Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
And add to that that the Secret Service admitted it found pot twice before and what we have is a security that is not very secure. If it is by design, by pressure or a colossal case of “we DGAF” is still to be decided.
Anyway, my thought is that somebody is going to play alohasnackbar or some other idiotic and uninspired motive and try to breach the White House with a baggie of ricin or anthrax because the perception is anybody can do it and get away with it. .
B.L.U.F.Looking at another amicus brief by Everytown. Since they are consistently filing briefs in all these Second Amendment cases, it behooves us to see what they are saying.
I came back to add this text. You might get angry with Everytown over this brief. Regardless, they did a good job. Their arguments are self-consistent. They take a stand, then hammer the point home. Their goal isn’t to necessarily win these cases, but to give the court something to hang a bad decision upon.
Everytown is now the overarching group for “Moms Demand”, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”, It looks like they are claiming “March for our lives” but they don’t do so by name. They claim to have nearly ten million “supporters” with nearly 10,000 of those “supporters” in Rhode Island. Make not that “supporters” are not “members”
For the tax year 2020 they had total revenue of $20,492,640. $20,288,442 of that was from contributions. They reported expenses of $52,280,883 for a net lose of $31,788,243. The largest listed expense is $11,390,489 for other salaries and wages and around $500,000 for the Executives and fundraising. I could not find a “members” number. They only speak in nebulous terms, which could mean anything from a person going around knocking on doors, to the mom that dropped a five dollar bill in their begging hat.
Using the standard modification of language, they claim [Everytown] is the nation’s largest gun-violence-prevention organization, with nearly ten million supporters across the country, including nearly 40,000 in Rhode Island.
—Amicus Curiae, Brief for Ocean State v. Rhode Island, No. 23-1072 (Court of Appeals)
This is pretty clear. The first thing they do is argue that magazines are not arms. More, they place that burden on the plaintiffs (good guys). In many of the infringing cases, we see the state argue this. “AR-15s aren’t arms”, “Big magazines aren’t arms”, “Sawed off shotguns aren’t arms”, but a hunk-o-alumninum is an arm, a plastic stock is a machine gun as is a shoelace.
The second thing is, they argue that the court should look at 1868 as the date to understand what the Second Amendment means. We have discussed this in previous posts. The date of the 14th amendment’s ratification is the date at which 3/4s of the states agreed to accept the Bill of Rights as it was understood in 1791.
They did not redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment in 1868. They affirmed that they accepted it as it was understood in 1791.
Their final argument is that there has been “unprecedented societal concerns or dramatic technological changes” which means that they don’t have to match historical regulations as closely.
The last two arguments are very telling. It means that the state and state operators, such as Everytown, understand that there are no good matches to laws in the founding era. Since there are no good matches, they need to either change the time period or they need to open up what “a good match” means.
They also make the claim that a small number of laws will provide a “tradition and history” of analogous regulations. They are begging for the court to give them as much leeway as possible.
The sinking of the Titanic was not this painfully spectacular.
Went online and checked the price of mini cans of Coke (7.5 fl oz.)
That comes to$0.40 per 7.5 fl oz of Bud Light versus $0.64 per 7.5 fl oz of Coke.
And it is being said that the star/asterisk at the top right corner of the sign indicates that the item will not be re-stocked.
Costco will not be offering Bud Light any time soon. Losing rack/shelf space in any store is bad. At a wholesale warehouse? Catastrophic.
Ouch.
This pitbull attacks on a child took place in China.
That is a totalitarian country where you have no right to defend yourself.
Chinese government will shoot the dog for biting you, shoot the owner for having a dog that bites, and probably shoot you for being bitten by the dog and going viral.
In America, most of America I should say, you have options.
There are many comments about poking the dog in the eye.
That won’t work with pitbulls. They are fighting dogs, they fight through the pain to the death.
The only thing you can do is kill the dog or choke it unconscious. That takes time.
A knife to the throat is much faster.
The California Assembly committee on public safety blocked a bill that would increase the charges for human trafficking.
The Golden State lower house committee considered Senate Bill 14, which would make the human trafficking of children a “serious felony.” Serious felony charges under California law currently include murder, rape, and any other crime which may incur the death penalty or life sentence in state prison.
However, instead of upping the ante on child traffickers, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee nuked the measure on Tuesday.
I’m trying to come up with one logical reason that California Democrats wouldn’t want to make the sex trafficking of children a serious felony that isn’t “they are a cabal of pedophiles that trade in trafficked children,” and honestly, I can’t think of one.
The only reason I can fathom someone not wanting to make the sex trafficking of children a serious felony is that they traffic in children.
I’m convinced QAnon isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a documentary about the Democrat elite.
MyPillow is auctioning off hundreds of pieces of equipment and subleasing some manufacturing spaces amid what founder and CEO Mike Lindell calls “a massive, massive cancellation.”
Lindell, in an interview with the Star Tribune, said MyPillow lost $100 million from “attacks by box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”
Several retailers, including Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Kohl’s, pulled MyPillow products from their shelves after Lindell continued to claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Trump.
MyPillow auctions off equipment amid ‘massive cancellation,’ CEO Lindell says | WKRN News 2
I had seen on TV he was doing some massive discount offers and started to wonder why. OK, not really wondering but I think it was not only the Cancel Culture alone but his own mouth.
Mike Lindell calls DeSantis a ‘Trojan Horse’ | The Hill
Mike Lindell baselessly calls DeSantis’s win into question – The Washington Post
‘Unhinged’ Mike Lindell Rant Targets DeSantis Election Results (newsweek.com)
Mike Lindell Accuses Ron DeSantis of Benefitting From Voter Fraud (newsweek.com)
Is this a preview of things (and votes) to come? Stay tuned.
I admit the reason I bothered to do the transcription for this case is because I was playing with my tools. I’m to the point where I am either going to have to learn more, write my own, and learn enough about deep learning and AI training to be able to get the results I want.
Just to give you an idea of where all of these sit, three separate “AI”s worked to produce the video and transcript.
The first one is used to convert speech to sound. It is trained on around 680,000 hours of audio data. On my system, it runs at either 1:10 if I use the large data set and at about 8:1 if I use the small data set. The small data set runs on my GPU. The large does not.
The second AI is tasked with segmenting the audio. That is, it listens to the audio and finds where there is speech and where there is not speech. It can go further and detect that the speech is different. This has nothing to do with turning sounds into words nor in identifying the speakers, just labeling the audio for the next “AI”.
The third AI further segments the audio by speaker. It then clusters the different segments and assigns them a label. These labels correspond to individual speakers.
Finally, the NI (natural intelligence) uses inferences to determine the name of the person who is associated with each speaker.
The audio recording has some of the audio missing from the front.
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