TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalSo, if the universe is 14 billion years old, how can it be 94 billion light years wide?
Seen this $700 million boat Putin may own?
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Somewhere else I was reading everyone who works for the boat is Russian, except for the captain, who's English. Nobody's talking, except one Russian who used to work on it. Figures they can't find a Russian sea captain who can read a chart.
It's hiding in Italy now, if you can hide a thing like this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2022/03/21/700-million-superyacht-tied-to-putin-according-to-navalny-organizations-new-video/
The Manhattan "investigation". I really, really hate to get involved with speculation but remember..
that Ghouliani was the downtown US Justice attorney and then NYC mayor. He is now a somewhat demented Trumpian and one wonders just what connections he still might have in the myriad departments of NY, city or state, that could affect what's going on with the Trumpco investigation.
Remember also that the RE business is worth billions to NYC and has some huge players in it-- most of whom have been playing Trumpian tricks with mortgages and taxes for far longer than he has. They would likely prefer that less attention be paid to the business.
The "Old West", eh. Guns were outlawed back then...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business
Dodge City, Kansas, formed a municipal government in 1878. According to Stephen Aron, a professor of history at UCLA, the first law passed was one prohibiting the carry of guns in town, likely by civic leaders and influential merchants who wanted people to move there, invest their time and resources, and bring their families. Cultivating a reputation of peace and stability was necessary, even in boisterous towns, if it were to become anything more transient than a one-industry boom town.
Laws regulating ownership and carry of firearms, apart from the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, were passed at a local level rather than by Congress. “Gun control laws were adopted pretty quickly in these places,” says Winkler. “Most were adopted by municipal governments exercising self-control and self-determination.” Carrying any kind of weapon, guns or knives, was not allowed other than outside town borders and inside the home. When visitors left their weapons with a law officer upon entering town, they'd receive a token, like a coat check, which they'd exchange for their guns when leaving town.
The practice was started in Southern states, which were among the first to enact laws against concealed carry of guns and knives, in the early 1800s. While a few citizens challenged the bans in court, most lost. Winkler, in his book Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, points to an 1840 Alabama court that, in upholding its state ban, ruled it was a state's right to regulate where and how a citizen could carry, and that the state constitution's allowance of personal firearms “is not to bear arms upon all occasions and in all places.”
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“People were allowed to own guns, and everyone did own guns [in the West], for the most part,” says Winkler. “Having a firearm to protect yourself in the lawless wilderness from wild animals, hostile native tribes, and outlaws was a wise idea. But when you came into town, you had to either check your guns if you were a visitor or keep your guns at home if you were a resident.”
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Adams wrote of what happened to the few who wouldn't comply with frontier gun law:
“The buffalo hunters and range men have protested against the iron rule of Dodge's peace officers, and nearly every protest has cost human life. … Most cowboys think it's an infringement on their rights to give up shooting in town, and if it is, it stands, for your six-shooters are no match for Winchesters and buckshot; and Dodge's officers are as game a set of men as ever faced danger.”
More good stuff at the link.
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The sign you can barely read says "Carrying of Fire Arms Strictly Prohibited" Photo is from Kansas Historical Society, probably Dodge City
Advice requested-- I may be moving in the next few months...
I have few ties around here and the world is my oyster.
For some reason I have been told to look Southwest and Austin has come up. It seems to be an OK sort of place, but I know absolutely nothing about it.
I can't stand most country music and Mexican food isn't all that high on my list. Other than that, anybody happy in the Austin area?
War Crimes...
Lots of discussion about Putin as the latest war criminal. No doubt he is one of the worst, first starting an aggressve war and then acting as a churlish, malevolent victor while pursuing it.
But, until this war is over, how will he be forced to pay for it, and who will force him? International law has changed a lot since I was involved in the periphary of it in Admiralty Law insurance. The US has even closed down its Admiralty Court, throwing a thousand or so years of court decisions to the general court system, with the expected consequences.
But, I digress. I keep saying that the war record is not only written by the victors, but the law is, too. After WW2, we were hypnotized by the foul "experiments" of the Nazis, but told nothing of Operation Paperclip. We weren't told much about the race to get German rocket scientists, either, but that sort of snuck out. Pretty much the same thing with Japanese experiments in Unit 731. MacArthur was pretty much running the show, and he managed to hide all the biological warfare research the Japanese had been doing since Manchuria just in case we could use it.
So, Putin is happily killing mothers and children and reducing cities to rubble. I call that a war crime, too, but what we need is someone to haul Putin and his comrades to court, and then to punishment. Who would that be? Even if Russia has to walk away from Ukraine, how does woever is around get to to haul the Russian boys and girls to court and the noose? Do we even have an agreed upon international law as to what he did?
After all, we bombed Dresden into a bloody pile of rocks and what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki has no proper words to describe it. How was that any better than the Long March? It was total war, and maybe it could be argued that shit happens in total war, but who has the call when there really is no winner?
My favorite anti-war movie has always been "Two Women"...
When Anna Magnani bailed, Sophia Loren got the part of the mother, and an Oscar. Showed the world she could act after being cast in Italian sexpot roles.
But that's not here or there. The story was partly a love story, with the end of WW2 as a backdrop.
But what a hell of a backdrop it was. I first saw it when we were wallowing in Nam, and seeing Ukraine it's all I can think of.
Pulling the same shit-- just got an email saying if I donated...
to Slobfather it would be matched 1000%.
My $50 would become $550.Wow!
No mention how, who, or why this generosity, but the box making it a monthly donation was checked. I appreciate this concern for my time.
Also checked was another box saying I will donate $250 on 3/29. What's so special about that date I have no idea.
Also no mention of the exchange rate for rubles.
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