tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.comments2024-03-18T21:32:11.549-04:00Grim's HallGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger66205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-83085316394000514312024-03-18T21:32:11.549-04:002024-03-18T21:32:11.549-04:00Yep, Gringo, that's Oklahoma.Yep, Gringo, that's Oklahoma.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21206540443559999842024-03-18T21:04:53.176-04:002024-03-18T21:04:53.176-04:00I read a brief comment, IIRC on Instapundit, that ...I read a brief comment, IIRC on Instapundit, that to the reporter it seemed the hypotheticals posed during oral arguments were far too focused on safety issues of the sort james raised and which were not really part of the fact pattern of the original case.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80429081202575929282024-03-18T20:43:26.110-04:002024-03-18T20:43:26.110-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-6067723446101425392024-03-18T20:43:25.253-04:002024-03-18T20:43:25.253-04:00This kind of censorship seems to differ in kind fr...This kind of censorship seems to differ in kind from war-time censorship. In the latter you restrict the truth and add lies to manipulate enemies who you _know_ are trying to kill you. In the former you are trying to manipulate your own citizens away from something you _think_ is risky.<br /><br />I can, of course, imagine a situation where a government would almost have a duty to suppress/distort information. Take as a ridiculous extreme a situation in which someone has figured out how to make a nuke from D-cells and peanut butter. We all know of people, maybe know them personally, who would try it out just for kicks, and some who would use the formula to satisfy a grudge, never mind who else died. (Whether trying to suppress the details would even work is a whole other question.)<br /><br />Does erroneous information about a relatively mild disease rise to the level of an existential threat? (Yes, I had some friends die of it--and also of the flu. Compare it to adult measles in a naive population, or ebola, for real existential threats, please.) No doubt some will claim that climate change is an existential threat, but even if it were so, remediation measures aren't obvious and should be up for thorough debate. And for arranging for accountability.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-3977518141540020582024-03-18T20:18:05.959-04:002024-03-18T20:18:05.959-04:00It does sound like she's really worried that t...It does sound like she's really worried that the government might have to obey some rules <i>even when it's really important</i>. <br /><br />I wonder that they didn't compare it with the Third Amendment. Like, the government probably wouldn't even want to quarter troops in your house except in an emergency like an actual insurrection. Obviously this is exactly when these rules are meant to apply. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-13778044232330033292024-03-18T19:11:05.838-04:002024-03-18T19:11:05.838-04:00Did I ever tell you that I voted for him in my fir...Did I ever tell you that I voted for him in my first election even though his security ran me and my friends off from his event at the Varsity? I guess we looked like teenage heathens and no-goods, which was mostly true but we were still there to hear him out. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-73953919323276935832024-03-18T18:19:02.395-04:002024-03-18T18:19:02.395-04:00I am not in favor of "mass immigration" ...I am not in favor of "mass immigration" from ANYWHERE. But I'd be very happy were the current (legal) system changed to strongly favor peoples with a Judaeo-Christian heritage/culture. <br /><br />So happens that PJBuchanan thinks the same; that's where I stole the idea.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21760193857151748892024-03-18T18:09:12.577-04:002024-03-18T18:09:12.577-04:00It's not any better with added context.
Here&...It's not any better with added context.<br /><br />Here's some more, courtesy of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/justice-jackson-complains-first-amendment-is-hamstringing-feds-censorship-efforts/" rel="nofollow"> <b>The Federalist</b></a>:<br /><br /><i>“You seem to be suggesting that that duty [to protect Americans] cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson. “So can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that. Because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”</i><br /><br />As Aguiñaga explained, <i>Our position is not that the government can[not] interact with the platforms there. They can and they should in certain circumstances like that, that present such dangerous issues for society and especially young people,” Aguiñaga said. “But the way they do that has to be in compliance with the First Amendment. And I think that means they can give them all the true information that the platform needs and ask to amplify that.</i><br /><br />Indeed, and what seems grindingly obvious to this poor, dumb non-lawyer Texan, the best way--the constitutional way--to deal with false claims, or merely erroneous ones, regarding dangerous issues includes that, and it includes the government going ahead and posting retweets/reposts of the wrong material with replies attached containing what the government claims to be the correct information, together with the logic behind why it thinks the one is wrong and its claims are correct. To the extent the government's claims are believable, that would do far more to deprecate the credibility of the wrong information and the source of it than hiding the wrong information via censorship. That censorship, in fact, enhances the credibility of the censored information and its source.<br /><br />And further, to do their jawboning, apart from their countervailing postings, in public.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42042351221093642472024-03-18T17:59:56.367-04:002024-03-18T17:59:56.367-04:00North America looks at European weather and says, ...North America looks at European weather and says, "Here. Y'all hold my beer and watch this!" We went from 80F to snow and 33F in 30 hours two weeks back. <br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-52670017367962450762024-03-18T17:49:55.871-04:002024-03-18T17:49:55.871-04:00A fuller transcript here:
https://www.realclearpo...A fuller transcript here:<br /><br />https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/18/justice_ketanji_brown_jackson_first_amendment_hamstringing_federal_ability_to_respond_to_threatening_circumstances_from_the_governments_perspective.html<br /><br />I think her comments make a little more sense in this version.<br /><br />As I understand it, one of the Justices asked whether the same rules would apply to print media, for example, The New York Times. Perhaps the issue KBJ is trying to struggle with is whether there is something intrinsically different about social media, some different compelling government interest that is in play for, say, Facebook that is not in play for the NYT.<br /><br />The response from Louisiana I find most interesting is that the person whose speech is being censored is not in the room when the government is talking to/coercing the social media host.<br />Elisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594477709835944165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42071431428331414602024-03-18T16:32:18.898-04:002024-03-18T16:32:18.898-04:00I happened to be looking at the Wiki entry for my...I happened to be looking at the Wiki entry for my cousin's town in Oklahoma. It said that one February, the temperature rose to 99 degrees. Three days later, it snowed.Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-40767483664030626332024-03-18T16:06:24.304-04:002024-03-18T16:06:24.304-04:00I was wondering about that, but I decided that it ...I was wondering about that, but I decided that it made sense either way. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-41039262664082444162024-03-18T15:51:21.739-04:002024-03-18T15:51:21.739-04:00In the last sentence, I meant to refer to "Tr...In the last sentence, I meant to refer to "Trump's opponents," not his "supporters."<br />Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-8047488711661578272024-03-18T15:43:49.359-04:002024-03-18T15:43:49.359-04:00That's the moral of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: w...That's the moral of the Boy Who Cried Wolf: when there was a real wolf, no one was listening to him any more. No one doubts that real wolves may threaten us, only that the people constantly trying to alarm us about a particular wolf threat should be listened to for one more instant.<br /><br />We'll have to hope that, if there ever is a real wolf, we'll be able to rely on someone else to sound the real alarm. The current batch are permanently discredited with half the country.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42883770462620405052024-03-18T15:25:38.911-04:002024-03-18T15:25:38.911-04:00I hope her remarks look better in context. I hope her remarks look better in context. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-44824940619626870452024-03-18T14:05:46.336-04:002024-03-18T14:05:46.336-04:00"Trump's supporters may have to figure ou..."Trump's supporters may have to figure out a way to criticize him in a way that can be heard by more than his bitterest and most entrenched enemies."<br /><br />Because some criticism will doubtless be warranted? That seems fair. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42553758331823936092024-03-18T11:00:06.669-04:002024-03-18T11:00:06.669-04:00The weather here is unstable year round! Especiall...The weather here is unstable year round! Especially so in the spring, though.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-65562810358792336292024-03-18T04:21:22.818-04:002024-03-18T04:21:22.818-04:00With language like this, I'm hesitant to take ...With language like this, I'm hesitant to take the article seriously at all- <i>"... these mammals will unfortunately keep having their fears triggered."</i><br /><br />Then there's this: <i>"By playing human conversations in areas with known poaching in South Africa, they hope to keep the endangered Southern white rhino safely away."</i><br />I'd guess you run a pretty substantial risk that you habituate them to those sounds instead, making them more vulnerable. Any hunter knows the animals know when an area with humans is safe and when it isn't, or they figure it out very quickly.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-14282046217560643812024-03-17T21:29:42.527-04:002024-03-17T21:29:42.527-04:00Gringo, I think that's about right. Mercy is ...Gringo, I think that's about right. Mercy is not the same thing as capitulation.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815849371084419160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-48681785378178471622024-03-17T11:37:28.152-04:002024-03-17T11:37:28.152-04:00So is the point that the US benefits more from Mex...So is the point that the US benefits more from Mexican immigrants, because they adhere to the cult, than it does from other Americans who do not (perhaps being members of the cult of Mammon)? I had not understood you to be in favor of mass immigration from Catholic Latin America, but here it sounds like you might favor that as a way of diluting the influence of non-Christian elements within the country.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-78238750618398513222024-03-17T09:16:18.249-04:002024-03-17T09:16:18.249-04:001610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now ob...<i>1610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now obsolete); 1670s, "a particular form or system of worship;" from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till"</i> See: https://www.etymonline.com/word/cult<br /><br />Benedict XVI used the term 'cult' in the 1670's sense, broadened to include the theo/philosophical foundation of Christianity. <br /><br />There are plenty of people who claim "Christianity" and/or "Catholicism." Not all of them are actual practitioners, no matter what the Press says about Biden (e.g.). I maintain that for many people, the actual "cult" is that of Mammon, with Unlimited Free Sex a close second, perhaps tied with Self-Worship. (Nor do I claim sainthood!!!)<br /><br />The Mexicans are--in most cases--adherents to the Judaeo-Christian cult. They are not Shinto, Mohammedan, Hindu, nor Animist. But as with Americans, there are 'not-Christians' who claim Christianity.<br /><br />Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-1881746722450831052024-03-17T07:16:49.034-04:002024-03-17T07:16:49.034-04:00.....Pope Francis, for example, is definitely at l........Pope Francis, for example, is definitely at least philosophically different even though he is the formal head of the religion.....<br /><br />Ahhh NO.<br /><br />Not Pope, probably Anti pope. Probably CIA NWO plant.?<br />We are not obliged to follow this heretic who obviously hates Christ and Catholics.<br /><br />We follow the 2000 year Magisterium teachings of the Roman Catholic Church<br />not the Magisterium of Jorge Bergolio<br /><br />GregAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-25609051085573842992024-03-16T23:50:54.600-04:002024-03-16T23:50:54.600-04:00Old ones, as it happens: arming and training Freed...<i>Old ones, as it happens: arming and training Freedmen was one of the NRA's original missions when it was founded right after the Civil War.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Gun-Black-Tradition-Arms/dp/161614839X" rel="nofollow">Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms</a> <br /><br />Here is a book on the subject. <i>Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate a willingness of African American men and women to use firearms when necessary to defend their families and communities. From Frederick Douglass's advice to keep "a good revolver" handy as defense against slave catchers to the armed self-protection of Monroe, North Carolina, blacks against the KKK chronicled in Robert Williams's Negroes with Guns, it is clear that owning firearms was commonplace in the black community. Nicholas Johnson points out that this story has been submerged because it is hard to reconcile with the dominant narrative of nonviolence during the civil rights era. His book, however, resolves that tension by showing how the black tradition of arms maintained and demanded a critical distinction between private self-defense and political violence.Johnson also addresses the unavoidable issue of young black men with guns and the toll that gun violence takes on many in the inner city. He shows how complicated this issue is by highlighting the surprising diversity of views on gun ownership in the black community. In fact, recent Supreme Court affirmations of the right to bear arms resulted from cases led by black plaintiffs. Surprising and informative, this well-researched book strips away many stock assumptions of conventional wisdom on the issue of guns and the black freedom struggle.</i><br /><br />I read it over 5 years ago, so I don't remember much, except that Fannie Lou Hamer had her house very well armed. Here is an appropriate passage:<br /><i>In some ways, Hamer epitomized the nonviolent theme of the movement. After discrimination, abuse, and beatings, she still urged a scriptural response, “Baby you gotta love ’em. Hating just makes you sick and weak.” But Fannie Lou Hamer also exhibited an earnest practicality that epitomizes the black tradition of arms.58 Asked how she survived so many years of racist aggression, Hamer responded, “I’ll tell you why. I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.”</i>Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-41142210055031883562024-03-16T23:16:41.677-04:002024-03-16T23:16:41.677-04:00Speaking of border songs, here is Kimmie Rhodes.
K...Speaking of border songs, here is Kimmie Rhodes.<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gmqECSpIE" rel="nofollow">Kimmie Rhodes Contrabandista</a> <br /><br />She sang the song with Willie, but I prefer the above version.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fa67_LUeII" rel="nofollow">Kimmie Rhodes & Willie Nelson Contrabandist </a>Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-37787690980072025632024-03-16T22:57:21.403-04:002024-03-16T22:57:21.403-04:00AVI: As Trump said about Mexico "we're no...AVI: <b>As Trump said about Mexico "we're not sending you our best."</b><br />LOL. I was amused at the "good liberal" outrage at Trump making that statement- "racist"... But Starr County on the Rio Grande border, a county that is 95% Hispanic, increased its vote for Trump from ~ 18% in 2016 to ~47% in 2020. That is difficult for the "good liberals" to comprehend.<br /><br />When I moved from New England to Texas some four decades ago, I became a snowbird. But I was a snowbird with a difference. As my mother's parents were Texas-born-and-raised Okies, and I had spent a summer in Oklahoma, I had developed a live-and-let-live attitude. I had previously learned that my grandmother wasn't going to succeed in converting me to her church- though I'd attend church with her if I was visiting on a Sunday- and I wasn't going to change her political and religious opinions. <br /><br />There is an interesting situation in Nashville where a California transplant has filed umpteen complaints against a neighboring meat market. <br /><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-transplant-to-nashville-sues-local-butcher-over-smell-of-grilled-meat/ar-BB1jXi16" rel="nofollow">California Transplant To Nashville Sues Local Butcher Over Smell Of Grilled Meat</a> <br /><i>According to the entry on the GoFundMe page, Roy Meat Service’s “new neighbor” labeled the business a “nuisance” because of the smell of meat cooking.<br /><br />As of now, 46 complaints have been filed against the butcher to city and state agencies. “The complaints include ‘concerns’ about the establishment’s fencing, lightning, ‘junk’ on the store’s property, and even the store front’s sign,” the GoFundMe account states.<br /><br />The conservative website BizPacReview reported that the plaintiff, Natalie Castillo, is a transplant from California.<br /><br />In response to the WZTV report, conservative activist Robby Starbuck defended the butcher on X.<br /><br />“Some great people have moved to TN in recent years. You are not one of them. You left CA but what made CA fail LIVES IN YOU. It’s an ideology and we don’t want it here in TN,” he posted on Wednesday.<br /><br />“The narcissism in your ideology blinds you to the reality that people like you ruined California. So you fled probably with the thought that none of CA’s failures were your fault. They are your fault or at least the fault of voters like you.”</i><br /><br />Along the same line, which also mentions the meat market brouhaha:<a href="https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2024/03/15/weekend-parting-shot-dear-progressives-this-is-why-we-hate-you-n4927326" rel="nofollow">Dear Progressives. This is Why We Hate You.</a> Gringonoreply@blogger.com