ATF has announced they won’t be enforcing NFA registration requirements on owners of suppressors and SBRs. The law remains on the books and is still constitutional in most of the nation.
So I ask you this: What happens on January 21, 2029, when the next President takes office? Anyone who has an unregistered SBR or suppressor will be in possession of an unregistered NFA item. The law will still be there, it will now depend on who you are and how badly they want to see you in prison.
I’m convinced at this point that more than half of all government spending is just fraud and corruption:
This is pretty widespread at every level of government. I am going to vote to cut every tax I can. That’s why I am voting for Amendment 3. (Yeah, I know that A3 is about local and county taxes, but it’s a tax.)
Why, someone should do a comprehensive investigation:
For more than two decades, I have suspected the weather reporters have sensationalized weather just as much as the MSM exaggerates and creates new stories. I was kicked off of a hurricane and weather reporting site in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for telling people that the damage in Katrina wasn’t as bad as was being reported.
I was there, on the ground as a rescuer in the area of Pascagoula, Ocean City, and Biloxi. Damage was pretty severe within about a mile or so of the beach, but outside of that, it really wasn’t that bad. We watched as reporters told their viewers no one was there helping, while we were standing right next to them distributing food, medical aid, and searching neighborhoods for the injured and dead.
I had pictures. That didn’t matter. I disagreed with the consensus there and was expelled from the website.
About ten years ago, we had a hurricane pass almost directly over our heads, and the damage was nowhere near what the winds being reported would have done. So I bought a personal weather station. Nothing I’ve seen from that PWS has supported what the weather folks report.
The same is true about Hurricane Isaias. It was reportedly a CAT3, then weakened at the last minute to a CAT2, and even that lower bar wasn’t seen on shore. The highest wind I could find in the storm’s path was a wind gust to 116 mph with a sustained wind of 91 mph reported at a station near Santa Rosa Sound, Florida. That’s category 1 strength.
We are seeing this time and time again- a hurricane makes landfall and the wind speeds are nowhere near what was predicted.
This is an event designed for charity, where students placed boxes of donated cereal as if they were dominoes. Apparently, schools all over the United States participated.
Racine, Wisconsin’s Red Apple Elementary placed 7,000 boxes of cereal. Here is the story behind it:
Glad to see that property tax money is being spent so efficiently. See, the taxpayers of Racine Wisconsin are paying these schools to educate children and have every expectation that their money isn’t being wasted. Instead of learning, these kids are playing dominos, meanwhile the students at this school are only score 26% at or above proficiency in math compared to the Wisconsin state average of 40% to 55%. In reading, 38% proficient, with a state average as high as 53%, Science they scored 44% proficient, compared to the state average of 53%, and social studies saw them 50% proficient with a state average of 63%.
Other schools that participated in this are no better. Watervliet Elementary School in Watervliet, New York, should be more concerned that 33% of students are proficient in math, 33% in reading, and 28% in science.
In fact, our schools are a total waste of time and money. We are pouring money down a black hole, and have turned schools from a place of education into a taxpayer funded daycare center. Schools need to get back on task and stop wasting time and money on this shit.
The state AVERAGE is only about half of students know how to read, write, and perform arithmetic, and these schools can’t even manage that anemic standard.
It’s not just teachers. There are teachers who care and are quite good at what they do. Then there are the parents who just don’t give a shit. Students who tell teachers (quite literally) to go fuck themselves, and administrators who do absolutely nothing about it. Truancy laws are generally ignored, with about 22% of all students being chronically absent (meaning absent more than 10% of the time). In urban schools (which are overwhelmingly black), that number rises to more than 30% of students being chronically absent.
When the kids DO come to school, they spend their time playing dominos with cereal boxes instead of learning.
I see and hear this all of the time…
Let me share a couple of stories from the past month.
The first is a man who came in complaining of abdominal pain. There are a lot of things that can cause abdominal pain, and coming in to the ED with that complaint guarantees that you will get an abdominal CT scan. In this guy’s case, he had an appendicitis. It was already inflamed and looked about to burst. The doctor admitted him to the hospital, and the surgeon was prepared to do the emergency surgery that evening. The man refused, saying he had a job interview that afternoon and couldn’t stay. He signed out against our medical advice.
He returned to the ED at 8am the next morning, said he was ready for the surgery, but only if we could get it done and have him out by noon. When it was explained to him that he would have to spend the night in the hospital, you guessed it, he said we were only doing that so we could make more money.
Then there was the guy who had an abscess and calcium deposit in the tip of his penis. He came to the ED for treatment. He wanted us to cut open his penis to drain the abscess and remove the calcium deposit. He explained that his urologist had refused to do it in the office and wanted to admit him to the hospital in order to perform the procedure. The ED doctor said, “If your urologist, who specializes in this sort of thing, won’t perform this surgery on an outpatient basis, what makes you think I will do it here in the ED?”
The man then looked at me and asked, “Can you just do it?” My response was “Uh, no. I’m a nurse, and I am not performing a surgical procedure on you.” He then said the magic words: “You are all doing this just to get more money out of me. I will just have my wife do it.” Then he stormed out.
Are we well paid for our high degree of knowledge? Of course we are. Have you tried to have a plumber come out and do anything? I wanted to put a sink and a water conditioner in my house. The plumbing company I called wanted $600 to hook up a sink or $900 to hook up a water conditioner. The difference is you don’t die of sepsis if you get the sink’s piping incorrect, and when the plumber gets it wrong, no one sues him for millions of dollars.
Oh, and here are a few things that have been cured by modern medicine:
Today, I woke up to the first sunny morning in the past five days. A week of clouds and rain (more than 5 inches of it). I had to drain water from my pool on five different occasions to keep it from overflowing.
When I walked outside this morning, humidity was at 100% with a dewpoint of 74degF. It smells like mud outside. Now that it’s sunny and the ground is wet, the grass is going to grow like it’s mutated, but it will be hot, humid, and the ground too muddy to mow for the next few days.
Because the hurricane passed to our west, winds are now out of the southwest, and we are back into heat and moisture being blown at us from the Gulf. For the next week, we are back to hot and humid, with temperatures in the upper 80s.
I like it much better when storms pass to our south or west. That side of the storm pulls the cooler, dryer air towards us.
I have long said I am opposed to the death penalty on practical grounds. That is, I support the death penalty in principle, but don’t trust the Government to not execute the innocent. The case of Nidal Hasan doesn’t fit into my opposition.
According to The Washington Post, Hasan made a presentation titled “The Quranic World View as It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military” during his senior year of residency at WRAMC; it was not well received by some attendees. He suggested the U.S. Department of Defense “should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as ‘Conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.” He explained “adverse events” could be refusal to deploy, espionage, or killing of fellow soldiers.
Hasan represented himself in trial and admitted responsibility for the shooting, claiming to have switched sides in a “war on Islam” waged by the United States. Unrepentant, he bragged about striking a blow for Jihad. That admission is good enough for me.
He killed his comrades in arms, and I hope his upcoming execution hurts like hell.
Some Americans pretentiously think they are better than you because they can pronounce names from foreign languages like native speakers of that language:
Just like the people who insist on pronouncing the name of our current hurricane as if they speak Spanish:
Then there are Americans who don’t give a shit:
One of the things I don’t like about some of the dickheads in the military is how they denigrate their comrades in the service. The “You weren’t in the shit like I was, so your service doesn’t count for as much as mine did” bullshit. Like this:
Everyone who served had a job to do, and none of those who served could have done their job as well without the contributions of every one of those who were there. The Army can’t fight without tanks, fuel, ammo, and other supplies. That takes a Navy to keep sea lanes open.
The Marines open the beachhead. They need follow on heavier troops from the Army. The Air Force and Navy provide air support. It’s a cooperative mission. Stop tearing down the others who served. You did your job, so did they. It’s not a dick measuring contest.
I had an Army guy at a previous job tell me my job didn’t count because he was Army, and my service in the Navy was just sitting at sea, watching TV.