New Knockout Game Champion

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Jun 142022
 

Welcome to New York.

Chilling video shows knockout punch that killed man, 61, in Brooklyn

A single sucker punch killed a man. Took him five days to die.

What do you want to bet: they find the murderers (second guy might not have hit the victim, but he joined in the post-assault thievery, which to me sounds like Felony Murder), and the DA either finds a way to not charge them or to charge them minimally.

I have a suggestion for those wanting New And Improved gun laws: let’s institute a 90-90-90-90 rule first. Before a new criminal law is permitted to be enacted, 90% of violent crimes must result in an arrest, 90% of those arrested must be charged, 90% of those charged and convicted must be sentenced to 90% or more of the maximum. If you as a DA are not wiling to do even that much, then what’s the point of adding more laws to the books that you’re not going to fully prosecute?

 Posted by at 11:34 pm

Red Flag Laws

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Jun 142022
 

“Red Flag Laws” are *supposed* to be a way to temporarily disarm people who are a danger to themselves or others. Who could argue against them? Well… anyone who has ever noticed that they are not based on due process. They are not based on sober judgement of people who understand the gravity of depriving a person of their Constitutional and human rights. They are, sadly, based on the whims of people who have, and like to exercise, power. Witness:

Remember, Eric Swalwell is the Representative who not only bedded a Chinese Communist spy and did untold damage to the US (with no repercussions as far as I can tell), he’s also the guy who thought it would be a good idea to threat American citizens who do not wish to give up their rights. Threatening to use *nuclear* *weapons* on these citizens. Do you think it would be a good idea to turn over the power to deprive a citizen of their rights to a man with judgement like that?

 Posted by at 9:19 pm

Aaaaaaand it’s gone

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Jun 142022
 

Notice how some things are running short due to “supply chain issues?’ Get ready for the supply chains to freakin’ vanish:

Get ready for the catastrophic DEF shortage

DEF is Diesel Exhaust Fluid, a mixture of urea and water  that has been for more than a decade legally mandated to be fitted to large diesel trucks. It is injected into the exhaust to make it less environmentally nasty, which is fine. But if the DEF system on the truck isn’t working, because, say, there’s no DEF, the engine won’t run at all.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE: we’re running out of urea. Guess what: we’re reliant upon Chinese exports of the stuff, and they’ve been clamping down. But what’s weirder are all the conspira-lines that can be drawn:

  • CF Industries is the overwhelmingly dominant maker of urea in the United States. Urea is the key component of DEF. 
  • CF Industries’ two largest shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock. 
  • Flying J sells almost a third of all the DEF sold to truckers in the country. It obtains 70 percent of that DEF from shipment by Union Pacific railroad.
  • Union Pacific has mandated that Flying J reduce its shipments of DEF by 50 percent, or else they would be embargoed, which would effectively bankrupt Flying J. 
  • Union Pacific’s two largest shareholders are Vanguard and BlackRock. 
  • BlackRock is the largest shareholder of Vanguard and by contract with BlackRock’s investors, BlackRock proxy votes on their behalf on all matters concerning Vanguard. 

Annnnddd…

  • The Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute is Tom Donilon, President Obama’s former National Security Advisor. 
  • Tom Donilon’s brother, Mike Donilon is a Senior Advisor to Joe Biden. 
  • Tom Donilon’s wife, Catherine Russell, is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. 
  • Tom Donilon’s daughter, Sarah Donilon, graduated from college in 2019 and now works on the White House National Security Council.

Neat.

Two ways to solve this:

  1. Get more DEF supplies.
  2. Hack the sensors so the trucks will run without the DEF.

Number 2 makes all kinds of sense. But the problem here is that if things are so bad – either due to malfeasance on the part of Our Betters, or due to their incompetence – that something vital like DEF is allowed to run out, chances are good that diesel fuel itself will go to a hundred bucks a gallon.

 Posted by at 6:32 pm

Epilepsy?

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Jun 092022
 

After the break there’s a Twitter video that claims to show someone die. I don’t now if that’s the case, but what it *does* show is someone behaving normally, then suddenly swatting at the air as if trying to swat away a bee, then the guy falls over and locks up like rigor mortis, followed by other people rushing in to “help.” The video is of course stripped of all context, so the video is all there is. In looking at the comments on the tweet, the great majority seem to believe that this is something supernatural, specifically revolving around Islamic mythology/superstition (the tweet poster being, apparently, Muslim, so those following him are likewise Muslim). But would something rather more mundane like a sudden epileptic seizure explain this odd behavior?

 

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 Posted by at 4:03 pm

Red Flag

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Jun 062022
 

We all agree that young men who shoot up schools and grocery stores and such should be investigated and understood, with the goal of understanding what led them to do it. The important thing to learn would hopefully be how to spot the same sort of whacko *before* he goes bugnuts. Some things seem obvious, such as “as a kid he loves to torture cats.” Such a lil dickens  should be put under one hell of a microscope, up to and including institutionalization. Another possible marker of a whacko mind? Writings of a particularly creepy and violent nature.

Take, for example, this:

Visions From The Last Crusade

That’s a brief little tale written and posted online waaaay back in 1988, in the earliest days of Ye Olde Internet. As a story, it’s not well written. As a warning sign, it’s got kinda flashing neon lights. One would hope that the author of such a thing *today* would draw the attention of The Authorities. You would hope that the actual author would have been kept far from the reigns of power.

Prepare to be disappointed.

 

 Posted by at 5:47 pm
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