I prefer to make posts that are factually based. When I started posting, I would often find myself writing about other people’s opinion pieces. I would read something at Red State or Erik’s site or a dozen other places, and it would “inspire” me to write my opinion about their opinion.

Over time, this has morphed. I attempt to read primary sources. If there is a reference to an original source, I follow it. If there is not, I attempt to find it. I want to bring the facts to you. To allow you to determine for yourself if my opinion is worth the electrons it is written with.

I do not have access to primary sources regarding the disgusting animals killing people in Israel. I’ve seen a few videos which have confirmed my opinion.

Here is a good introduction to what is happening now:

It includes videos published by the animals.

Here is his history of the region, from 2021:

Please note that I’ve been discussing this with my family since the latest round of terrorist actions from the animals started. The best answer I’ve heard from a family member was something of the sort “just one small nuke”.

Leave yours in the comment section with a brief explanation/story why and I will post them here. Also, which one you do not recommend.

And no, Ammoseek.com does not count.

B.L.U.F. The Ninth Circus court issues a stay pending appeal in the California magazine ban.

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I have written reams of electronic paper talking about how the court system “works”. At the top is the Supreme Court. The first level of Article III inferior courts is the Circuit Court of Appeals. The next level down is the Federal District Courts.

I have written about case law. Case law is set by superior courts. The Supreme Court sets the case law. The Circuit Courts then interpret that case law, setting case law for their circuit in turn. The District Courts then apply the law as interpreted by the Circuit Court case law.

If there is no case law within a circuit, then case law established by other circuits can be cited. You can cite to other circuits. If there is a consensus among the other circuits, that is a good place for to start.

Today, the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals issued a stay in —Order: Virginia Duncan v. Rob Bonta, No. 23-55805 (9th Cir.). They decided, over the vigorous dissent of four judges, that they were not going to actually do their jobs, again.
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On my new job (which will remain unknown) I get to deal with different individuals of different races. Some days ago, I was with a gentleman who was very impolite and verbally aggressive, but not quite abusive. Other than a greeting, I said nothing to him for about 10 minutes, just did my job, but I had to explain to him something and he noted my accent.

“Are you Hispanic?”
“Yes, sir. Indeed I am.”

Suddenly I was his best new friend and almost confessor because the floodgates opened, and he treated me to his issues against White people deeply believing I was in the same wavelength.

I just nodded along and said, “you are right” and “of course” in the proper spaces provided by his rant. When we finally split, he shook my hand and thanked me for the “conversation.”

I was the same person at the beginning and at the end of our interaction, but he managed to wrongly assess me twice: First by assuming I was just another Evil White man and them thinking I thought the same way he did because I was not Anglo.

I felt pity for the guy. He lived most of his life believing and behaving the way he accused others to be with him.

I choose to live differently: I will not judge you by the color of your skin or what you do in bed but by the level of your stupidity and your treatment of others.

It simplifies life a lot, don’t you think?

Israeli woman Inbar Lieberman, 25, is hailed a hero for saving kibbutz Nir Am from invading Hamas

An Israeli woman has been hailed a hero after saving the community of Nir Am from Hamas as infiltrating terrorists began to invade.

Lieberman, who has been part of the security detail in the region since December 2022, heard explosions erupting early Saturday when Hamas launched the unprecedented and deadly attack on Israel.

She quickly realized that the sounds were different to those she heard during the usual rocket attacks on the kibbutz and rushed to open the armory and distribute guns among the 12-member security team.

The 25-year-old placed her squad of kibbutzniks in strategic positions across the settlement, set up ambushes, and turned the tables on the incoming forces.

She killed five terrorists herself, while the others claimed the lives of 20 more over a four hour period. Nir Am was turned into an impenetrable fortress, while nearby kibbutzim’s suffered heavier losses.

One Kibbutz suffered no casualties and sent 25 Hamas terrorists straight to hell with three invaluable things:

1. Situational awareness
2. The will to do something
3. Guns

If only more Israelis in the region had those three things, the Israeli death toll would be lower, and the Hamas death toll world be higher.

This is an important lesson for all of us about being prepared and ready to act.

The Wannsee Conference was the event in which the upper echelon of the Nazi Party planned Hitler’s final solution.

If you ever watch the incredible and horrifying movie Conspiracy, about the Wannsee Conference, one thing that will gnaw at your soul is how so many of those involved were lawyers and bureaucrats who used every rhetorical means to justify what it was they were planning.

They wanted to make it clear for all posterity, on the assumption they would be victorious, that the extermination of the Jews was the good and righteous thing to do.

It is exactly that idea that I have seen coming out of student groups on university campuses across America.

U of M Students Defend Hamas, Denounce Gov. Lee For Backing Israel

“There is no such thing as innocent civilians under the context of settler colonialism,” [a student] said. “Palestinian resistance and the genocide of ethic cleansing of their land and their people is not terrorism.”

A student at the University of Memphis only said she is for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel and believes that she is the good guy.

NYU Law School Bar Association’s non-binary president Ryna Workman sends email saying Hamas’ slaughter in Israel was ‘NECESSARY’ while refusing to condemn mass-murder of Jewish families

Workman, who goes by the pronouns they/them, wrote in a weekly newsletter to fellow Student Bar Association students: ‘Hi y’all.

‘This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination.

‘Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.

‘This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary.’

Referencing violent terrorist group Hamas, who have murdered innocent Israeli children, Workman said: ‘I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.’

From NYU to Harvard.

Harvard student organizations blame ‘Israeli regime’ for unfolding violence

The joint statement from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups was signed by 35 organizations early Sunday, including Amnesty International at Harvard, Harvard Jews for Liberation, Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association, Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, and Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine.

“Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison,” the statement continued, noting that “Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. Through the systematic seizure of land, airstrikes and more, and referred to the current political situation as “apartheid.”

Swarthmore, CUNY, Boston University, college after college has student groups justifying the Hamas attack in Israel in which Jewis women were raped, Jewish babies were butchered, and whole Jewish families were massacred.

The all use the language of justice and fighting oppression to justify Jewish mass murder.

These students would make the Wannsee Conference attendees proud.

The site has not been as stable as I want it to be. We are experiencing a failure about once every 48-72hours. The outage normally lasts less than 5 minutes. Today it exceeded 5 minutes.

I know what the issue is. K8S is killing off parts of the infrastructure. Normally, it is the database engine.

When the database goes down, the site tells K8S that it is sick. This results in the 503 errors you might have seen.

The root cause is that K8S doesn’t think there are enough resources available and “reaps” something, normally the RDBMS.

The fix for this is to move from rook-ceph with an internal cluster to rook-ceph with an external cluster. The advantage of an external cluster is that it requires less resources within K8S, and I have better control over it.

I have created an external cluster within my own K8S test system. I’m in the process of documenting how to bring up a K8S external cluster. It isn’t working yet. I’ll get there.