Not that i going to matter to a Hateful Few:

In an email, Hammer said she was “pleased that this matter has been concluded.

“I have been a registered lobbyist since 1974. That is not and never has been a secret. I have never told anyone that I was not a lobbyist,” she said.

“When lobbyist firm filings first became required in Florida, I diligently sought out advice from the General Counsel of the Florida Senate to ask whether I needed to file anything differently than I had been doing for 30 plus years. I was told that I did not have any additional filing requirements as a lobbyist.

“Thus, in good faith, I relied upon that advice. As the filings are a non-issue to me, I would have done so all along had I been so informed,” Hammer added. “However, I am less than happy that the officials handling and commenting on these matters did not highlight the important point that I did not do anything wrong except rely on the advice of counsel.”

Senate clears Marion Hammer of wrongdoing after compensation reporting probe

she is lucky, if it was federal taxes and relied on the advice of the IRS and they screw up, she still would be guilty of the agency’s mistake.

But I did find this interesting:

“The probe began after a complaint by state Sen. Perry Thurston, a Fort Lauderdale Democrat. He said Friday’s outcome “show(s) the power of the National Rifle Association in the Florida Legislature. It is not a pretty picture.”
….
“Thurston and state Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat, both filed complaints asking for an investigation of Hammer.

Thurston, in particular, has raised questions in the past about the NRA’s influence over legislation permitting teachers to arm themselves after undergoing training as part of the state’s “guardian” program.

So this was brought to not because real malfeasance but because Thurston has a woody against the NRA and wanted to pass a clerical error as a probable felony… interesting.

But ot is OK Mr. Thurston, do not compromise!  You keep digging in her background, you have the support of more than one Chest Thumper® in the State of Florida.

/sarcasm off>

Last week a teenage Israeli girl was killed by a terrorist bomb.  Rina Shnerb was hiking with her father, a Rabbi, and her brother when the bomb exploded.  She was killed and her father and brother were wounded.

This was a bomb placed on a popular recreation hiking path.    Rina was not in the IDF.  This was an attack targeting Jewish civilians.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib decided to Tweet about this attack.

This is absolutely tragic & horrible. My heart goes out to Rina's family. More than ever we need to support nonviolent approaches to ending the Israeli occupation and guaranteeing equal rights for all. Extremism that puts innocent lives at risk moves us no closer to peace. https://t.co/lQ4qrYf6ig

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 24, 2019

Her heart doesn’t go out to Rina’s family.  You can tell by how she pivots her statement to “the occupation.”

For these kinds of Jew-haters, it’s always Israel’s fault when something happens.

As though “the occupation” is what causes some Palestinian to target a civilian family and kill their teenage daughter while they are out for a family hike.

Over the weekend Palestinians in Gaza targeted a music festival in Israel with rockets.  Two of them were destroyed by the Iron Dome.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago 3 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel. 2 were intercepted above Sderot. Hundreds enjoyed a music festival when the rockets were intercepted right above them.

By chance no one was hurt. Today the Iron Dome saved dozens of innocent civilians. pic.twitter.com/Kh8w99pc9r

— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) August 25, 2019

Going through the media, we see “the occupation” being used to excuse an attack targeting civilians.

By the way, Iron Dome is the most advanced ballistic missile interception weapon in the world.  The support of the United States for Iron Dome is part of a program to bring Iron Dome to the US to protect our troops on the battlefield from incoming short-range ballistic missiles.

When Congresswoman Omar and Tlaib want to end support for Israel, the also want to end the reciprocal weapons and battlefield medicine technology development that Israel provides to us.  So much of the bleeding control and medivac procedures that have saved so many American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan came out of Israel.

As long as the Democrats stay silent on this “blame Israel first” these Jew-haters will be emboldened.

A new policy from Elizabeth Warren announced on Twitter.

A lot of giant companies refer to themselves as “American.” But let’s face it, they only have one real loyalty: Their shareholders. A Warren administration will halt the hollowing out of American cities and create good American jobs. Here’s how. pic.twitter.com/pX0VpRXqqR

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 25, 2019

I’m an economic patriot.  I agree with her, more American companies should do more hiring and manufacturing in America.

So what is Warren going to do to encourage companies to do that?

Will she abolish the corporate income tax?

How about abolishing the NLRB?

Will she deregulate the healthcare industry to reduce the cost of insurance on employers?

One thought that I have had to encourage companies to hire in areas of the country that have suffered from a loss of jobs is to defer payroll taxes on employees hired in economically depressed areas.  So if a company buys a shuttered factory in rural Indiana or Ohio or Michigan, a typical rust belt town, and puts locals back to work, they will not have to pay payroll tax on those employees for some period of years proportional to the level of economic depression of that area, i.e., the poorer it is, the longer they can defer payroll tax.

Will she invest in infrastructure, such as roads, to help economically depressed areas attract companies.

Will she reduce the burden of environmental regulations on manufacturing?

Will she make it easier to drill, mine, refine, and build?

Nope.

She endorses the Green New Deal.  She wants to force companies to comply with more restrictive environmental regulations.  She wants to mandate the use of more expensive 100%  renewable energy sources.  She wants to tax companies that make over $100 Million to pay for green energy subsidies.  She wants to increase taxes for healthcare spending.

Pretty much every one of her economic proposals will make is more economically disadvantageous to manufacture and hire in the United States.

So without any carrots to encourage American companies to hire Americans, all she has is sticks.

So what we have here is a bunch of business destroying economic policies wrapped up in something that sounds good.

I agree with Warren that American companies should offshore less and hire Americans more.

I just don’t believe that a business hating, high tax, regulation loving, Left-wing Democrat is the person who can make that happen.

A friend had found a document from 2012 regarding the prosecutions (or lack thereof) for violations of the Brady Act and Federal laws regarding felons trying to buy guns. I covered that in a post 4 years ago and I guess with all the renewed talk of Universal Background Checks being the ointment to heal all Gun Violence crimes, I figure we can revisit its effectiveness:

It is simple: Two million violations of the Brady Act represent two million investigations and prosecutions, right? You have a prohibited person dead to rights by walking into a gun store or gun show (forbidden), very possibly manipulating a gun (also forbidden) and then filling the ATF form 4473 in which they have to lie or if truthful, they are signing the evidence of breaking the law with their own hand. And if a Federal Prosecutor was to save him/herself time, only one count would be issued for the multiple violations and that would entail 10 year in Fed Pen and $200,000 in fines.

So where are the two million prosecutions? Nowhere. Maybe a Million? Five Hundred thousand perhaps and that would be prosecuting only 25% of the violations? So what are the numbers?

I bumped into the info for 5 years: 2006 to 2010. I knew it was bad, but the reality is absolutely absurd. Here is a summary:

2006: Total denials: 77,233. Referred for prosecution: 172. Guilty Plea or Conviction: 73.

2007: Total denials: 66,817. Referred for prosecution: 196. Guilty Plea or Conviction: 48.

2008: Total denials: 78,906. Referred for prosecution: 147. Guilty Plea or Conviction: 43.

2009: Total denials: 67,324. Referred for prosecution: 140. Guilty Plea or Conviction: 32.

2010: Total denials: 76,142. Referred for prosecution: 62. Guilty Plea or Conviction: 13.

Of the 366,422 denials issued with pride in those five years, they only managed to get 209 convictions. That is 0.05%, half a twentieth of one percent of all denials that ended up with a conviction or a plea of guilty.

We need more background checks, and the statistics prove it! (or not)
September 12, 2015

Let me put it this way: If you a re a felon and try buy a gun in a gun shop, you have a 99.98% probability to get away without repercussions. I think it is more dangerous for them to try to get a gun from a black market dealer selling  from the trunk of his car.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America

You should know by now the case of Mr. Strange (no doctor) who had his concealed weapons license suspended because he happened to have the same name as a convicted wife beater. His license is now restored.

Hank Strange, who brought the story to AmmoLand, started advocating for Carpenter on his show. A sympathetic Captain in the police department decided to help out the Marine veteran. He took it upon himself to take a picture of Carpenter and had another officer bring it to the woman who took out the restraining order.

The woman confirmed to the police that they had the wrong Jonathan Edward Carpenter. The Sheriff’s Department quickly was able to get the restraining order removed from the father and husband.

Man Falsely Stripped Of Gun Rights Gets Them Restored

And as glad as I am about his license’s restoration, it only happened because a honcho in the PD decided to help him out of the goodness of his heart. But what about those that now or in the future will be caught in this idiotic Red Flag  mess and do not have the backing of a high police officer to clear their names and restore rights?

Although there has to be a process to keep people safe from those who represent  a clear danger, watering down the definition of dangerous and lowering the minimum standards for intervention to basically unchecked gossip only create  system ripe for abuse and mistakes. Cases like the one above will happen again and again and we will be asked to bear with them Because Of The Children™.

Hat Tip to Adam L.

I don’t know if you herd that San Francisco will no longer address criminals with sentences over a year as “convicted felons.” Nope, the new name is “justice-involved person.” A juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement” and the dumb goes on.

I am guessing that Facebook is doing something stupider than that. A friend of mine got a FB Jail sentence and I was trying to figure out what was the trigger for the Zucker bots…. and I found it.

It does not matter that crossing the border without the proper paperwork is a crime codified in our laws, but Facebook simply does not like it and will screw you because of it and I should used “undocumented traveler” or some hores crap like that.

I am guessing that “murder” will also be changed to “unwanted cessation of life signs by a second party’s intervention”