News from Michigan.

Things in Michigan took a dramatic turn Wednesday night when two Republican members of the Wayne County Canvassers signed sworn affidavits saying they were bullied and coerced into certifying the election. The four-member board voted to certify the election on Tuesday night. Originally, the two GOP board members voted no. Roughly two hours later, a unanimous vote came down certifying the results.

According to board chair Monica Palmer and GOP member William Hartmann, the county’s corporate counsel, Janet Anderson-Davis, advised the board members that their job was “ministerial” and any concerns they expressed were outside of the board’s authority.

“Late in the evening, I was enticed to agree to certify based on the promise that a full and independent audit would take place. I would have not have agreed to the certification but for the promise of an audit,” Hartmann said in his affidavit. “Vice-Chairman Jonathan Kinloch then assured us that if we voted to certify the election, a full, independent, and complete audit of Detroit’s election, would be undertaken. I relied on this assurance in coming to an agreement. Without this assurance, I would not have agreed to certify Wayne County on November 17th.”

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Both members stated they still believe the election results for Wayne County should not be certified.

It’s too late now, you naive, gullible little children.  You listened to lawyers, and believed communists.  You couldn’t have done anything more stupid.

This is a different sort of video for Tim, who doesn’t do revolvers.  I do, and while it technically failed his test, it did better than he thought it would.  I have to confess that I hated to see a nice wheel gun done that way.

Via Matt Bracken.

David Codrea.

“In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows,” an exceedingly rare, honest analysis in The New York Times, of all places, revealed. How many of those fit the inconsistent definitions of “assault weapon” used by various states and gun-grabbing interests are unknown because such statistics are not known, but the obvious answer is a fraction of the 322, out of thousands of homicides.

Yet when you see a media outlet or a gun control group tweeting out their latest press release masked as news hysterically demanding semiautomatics and standard capacity magazines be banned and confiscated because they’re “weapons of war,” you see no “This claim is disputed” warning.

That’s because Twitter sucks and Jack Dorsey is a punk.  Twitter has become a replacement for serious thought by serious people, and is limited to whatever ten second sound bite someone can throw together.  It’s a venue for the attention-challenged.

One thing I do blame on Trump is that he stayed on Twitter after the election, lending credibility to that venue, forcing readership to go there, and empowering Jack Dorsey to levels far above what his stupid little empire warrants.

Trump should have let Twitter die the death it so richly deserves.

News from Texas.

The first case testing a Trump administration edict outlawing bump stocks failed during a brief federal bench trial in Tuesday in Houston.

A federal prosecutor withdrew the unique charge before the trial began for a Houston man accused of owning the device. However, the defense was prepared to call an ATF expert to testify that bump stocks, attachments that cause a rifle to fire more rapidly, do not render a semiautomatic gun a machine gun.

Senior U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller convicted Ajay Dhingra, 44, on three remaining counts that he lied when he purchased a handgun, rifle and ammunition, and illegally possessed a weapon as a person who had been committed for mental illness.

Experts had conflicting views on the matter, said defense attorney Tom Berg. But Rick Vasquez, a retired ATF agent and firearms expert, would have told the court the bump stock did not meet the statutory definition of a machine gun. The prosecution dismissed case, he said, because the government couldn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt the bump stock was a machine gun.

Prosecutors don’t indiscriminately drop cases.  They do it if they think they have a bad case and a non-trivial chance of losing, coupled with high consequences of a loss.

This continues a pattern of cases where the ATF feels that continued prosecution of a case could possibly cause a loss in court and a restriction of their ability to enforce other regulations.

It’s good to see this loss, as the bump stock ruling should never have even seen the light of day.

He has his detractors in the comments.  Those detractors are too stolid to understand what he said.  I’ve done calculations and data analysis my entire working career as a registered professional engineer.  So let me break this down for you in a method I think you’ll understand and add a few points.

In four important counties in Michigan, those areas that strongly lean republican voted for Biden when examining non-straight ticket voting.  In other words, republicans didn’t like Trump, even more so than democrats didn’t like Trump (or at least, you have to believe this in order to accept the data, an absurd proposition).  But wait!  The fun is just beginning, and there’s more.

This held true in the superlative for more heavily leaning republican precincts.  In other words, the more heavily leaning republicans didn’t like Trump even more than less heavily leaning republican precincts!  But wait, there’s more!

This trend held true monotonically.  The line graph depicting this behavior could be curve fitted with a fairly confident correlation coefficient!  But wait, there’s more.

These trend lines in various counties were virtually the same slope!  That’s right.  Virtually every republican leaning precinct had automatons who all felt exactly the same way.

This behavior held true in Michigan ONLY for the four important counties, not the other ones in Michigan.  In other words, the four counties Biden needed to win, and win big, he did, because of this deeply felt, monotonically increasing hatred of Trump in more heavily republican leaning precincts.

This is why your vote will never matter again as long as you live.  Here we are.

News from Arkansas.

An Arkansas family was left devastated after an investigator who allegedly mistook their address for a sex offender’s shot and killed their pet dog.

The deadly incident involving the Coiner family’s beloved pooch named Clide unfolded last week in the city of Greenbrier.

Video footage posted to Facebook by Chris Coiner shows the aftermath of the shooting as the canine lay dead on the ground.

“You shot and killed my goddamn dog, you motherf—-r!” a shattered Coiner screams to the investigator, identified by local reports as James Freeman of the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office, the video shows.

“Get off my property, motherf—-r!” Coiner shouts at Freeman. “You are a motherf—-r, you piece of motherf—–ing sh-t… shoot my goddamn dog, you p—y.”

The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office said Freeman was at the property for a sex offender compliance check, but mistakenly went to Coiner’s house instead of a nearby home, FOX 16 News reported.

Freeman had first gone to the address 72 Autumn Hills for the check, but was allegedly told the sex offender lived at the next address – Coiner’s home, the news outlet said.

Coiner claims Freeman then shot his dog in his yard because the animal barked at him.

“I was livid, I was livid with feelings and he didn’t care one bit,” Coiner told FOX 16 News.

Coiner added, “He did not make any attempt to get away from it, he didn’t make any attempt to get back in his vehicle, all he did was shoot the dog because he was barking at him.”

The distraught dad said Clide was his 3-year-old son’s “buddy” and described the pooch as a “family member.”

Take a look at him.  He’s a fat-ass abuser and dog killer.

Look, I’ve recommended before that cops who are so cowardly that they’re scared of dogs go do volunteer work on farms or ranches working with animals, breeding them, feeding them, cleaning their stalls, doing basic doctoring of the animals, learning the necessities of tone, inflection and timbre of voice commands, and so on, until they become less than cowardly.

The problem is that they don’t care enough to do something like this when they can get away with shooting, without any accountability at all.

Kill a dog?  Sure.  On to the next house.  Maybe they have a dog I can kill too.  Hey honey, what’s for dinner?  I’m hungry!

Via Ken, this piece.

With all due respect to those among my ancestors who fought and even died for the Union, I hereby raise my glass to my long-suffering brethren from the lands below the languid river at the bottom of my state.  You have always been on target about states’ rights, individual freedom, and resistance to becoming the minions of people who neither knew nor cared about you in Washington, D.C.  You are people of a sort I understand.  People after my own heart.  I am proud and honored to call you my countrymen.  Please accept my genuine, if a little belated, apologies.  Let us bury the hatchet for good and ever.  Long live our country and the nation of our birth.  We are all Southerners now.

Forgive me if I don’t jump up and down with glee over this apology.

I don’t really think you’re a Southerner after all, at least not without proof.  Maybe I don’t know you well enough, but here’s the thing for me.

I see Northerners come down to the South looking for more liberty and trying to escape high taxes, and yet they bring the same brand of totalitarianism with them that fouled their own nest.  Higher taxes, more government control, huge public works projects, and on and on it goes.

They foul their nest, come our way, think they’re smarter than everyone else, implement the same scorched earth policies, foul our nest, and then where do they go?  To the next gullible place that will have them?

So you’re welcome here if you want to be free, and you’ll vote that way.  That means no new taxes, no gun control, and no toll roads, among other things.  Stay out of our lives and leave us be.  If you think you’re smarter than everyone else, a pathology I’ve seen from many Northerners, stay where you are.

On a related note, some people see our slow drawl as an indication of stupidity.  You know where that idiotic notion doesn’t hold true?  Among the engineering and scientific community.

Because calculus, physics and mechanics don’t care about your accent.  You’re either right or wrong.  If you don’t believe me, go to an engineering or technical conference and watch and listen.  I’ve presented papers at many of them.  It’s all about the content, nothing about the presentation or dress.  I’ve seen engineering professors make presentations with half a shirt tail hanging out.  No one cares.  They’re looking at the math.

There is no room for bigotry in engineering and mathematics.  That mostly happens among the elitist class who were trained in the humanities.

This is a very recent video by Paul Cottrell.

Here is his Google drive.  Dominion voting very likely stole the election, and the CCP is likely involved through Akamai Technologies.

You can read the documents for yourself.  This is a conspiracy, but it’s not a theory.