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10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
People can't read.
Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
[NR] Oberlin College is embarking on another legal battle now that it has finally paid out $36.59 million in damages to a local bakery for falsely accusing the business owners of racism. This time, the college is suing four of its insurance providers after they failed to reimburse the school for the multimillion-dollar judgment in the Gibson Bakery’s case.
After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum to the bakery in September 2022.
Gibson’s Bakery sued the college in 2017, accusing the school and one of its administrators of hurting its business and libeling it over an incident in which the son of the bakery owner stopped three black Oberlin College students, one of whom was stealing wine bottles from the store, in November 2016.
Students from the school protested the bakery after the arrest, handing out fliers outside the shop telling patrons to shop elsewhere. The fliers also accused the Gibsons of having a long history of racial profiling, citing the November 2016 incident. Witnesses who testified at the trial said Oberlin College Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo participated in the protests, handing out stacks of fliers for others to distribute. So, they dragged their heels on paying, now the shoe's on the other foot.
Now the college is pursuing legal action against Lexington Insurance Company of New York; United Educators Insurance of Bethesda, Maryland; Mount Hawley Insurance Company of Peoria, Illinois; and StarStone Specialty Insurance Company of Cincinnati.
The school filed the suit in Lorain County Common Pleas Court in April accusing the companies of wrongfully refusing to "to honor promises they made in their respective policies to protect the interests of Oberlin College" and the school’s former vice president and dean of students, Meredith Raimondo.
The college had $25 million in commercial umbrella liability coverage from Lexington and another $10 million from Mount Hawley. The school had an additional $5 million from StarStone and $25 million in overlapping educators legal liability coverage from United Educators, according to the lawsuit.
"These policies were intended to provide seamless coverage for lawsuits like the Gibson litigation," the complaint says. "Unfortunately, the defendant insurers have failed to pay a penny toward the $36,590,572.48 sum that Oberlin paid the Gibson plaintiffs. They also have failed to pay for the full cost of Oberlin’s appeals, which were pursued at the behest of the insurers in order to reduce their collective exposure."
The college claims its insurers said that "some, if not all, of the damages" would be covered.
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I'm not sure that self inflicted wounds are covered. I'm sure the company won't point out that the university could have probably settle for much less out of court and that might be what the insurance company should pay.
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What insurance companies do is track risk with respect to probability of occurrence and potential drain on reserves. The outcome of this situation will be policies that explicitly do not cover such obvious stupidity as what the Oberlin administration engaged in. Going forward. As for this incident, whatever the lawyers can make of the fine print is how it will shake out.
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They really like losing their money to lawyers, don't they?
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...I'm sorry, but you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this.
The thing to keep in mind here is that the Gibsons got paid - OC is trying to get their insurance to reimburse the school that money, and it ain't working.
Apparently, OC's grip on reality is still a tenuous one, and it appears that they may have heard what they wanted to hear from the insurers. The best part is that:
1) This lawsuit is going to cost them well into, and possibly past seven figures;
2) The law appears to be on the side of the insurers;
3) Even if they somehow pry a vastly reduced amount out of the insurers, said insurers will cut any ties to the school, and finally
4) Rotsa ruck finding anybody to insure them afterwards. They'll find someone eventually, I'm sure...but it's gonna hurt.
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It's important that individuals who were involved in this at Oberlin NOT be reimbursed, and are permanently financially damaged by the bakery thing. Only that sort of end result will result in lessons being learned.
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^ Only lessons they will learn is "Don't get caught" and "Those fly-over people are bigots."
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/\ The nomenklatura will never learn, they can't, but the 'bean counters' learn.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Los Angeles, on August 7, at the age of 88, American director William Friedkin , known for the film The Exorcist, died. This was reported by The Hollywood Reporter magazine .
"Friedkin was one of the first on the list in the 1970s, being part of a new generation of energetic and adventurous directors," the publication noted.
His latest film, The Cain Mutiny - Tribunal-Martial, starring Kiefer Sutherland, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
William Friedkin won the Academy Award for Best Director for The French Connection. This picture received five statuettes of the American Film Academy, including in the nomination "Best Picture".
The film The Exorcist grossed $500 million at the box office. It and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ushered in the blockbuster era. Friedkin has received two Golden Globes and many other international awards.
Altogether, Friedkin directed more than 20 feature films, as well as a number of documentaries and TV series. He became the creator of the films "To Live and Die in Los Angeles", "Sorcerer", "The Twilight Zone", the TV series "Tales from the Crypt", etc.
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One fine fall afternoon a while back, after a funeral, as exhausted and depressed as ever I hope to be (in this life, anyway), I found meself strolling past the Old Hancock, a profoundly resonant location for the person buried which, however, meant bitterly little to me.
As I all but crawled across the street, a cheerful young couple foolishly asked me what the fuss was about. What indeed but an SEIU function inside filling the sidewalk and spilling onto Berkeley? And somehow, just like that, I rose up from within meself to deliver, without an instant's thought, the most concise, judiciously vicious explainer imaginable. Where the hell did that come from? They thanked me, showing every sign of complacent agreement -- in Boston? -- and I plodded on, leaving measurably shallower prints in the concrete. Angels, probably. So, um... thanks, SEIU!
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Purple, even! Twas a memorable moment, though... like a wormhole opening into... well, I'd say "a universe of lousy limericks," but the timeline's wrong.
[We Are The Mighty] In 2024, the U.S. Mint will issue quarters featuring five prominent American women. This run, the third year of the American Women Quarters Program, includes Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. She was an abolitionist, surgeon, prisoner of war and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
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When the Civil War broke out, Walker volunteered to serve as a surgeon in the Union Army. Despite her years of experience in private practice, Walker was rejected for being a woman. She was offered a military position as a nurse which she declined. Insisting on serving, Walker volunteered as a civilian surgeon. With no female surgeons, military or civilian, the army initially restricted her to nurse duties.
At the beginning of the war, Walker served as a nurse at the First Battle of Bull Run and a hospital in Washington, D.C. She later served as the Union Army’s first female surgeon, albeit unpaid, near the front line including the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Chickamauga. Walker wore men’s clothing, citing that it was easier to perform her duties compared to traditional women’s clothing at the time.
In September 1862, Walker volunteered her services as a Union spy. While her offer was declined, the following year, Walker was employed as a civilian "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon" for the Army of the Cumberland. This made her the first female surgeon employed by the U.S. Army Surgeon. Later in the war, Walker was appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry Regiment.
On April 10, 1864, after assisting a Confederate doctor in performing an amputation, Walker was captured by Confederate troops. She was arrested as a spy and held at the Castle Thunder prison in Richmond, Virginia. During her time as a prisoner, Walker refused to wear the female clothes provided to her. On August 12, 1864, she was released in exchange for a Confederate surgeon.
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Have noticed a number of US 2023 coinage changes.
Quarter Washington heads changed and The Hawaiian Quarter to name a few..
Could these politically updated coins explain part of the reason for the recent coin shortage?
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The Medal of Honor in the Civil War was a LOT different than it is today. Today, you need to go above and beyond to be awarded the MOH, which is why so many of them are awarded posthumously. In the Civil War, the MOH could be awarded for simple "gallantry".
Also, Mary Walker's MOH was revoked, but later restored.
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Having looked over her WiKi profile and other data. Her clothing and other lifelong lifestyle issues. "Her penchant for wearing masculine clothing, including a top hat, only exacerbated the situation."
All seem to point to a Cross Dresser or Pants'er in this case.
She produced no kids, a marriage which seemed based and founded on allowing her to practice as Doctor in the 1860's. She divorced a few years later, citing the Husband had frequent sex with another women as the reason.
She never remarried, and I noted no record of other men in her life.
She was a NY Liberal Yankee, by even today's definition.
BUT!!, Would this also make her the 1st Transgender to get an MOH?
[Truth About Guns] Rethinking criminal justice apparently also means rethinking the qualifications it takes to qualify to be paid with tax dollars by the city of New York. The NYPD have arrested yet another "gun violence prevention advocate." Michael Rodriguez, 49, who claims he’s known as "Love" in the community. Hewas busted for his role in running a major gun- and drug-running ring that brought down by a multi-jurisdiction investigation, Operation in Plain Sight.
Rodriguez served as the executive director of something called "Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence." When not ostensibly promoting gun control for law-abiding citizens, according to police, Mr. Love was selling guns and slinging drugs.
He must have had a good thing going as when police busted him, they found $165,000 in cash and another $50,000 in jewelry.
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LSD Golden Rule Example.
Every will do what we demand, except us.
LSD's can:
* illegally retain Classified Materials in a unsecure garage,
* illegally print and count ballots,
* avoid paying taxes on $$ million collected for bribes and extortion,
* avoid WH security and leave illegal narcotics in plain sight and nothing happens.
* Aid, abet and practice openly Pedophilia ,
* setup and condone situations where Teenage girls were raped in locker rooms, and restrooms.
* Violate women's rights by allowing males to claim to be females, because they "feel" female.
[Breitbart] Despite having only been in effect for a month, Florida’s mandatory E-Verify law — which requires employers to hire legal immigrants and American citizens — has already raised wages in working class jobs in the state, the New York Times admits.
As Breitbart News reported in May, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made Florida the largest state in the nation to require all employers with 25 or more employees to screen its workforce through the federal government’s E-Verify system — ensuring that all new hires are legally residing in the United States.
Mandatory E-Verify in Florida took effect July 1.
In a piece where business executives complained that they cannot operate without hiring illegal aliens, the New York Times admits that the law has already helped boost wages for working class Americans who are the most likely to compete against illegal aliens for jobs.
The Times reported:
Tim Conlan, president of Reliant, a roofing company in Jacksonville, said a subcontractor had recently turned down a project after his workers refused to travel to Florida, preferring to stay in Georgia and the Carolinas. He also said that hourly rates for jobs had increased about 10 percent since the bill was signed into law in May. [Emphasis added]
In February 2020, tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us drafted a report that seemingly admitted that mandatory E-Verify in Florida would likely prod employers to raise wages so as to attract a legal workforce.
Though the Wall Street Journal has claimed that Florida already has a severe labor shortage and businesses cannot afford not to hire illegal aliens, wages across blue-collar industries in the state show no signs of a labor shortage or even a tight labor market for that matter.
For years, analysis of the federal government’s labor data has proven that there are no jobs Americans will not do. Of the 474 occupations tracked by the Commerce Department, just six are dominated by foreign workers.
[AFRICANEWS] Angola's police have allegedly killed over a dozen activists since January, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday, urging the government to swiftly probe reports of abuse and rights violations. "activists" like "mostly peaceful" is subject to interpretation
The country's law enforcement authorities have also been accused of the arbitrary arrests and detention of hundreds, the NGO said in a statement.
Angolan law enforcement authorities including police, state security and intelligence services "have been implicated in unlawful killings of at least 15 people", HRW said.
Political activists, artists and protest organizers were the main targets of the "alleged rights violations", which HRW has condemned.
"Angolan authorities should urgently act to end abusive police policies and practices and ensure that there is justice for victims and their family members," Zenaida Machado, senior Africa researcher at HRW said in the statement.
Although the government has attempted to improve law enforcement, criminal prosecutions against police officers who commit these violations remain rare, HRW said.
The arrests are more frequent in the oil-rich northern province of Cabinda, close to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the last six months, HRW has interviewed 32 people across the country including victims and their relatives, witnesses and security sources.
In one instance men who identified as criminal investigation service members held a group of young men in custody "whose bodies were found three days later at a hospital morgue,".
A friend of the victims, who were known for participating in anti-government protests, said that police had been monitoring the group.
Angola's ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), has denied HRW's claims.
"Investigations are already underway," party spokesman Rui Falcao told AFP.
"However, we find it strange that those calling for the necessary investigations already have conclusions and are passing judgment," Falcao said.
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Speaking of Angola lame excuses for limmies...
Take twenty Angolans, a boat,
And add water. America! Note:
It was already here,
And the very next year
Came the Pilgrims, although, and I quote,
"Just we African captives can vote!"
[AFRICANEWS] Félicien Kabuga, the octogenarian alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, should be urgently released after a court declared him unfit to stand trial in The Hague, UN appeals judges ruled on Monday.
A special war crimes tribunal committed "an error of law" in June when it decided that Félicien Kabuga should be tried via a simplified procedure despite his state of health, the judges said, ordering the court to "rapidly examine the problem of Mr. Kabuga's pre-trial detention".
The former businessman, who is 88 according to the authorities but claims to be 90, is accused of having founded and financed a radio station that called for hatred and motivated the killers who massacred some 800,000 people in 1994.
The judges of the Court of Appeal "decided to refer the case back to the Trial Chamber with a request that it declare an indefinite stay of proceedings due to Mr. Kabuga's unfitness to stand trial".
They admitted that this decision "must be disappointing" for the victims and survivors of the 1994 genocide, who "have waited a long time for justice to be done", the ruling added.
But "justice can only be served by organizing fair trials conducted with full respect for the rights of the accused".
The judges pointed out that, in June, medical experts had concluded that Mr. Kabuga was suffering from "severe dementia".
Arrested in Gay Paree in 2020, after two decades on the run, the accused, who uses a wheelchair, went on trial in September and pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me."
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[GEO.TV] Scientists in the US achieved greater energy after conducting nuclear fusion, as they were also behind a breakthrough of a historic nuclear fusion carried out in December last year, reported AFP Monday.
The world was amazed in December as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced it had carried out an experimental nuclear reaction that put out more energy than was put into it — a holy grail of science in the quest for unlimited — clean power to bring an end to the use of fossil fuels.
"We can confirm the experiment produced a higher yield than the December 2022 experiment," public information officer Paul Rhien said Monday in a statement, without providing further details.
He added: "The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, lab planned to report the results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications."
The nuclear fusion was first reported by the Financial Times.
Nuclear fusion is regarded as a clean, abundant, and safe source of energy that could eventually allow humans to ditch coal, crude oil, natural gas, and other hydrocarbons that are behind the global climate crisis.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... it is a long journey before fusion is viable on an industrial scale, providing power to residences and commercial spaces.
Nuclear power plants around the world currently use fission — the splitting of a heavy atom’s nucleus — to produce energy.
Fusion on the other hand combines two light hydrogen atoms to form one heavier helium atom, releasing a large amount of energy in the process.
On Earth, nuclear fusion reactions can be provoked by heating hydrogen to extreme temperatures inside specialised devices.
Like fission, fusion is carbon-free during operation, and has additional critical advantages: it poses no risk of nuclear disaster and produces much less radioactive waste.
During December’s experiment, the lab used 192 ultra-powerful lasers to deliver 2.05 megajoules of energy to a tiny capsule smaller than a pea containing isotopes of hydrogen. It produced 3.15 megajoules of fusion energy output.
While the result was a net energy gain, 300 megajoules of energy were needed from the electrical grid to power the lasers.
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Don't mean shit unless we can get a reactor to produce Tritium on an industrial level. The main source is a nuclear reactor in Canada, and that is getting shut down soon. Most expensive element on the market at $30,000 per gram. Without it or something else to replace it, fusion is a dead dream.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
