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We’ve seen a number of isolated Islamic terrorist attacks in the US.

American first responders and law enforcement have training and procedures in how to deal with them.

Even in a mass shooting event like Uvalde, which wasn’t Islamic terrorism, where police failed to respond adequately, the victims were isolated to one room. The Pulse nightclub shooting was the same.

Israel prepared for attacks by one or two terrorists going after cafes or buses.

A few hundred to few thousand terrorists crossing the border en masse overwhelmed the Israelis ability to respond and caused disproportionately more chaos and casualties.

I think this is the next step.

Have a few hundred or few thousand Islamic terrorists enter the US and congregate in a couple of large cities.

Then attack all at once.

It would overwhelm law enforcement.

There aren’t enough SWAT teams to deal with a thousand active shooters in a city.

The Army or National Guard couldn’t be activated fast enough to respond.

Such an attack would last for days and kill many thousands of Americans.

I believe that people like this are entering the US and waiting until they reach a critical mass to pull off a 10/7 type attack.

Woke up to this crap again, but the experts are guessing we are getting back to “normal” starting tonight.

Seriously, enough of this shit.

B.L.U.F.
Don’t let the government cheat! Plain text first. Know what it means. K.I.S.S. it. Is it an arm? Are they a member of The People? Do they want to keep or bear?

Done!
(1550 words)

While Justice Thomas said that the inferior courts had gone one step too far in their two-step analysis of Second Amendment challenges, the Heller Court did lay out a two-step analysis.

Heller said that the first step was to determine if the proposed conduct implicated the plain text of the Second Amendment as understood at the founding. The second step was for the state to provide historical analogues of the modern infringement from the time of the founding.

The inferior courts cheated. They took the Heller methodology and just assumed that the modern infringement was unconstitutional without deciding.

This allowed them to say, “We will assume an ‘assault weapon’ ban is assumed to be unconstitutional. Moving on, we look at how bad your rape is, if it is bad bad, then we’ll use strict scrutiny. If it is only a bad rape, then we’ll use intermediate scrutiny. The government then has the burden to show that they have a good reason to be raping you.”

Justice Thomas slapped the inferior courts around. He explained that the inferior courts, when deciding a Second Amendment challenge, must first determine if the proposed conduct touches fingers with the plain text of the Second Amendment. If it does, then the inferior court moves to the second and final step, can the state prove a history and tradition of regulations from the founding which are analogous to the modern infringement.

The Heller Court analyzed every word and phrase of the Second Amendment. They have laid out the meaning of the plain text of the Second Amendment. There is no “It depends on what your definition of is, is”. It is defined.

The plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated if a member of The People wants to keep or bear arms.

Is means IS!

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We had accumulated enough kitchen garbage, so the wife sent me to take it to the convenience center. Our road had been salted/brined and is in pretty good shape to drive, even at the 10 degrees we were having. And then I got to the road to the dump.

And since our vehicle is a front wheel drive, I can say it was a nice butt-tightening ride there for a while. But my old off-roading experience finally processed this as a very-frigging-slippery layer of mud and I applied acquired knowledge with the new input to keep me “safe.”

I realized I can deal with ice, but dealing with dumbasses also driving in the ice near you is another matter. I actually had one idiot tailgating me as it was the funniest shit in the world because he had a raised pick up truck… which was not 4×4.

Morons everywhere.

Article from Nov 25, 2023

A total of 2,516 NYPD cops have left so far this year, the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city, NYPD pension data show.
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The weary officer said the workload at the whittled down NYPD is already crushing cops, and things will decline further now that the city put the kibosh on the next five Police Academy classes, as part of planned budget cuts announced by Mayor Adams on Nov. 16.

The drastic cuts will reduce the department to just 29,000 cops by the end of fiscal year 2025.

2,516 NYPD cops head for exits so far in 2023: Pension data (nypost.com)

NYPD is supposed to be running with at least 35,000 officers so they will 6,000 under and I firmly believe that is wishful thinking.

Now add this morsel of fun:

The driver who struck a policeman at a Manhattan crime scene told authorities it was intentional, adding, “F–k these cops, it’s a lesson to him,’’ sources said Friday — with the mow-down caught on shocking video.

Sahara Dula — a 24-year-old Brooklynite whose lawyer said mentors kids to stay off drugs — was driving her black Lexus the wrong way on the Upper East Side while high on marijuana Wednesday when she barreled into the NYPD officer, officials and sources said.
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Dula was charged with first-degree attempted assault, attempted aggravated assault upon a police officer, second-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment and operating a vehicle while ability impaired by drugs and reckless driving, according to the criminal complaint.

Shocking video shows NYC driver intentionally hit NYPD officer (nypost.com)

So she is being held without bail or a very high one, right?

Shephard —  who called Dula’s alleged actions “egregious” — asked that she be held on $100,000 bail, but Judge John Zhuo Wang set bail at $25,000. The suspect did not immediately make bail.

Not even charged with attempted murder? D.A. gives her a break and then the judge gives her another break? I am not knowledgeable of the bail system in NYC, but I figure she or a bail bonds place has to pony up 10% to get her out of graybar residence and walk the streets as a champion who stood against the fascist police.

I believe that rather than 6,000, they will probably lose 2,000 more and I am being generous. As a cop, I wouldn’t be where is open season on my ass and pretty much blessed by the powers that be.

Whatever is coming to the Big Apple, they have it coming and well deserved. You won’t have an effective police force and nothing effective to use to defend yourselves.

Enjoy.

The short version: A three judge panel of the Third Circuit court found that 18, 19, and 20 year olds are part of the people.

One judge doesn’t think so.

Circuit Judge Restrepo does not believe that infringing on the right of adults to keep and bear arms is unconstitutional.

His argument focuses on the phrase “The People”. However, there is no dispute that there is some age threshold before which the protection of the Second Amendment does not apply. I’m not sure if this is true.

I’m not double-checking his citations. That could be an error on my part.

The public in 1791 did not understand those under 21 to be part of “the people” protected by the Second Amendment.

This is a strong statement, his argument:

The Majority said, The words “the people” in the Second Amendment presumptively encompass all adult Americans, including 18-to-20-year-olds,….

From this, it follows that there are some people who are not adults and thus are not part of The People. Since those that were under the age of 21 were considered minors from before the founding and through Reconstruction were considered minors, they were not adults and thus not part of The People.

Restrepo: there is evidence that the Founding-era public would not have understood the text of the Second Amendment to extend its protection to those under 21.

At the time of the founding, a person under the age of 21 was considered an infant under the law, and a minor in common speech. Multiple citations to legal definitions from the Founding.

Ok, it took a bit to get here, but the Majority does provide the clues to get there.

Under Heller, as affirmed in Bruen, we first consider if the proposed conduct implicates the plain text of the Second Amendment. If it does, then the government carries the burden of providing a history and tradition of regulations matching the current infringement.

Those two steps, “plain text” and “historical analysis” are very distinct.

Under the plain text of the Second Amendment, every American’s right to keep and bear arms is protected. Be that a felon, a law-abiding citizen, a drunkard, or a newborn infant. That is the plain text.

Since the plaintiffs (good guys), are a member of The People, and their proposed conduct implicates the Second Amendment, they have satisfied the first step in Heller.

The dissent argues that are not part of the people. Since they are not part of the people, the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to them. Since the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to them, there is no need for the government to prove a history or tradition.

This is moronic circular reasoning.

The plain text is implicated. The government now has the burden to prove, by us of regulations from the founding era, that there is a history and tradition of denying those under 21 the right to keep and bear arms.

The reasons our founding fathers use might be that those under 21 are not part of the people. Or it could be some other reason, but the state still bears the burden of providing those historical regulations.

Judge Restrepo’s argument reminds me of the “you ain’t the militia, the Second only applies to the militia” reasoning of the late twentieth century through 2008 courts.

It is difficult not to get caught in that sort of reasoning. The founding fathers might have considered those under 21 to be minors or infants. But that doesn’t matter. It only matters if there are regulations denying them rights.

In addition, we have amendments after the founding that changed that definition. Regardless of what the founding fathers considered a minor, we modified our constitution to make 18 year-olds adults in the eyes of the law. To deny that truism is to say that only white, landed, men are protected under the Constitution.

I hope you enjoy this short one.

From the NY Post:

Pickle juice and cooking spray: Which snow and ice hacks actually work — and which ones don’t

Don’t freeze up when it comes to snow removal this winter.

Fortunately, experts have recently sounded off on the tips and tricks that will make deicing and shoveling a little less burdensome when the temperatures dip below freezing.

Here’s which hacks to try and which to avoid this winter when frozen precipitation piles up.

Juice it up

Believe it or not, one way to quickly de-ice objects like a windshield is the application of pickle juice.

Pickle juice is a salt brine. That alone will melt ice. But it also contains sugar, lactic acid, and acetic acid, which will rust your car, destroy your paint, and leave a sticky mess.

Not a pickle fan? Try rubbing alcohol
Numerous news outlets suggest mixing hot or boiling water, dish soap and rubbing alcohol to clear icy steps and sidewalks, with the alcohol being the magic portion of the elixir since it has a lower freezing point than water.

Be warned, though: While some hack testers claim their treated surfaces did not refreeze, others did not have the same luck.

The rubbing alcohol is the only part of that recipe that keeps the ice from forming.

First aid grade alcohol is expensive.

Why not do what normal people do and make sure you have a bag of deicing salt and a bottle of windshield defroster spray on hand?

Total cost, maybe $10.

And that stuff is engineered to do the job properly without destroying your paint.

But apparently being prepared in advance for winter weather, instead of trying to hack it with what you have in your kitchen, is an alien concept to New Yorkers.

I thank God I’m a Florida boy.

I was raised on hurricanes.

Being prepared for extreme weather is just a way of life for me.

Just adding to my list of reasons New Yorkers suck.