Ford dealers have a clause in their sales agreements saying that purchasers of F150s can’t sell them within a year of purchase, or they owe any profits to the dealer.
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Bitch Slapping
I promise you that Clarence Thomas has been sitting at home thinking about all of the attacks that his wife has had to endure, the threats of impeachment, and the disgraceful attacks on justices. Now that the decisions are rolling out, he is having the last laugh as he metaphorically bitch slaps the left like Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.
Get my wife’s name out of your f*ckin’ mouth.
Criminals
Government Beat Down
An Atlanta Patient Advocate at the VA (a government employee) brutally beat a 73 year old veteran. He still has a job there.
If this is how they treat citizens now, think of how things will be if the citizens are disarmed. You will also note that it is a black man beating the shit out of a white man, but not one of the articles on this event make a single mention of race. If it were reversed, how would the stories read?
Antigun
Breaking SCOTUS Decision
SCOTUS releases decision in NY pistol case, ruling that New York’s means test is unconstitutional. The decision can be found here (pdf alert). A couple of money quotes:
Indeed, the Court recognized in Heller at least one way in which the Second Amendment’s historically fixed meaning applies to new circumstances: Its reference to “arms” does not apply “only [to] those arms in existence in the 18th century.”
Here is another gem where SCOTUS declares that we have a right to bear arms outside of the home:
The Court has little difficulty concluding also that the plain text of the Second Amendment protects Koch’s and Nash’s proposed course of conduct—carrying handguns publicly for self-defense. Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms, and the definition of “bear” naturally encompasses public carry.
There are also some phrases that may come back to haunt gun owners because they discuss historical restrictions that form the basis of what the court would find constitutional. For example:
the common-law offenses of “affray” or going armed “to the terror
of the people” continued to impose some limits on firearm carry in the
antebellum period.
It seems like the court is saying that either concealed or open carry must at a minimum be permitted:
In the early to mid-19th century, some States began enacting laws that proscribed the concealed carry of pistols and other small weapons. But the antebellum state-court decisions upholding them evince a consensus view that States could not altogether prohibit the public carry of arms protected by the Second Amendment or state analogues.
or this one that I can see as the foundation for a challenge to “assault weapons”:
The statutes essentially prohibited bearing arms in a way that spread “fear” or “terror” among the people, including by carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
There is a lot here, and a further review by someone more knowledgeable than I is needed. One thing is for sure: the lower courts will be visiting this topic for years, but at least we have a win for gun rights.
climate change
German Green Energy
This is how Germany went green by becoming woke. It’s a model that we are going to follow. Step one, close half of your nuclear plants:
Step two, replace them with Solar and Wind:
Step 3, go woke by refusing all Russian natural gas:
Step 4: Now that you are going broke, switch to coal
Yeah! Way to fight the fight.
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Sinking Ship
As I do here from time to time, I want to talk about the general economic state of the USA. We as a nation are currently in debt to the tune of $30.448 trillion. Despite the fact that the entire budget deficit for FY2022 was supposed to be $1.0 trillion, we have far surpassed that. At the beginning of the fiscal year, we were $28.428 trillion in debt. The beginning of the fiscal year was two trillion dollars ago, and we still have 2 3 months left in the fiscal year. Not to mention that interest rates have skyrocketed.
The interest on our national debt is skyrocketing, and the CBO is underestimating the costs IMO. For the month of May, interest on that debt was nearly $25 billion. Still, we keep borrowing.
We have to. The only way to fix this disaster is to cut everything. The majority of government spending goes to so-called ‘mandatory spending’ and interest on the money that we have already borrowed. Mandatory spending includes entitlements like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc. which are REQUIRED by law to be paid. Interest on the debt must also be paid. The money that must be paid totals about $5.2 trillion a year (ten years ago, it was $2.5 trillion). You get that? Social Security, interest on the debt, Medicare, and the like already total more than we take in through taxes.
So the only answer to the debt problem is to cut it all by 50 percent: Defense, Social Security, the VA, all of it. The problem is that is not politically possible. Any politician that advocates cutting Social Security in half can measure the remaining time in his career in milliseconds. Same with any other program.
Nope. We are riding this debt train all the way to the bottom.
Antifa
Prepare for Violent Weekend
According to SCOTUS blog, the Supreme Court announced that it will be taking the unusual step of releasing an opinion on Friday.
Expect the Dobbs and possibly the NY Pistol decisions being released on Friday. If this happens, stand by for riots and violence this weekend.
Antigun
Getting Help
Back in 2012, I posted about something from my past that applies to the whole “red flag” debate. I’m going to repost it here.
2003
Three minutes after the initial call to 911, we arrived at
the front of a small, well-kept house, a typical one for the area. There
are toys scattered about the yard, undoubtedly left there by a small
child.
The first through the door, I arrive in a rush and take in
the scene. Even now, nineteen years later, that image is burned into my
memory as clearly as if it were yesterday. There is a small child lying
on the couch in the living room, a small pitiful figure, his skin is a
mottled gray. He is covered in water and appears lifeless.
An adult male is standing next to the couch. He is soaked from the waist down, his clothing disheveled; his eyes red-rimmed, he looks like a wild man. I will not find out that this man was the child’s uncle for
another fifteen minutes.
I pick up the child, and he is cold. He does not stir, even when I harshly pinch his arm. I move to the door to the safety and privacy of the truck.
On the way out to my ambulance, I quickly look him over. He is about three years old, 12 kilos or so. Lying lifeless in my arms, he doesn’t appear to be doing very well. He isn’t breathing and has no pulse. My mind already computing drug dosages and accessing protocols, I reach for my radio and called in a “code” to the dispatch center.
I place my lips over the child’s mouth, and give gentle breaths. Chest compressions. Breaths.
We arrive at the truck, and I select the proper sized ET tube, and slide
it down his throat. My partner begins squeezing the bag, and I start an
IV.
I place him on the monitor, and I note that he is in asystole. Not good.
I spent the next 40 minutes fighting the battle that I knew we had lost before we even arrived.
As the helicopter flew away, taking with it the small, pitiful body once
so full of life, so precious to all who knew him, his Uncle approached
and asked me what he should tell his brother. He wanted to know how to tell a man that his baby boy drowned in a backyard pool while his Uncle took a shower. He then put his head on my shoulder, wrapped his arms around me and cried for the next ten minutes.
I went back to the station, numb. I didn’t know what to feel. All I knew was that I was empty, spent. In the weeks that followed, I had a harder and harder time going to work and functioning. I finally told my supervisor, who referred me to CISM. I was in therapy for that call for a while. It was hard to deal with. I even took anti-depressant medication for about 6 months. It was tough living with the ghosts of that call. I still get teary eyed sometimes when I think about that day, about what I could have done differently. Normal reactions, I think, to such a tragedy.
There are those who would deny me the right to own a firearm because I feel pain at the loss of a child. They wish to see people lose their rights without a hearing or a trial, simply because they sought help when they needed it. Millions of Americans seek therapy, take anti-depressants, and own firearms. None of them killed anyone yesterday.
No, they claim that being depressed at the thought of holding a dead child, at failing in the attempt to save his life, at having to console his mourning caregiver is an abnormal reaction that makes you a potential homicidal killer who needs to be stripped of his rights.
Those same people argue that it is completely sane for a parent to hire a doctor to surgically remove a child’s penis, because that child says he wants to be a girl today, even though that same child believed that he was a robot yesterday and a T-rex last week.
They argue that you can hire a lawyer, go to a hearing, and fight to try to get your rights back. The easier answer?
Suffer in silence.
Isn’t that what they claim is wrong with forcing trannies and fags to stay in the closet?
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Like You Care
Leftists all over the place are having a fit because the cops in Uvalde tackled the husband of a teacher who was trying to enter the school to save his wife, then took his gun away from him.
Hypocrisy. If those same leftists had their way, he would have been shot and killed by those same cops who were serving a red flag order on him for even having a gun in the first place.