845. Since that time, the voters of Florida have voted in 43 Presidential elections (they only missed voting in the 1864 election). The candidate who won in Florida became the President 75 percent of the time. In those elections, Floridians selected a Democrat 25 times, a Republican 17 times, and once selected a Whig.

Out of those elections, only 10 men became President without winning Florida (McKinley did it twice). Interestingly enough, the eight times when the person who became President after losing in Florida from 1848 to 1924 were Republicans. Since 1924, the President has been selected by Florida in all but three contests, with two of those three being Republicans who won Florida, but lost the election.

It breaks down like this:

  • In 1860, Lincoln was not even on Florida’s ballot.
  • Florida was not part of the Union in 1864 and did not send electors to the college.
  • In 1880, the Democrat won Florida but was defeated in the election when Garfield was elected to the Presidency.
  • Republican Harrison in 1888 won the electoral college while losing the popular vote. That would not happen again until Al Gore lost to GW Bush in 2000. Florida had 4 of the 401 electoral votes at the time.
  • In 1896, Republican McKinley defeated Bryan to win Florida’s 4 votes in the electoral college.
  • In a rematch of the 1896 election, in 1900 McKinley again won the election after losing in Florida to Bryan.
  • When Teddy Roosevelt beat the Democrat to become President in 1904.
  • In 1908 when Taft, the Republican nominee, defeated Bryan.
  • Then in 1924, Coolidge beat out Davis to become President after winning Florida’s 6 electoral votes.
  • In 1960, Florida voters selected Richard Nixon, but JFK won the election.
  • In 1992, Bush won Florida’s 25 electoral votes but still lost the election to Bill Clinton.
  • Trump won Florida in 2020, but lost to Joe Biden.

Since 1952, Florida has been a pretty reliable vote for the Republicans, going red in 14 of the last 21 elections. From 1880 to 1948, Florida voters were reliably Democrat, having voted Blue in 17 out of the 18 Presidential elections during that period. I find that interesting, and I wonder if that has anything to do with the fundamental change of the Democrats becoming leftist.

By Divemedic, ago

Don’t Do Business with Californians

A rich guy in California ordered a custom, hand made car from a manufacturer in Indiana. He made partial payment on the $200,000 car, but then missed one of his payments before finally paying in full 8 months later. The manufacturer told him that due to the payment delay, his car would be at the end of the queue.

The rich guy got angry and called police. The DA refused to prosecute, saying it was a civil matter. So he sued in California. The court dismissed it, saying that the case would have to be filed in Indiana.

So rich guy called his friend, who happened to be the Sheriff of San Mateo County, California. The sheriff sent 4 cops to Indiana with a search warrant, and they raided the car maker’s business. Then they froze his bank accounts and seized his electronic records. Now the car maker is being charged with two felonies.

In 19 years of business, Racop has never failed to deliver an order of his 1966 Batmobile replica. Given the current charges and other supply issues due to the pandemic, he doesn’t plan to continue his work for much longer. He only intends to complete his current orders before retirement.

The lesson I take from this? Don’t do business with anyone in California. Ever. What scares me even more is this: How long will it be before California cops cross state lines to go after gun and ammo dealers?

By Divemedic, ago

Next for SCOTUS

SCOTUS will be hearing two huge affirmative action cases on October 31: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. At issue are two main questions:

  • Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions
  • whether a university can reject a race-neutral alternative because it would change the composition of the student body without proving that the alternative would cause a dramatic sacrifice in academic quality or the educational benefits of overall student-body diversity.

Grutter v. Bollinger was a SCOTUS case on affirmative action in student admissions. The Court held that a student admissions process that favors “underrepresented minority groups” does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause so long as it takes into account other factors evaluated on an individual basis for every applicant.

In other words, this allows colleges to reject more qualified Asian and white candidates in favor of less qualified black candidates. It’s about time that we get rid of racial preferences in college admissions.

By Divemedic, ago