Month: November 2022

It is all in the spin

Judge Suddaby issued an injunction enjoying parts of the NY CCIA.

The process that happens is that the parties can request a “temporary” injunction.  This is short lived.  It is designed to stop harm from happening as the case proceeds to trial.  Judge Suddaby granted a temporary injunction to GOA, held it for 3 business days to allow the state to appeal it to the second circuit court which overturned the temporary injunction.

Time goes by and the judge has had time to look at the pleadings of both parties and is now issuing an injunction.  This blocks large parts of the CCIA and it is in place until the end of the trial.

With a temporary injunction one of the parties can delay things so that the temporary expires.  With an injunction it doesn’t matter how long it takes to get to trial the injunction stands.  Using the term “suspend” minimizes the huge win this is.

In addition, when issuing the temporary injunction judge Suddaby held it in order to give the State time to appeal.  The State again asked for a hold while they appealed.  This time judge Suddaby said “no.”  His reasoning being something like “a right delayed is a right denied”.

What this means is that until such time as the trial is heard, all of the “good moral character” parts of the CCIA are dead.  They can’t ask anything related to establishing “good moral character”.  The judge explicitly stated that NY had just exchanged “good cause” for “good moral character” which is not allowed because of the Bruen opinion.

Along with stopping the “good moral character” parts, the judge took direct issue with many of the sensitive place designated by the State.  In particular he said that requiring businesses and privately owned property to say that CCW was allowed was likely to be found unconstitutional.  He also agreed with judge Senatra, Jr. that places of worship are NOT sensitive places and used judge Senatra, Jr.’s arguments to bolster his own.

The courts are building up a body of work that is in the process of gutting gun control at all levels.

With luck we’ll be free of a few anti gun politicians come January when the new Congress is sworn in

Election abuse in Florida

DeSantis beats Crist. Nothing unexpected there except for the million and a half votes difference between candidates. DeSantis went as far as flipping Miami-Dade red by +11 (When had lost it by 12 points) and squeezed out Crist in Palm Beach county by +3.

And Rubio passed the 1 million vote difference over Demings too.

This was not a win, not even a beatdown but straight abuse of weaklings by a superior force.

As for the Red Tsunami? At this writing, it pretty much became a ripple. The House looks like is going to go Red, but the Senate is going be a mess. My take? Too many GOP candidates are still playing softball trying to be “inclusive.” That strategy of “compassionate conservative” does not play anymore as it is just seen as cowardly.

This needs to be the new playbook.

3 Takeaways From DeSantis’s Win For Every Republican Governor (thefederalist.com)

J. Kb. made an interesting comment to me last night about Trump needing to get out of the way as DeSantis could actually be the guy who flips California to the Red team next presidential election. I don’t believe Trump has to go just yet, but I would not mind him be the center of manure attention till at least the Primaries are over. More time the Media spends attacking is less time they attack DeSantis.

They will hate it when they rules they create get used against them

Remember how it was Right-Wing Violence™ when some insane pervert hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer?

Well it’s all fun and games when someone chucks a beer at Senator Ted Cruz.

 

Go into the replies and there are lots of people celebrating this and a few wishing it had been worse for Cruz.

It’s all fun and games until people decide turnabout is fair play, then the shit will hit the fan.

The people who are trying to normalize political violence against “fascists” are not going to like it when we accurately identify them as fascists and normalize political violence against them.

Old News: This one hit close.

There was a rumor (Never confirmed) that a 4th plane heading for NYC was to be hijacked, but the hijackers either got cold feet at the fact the takeoff was delayed after the other planes had departed or that they did not make it in time to board the plane.
Either way, I would have been mighty pissed off to have landed anywhere else rather that the Big Apple that day. I was on that fourth plane sporting a glorious cold and about to visit the US as an adult for the first time in my life.

Little I knew how the stuff I saw and a decision I made during that trip would change my life. I did feel the in-flight movie was a hint, but never expected it to be that definitive.

 

Tuesday Tunes

It is said that the rich go broke and eat like kings, they poor just starve.

Wealth is very relative. There are people in the US that have a late model car, housing, cell phones, air conditioning and central heating, eat in excess of 5000 KCal per day and we consider them “poor”. There are people in other countries that live in squalor that no “poor” american would put up with that are considered wealthy in their own location.

That man wearing a breechcloth with a bunch of shells on a necklace squatting by an open fire eating roast snake looks poor to most Americans. He might be the wealthiest person in his village with the ability to buy and sell wives however he wishes.

I’ve been poor and I’ve been “rich” and I’ve been poor again. The people of my small town think of our family as “wealthy” yet we struggle to make all of our bills (some of that is I’d rather purchase another rifle than a couple of cords of firewood)

Regardless, it is much easier to be without wealth and still have money in your pocket than it is to have no money.

Money makes the world go around.

As an extra I’ve included “If You Could See Her With My Eyes”. The movie takes place near the beginning of WWII. It depicts the venial violence and hate of the left (Nazi party) towards the Jewish people. In the movie they point out that these evil leftist monsters have no problem with his choice of girl, but the punchline makes it clear his real point.