Subdeacon Joe
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2 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
First I note this is not a 2A ruling, it is another APA ruling.
I haven't waded through the entire thing. But it seems that it was upheld because of "new technologies." I see that as very dangerous as it could potentially mean that through administrative word games an anti-civil rights BATFE and sympathetic Court could roll us back to the antis dream of "The Second Amendment only applies to flintlock muskets."
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20 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I had three kids in the same school. And I told them. If you get in a fight, win. If that means you got to pick up a stick and hit him upside the head, pick up a stick. And you two - if you see that your brother or sister is losing, you best jump in on his side. Cuz if I find out that one of y'all got beat up and the others just stood there and watched it, I'm going to tear you a new one.
Y'all are family. And it's y'all against everybody else.
I completely understand and agree with - "your son was in a fight" did you win?
I would rather that my kids did not get into a fight. But if they do get into a fight, they are supposed to win. By any means necessary.
My stepdaughter was picked on a lot in school by a little clique of thugs. We kept complaining to the admin. Came to a head when one of the clique "accidentally ' kicked her in the head. I spent two weeks giving her a little training, then went and talked to one of the vice principals.
Told him that we were tired of her being hit, shoved, tripped, pulled down by her backpack, etc. And now she had been kicked in the head. And the school administration telling us that there was nothing they could do because it was her word against that little pack. So since the school had admitted over and over that they couldn't fulfill their obligation as guardian to keep students safe on campus, I had given her instructions to take one, and only one hit, then to kick the guy in the knee and when he went down to then kuck him in the crotch and the face. And if the school tried to punish her for defending herself I would get CPS, the Sheriff, and the local police involved to investigate every member of the school administration as individuals, the corporate entity of the administration as a whole, the dustrict, and the supervisor for child abuse and child endangerment.
It was rather odd that after that meeting there were no more incidents.
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9 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Strawberry coulis and white chocolate curls.
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5 hours ago, Alpo said:
All riding together.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/ghost-guns-supreme-court/index.html
Technology shouldn't matter, but according to the Court majority it does:
"Gorsuch cites technological advances
Gorsuch noted in his opinion that the way Americans think about guns has changed dramatically since 1968 when Congress approved the Gun Control Act.
“Recent years, however, have witnessed profound changes in how guns are made and sold,” Gorsuch wrote.
In 1968, the milling equipment and materials needed to make a gun at home were far too expensive for most individuals.
“With the introduction of new technologies like 3D printing and reinforced polymers, that is no longer true,” Gorsuch said. “Today, companies are able to make and sell weapon parts kits that individuals can assemble into functional firearms in their own homes.”"
In his dissent Wednesday, Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that majority “blesses the Government’s overreach.” Thomas said he reads the federal law at issue in a much narrower way that does not cover “the unfinished frames and receivers contained in weapon-parts kits.”
One voice of sanity"
“Congress could have authorized ATF to regulate any part of a firearm or any object readily convertible into one. But, it did not. I would adhere to the words Congress enacted,” Thomas wrote.
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35 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
I'm surprised no one asked Forty Rod what it was like back in 1145 😃
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22 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:Somebody get up with Forty Rod and ask HIM what he would have liked back then!
So it was sort of asked.
On the other hand, @Forty Rod SASS 3935 would likely go back and tell us about 1066 and how Godwinson didn't listen to him.
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3 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
Steer clear of the last couple, he still wrote well but got more woke then I cared for even some decades back.
He was quite libertarian, anti-religion, and seemed to have no problem with polygamous relationships. A lot of far right militarists, the kind who parrotted from "Starship Troopers" about not being able to vote unless you did federal service, ended up denouncing him for his views.
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3 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
Still looking for "Podkayne" and "Space Suit."
7 bucks plus 2 bucks shipping.
They also have "Space Suit" for 20 bucks.
Also check Amazon.
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2 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
While Starship Troopers was written for a young audience, it has an adult theme about citizenship, duty, and freedom.
Along with that is "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress." A lot of interest stuff about government and human behavior.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
One day I was reading the Labor Law poster that was in the LGS my wife worked at. At the bottom of it was a bit, I don't recall the exact words or if it was federal or state, going on about violence in the workplace, and if you see someone with a firearm you should report them immediately.
Yeah.
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Dispatch: Before dispatching rescue crews, please verify the vessel is actually sinking......
A-10 coast guard pilot: BRRRRRRRRRRRRT
Affirmative. The Vessel is actually sinking.
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35 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Many people consider that one of them but I've read that Heinlein didn't think it was.
Also, the hero of the other 12 is a guy. Podkayne is a girl. That is a big switch - going from 12 male heroes to a female.
If my memory is correct, always iffy now, he had been asked by one of the pulps to write something in the juvenile/young adult genera with a female protagonist. So he took a stab at it. 15 Earth year old Podkayne and her 11 Earth year old terror of a brother, Clark. The publisher didn't care for the original ending in which Podkayne was killed and demanded a rewrite with a happier ending. RAH strongly objected to it, comparing it to doing a rewrite of "Romeo and Juliet" to allow the young, lust besotted teens to live and marry.
I just found this:1963’s Podkayne of Mars was, if Heinlein’s comments in Grumbles from the Grave can be believed, not intended as a juvenile:
March 10, 1962: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Is Poddy a juvenile? I didn’t think of it as such and I suggest that it violates numerous taboos for the juvenile market. It seems to me that it is what the Swedes call a “cadet” book — upper teenage, plus such adults and juveniles as may enjoy it — and the American trade book market does not recognize such a category.
as I was making sure of how old Podkayne was in the book. So he didn't think of it as "juvenile science fiction" not so much because of the age, but because it didn't fit the established "rules" for the category. I'd never heard of a "cadet" category before. Seems as if a lot of "juvenile" books in the US would more neatly fit that than true juvenile books. Almost all of his male protagonists seem to me to be late teens or young adults.
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19 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
Can't have the Constitution getting in the way of legislation.
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1 hour ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:
this was the exact conversation between two women as they were picking apart the APD for excessive force against a child! My goodness what is wrong with people,
1.) Everything they know they learned from Hollywood.
2.) They form all their opinions on pathos rather than logos and ethos.
SCOTUS Sold Us Out Again
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An interesting thing about that, at least here in in California, is that they can BUY them, but if stopped and found in possession of one California treats it as any other firearm.