Migrant caravan leader says 15,000 asylum-seekers could reach US border (nypost.com) .

Coming to a door near you.

While our borders are wide open, you can expect this to be coming to America.pic.twitter.com/kCxR3ohSLg

— General™️???? (@TheGeneral_0) December 27, 2023

And the problem will be those jurisdictions where the homeowner will end up in jail for pumping the interloper full of ballistic pills.

Just in case, I am making 2024 The Year Of Ammunition. The Moar Ammo the Moar Better.

And the tradition continues

If you buy a book, it is yours to do what you want with it. That is a given.

But if you are not planning on keeping a book and think about donating it or selling it, would it be too much to ask not to deface it?

I understand stains and the occasional page with a tear, but bent corners, cracked backs, highlights and writings are not things we like to see and deal with.  Highlights and assorted marks distract me from what I am trying to do which initially is to get my own private lessons from the book. I do not need to know what you thought it was appropriate/interesting/necessary.

And for the love of all that is holy, any piece of paper and even a frigging toothpick make for an appropriate bookmark.

[rant off/]

Some things are deeply ingrained in your brain such as your Mass rituals learned in Spanish when I was a kid.  I was trying to do them in English, so I got the appropriate version (and in the phone, no less!) but it was a total failure. There was a literal upheaval in my brain as the original software conflicted with the new input and my oral output went from gibberish to shut down.

Oh well.

…fulfilling the needs comes naturally.

A former Tennessee official and her husbanded pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally producing “hundreds” Tennessee driver’s licenses for sale to illegal immigrants.

Cheryl Huff and husband Mario Paz-Mejia, both of Knoxville, pleaded guilty to one “count of conspiracy to produce, without lawful authority, identification documents or false identification documents,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which revealed in a press release that Huff abused her position at the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDSHS) to create the illicit documents.

Ex-Tennessee Official Admits Selling ‘Hundreds’ of Fake Driver’s Licenses to Illegal Immigrants with Her Husband – Tennessee Star

For the measly sum of $2,500, an illegal alien would walk out with a very well backed TN DL or ID card, we are talking the real thing and not some photoshopped card printed in some obscure garage.

Paz-Mejia also assisted his customers in obtaining false citizenship and residency documents—two requirements to obtain a Tennessee driver’s license—including fraudulent lease agreements to establish proof of Tennessee residency, and false birth certificates, Social Security cards, and driver’s licenses from other states and U.S. territories to establish proof of citizenship or legal residency in the United States.
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Huff used her access to TDSHS’s internal software to confirm that the names and information on the false citizenship and residency documents used by Paz-Mejia’s customers could be used to obtain a Tennessee driver’s license or identification card.  For example, on June 23, 2021, Paz-Mejia texted Huff the name, date of birth, and personal information used on false identification documents, asking Huff to “check that please.”  Huff responded, “All of these are not on file.  They’re good.”

After Paz-Mejia’s customers acquired false citizenship and residency documents, Paz-Mejia arranged to meet them at a Knoxville-area DSC before business hours.  With Huff’s assistance, Paz-Mejia escorted his customers into DSCs before business hours, including through a backdoor employee-only entrance.  Once Paz-Mejia and his customers were inside, Huff initiated driver’s license applications for the customers using TDSHS software.  Huff also instructed subordinate DSC employees to complete applications and issue driver’s licenses to many of Paz-Mejia’s customers.

Eastern District of Tennessee | Former State Employee and Her Husband Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Produce Tennessee Driver’s Licence | United States Department of Justice

Unless they kept a record of the licenses, those people (including military-age males of certain hostile countries) with the not-fake license are walking around with IDs that will survive any standard review simply because they were issued by the system supposed to be reliable and truthful.

But we are the biggest threat to the stability of our nation.

There was a minor uproar on the news about a case where a gun owner shot an unleashed dog, and the DA did not charge him citing lack of evidence of wrongdoing. The dog was a German shepherd which may have added to the controversy since it was not a Pit Bull, and we know that GS are incapable of biting humans (sarcasm).

In a follow up article, we find this scary piece of comment:

News 2 spoke with attorney Ben Powers about the potential reasons why the DA isn’t pursuing charges. Powers is not representing anyone involved, but is familiar with the case and relevant laws.

“Tennessee has a lot of laws about how we put guns in people’s hands, but we don’t have as many laws about how we responsibly hold that gun owner accountable,” Powers said.

How can someone shoot a dog in a Nashville, TN park without facing charges? (wkrn.com)

Mr. Powers is a Criminal Defense attorney and I find his comment a bit scary as it gives the impression that by default, we are guilty of a crime whenever we use a firearm, but the only reason we are not jailed is because the appropriate laws have not been passed.

I hope he has been misquoted because I would think twice/thrice before hiring him in a case involving a shooting. That comment makes him sound like he has a particular distaste for folks using weapons in self-defense and may cast a doubt on his future performance on behalf of a client.

I forget where I read that 99% of defense lawyers are mitigators, not litigators. They are more concerned about making a deal for less years than the district attorney is willing to shove on somebody’s legal rectum rather than making sure justice is served and an innocent client goes free.

I am not against the Holidays, but I am fed up with the way people act this time of the year. For being the season of peace and love to all, many become over-aggressive assholes, so de-escalation has to be present in your first-response strategy.

Some days ago, I went to pick somebody up from a hospital in Nashville. Most of these places have now a valet service and if you have any experience with them, you know they tend to be very forceful about getting business and very protective of what they deem “their lanes” which may or may not include those for dropping out and picking up patients. It seems that I violated such a DMZ when I went to get somebody from the lobby of the hospital, and I was confronted by the head asshole valet who was taking pics of my license plate. In a very confrontational tone of voice, he went off to explain why I had committed a mortal parkin sin. His attitude was as if he wanted me to reply in kind so some of fight ensued. But when I went “I am so sorry, I apologize and I promise I will not make this mistake again” while sounding genuinely contrite (I wasn’t) threw him off track. You could see his brain skipping gears behind his eyes and he just froze for a couple of seconds, unable to respond.

We got in the car, drove away, and I thought of two things: One was that de-escalation worked and a silly situation was avoided. But the other one is that those two seconds the asshole froze could have been enough to initiate defensive measures if the situation warranted it. Doing or saying the unexpected throws people off and that is something we need to keep in mind.

This is not the best of examples, but it gives you the idea.