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#1
So if, say, RBG gets placed between two pieces of bread and someone pokes a toothpick through the assembly to keep her from rolling out, is it still battery?
#6
She's playing word games with Colbert on TV. Late-night TV silliness.
Posted by: Bobby ||
03/24/2018 9:59 Comments ||
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#7
I never thought I'll see the day you uys are making the left look good!
Fox news left out a few details, they're no better than the fake news sites.
I had to do a search on DuckDuckGo to find the an article that mention that Colbert was not allowed to ask Ginsburg any questions about pending SC cases.
Also note this is not a official SC (or any court) ruling, but a TV show interview.
Really guys, I thought your reading comprehensive skills were better than this!
#9
Looks like Colbert got one over you!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-03-24 10:06
Seeking, you might note that "Short Attention Span Theater" is the Rantburg section that normally covers humor and other silly stories. Just saying for future reference...
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#8 Something's wrong with Rantberg today, I cannot post hyperlinks nor post the article i'm referring to.
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance
and we're the idiots... uh huh :-)
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/24/2018 10:58 Comments ||
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Something's wrong with Rantberg today, I cannot post hyperlinks nor post the article i'm referring to.
Yeah, that sucks...
Posted by: HTML B. Hard ||
03/24/2018 11:11 Comments ||
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#12
All previous haranging aside, by the same logic, that means RBG is a really a judge.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/24/2018 12:49 Comments ||
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Gentlemen, when in doubt it always helps to go to the posted article. In this case, all of your objections are addressed in the first few lines, exactly as Seeking cure described, to whit:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has declared a ruling on a white-hot issue, announcing that hot dogs are indeed sandwiches.
The octogenarian made her decision on the “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on March 21.
“I was told not to ask her about any pending cases before the court, but I just had to ask her about one of the most divisive issues facing our country,” Stephen Colbert quipped, but he evidently couldn’t resist.
“Is a hot dog a sandwich?” he asked the long serving Justice Ginsburg in a one-on-one interview. “You tell me what a sandwich is and then I’ll tell you if a hot dog is a sandwich,” she tactfully replied.
Normally y’all are much more insightful than this — perhaps a cup of coffee would help?
About Seeking cure’s link and article posting problem: try deleting your Rantburg cookie, then type in your nym into the Your Name box in a blank comment to reset it. Also, Fred has limited the number of links that can be put in a single comment to two or three, if that is what you were trying to do; he did this because multi-link spam in the comments became a problem at one point.
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I didn't see the bit (current network "hosts" make my skin crawl), but could they have been having a little joke? "Justice Ginsburg, you're no Felix Frankfurter... well, no, wait... I guess you are! Har har har!" "Tee-hee. I suppose I am, Jimmy!" [chews fishnet finger fetchingly] Or something like that?
The anti gun people are not letting up. In all their complaints a clear picture is forming of the strategy of groups such as Everytown, a subsidiary of Bloomberg.
Those infringements are being allowed by the courts to go unchallenged because, I believe, the federal courts will let every infringing law be implemented just as long as money passes hands from the individual to the government. Courts don't, apparently, strike down laws that can affect government revenues.
Unstated in the proposals as well, but every bit the truth, is that most of those proposals are unworkable by the federal government because of jurisdictional problems, not to mention Constitutional problems. The federal government cannot prosecute laws that have not taken place on physical territory of the federal government unless either the states have laws that allow the states themselves to prosecute those laws, or that allow federal police to make arrests.
But jurisdictional problems still exist, so the government gets around that by psyching out their detainees so much, the detainee confesses to the "crime."
As a result, some gun channels are planning to move their channels to Porn Hub. Porn Hub features nekkid wimmin shooting guns, so that could satisfy (pun intended) some segments of the gun community Another channel dedicated to firearms is Full 30. Dunno much about the provenance of Full 30, so we all get to wait and see how everything shakes out.
So much of these actions are based on the repeal of the net neutrality standard, which previously forced all carriers to let in any content on their pages and over their networks. Now with the new policy, in which carriers can pick and choose their customers, I think the Big Dawgs at Google decided to run off their gun communities.
I think in the long run, it is a good, good thing that gun communities are being forced to go to friendlier environs. The complaints of demonetization are dishonest, with the only cost to them up to this moment being the cost of making their videos. Now a shakeout can take place, and concomitantly quality will rise. I think, ultimately, Youtube is doing gun channels a solid favor.
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Foundry 35, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, Reloads .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: +.01)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Fedarm, Own Brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Prvi Patizan, RNL, Brass Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Target Sports USA, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: +.06 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, 2.50 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Cabelas, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.80 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Remington, RNL, Brass Casing, .03 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
#3
If the "other side" starts with the premise that my point of view is off the table then I have no idea why I would involve myself in their "conversation."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/24/2018 9:33 Comments ||
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In AR pattern around Houston, Carter's Country (you know, Son of Sam shops here) has an ad for flattop DPMS Oracles for 499.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/24/2018 17:05 Comments ||
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No exceptions, no excuses. I fully support Marlin 444P ammunition clip restrictions.
#6
Marlin 444P lever action rifle chambered in .444 Marlin
Gentlemen, I question the need. The use case for the .577 Tyrannosaur is obvious as a general purpose round for hunting large theropods, but who needs a .444 for shooting fish? Although, if you are hunting fish, doing it with a lever-action rifle has a certain panache.
#7
Steve, get a pair of 3nn lb boars rushing you when you’re woods walkin’, or a mad mama when you stumble across her calf. You’ll want a monster repeater carbine.
[ARABNEWS] Over the past few weeks, threats have been made on social media against Syrian refugee women in Germany, especially those filing for divorce. These campaigns have escalated following the actions of a Syrian known as Abu Marwan, who murdered his ex-wife and broadcast a live video on Facebook moments after committing the crime.
I have watched part of the video posted by this person, but could not stare into the murderer’s face; instead my attention was fully drawn to the boy standing in the corner while his father explained his crime, argued for it, and justified it. The little boy stood listening to his father as he threatened Syrian women, who have found in asylum in Western countries the legal support that might rid them of domestic violence. Marwan announced very openly that his crime was a lesson for all women who want to get rid of their husbands, and warned that they would face a similar end.
There are many details surrounding the crime, starting with fleeing Syria, seeking asylum, integration difficulties, and later on legal separation under German civil law and the consequent financial blackmail that the husband used against his ex-wife ‐ according to their neighbors ‐ while she sought child custody.
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Posted by: Fred ||
03/24/2018 00:00 ||
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[DAWN] A WANTED man is now in official police custody and justice may yet be done.
The adamant pressure applied by Chief Justice of Pakistain Saqib Nisar finally delivered Rao Anwar, the disgraced Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police officer who is suspected of involvement in the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud, to Courtroom No 1 in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Mr Anwar was transferred to Karachi the same evening on the chief justice’s orders, and yesterday, the police officer was produced before an anti-terrorism judge in the picturesque provincial capital.
Arguably, without Chief Justice Nisar’s personal oversight of the search for the missing policeman, who was in hiding for two months, seemingly out of the collective reach of the country’s entire security apparatus ‐ civilian and military ‐ Mr Anwar would either be still on the lam or have found a way to escape abroad.
Interventions by the superior judiciary to protect the rights of the defenceless or punish the powerful who prey on the weak are occasionally justifiable and uncontroversial. The arrest of Rao Anwar is one of those positive instances.
Yet, the manner in which Mr Anwar appeared in the Supreme Court has raised a number of questions.
Clearly escorted by the Islamabad police and the anti-terrorism police, there has been no explanation offered for where he arrived from and how he came to be in the presence of a significant law-enforcement detail.
Mr Anwar’s mysterious disappearance is no ordinary matter. He is the prime suspect in a murder that has captured the nation’s attention and spawned an unprecedented protest movement.
No less a figure than the chief justice ordered his arrest, but for two months no intelligence, security or law-enforcement agency in the country was able to inform the Supreme Court of Mr Anwar’s whereabouts.
Yet, the runaway policeman was able to have letters delivered to the Supreme Court, and frequently communicated with the media. If it was not complicity on the part of some state elements, then it was gross incompetence by the security and intelligence apparatus that allowed Mr Anwar to evade official arrest for two months. The public deserves to know more.
If Mr Anwar’s trial is to become a watershed in our criminal justice and policing systems, sweeping reforms will have to be enacted.
A path-breaking report in this newspaper has documented Mr Anwar’s enormous criminal empire in Karachi and how a willingness to work for some powerful state elements and the political set-up shielded him from action.
His reign of terror in Karachi, however, was surely not the only one of its kind in the country. Criminal enterprises hiding in the folds of the state must be found and removed everywhere.
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h/t Instapundit
Will newly appointed National Security Adviser John Bolton help feed Donald Trump’s foreign policy instincts? Let’s hope so.
The established narrative from the president’s critics has been that President Trump lacks the knowledge, experience and temperament to successfully manage America’s national security affairs. By this reasoning he had to be surrounded by an "axis of adults" to restrain his impulsiveness, lest the U.S. blunder into global conflict based on a stray Tweet or sudden tantrum.
...But the Trump administration’s foreign policy has been successful because of the president, not despite him. His "blunt, hard edge" style is better suited for the dangerous world we live in than the cool detachment of Obama-era "leading from behind." And if President Trump has disrupted the old way of doing things, it is only because the status quo was failing. He is winning in ways the old model would never have predicted.
...With respect to North Korea, critics feared that President Trump’s tough, almost contemptuous exchanges with "Rocket Man" Kim Jong Un, and veiled threats of preemptive military strikes might lead to devastating conflict. John Bolton and Mike Pompeo have taken similarly hawkish stances on dealing with Pyongyang. Yet instead of going to war, Kim reached out to the president, saying he is "committed to denuclearization."
...Previous presidents kept the China trade and North Korean issues separated, but trade is Washington’s primary point of leverage in the Sino-American relationship. If the president can get a better trade deal for American workers while also encouraging Beijing to make Pyongyang see reason and abandon its nuclear weapons, he could be in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize. And Bolton and Pompeo are likely to help him get there.
#1
Trump's protectionist/mercantilist trade polices baffle me no end. Can someone show me some history where such policies have been successful? Besides, it reeks of Corporatism (read: Fascism).
#5
...see how long it took the Japanese to recognize the American patent on integrated circuits, referred to as 'chips'. How much money did they make on that 'free trade'?
#6
The Japanese and the Chinese are notorious for tilting the field.
Shipping a US made car to Japan costs three times as much as shipping a Japanese made car to the US. Plus they have these myriad inspections and requirements that compliance must be verified on each auto creating months of delays.
Try shipping a Whirlpool refrigerator to China and see what happens.
What Trump is doing is forcing FAIR TRADE on the Chinese and Japanese and making the rules the same. Both countries hide tariffs and embargoes inside rules, regulations, and endless fees.
#7
China is making a fucking mint from mercantilism right now.
Japan's troubles stemmed from the fact that their economy was built on a ponzi-like scheme called 'credit ordering', not on the fact that they made a mint by exporting while not allowing imports.
Everyone screams "but it's going to hurt the global system of trade!" Yeah, that's right. The only beneficiaries will be the American people. Exactly who globalists despise the most.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 ||
03/24/2018 10:38 Comments ||
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Many US trading items, the Chinese never buy in the first place. Pirated Silly-con Valley software, pirated Hollyweird "content." The Chinese were never going to buy it, so considering it "lost trade income" is absurd. On the other side, nobody in the US is in a position to steal Chinese make tires or car batteries or furniture or electronics or on and on. Unless we revert to making physical stuff that they would rather buy than make for themselves, the problem has no fix to speak of.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/24/2018 12:03 Comments ||
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Look, the whole trade deficit thing came about after WWII when the USA said, "OK we're going to bribe you to stay on our side and not go Communist, so we'll open our markets wide open to your goods. But feel free to keep our goods out to benefit your own people."
The problem is, after the Cold War ended, nobody bothered to change this. The globalists loved having influence and happily traded prosperity for American workers for it. NAFTA was the beginning of the end for the American working class. Then they had the bright idea of admitting China to the WTO, thinking for some bizarre reason that China would just break out in democracy, a system that China has never had. Surprise, that didn't happen and today China is experiencing unprecedented success with their "sell to America, keep our internal markets closed off" plan. We have the privilege of paying $375 billion every single year to trade with China. Europe, we pay $150 billion. We're getting royally fucked and the globalists don't care because do they give a shit about us deplorables? We can go die in a fire for all they care.
With tariffs, everyone loses but the American worker. It's about time we re-adjusted our economy to reflect the fact that we don't have to bribe Cold War allies any more. It's been a long free ride for everyone on our backs and now it's coming to an end.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 ||
03/24/2018 12:20 Comments ||
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I agree, "trade deficit" is a slippery thing to use as a basis for any economic planning. In the sense that steel tariffs, for example, are supposed to support our "strategic industrial base," I'd say if that strategic base needs artificial support, we have a bigger problem. In the sense that tariffs are a sop to unions, well, unions were another of those bribes to stave off communism.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/24/2018 12:50 Comments ||
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And if "we all die in a fire," where will China and Europe get that $525 billion a year from? At some level, kill-the-host comes into play.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/24/2018 12:53 Comments ||
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#12
Bolton is a good choice. He'll take the job seriously. And since the MSM is apoplectic it just proves my point.
#13
Even if he turns out to be a mediocre selection, and Trump and he don't hit it off, his presence in the cabinet and the liberal bed wetting and gnashing of teeth it will engender will provide plenty of satisfaction for POTUS, and me as well.
Let's suppose Trump did veto the bill:
Congress can override a veto with a 2/3rds majority in both houses. The Senate was 81-14 in favor. The House was 256-167. Wouldn't take a big swing to get to 2/3rds in the House given that "avoiding a shutdown" and/or "spiting Trump" provides cover. I'm not sure the bad PR would be worth it.
#17
I'm starting to think Trump should have brought in a bunch of WWF wrestlers and put them in top jobs with orders to clean house. Make everyone defend their job and then laugh as they quit rather than be subjected to being judged by someone they felt was beneath them.
Sure they might have had one or two body-slam incidents and lawsuits but it'd be worth it.
Then after a year you could put Bolton and others into position to rebuild the various departments.
#18
The tariff club was made for the one way street trading nations and their exclusionary import rules. But I believe the main reason for the putting the threat of tariffs out there was due to China. They have talked a nice game but they still continue their predatory behavior, and they don't do sh*t about the Norks. Just talk and circumvention of sanctions.
It is about time we weaned ourselves from the Chicoms. They need us more than we need them.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
03/24/2018 19:24 Comments ||
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Between 1950 and 1979. The US didn't produce anything in China, buy anything from China or sell anything in China. They were still the #1 economy in the world during that time. How was China doing during that same time period? All this noise about how the US "needs" China is only spoken by those without a basic knowledge of recent world history. All the US gets from China now is cheaper labor and sometimes/maybe access to the Chinese market for some of its companies. What China does for the US can be replaced. Perhaps not easily but it can be done. Where will China replace the massive US market? China perhaps has never learned the old saying, "don't bite the hand that feeds you."
China already bans facebook/youtube/twitter/google and a whole bunch of others. No loss there.
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03/24/2018 19:38 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] A WANTED man is now in official police custody and justice may yet be done.
