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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: New Judge in Election Case in Arizona, Judge Martin, Was Picked by Judge and Wife of Maricopa County Supervisor, Bill Gates!
We received information on how Judge Martin was picked for the election court case in Arizona after Judge Coury recused himself on Sunday. Judge Martin, you may recall, was appointed by former Governor Janet Napolitano.Our reporter made a couple of phone calls to determine who chose Napolitana-appointed Judge Martin to handle this election case in Arizona.
Let me explain this in simple terms. If this report is accurate, it appears that a Dim-appointed judge was assigned to the Maricopa audit case by a Presiding Judge married to what is, for practical purposes, one of the plaintiffs. And she attempted to hide the fact that she did the assignment by having a different judge announce the assignment, giving the impression that he had made the assignment.
No conflict of interest there, eh?
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I mentioned NJ Gov. Murphy’s plan to ban .50 caliber firearms a while back, but he actually has several bills he’s pushing. Let’s touch upon S 112, Requires newly manufactured handguns to be micro-stamped; establishes handgun database.
They’re playing the cars vs. guns analogy. Again.
License plates for ammunition
Murphy also touted technology allowing manufacturers to etch tiny characters in handguns that note the make, model and serial number. When a bullet is fired, that information should imprint onto the bullet’s cartridge case.
Proponents say it’s akin to adding license plates to ammunition, which could make it easier for law enforcement to match crime scene evidence with specific guns.
You know… Let’s roll with that. New Jersey has a growing problem with fatal automobile accidents; accidents and fatalies keep going up. Almost as high as gun homicides. And this suggests that hot & run accidents are fairly common.
So microstamp cars, which could make it easier for law enforcement to match crime scene evidence with specific guns cars. Build the front and rear bumpers from tool steel, and laser etch them with make, model, and VIN of the vehicle. When they hit someone or something, the impact will stamp identifying data on the victim, leading police straight to the registered crime gun… er, vehicle.
Sure, heavy tool steel bumpers will increase vehicle prices and reduce mileage, not to mention making crashes more damaging and more lethal, but that’s a small price in comparison with ending hit & runs forever.
(Note for the terminally clueless: Sarcasm.)
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In regard to the Supreme Court’s bait & switch strawman question in NYSRP et al v. Corlett, David Codrea notes:
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
It’s even better when you’re an unaccountable tyrant in a black dress, and can force the “right” questions.
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Moi, April 24: I think Gropin’ Joe Bye-Biden confused “coronavirus” with “computer virus”.
Babylon Bee, April 27: Biden Wears Mask On Zoom Call In Case COVID Has Mutated Into A Computer Virus
But then, the analogy is pretty obvious.
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They actually think people are wearing masks outside. Bless their hearts. Nope, not around this part of the country.
WATCH: New CDC guidance gives ‘incentive to get vaccinated’ White House says
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki commented on the CDC’s new guidance that Americans can dispense with the wearing of masks outside if they are fully vaccinated.“The incentive is to get vaccinated, so that you can enjoy the benefits of being vaccinated,” Psaki said.
And damned few inside, except in places that absolutely require face-diapers. Most of the country is smarter than Biden.
Pcircles, you’re gonna need a better incentive to get me to get jabbed with an unapproved, genetically-engineered, experimental not-a-vaccine.
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I wish I could file this as an amicus brief in every court case based on the Second Amendment, like NYSRP v. Corlett.
Plaintiffs question the constitutionality of the Defendant’s action. But the practical question before the court regards the United States Constitution. Does it mean what it says, and is it even still in effect?
Where the courts have issued hard rulings on the Second Amendment, in recent decades it has mostly been, “No.”
Courts have allowed bans of weapons, bans of cosmetic features, bans on carrying weapons, limits on ammunition, and licensing requirements for an enumerated Constitutionally protected right.
Where courts, especially the Supreme Court, have ruled in favor of the Second Amendment, they have carefully worded their decisions to make recognition of the Amendment as narrow as possible. The Court invented levels of “scrutiny” not found anywhere in the Constitution, effectively rewriting the Second Amendment to read, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall be a privilege, subject to the capricious whims and perceived compelling needs of the government.”
Those who dislike the limitations on government placed there by the Constitution declared that the needs of the government must be balanced against the actual language of the document, with varying degrees of scrutiny, or nothing would get done. That was exactly the point in “shall not be infringed.”
in·fringe | \ in-ˈfrinj
infringed; infringing
Definition of infringetransitive verb
1 : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another
“to encroach upon in a way.” The basic founding document of this Constitutional Republic says that the government has no “compelling need” for limits on the People’s individual rights to keep and bear arms.
The Supreme Court has been reluctant to accept any Second Amendment case since McDonald, and when they do, as in NYSRP v. Corlett, they manipulate the issue to avoid tough questions. That case became the ultimate strawman argument in which the plaintiffs are required to defend a question they never asked, and cannot raise their own, far more important question again. Unexplained “mootness” and “lack of standing” are the Court’s go-to excuses for not hearing cases at all.
This problem with the courts has worsened in recent years. The appearance is of two underlying problems.
1. A strong political bias in favor of the radical Left, and against the Constitution as written.
2. A strong fear of the escalating violence of the radical Left should they make a ruling the rioting masses dislike.
In both conditions, the courts seems to ignore the Constitutional wishes of the conservative Constitution-preferring half of the country. Perhaps the courts have mistaken their remarkably limited violence for passive compliance.
An unknown Internet wag suggests otherwise, positing that the Left’s violence control is a rheostat, which can be gradually turned up and down as needed.
The very patient, conservative Right has an ON/OFF switch.
The courts’ accelerating tendency to discard the Constitution in making “safe” and “popular” (to the noisy Left) is putting more and more pressure on that switch.
No one with a properly functioning brain wants that switch flipped, leading some, under the — possibly mistaken — impression that the Constitution does mean what it says and is still in effect, to wonder just how many courts are so equipped.
This court must discard scrutiny in this case and examine the challenged law. Does it encroach upon the Second Amendment in any way that violates the rights of any individual? Is the Constitution still effect, or has the court declared The Revolution?
Any pro-Second Amendment attorney or organization that has the gonads to actually use — properly formatted and annotated by whichever court’s rules — this has my permission to do so. Note that the NRA is not currently a pro-Second Amendment organization. Perhaps it can rehabilitate itself someday.
Addendum: Some might wonder how serious I am about this. Not really; even it is something some judges need to hear. It would antagonize the court, which is pointless except in a hopeless cause where we want to out in a blaze of glory. Except in such a case, I’d probably question the judgement of an attorney who let me do it.
Sadly, we are very close to the “hopeless cause” point. So maybe I am serious.
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I used to play this occasionally at The Zelman Partisans. The idea is to go through Everytown’s list of “school” shootings, and see what might actually be a school shooting. To pad the numbers Everytown will include stuff involving non-students on school grounds in the middle of the night, college frat parties, anything near a school whether or not it had anything to do with the school, “somebody thought they heard shots near a school, and — on one occasion — a “shooting” that I could find no record of anywhere. But of course when they talk about shootings, they want you to think of liitle boys and girls gunned down in elementary and high schools.
Back then, they didn’t include links for their sources, but I see they do now. That will make things easier.
So let’s go! I’m going to look at the ten most recent.
Ten “shootings.” Five, maybe even just four, were what normal people think of when they hear “school shooting.” 50% accuracy rate. Last time I played their rate was 55%. And the time before that, it was 57.1%.
Everytown is actually getting worse every time I check.
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China Applauds Return of NBA, Urges It to ‘Undertake Lobbying’ for China in U.S.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday touted the participation of the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) at China’s first International Consumer Products Expo, scheduled for May 7-10 in the city of Haikou. The Chinese paper suggested the NBA should “undertake a certain amount of lobbying within the U.S.” on Beijing’s behalf to repay its hosts for their generosity.
If they don’t, arrest their asses.
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Remember when senile, fully “vaccinated,” Bye-Biden wore a ChinCOVID mask for a teleconference? It was a “message.”
White House: Joe Biden ‘Sending a Message to the World’ by Wearing Mask in Video Summit
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday the president wanted to send a message to world leaders about the importance of wearing masks.“Because he is sending a message to the world that he is putting into place precautions, continuing to do that as leader of the United States,” Psaki said, when a reporter asked why Biden wore a mask on camera during the summit.
Sorry, Pcircles, the message was really The President of the United States is a freaking idiot.
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