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The National Park Service is planning to remodel Welcome Park in Pennsylvania.

We need your input on Welcome Park rehabilitation! More info at: https://t.co/owkb3jxBIV pic.twitter.com/nh092m4S5W

— IndependenceNPS ?? (@INDEPENDENCENHP) January 5, 2024

The Park Service describes their plan this way:

The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design firm Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is located on the site of William Penn’s home, the Slate Roof House, and is named for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia. The design and construction of Welcome Park was funded by the Independence Historical Trust and was completed in 1982.

The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The reimagined Welcome Park maintains certain aspects of the original design such as the street grid, the rivers and the east wall while adding a new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering space with circular benches. The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.

Let’s recap:

The statue of William Penn will be removed from the park that is on the grounds of William Penn’s house, in the state named for William Penn.

Perhaps one of the most moral founding fathers on American history. A quaker who was anti-slavery and set of a colony explicitly on the principle of religious freedom.

Go to this site here and tell the NPS not to remove Penn’s statue.

The date of submission is January 8 – January 20.

And share this information far and wide.

On December 20, 2023, District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Southern District of California granted the plaintiffs (good guys) motion for a preliminary injunction.

This enjoined (stopped) the state of California from enforcing California Senate Bill 2. This was the “every place is sensitive, no guns allowed” bill.

Quoting Judge Carney, . SB2’s coverage is sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court. Reno May v. Robert Bonta, 8:23-cv-01696, (C.D. Cal. Dec 20, 2023) ECF No. 45.

Of course, the state started whining like a little baby when their infringement was slapped down. They went running to the Ninth Circuit to get an emergency stay.

The only surprise in this was that it took the state two whole days to file for the emergency stay.

While waiting for the emergency administrative panel to give their order, The People of California, lucky enough to have a CCW, could carry in all the places they use to be able to carry.

On December 30, 2023, Judges Johnnie B. RAWLINSON, Jay S. BYBEE, and Andrew D. HURWITZ granted the stay. This meant that on January 1st, 2024, The People of California could no longer carry. It was impossible, or nearly so, to carry with a CCW without violating a sensitive place restriction.

We do not know whether this was a three to zero ruling or a two to one ruling.

There were no more filings after the December 30th order. But the plaintiffs must have been working hard, behind the scenes. How do we know that? Because yesterday afternoon, the 6th of January, the stay was dissolved. At least one judge on the Ninth Circuit had the gonads to stand up for The People.

All the filings have been forwarded to the merits panel.

The case is going to be heard on the merits? Wow?

What is even more amazing is that it will be heard in April. To put this in perspective:

Punch it Chewy!

First the headline:

Dear God! The Florida Department of Education is tearing down FREEEEEDOM!!!!!!

Then the introduction:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Florida school system has banned two books that were published by an author based in Nashville.

Ann Patchett, owner of Parnassus Books in West Nashville, took to social media on Thursday, Jan. 4 to announce that two of her books were banned by the Orange County School System in Florida.

In the Facebook post, Patchett revealed that her novels “Bel Canto” and “Patron Saint of Liars” were the ones that were banned.

Nashville, TN author reacts to books being banned by Florida school system (wkrn.com)

Wait, now it is “A Florida school system”? Only one? A bit of lie misdirection there Bubba.

And then we see which school system did the deed: Orange County, the House of the Mouse, Los Angeles of the Everglades.

No! You are lying! The Most Progressive County of Florida wouldn’t dare to ban books just because… then again we find out that it is the top county in the Sunshine State for book bans: 673.

We know that in Orange County, the money flows from Disney Corp out and they have not been happy with what Governor DeSantis did to them. So, I will speculate that the leadership of the Orange County School System decided to apply a bit of Malicious Compliance and make news to make the Mouse Overlord happy.

Via The Tennessee Star.

A total of 1,203 guns were stolen from vehicles in Nashville last year, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD).

Last year’s total is a 13.5 percent decrease from 2022 when 1,392 firearms were taken from vehicles, MNPD notes, adding that the most recent data is “still a shocking number.”

The total is in…1,203 guns were stolen from vehicles in Nashville during calendar year 2023. That’s a 13.5% decrease from 2022, but still a shocking number. Among your New Year’s resolutions, please make securing valuables, ESPECIALLY GUNS, a top priority. pic.twitter.com/EQsSwGBvZT

— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) January 3, 2024

189 guns less than the year before. But we are still talking an average of 3 gun per day stolen from vehicles.

We need to get those numbers way down.

We will keep harping bout this because it simply does not make sense that people think a box with glass sides is the same as a gun safe.

As he should have for a while now. He became toxic and an example of believing the myth created around you. He Tony Montana himself.

That being said, he was not the hidden Anti-Gun evil fuck many on our side ended up saying he was. Greedy bastard? agree, but he stood alone facing hate and ridicule many a times when the rest of the leaders of other pro-gun groups never had the balls to do so.

I know YouTube used to have the video of this confrontation, but I can’t find it. About the only thing is an article from WaPo about LaPierre taking CNN head on and calling them a liars for this infamous video trying to prevent the AWB to sunset.

LAPIERRE: Kyra, let me say this to start: I’m glad you ran the story because apparently the only difference between The New York Times and CNN is that when a reporter for The New York Times fakes a story, he’s fired, and at CNN he’s not.
Your bureau chief, John Zarrella, deliberately faked the story yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance characteristics of firearms not on the banned list. He was — he was implying that these were machine guns or fully automatic guns. That’s not true.
PHILLIPS: Mr. LaPierre, I have to stop you there. No one fakes stories at CNN, and John Zarrella definitely did not fake a story at CNN. You’re very off base. I’m going to let you say your opinion, and let’s have a conversation, but don’t accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir.

CNN responds to NRA attack – The Washington Post

Can the NRA be saved? No idea and what remains of the leadership cannot be trusted until the one question is explained with full details:

Who leaked the internal NRA financial documents to Michael Bloomberg and The Trace?

It seems after this many years, nobody wants to answer that. Hell, even Epstein’s Lists are out, but we can’t figure out who went fully to the enemy side.

So, with LaPierre gone only half the job of cleaning the NRA is done.

At one time, I was a member of the NRA. My mentor gave me that membership. The legislative announcements we received were useful.

We submitted testimony three times, I spoke before the Maryland Senate committee that was looking at infringement bills. Every time, it was the NRA that gave us the heads-up. It was the NRA there, fighting for our rights.

In those committee hearings, there were always a dozen or more anti-gun groups and exactly one pro-Second Amendment group.

We look and see the NRA is missing in the current court battles. They were there. They still are.

Consider the name of this group, “The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association”. You might remember them from such hits as “New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York” and “New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police, Et Al.”.

Let me quote you a little something from their web page: We are a not-for-profit 501(c)4 organization and the official NRA-affiliated State Association in New York..

That’s correct, that was the NRA working for many years to help get our win in Bruen

Today, the NRA is a shell of its former self. I know people who maintain their memberships because they just do. I send my money to other groups, groups who I see in court battles time and time again.

Please pray that the NRA can recover from its nose dive to become a powerhouse in the support of the Second Amendment again.

I am a “hobby” machinist. I’ve read some books, I’ve watched 1000s of YouTube videos. I’ve even been in the shop and made things. But I’m still a hobby grade machinist.

Occasionally, there are things that you just don’t know you don’t know.

The bible for machinists is the Machinery’s Handbook. It contains maths, it contains formulas, it contains specifications, it contains just about any knowledge you might need to machine something.

I’ve looked at the section on bearings, and it didn’t click.

Then one of you sent me some feedback on the Casinator. It was obvious from the outset that they knew what they were talking about. They rattled off specifications and bearing identifiers without issue. I had to spend some time looking things up.

One of the things that we deal with is attaching things to one another. You can glue things together with molten metal, but that has its issues. You can attach things with bolts and other fasteners. You can also shove something into a hole that is too small for it with enough force that it goes in and stays in place.

That last thing is called a “press fit”. Assume you have a 1/4in hole, and you want to press a 1/4in shaft into that hole and have it stick. If the hole is 0.2500 and the shaft is 0.2490, the shaft clears the hole. As long as the shaft doesn’t expand or the hole shrinks from heat, everything is fine.

But we want it to stick. We can either make the hole smaller or the shaft bigger. The Machinery’s Handbook will guide you to the correct values.

Bearings are designed to be held in place. One of the most common methods is a press fit. For the types of bearings I’m using, this means that when the bearing is pressed onto the shaft, it stays. When the bearing is pressed into the faceplate, it stays.

The amount of interference is based on many factors, some of those factors are known only to the manufacturer of the bearings.

Thus, “nominal”. With the R4ZZ bearings I am using, they are nominally 5/8 OD and 1/4 ID.

They are not 0.6250 and 0.2500. The OD is large, and the ID is smaller. The interference fit is built into the bearing design.

My job is to hit the proper sizes when I machine the pockets and shafts. That is to say, my pockets must be 0.6250 within the given tolerances, and the shaft must be 0.250 within the given tolerances.

No maths for me! Just hit my numbers.

Thank you!