TZP Column: Fed Judge Runs Amok, Overturns BRUEN


BRUEN OVERTURNED??
No, SCOTUS did not overturn its own BRUEN decsion; a federal district judge in New York effectively did it.

The case is Goldstein et al v. Hochul, challenging New York’s post-Bruen state law banning firearms in “sensitive places,” specifically in this case places of worship. Plaintiffs requested a temporary injunction to prevent the state and other parties enforcing that law pending the outcome of the case.

Judge Vernon S. Broderick denied the injunction. His… reasoning (for some values of that word) was…

Well, let him tell it.

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TZP Column: Another Las Vegas Shooting


AN INVISIBLE “AR-15”?
Did you hear about the guy wearing a helmet shooting up Turnberry Towers in Las Vegas with an “AR-15” last Friday? Unless you do your own specific news searches, you probably didn’t.

ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC… none of them seems to be covering it for some strange reason. Normally some bad guy blasting away with one of those evil black AR-15s — especially in Vegas — gets wall-to-wall coverage, accompanied by more calls to ban ’em. But not this time. Crickets. Nowhere to be seen, other than a local report.

Here’s a hint.

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TZP Column: Stupidity In Tulsa


OATH BREAKER IN TULSA
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin is an oath breaker, of the very worst I support the Second Amendment but… sort.
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Tulsa, you have an ignorant oath breaker, with possible homicidal inclination, for a police chief. You might want to look into that.
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TZP Column: Hunter Biden Finally Charged

Sorta.


NOMENKLATURA: LAWS FOR US, BUT NOT FOR THEM
Hunter Biden has finally been charged for that handgun he bought (and lied on the 4473) back in 2018 when he admitted to being a unlawful drug addict. But they’re essentially letting him off.

With “diversion.”

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What “Protected Class”???

Judge Indira Talwani has an interesting take on free speech: it doesn’t exist if the speech might hurt the feelings of crazy or imaginary people.

Federal judge declares MA student’s ‘there are only two genders’ t-shirt not protected by free speech, ‘invades the rights of others’
On Friday, a federal judge in Massachusettes ruled a shirt that read “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” could be construed as bullying of a protected class and is not protected speech after a 12-year-old and his father filed suit against officials in the Middlesbrough Public School district for First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations.

Pray tell, exactly what “protected class” is being protected here?

Sex discrimination? Title IX, 20 U.S. Code § 1681 says:

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, except that

Sex, not imaginary alternate genders. Unless and until “gender identity” gets protected in law by Congress. “Gender identity” is a concepted invented in the 1960s, and has never been codified in law. It’s a topic of which people hold varying opinions, hence this very case.

An ADA violation, discriminating against the mentally ill suffering from Gender Dysphoria? And, yes, the courts do recognize Gender Dysphoria to be mental illness requiring treatment (and I still say that Georgia screwed him/her/itself).

 

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TZP Column: Idiots Who Can’t Grasp Federal Law


IDIOCY AND DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS IN SHERBOURNE COUNTY, MN
A young man in Minnesota is facing a September trial for the unlawful possession of two firearms without serial numbers. The problem with the charges is that the firearms in question were home builds; private manufacture, not commercial.
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It Turns Out They Didn’t Mean The BIDEN Crime Family

Which was my first thought when I saw the headline.

Alleged Crime Family Orchestrated Multi-State Illegal Immigrant Smuggling Ring, Feds Say

 

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I’m pretty sure these guys got a grant to sit in pubs drinking beer.

The physics of dancing peanuts in beer
In Argentina, some people add peanuts to their beer. Once immersed, the peanuts initially sink part way down into the beer before bubbles nucleate and grow on the peanut surfaces and remain attached. The peanuts move up and down within the beer glass in many repeating cycles. In this work, we propose a physical description of this dancing peanuts spectacle. We break down the problem into component physical phenomena, providing empirical constraint of each: (i) heterogeneous bubble nucleation occurs on peanut surfaces and this is energetically preferential to nucleation on the beer glass surfaces; (ii) peanuts enshrouded in attached bubbles are positively buoyant in beer above a critical attached gas volume; (iii) at the beer top surface, bubbles detach and pop, facilitated by peanut rotations and rearrangements; (iv) peanuts containing fewer bubbles are then negatively buoyant in beer and sink; and (v) the process repeats so long as the beer remains sufficiently supersaturated in the gas phase for continued nucleation.

I wonder how many beers it took for them to think of actually getting a grant for this. And I’d dearly love to read the grant application.

Of course…

Therefore, we close by proposing that this study has heritage and that the observation of bubble dynamics in beer is a rich topic, worth repeated investigation.

… many more experiments are required.

Hey, guys could use another “lab tech”? I’ll work for beer.

 

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