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Welcome back to the Washington place. We’re still busier than a one armed paperhanger. Dinner tonight will be determined by how wiped out we are when we call it a night. You know it’s been a long ass day when dinner is cereal. As a result, this is going to be shorter than normal, and will be heavier on “go look at this” and lighter on my takes. Booze is in its normal place, as are soft drinks.
The tip jar is at the link. Thanks, as always to everyone who has chipped in, you are why I do this. As the late great RAH said, “the most sincere complement starts with the words ‘pay to the order of.’”
First on the plate is something that I’ve had for a while, but just haven’t gotten around to mentioning. In WA state, as a result of the never ending idiocy of our government, (soon to be someone else’s government) You can now get paid Unemployment to STRIKE!
No, I’m not shitting you. In the most blatant buy-off to unions since the invention of “Labor Day” Engrossed Senate Bill 5041, signed into law in mid-May will pay UI to guys that go out on strike, if the strike lasts longer than 15-21 days. Quotes the sponsor of this insanity: Marcus Riccelli D-Spokane, “Striking is a last resort, and this bill will help level the playing field for workers trying to exercise their right to collectively bargain for fair wages and safe workplace conditions,” Thus speaks someone who obviously never worked in a union shop in his fucking life. Striking is the union’s first resort, not last.
Opponents of the bill respond, "SB 5041 would insert the state into private labor negotiations, tilting the balance in favor of unions and incentivizing longer, more frequent strikes.”
The sponsors have many more things to say about how this won’t cost the UI trust fund any money, and will save lives and cure halitosis, (I only exaggerate a little.) For the full stomach turning story, New WA law granting Unemployment fenefits to striking wokrers draws praise, concern.
Next up, on the SCOTUS beat, we have two stories worth noting, Jim McCoy reports on Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services, @ some-good-news-from-the-supreme-court You should go read his work, but the very short version is that, by UNANIMOUS decision, (pertinent point here, the decision was written by the most liberal black woman in the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson) made it clear that YES, discrimination against white strait people is still discrimination and not legal. Seriously go read it, it’s maybe the best feel-good story of the week.
Also from SCOTUS we have United States v. Skrmetti. You can tell how the liberati (totally a word, piss off spell-check) feel about this by the title of the article on the AP wire reporting it: "Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights.” To hear Mark Sherman report on it you would think that SCOTUS just approved “reeducation camps” for all tranies, instead of just saying
1)this is a state thing, the federal government doesn’t get a say; Tenth Amendment, bitches.
2) It’s not a violation of equal rights, because it says no one can have this done to them as a minor. It’s worth noting that the dissenting opinions talk about “Lifesaving medical treatment” in spite of the fact that studies indicate far from saving lives, adolescents who transition to the opposite sex have over double the likelihood of committing suicide. Far from “lifesaving” these treatments often end in life taking.
What we need from SCOTUS though, is a final ruling on the authority of the federal district courts to dictate how the President can manage the Executive Branch. The list of District Judges that are telling the President “you can’t give that order to your employee” grows day by day. It is time and PAST time for SCOTUS to weigh in on this. They may not rule the way I would like, but they must rule.
In the related Law Enforcement beat, we have a few stories as well.
Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha was recently busted by ICE in a raid that took out about half their employees. The Press would have you think that this was a total surprise to Glenn Valley, and that “they didn’t-do-nuffin.”
I have an insider in the industry there in Omaha. Truth is, ICE has been looking at them for a year, over their shady hiring practices. The only way this was a surprise was if the CEO and all of management was in a coma. This isn’t the real story though, the real story is that in spite of the liberati take that “This would be a disaster, there’s no recovery, they can’t stay open without these jobs that no American would do!” it seems that “Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Falley Foods was filled with people filling out job applications.” Seems that when you can’t hire illegals, it’s suddenly not hard at all to find Americans to do the job.
Across the pond, in the UK we have the case of the gay couple who adopted an infant, then, over the period of three months raped the child to death. This is a repeat of two different cases here in the US, one in Georgia who not only raped their newly adopted infant, but sold the privilege of that experience to other gay men. The other was a Chicago Veterinarian who got busted before he got the chance on his newest victim who was about to be born via a surrogate. He confessed. He was also guilty of raping his nieces and nephews.
Look, this isn’t something that the majority of the gay community does, or supports in any way, but damn, how did these people slip through the system? Maybe it’s time to do a more thorough job of vetting for sexual perversion in adoption, instead of vetting for political purity by the left?
We also have yet another case of body cams save careers. another-day-another-win-for-police-bodycams This was yet another example of why any decent cop is strongly supportive of Body cams.
Mr. Terry Washington of Orange County was on court orders to take his antipsychotics. His mother called the police to report that he was off his meds, and was having major issues again. The link takes you to an article by “Not the Bee” showing the body cam footage of the interaction. Homeslice comes to the door with a boning knife in hand, and decides to try and fillet the officers. Further, this boy seemed to know what to do with the knife. For anyone who says “cops don’t need to be able to quick draw” I present this body cam video. Not sure I could have gotten my gun out of the mandated “Safariland threat level three” holster I was forced to use, in time to save my life in this case.
Of course, Mr. Washington was a black man, so if not for the body cams, we would have another George Floyd case. As is, family members are raising hell claiming that the cops overreacted.
Overreacted my ass.
EDPs (Emotionally Disturbed Persons) the latest PC for a “10-28” or, in more honest times, a “fucking psyco” are the most frightening call possible. I would rather deal with a Domestic Violence call (every cops nightmare, because once the victim realizes that their significant other is about to leave in bracelets, over half the time, they decide that the cop is the bad guy here, and attacks them.)
The thing is, as a cop, you know that it’s at least as likely as not that the DV call will go to that.
With an EDP there are no rules, no good guesses on how it’s going to go. They may play nice, and then suddenly lunge for your gun, they may show up to the door with a full fucking axe (happened here) and start swinging it like Hank Arron. Then, if you outass your firearm and defend yourself from this version of “Johnny”
you’re wrong! At least in the eyes of the media and the family. “you could have used pepper spray,” “Why didn’t you attempt to stop him with a Taser?” “Couldn’t you talk him down?” Imagine being two steps down a fourteen-foot stairway from a dude with a fire axe and murder on his mind: You going to stop and chat?
Final case on the LEO beat, we have Darian Lee McWoods, of Portland. He murdered his 15-month-old daughter. Cracked ribs, lacerated liver (Cause of death) and Meth in her system. Dude was sent away for life… Until Judge Josephine Mooney decided that Darian didn’t get a fair trial, that is.
Mooney is the chief judge of a three-judge appellate court in Portland, consisting of all female, all liberal, all LGBTQ justices. (Turns out there’s an “International organization of LGBTQ+ judges” I shit you not.)
They decided that the prosecutor used “pretextual” reasons to ban two prospective jurors, and that the real reason he bounced them was that they were black. (It’s worth noting that the DA in question is also white, female, liberal, LGBTQ.) The Judge “feels” that it was racist.
The court negotiated a plea bargain that will put Darian on the street after serving two years, because it’s “involuntary manslaughter.” There you have it folks, at least in Oregon, justice not only isn’t blind, she’s very color sensitive, and wants to make sure that her “feels” are law.
Sal has two good articles to go look at, on the Navy beat, /three-interesting-tid-bits-so-far regarding lessons learned from the Israeli attacks on Iran, and we-have-a-cno on the new candidate for Chief of Naval Operations. As always, these are worth a look.
Tom Knighton covers the revelations by Kash Patel that the PRC was supplying fake drivers licenses to get and harvest ballots for the 2020 election, at talk-about-a-strange-turn- This is important shit here folks, No matter how much you hate the PRC, and the former director of the FBI, you don’t hate them enough.
They buried the proof of actual, real, election tampering at the federal level, while shrieking about the known fake “Russian collusion” story about Trump. The FBI is rotten to the core. Just as importantly, it’s proof that we need to take a real hard turn on our election security systems, starting with he elimination of ‘vote by mail’.
Lockheed Martin just found themselves the target of a probable law suit based on that first SCOTUS decision we spoke of. It seems that according to Christopher Rufo, "Disgusting: Lockheed Martin keeps a spreadsheet of employees by race, then instructs managers precisely how many whites they must eliminate from the bonus list, even if those employees performed better than their peers. And they wrote it all down, even though it is illegal."
Rule number one of the “Management for evil bastards” manual, “If you are doing something illegal, NEVER put it in writing.” This is a lawyer’s target right environment.
Look I have to get some stuff done, so this is it for today.
QOTD: in the ‘Imagine this guy as Vice President’ file, "Iran has to retaliate in their mind, I'm sure. And now, who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement in this? Who holds the moral authority? ... It might be the Chinese." —Tim "Stolen Valor" Walz
And: "If you're a low-ranking member of the Iranian military, there are apparently an increasing number of exciting opportunities for promotions. Just make sure your life insurance policies are updated and cover IDF airstrikes or Mossad operations." —Jim Geraghty
Yours in Service,
William Lehman
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