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Anyone else noticing the mega-spin cycle the news outlets are in rooting for Kamala Harris? First headline I saw this afternoon: “Why Kamala’s Centrism seems to be working”.\u00a0 NY Times\u00a0 <\/a>Saw another one:\u00a0 “Kamala Harris stumbled as VP because she lacked proper ‘infrastructure,’ allies claim” Fox News but they link to the WaPo <\/a>\u00a0That one claims she is ‘reinventing’ herself’ – so was she lying before or lying now?\u00a0 The entire White House for resources, and she had no infrastructure. Wonder who should have organized that?<\/p>\n However, she has not given up on lying – she still claims Project 2025 is Republican policy (it isn’t) and that Trump will kill Medicare and Social Security (that is nowhere in the Republican platform.)\u00a0 Well, at least she’s consistent.\u00a0 Fox News II<\/a><\/p>\n I’m still choking on “Centrism”.\u00a0 ???<\/p>\n Chicago reports that a ‘free speech’ platform met with empty audiences, no-show speakers, and apathy during the DNC. Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0 Can’t hardly squeeze in a pro-Palestinian rant in vertical (to paraphrase Dennis Hopper) – makes you think all this nightly protesting is more a social event than anything else, eh?\u00a0 (Points for IDing where the Dennis Hopper line came from. No Google cheating allowed.)<\/p>\n The Russians had an incident at a prison camp<\/p>\n The prisoners, armed with knives, seized four inmates and eight staff during a meeting of the colony\u2019s disciplinary committee at the IK-19 Surovikino prison in Russia\u2019s Volgograd region, around 530 miles south of Moscow.<\/p>\n They said they were taking revenge for the arrest of Islamic terrorists who killed 145 people in an attack on a Moscow concert hall in March \u2013 the most deadly terror attack in Russia for two decades.<\/p>\n Russian authorities have launched a criminal case in connection with the hostage-taking, a crime punishable by a maximum of life in prison.\u00a0 The Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That last may be a moot point as Russian snipers took out the four hostage-takers. Permanently.<\/p>\n Follow-up on Breonna Taylor’s death – she was the lady killed by police officers who did a no-knock raid on her place in 2022 in which officers opened up on her boyfriend who shot at them. Our AG, Merrick Garland, condemned the warrant on the case for starting the chain of events – the judge has now said Taylor’s boyfriend shooting the gun was the proximate cause of her death and reduced the charges against the cops to misdemeanors. Ain’t nobody gonna be happy with this one, but at least the guilt is more fairly apportioned.<\/p>\n While we are on bad no-knocks – remember Roger Fortson? He is the young Air Force lad gunned down in a disturbing-the-peace call last fall.<\/p>\n In body camera footage released by the sheriff’s office, Fortson is seen holding a gun in his right hand with his arm extended downward and the muzzle pointing at the floor as he opens the door in response to the deputy, who can be heard announcing twice that he’s with the sheriff’s office. The footage, reviewed by ABC News, also shows Fortson had his left hand up, palm showing, gesturing towards the deputy when he opened the door. ABC News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The deputy is facing up to 30 years for manslaughter on this one. It should be noted that while he announced he was law-enforcement twice, no acknowledgement from inside the apartment was reported.<\/p>\n And last but not least – a Wichita judge tossed a machine-gun-possession charge against a local fella accused of owning a machine gun and a ‘Glock Switch’.<\/p>\n The decision by U.S. District Judge John Broomes in Wichita on Wednesday appeared to mark the first time a court has held that banning machine guns is unconstitutional after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 issued a landmark ruling that expanded gun rights.<\/p>\n Broomes, an appointee of Republican then-President Donald Trump, said prosecutors in Tamori Morgan’s case failed to identify such a historical analogue to support charging him with violating the machine gun ban.<\/p>\n While prosecutors pointed to laws from the 1700s and 1800s barring the use of “dangerous or unusual weapons,” Broomes said those historical examples focused on their use to terrorize the public, not simply possessing them in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0 Reuters<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sounds like the judge is leaning to an interpretation that simple possession absent criminal use should not be illegal. Sure would like to know more of the circumstances on this one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chicago-gun-violence-300x222.jpg\")
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