I am glad J. Kb. took on the Drag Show issues in Florida is the future we need. I had read in Twitter somebody complaining about how DeSantis was just like all the others and a BS politician because he was doing nothing to stop the Grooming Drag Show.

Once again, this is somebody who is used to instant gratification and whines because he does not get what he wants, mentally a political toddler. If anything, DeSantis and his team has proven solidly is that they do not take a dumb step for the sake of politics or P.R. When the drop the hammer, it tends to stay down and hard. Last example was the alleged kidnapping and transportation of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities that made the usual Liberals and at least one Law Enforcement agency to accuse him of Human smuggling or some other related horseshit. The DeSantis drops the hammer that every single one of the illegals had signed an informed release acknowledging where they were being transported and that it was absolutely voluntary. Yup, you never heard more from that story, did you?

You know what also works? The waving of such hammer which is what we have with the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza (Grooming in Orlando? Tha House of The Mouse? How Shocking!). Liquor licenses probably make for the only part of the business that provides a profit to this entity. It is rare the musician, let alone an orchestra that makes a profit or at least breaks even playing just concert music. Threatening their liquor license is Thor’s Hammer being twirled like a propeller from a Corsair: you know if let go, it is going to hurt.

I checked the case mentioned in the letter (IANAL warning), Hoskins V. Dept. Of Business Regulations and on first read, you would think it was a loss for the state since the court rejected several actions from the department. But paying attention, there are two items that spell disaster if the Groomers decided to take it to court.

The first one:

“We affirm the final order of the Department of Business Regulation, Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, which revoked the alcoholic beverage license of appellants on the basis of violating section 796.07(2)(a), Florida Statutes (1989), which proscribes operating a building for the purpose of lewdness.”

So, even though some of the things the State argued were reversed, the court said “Yes, the State was right on revoking the license. But the las item is the one I expect hurts the most if a legal challenge was presented.

“We find without merit appellants’ additional arguments that the foregoing conduct was a protected form of free speech and that the failure of law enforcement officers to identify patrons present during the conduct constituted a denial of appellants’ right to due process.”

That right there puts a big set of breaks on the usually brought Constitutional excuses to court. And if the State decides to drop the hammer and call them a Public Nuisance, it is not the liquor license they lose, but them may forego their ability to run the place without the supervision of the State or a local circuit judge.

And if it is not bad enough, the Public Nuisance was designed to deal with massage parlors specializing in happy endings and edifications used by gangs and drug dealers. That would be an embarrassment for the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza and surely the sainted patrons that donate monies to them would shy away from being associates publicly with such company.

And once again, IANAL on the above.

That’s right, you put on a drag show for kids and you can kiss your liquor and businesses license goodbye.

That’d how you fucking govern!

Early we wrote about Ivan Antonyuk et all appealing to the Supreme Court to have the second circuit courts stay in the case vacated. The stay pending appeal to the second circuit court means that the state of NY can infringe via the CCIA until the second circuit court hears the case and decides.

If the second circuit court decides for the state, then the case then has to be appealed to the Supreme Court where it needs to be granted certiorari. The second circuit court could put off hearing the appeal for years.

Unfortunately the second circuit court is overseen by associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She is very anti-gun and is very much a political appointment. Listening to her arguments and questions is painful. There was a chance that she wouldn’t hear this request because there are procedural reasons why should could ignore it.

Then something amazing happened. Yesterday Justice Sotomayor told the state of New York they must have their response filed by 1600 January 3, 2023. This is FAST.

This means that the state of New York is working overtime right now to prepare that response. 13 days from the original filing till the response is due.

This doesn’t mean that the decision will happen rapidly. It does mean that the Supreme Court has taken notice. We could hear a response as early as the 4th or 5th of January.

The state could request an extension, it is unlikely to be granted. It is also likely that the state will wait until the last minute to file in order to delay the proceedings as long as possible.

Still, it is good news.

https://twitter.com/Edwin07011/status/1607975639549706241?s=20&t=jrLl-OcedE6_zC-8oAoqig

The Tweet isn’t completely accurate.

The girl asked the boy to marry her.

Man beats up 19-year-old girlfriend for asking him to marry her in MP’s Rewa

A 24-year-old man was seen beating his 19-year-old girlfriend after she asked him to marry her in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district. The man has been arrested.

Dubey further added that the accused and the girl were in a relationship and the man beat her up after an argument happened between them.

In the video, the 19-year-old girl can be seen asking the accused to marry her. The man initially gets irritated and then proceeds to kick and slap her repeatedly in the face.

It seems that people in India have little tolerance for that sort of shit.

Man Seen In Video Thrashing Teen Gets A Bulldozer Visit In Madhya Pradesh

The home of a Madhya Pradesh man, who brutally thrashed a 19-year-old teen on camera over refusing to marry him, has been razed with a bulldozer, the police said.

Pankaj Tripathi, 24, was seen in the viral video slapping the woman, grabbing her hair and slamming her into the ground head-first. He then kicks her in the face and all over her body. The assault happened at Rewa district.

The district administration today sent a bulldozer to demolish his home. The machine went to work, supported by a large group of policemen, till the house was completely levelled.

Tripathi made a living by driving. His licence has been cancelled now. A local policeman has also been suspended for not taking action against Tripathi on time.

They bulldozed his house and took away his ability to work.

And that’s before they prosecute him and send him to prison.

I also love how they suspended the cop for not doing enough.

I think we need to learn a little from India.

Men who beat women deserve to have their lives bulldozed and cops who fail at their duties need to be punished.

Miguel sent me this a while back and I never got around to posting it.

He grabbed this picture off of Facebook, along with the following description.

“Another critical malfunction of a Russian 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled howitzer in Kharkiv Oblast – a burst barrel.”

The first thing I can tell you is that the shell did not detonate in the barrel.

The barrel simply wore out.

Artillery opperate at roughly the same pressures at small arms round, between 45,000 and 75,000 psi.

That is because the material that gun barrel ls are made of, medium carbon steel, can only be heat treated and worked to a certain tensile strength.

Cannon and artillery barrels go through a secondary process after forming called autofrettage, which overstresses the ID of the barrel and plastically deforms it creating a residual surface compressive stress in the ID of the bore to increase fatigue life.  Similar to the process of shotpeening.

However, the life of a Cannon barrel, like and gun barrel is limited.

Cannon barrels are good for maybe a few hundred to a few thousand rounds.

The hoop and hertzian stresses of sending a heavy steel shell down a barrel causes radial cracks in the bore.  They propagate with every shot until the effective wall thickness has been reduced to the point were there is a risk of rupture during firing.

A good military will know from the development of the weapon what the expected life of the barrel is and will track the number of rounds fired to know when a gun barrel should be taken put of service.

A good military will do periodic bore inspections to determine how far along the life a barrel may be.

I’ve been hearing that the Russian army has been having supply chain issues.

So it’s not surprising to me at all, given the intensity of the fighting and the lack of resupply that this gun barrel was simply shot past it’s life and ruptured.

Had the shell detonated, it would have been much more damaged.  A 152mm Russian is in par with an American 155mm round.

As barrel ruptures go, this is actually a safe failure.  It split and vented.  The danger condition is if the barrel actually explodes and sends shrapnel everywhere. That can kill an entire gun crew.

On a side note:

I have spent much of my career in weapons development and engineering.

I’m bad at coming up with topics to write about.

I guess because I swe this sort of stuff everyday it becomes normal to me and I don’t think about how other people might have interests in it.

So I’m going to open this up to you, the readers.

Email the blog and ask away on the engineering of guns, weapons, etc., or just plain technology and failure analysis.

Anything that isn’t classified or ITAR protected I’d be happy to turn into into posts.

Yesterday, I saw gas about 5 cents cheaper but decided to wait till Thursday.

But on my way to work today, I saw that prices went up a lot except un one of my usual stations, so I filled up.