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Do you know what annoys me about the illustration of this tweet, fellow olds? Yes. Yes, you do.

California, where I live, is more attractive than where you live… Right down to the cellular level.

That's a rather bold statement to make in a lawsuit. But it is footnoted...

“Stefan Halper is a ratfucker and a spy, who embroiled an innocent woman in a conspiracy to undo the 2016 Presidential election and topple the President of the United States of America,” Lokhova wrote in the lawsuit, which she filed in federal court in Virginia.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/stefan-halper-michael-flynn-lokhova/

Do you know what annoys me about the illustration of this tweet, fellow olds? Yes. Yes, you do.

There are just not enough face-palms for this one.

Video cassette, audio cassette, potato, tomato. They're all the same, right?

I think it would be fun to be day drinking with James Madison at the Indian Queen Tavern 232 years ago.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/331401/

In 1792 the Militia Acts were passed.

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2019/05/20/why-the-founders-wanted-you-to-own-military-style-weapons/

Streissand Effect in 3.. 2.. 1..

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1132296651488583680

A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit by a group of former child slaves accusing the U.S. unit of Nestle SA, the world’s largest food maker, and Cargill Co [CARG.UL] of perpetuating child slavery at Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

https://twitter.com/PrimeJD/status/1132007582946795520

In 1792 the Militia Acts were passed. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at May 25, 2019 7:12 AM

In 1792, the major difference between "military" weapons and civilian weapons is that the individual civilian weapons were better and more advanced. That was generally true until after World War II.

Rifled flintlock muskets, accurate to about 300 yards, could be used to shoot game at a distance. Smooth-bore flintlock muskets were chiefly useful in sending a wall of lead toward an enemy formation while the infantry advanced and were "accurate" to only about 100 yards.

The rifled muskets took longer to reload (1 min vs. 20 sec), so the smooth-bore was the preferred military weapon. Affixed with a bayonet at the end, the infantry would lay down covering fire and advance to hand-to-hand range. The main military weapon of the British infantry was the bayonet while the Continental Army eschewed bayonets, preferring swords and other weapons for hand-to-hand fighting.

Union soldiers in the American Civil War would purchase civilian Henry lever-action rifles with a 12-shot magazine (that "damned Yankee rifle you load on Sunday and shoot all week"), preferring them to their military-issue single shot rifled musket, even though the Minié Ball had sped the process of reloading the rifled musket.

The Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn were equipped with civilian lever-action repeating rifles (Winchester, Henry, and Spencer) while the 7th cavalry troopers were equipped with the military-issue single-shot Springfield carbine Model 1873.

Soldiers equipped with the US Army's .38 M1892 (.38 Long Colt not .38 Special) revolver in the Philippine Insurrection (1900) would purchase second-hand Colt Single-Action Army .45s when the .38 proved inadequate to stop the fanatical Moros. The Army finally relented and asked Colt for a military version of its new double-action large frame .45 New Service Revolver, dubbing it the M1909.

The .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun was invented in 1918 and was a favorite of ranchers and gangsters through the '30s. This civilian weapon was finally adopted by the US military in 1938 in preparation for World War II.

And yet, in all that time when individual civilians could outgun individual soldiers, we were not plagued with a rash of school or church shootings. We were plagued with a spate of bombings in the '10s and '20s and the worst school massacre on US soil, even to this day, was the 1927 Bath school bombing that killed 38 children and 6 adults.

Snowing at the sea at night:

https://twitter.com/timsoret/status/1132296435230269440

It's just another night in paradise

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1132099196423757824

A Norweigan study examines Why Boys Get Bad Grades and uncovers a bias based on perceived social skills.

"...the teacher's perception of a student's social skills was influencing how the teacher was grading the student [...] regardless of whether a student was academically strong or not – or whether the student was a boy or a girl."

Great vid, Six

> potato, tomato. They're all
> the same, right?

I'm glad there are commenters here who are paying attention distinctions in firearms, which will be as casually, but much more consequentially, elided by idiots.