Sunday, October 1, 2023

Dangerous Wanderings of an Unfocused Mind

Third Amendment

 No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

  As Justice Joseph Story stated in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, the provision speaks for itself as secur[ing] the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man’s house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.3

Just a question from someone with no legal training. Does the arming of nearly every federal agency blur the line between civilian and military? Can an innkeeper deny lodging?

More Slippery Slopes

Electronic Log Books

The electronic logbook law, also known as the ELD Mandate, is a federal law requiring qualifying commercial motor vehicle drivers to use electronic log devices (ELDs or elogs) to record driver and vehicle activity such as hours of service (HOS) and records of duty status (RODS).Dec 21, 2020

How soon will these appear in all non commercial vehicles? We conspiracy nuts are convinced the (P)regressives and world government champions want every possible means to control our lives.

The legality of ELBs was challenged and a circuit court has ruled the law as constitutional.

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To my knowledge, the Supreme Court hasn’t  taken up the question.

Seems to me that, if you want to operate a commercial vehicle, you must agree to always be a witness against yourself.

Long article here about the Commerce Clause.

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After reading through this, in light of the 2nd Amendment Bruin decision, what was “commerce” at the time? Seems to my lay mind the idea was to prevent states from imposing import duties on products imported from other states. When written, was the intent to give Congress the power to regulate teamsters engaged in interstate commerce?

Silly questions, WSF. You are not now, were never, and never will be a lawyer.

As always, YMMV 

16 comments:

Old NFO said...

Yep, 'lots' of interesting questions... NO good answers here.

LL said...

MRSLL has ALL of the answers. She shares them at clever times.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Old NFO
My hope is the Bruen decision can lead to other successful challenges. That might change the temperature of the country enough so insurrection isn't needed. Given the way (P)regressives continue to push gun control, it is clear they won't follow the law.

LL
You are a lucky man. Smart, too. 40+ years?

Thinking said...

In addition to the Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar being carjacked and leftist "journalist" and activist Josh Kruger being shot dead in his Philadelphia home, we also have this: A NYC do-gooder activist and poet who once talked a mugger down from trying to rob him, being stabbed to death at a bus stop at Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard.

Jamaal Bowman (Democrat) pulled a fire alarm in the United States Capitol moments before the House was scheduled to vote on a bill preventing a government shutdown, according to the House Administration Committee. To prevent them from voting!

Isn't it ironic when liberals, progressives, leftists, and Democrats who seem to think they're somehow immune to the consequences of their political irresponsibility, brutally get a taste of what the real world is really about? No doubt, it is.

The 32-year-old Brooklyn man fatally stabbed by an unhinged suspect in a “horrific, brutal murder. Monday was remembered by friends as a big-hearted activist and talented poet — who once talked a mugger down from trying to rob him.

Ryan Carson of Bedford-Stuyvesant was stabbed multiple times in the chest by a stranger just before 4 a.m. as he waited with his gal pal at the B38 bus stop at Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard – after the pair left a wedding, cops and sources said.

It’s a horrific, brutal murder of someone who worked piously to help make this city a better place, said Tom Krantz, 31, Carson’s roommate who knew him since 2012, to The Post Monday.

The suspect – who had not been caught by Monday afternoon – was acting erratically and knocking over scooters before he seethed, “What are you looking at?” and senselessly attacked Carson.
California Governor Gavin Newsom acting as absurd as Joe Biden when Biden picked Kamala Harris as his Vice President , and now Newsom is doing the exact same thing by picking Dianne Feinstein’s replacement by color and sexual orientation over competence by nominating a pro-abortion, Black, Female, Lesbian, Communist, Labor Activist to fill the term of the now deceased Senator Dianne Feinstein.
I guess that he can’t think of a better way to completely run California into the ground.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Action/reaction
Onerous gun laws started in California when Reagan was Governor. Black Panthers, exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, paraded around the Capitol openly carrying rifles and shotguns. All those brave "Conservatives" shit their pants and passed laws to stop the Black Panthers.

Point being, these (P)regressives may react in a similar manner.

Wild, wild west said...

I knew some guys back in the day who would run as many as three logbooks for various nefarious reasons.

A favorite tactic of some highway patrol and license and weight orificers was to ask the driver for his logbook. Now let me see your license. Now let me see your registration. Now let me see your insurance. Now let me see your etc., etc., etc. Now let me see your logbook. Gotcha!

Well Seasoned Fool said...

W.W.W
Brings to mind a remark a business owner made to me. He had three "books". One for the bank, one for the taxman, and one for himself that nobody got to see.

What is shaping my thinking is ways to take back our rights and our privacy. Can the Bruen decision be applied to turn back the many intrusions into our private affairs?

Suzanne said...

So, what happens next now that Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as the Speaker?
Will anything meaningful change? No, things aren’t going to great! In fact I’m hard-pressed to think of one single thing that Joe Biden has done that benefits the country.
Biden campaigned on the message that he would be Uniting the country, but the country seems more divided and more fractured since he took office!
Meanwhile, in America, the cost of living is still up. Interest rates are through the roof. The 10 year bond yield is approaching five percent. The markets are starting to worry about the debt and government instability. Gas prices are soaring. Crime is Running Rampart in many of our communities.
Security at the Southern Border has been an ongoing disaster, though Biden’s Presidency and barely is given coverage by the media.
The massive spike in border crossings initially was excused by Biden allies in the media as a “Seasonal” problem. It was Seasonal all right: Open-borders Season.
Since day one of Biden’s taking office, a historic surge of migrants has crossed the border ILLEGALLY in numbers that are the highest in decades. And the problem isn’t abating.
During the Pandemic Americans in many places were forced to show their vaccine papers to even just go into a restaurant. The Biden administration tried to force Americans to get vaccinated or they would lose their jobs, and at the same time, the Biden administration has been letting Millions of illegal people with NO proof of vaccination—or proof of anything else—into the country
As prices reached Sky High levels in our restaurants. Also many of these restaurants had closed.
Biden’s sham of a withdrawal from Afghanistan was certainly one of the low, or even LOWEST points of his presidency and one of the lowest points of American foreign policy since the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.

The Biden administration assured the country that the withdrawal would be orderly, and that the Afghanistan government was stable upon America’s departure.
But the Afghanistan mess wasn’t the only foreign policy debacle so far under Joey Biden. Russia launched a Major invasion of Ukraine in the days before the president’s State of the Union speech.

And that farce also known as the former Secretary of State John Kerry, Biden’s Climate Czar, said the situation in Ukraine is worrying because Russia will be distracted from staying “on track” to fight Climate Change.

Just another illustration of just how misguided the Biden administration’s priorities actually are.
And now the House Republicans have gone home untill next week. And the Speaker’s Chair is “Vacant.”
Chaos is not leadership. It is also not a strategy. Biden is now hitting record-low’s on his approval ratings for a president at this point in his term. And we American are stuck with him and Giggling Kamala until 2024.

Political ChicK said...

Can someone, anyone truthfully explain why people attack the idea of "Make America Great Again" (known as MAGA") is not a GREAT thing, and not a Bad thing?
Why would ANY real American Lover NOT want this?
Are they forgetting all the Greatness that America has brought to this world of ours?
Remember Us winning World War Two”
Remember our Freeing all those poor people who were in the Nazi Concentration Camps?
Remember our going to the moon?
Remember when housing was affordable?
Remember when Detroit ruled the world with its Automobile Industry?
Remember when you kids could go play safely at the neighborhood parks, at the Ball games, in the Subways?
Remember when we didn’t locl the doors to our apartments, or to our Cars?
Remember when jobs were plentiful and you could support your family on one, and the wife, Mother in your family stayed home and Cooked?
Remember when our Kids walked to School, and weren’t afraid to talk to strangers?
Remember walking down your street at night wasn’t a crazy thing to do?
Remember the Corner Candy Store?
Remember when the doctor made house calls?
Remember D-Day and the Liberation of Europe?
Remember the Greatest Generation?

Who in this country doesn’t long for the days when America was great? I'll tell you who: DEMOCRATS.

Now Democrats are Socialist’s, and Progressives are something that is Evil, they hate freedom, they hate the idea of Free Speech, that Ban anything and everything that THEY don’t like! They hate America, they are promoting socialism, they are the enemy of everything that is good and descent. They promote sodomy and sexualizing children and murdering babies by abortion. From the days of slavery, which democrats fight for, to today, Democrats have been a satanic evil entity.

US Real Americans Love America and want to "Make America Great Again" And there is NOTHING wrong with that!

Beware of those who mock the acronym MAGA. They are very likely your mortal enemy. Beware of those people that say Republicans are their enemy, and are destroying Democracy. !
My friends, Love is better than Hate, or Anger. Hope is better than Fear. Optimism is better than Despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and Optimistic. Lets Make America GREAT Again!

Douglas said...

Hillary Clinton Calls For "formal deprogramming" of Trump supporters!
And just how does this Moron expect to have this done? Perhaps by having Reeducation camps, as they did in Nazi Germany!
What’s Next, It Probably involves Box Cars and Gas Showers!
Hens the term..."You Can't Fix Stupid".

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Hopefully she joins Feinstein in cackle hell.

Dean Robenson said...

The Israeli government formally declared war Sunday and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack from the Gaza Strip, portending greater fighting ahead as the toll from the conflict passed 900 dead and thousands wounded on both sides.

More than 24 hours after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion out of Gaza, Israeli forces were still trying to crush the last groups of militant fighters holed up in several towns of southern Israel. At least 600 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in decades — and more than 300 have been killed in Gaza as Israeli airstrikes pound the territory.
Authorities were still trying to determine how many civilians and soldiers were taken and are being held HOSTAGE by Hamas during the mayhem and taken back to Gaza for WHO KNOWS WHAT.. . From the videos taken and by eye witnesses, the captives are known to include Women, Children, and the Elderly.

On another note: Lets keep in mind that There is no such thing as the "Palestinian’s land".
In MY humble opinion, Israel needs to wipe Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the rest of that STINKING RAT PACK off the face of the earth. An attack on Iran could be coming soon too, as they are 3 months from having nuclear weapons thanks to Barrack Obama. And Joe Biden, who never does anything right, has really Screwed things up in a Major way again. The idiot gave $6 (SIX) Billion to Iran, and consequently we now are seeing these attacks coming from Iran's Cronies. Also besides Biden giving Iran that SIX BILLION, he also gave Hundreds of Million of $$$ to the Palestinians, and you are seeing what that has done!.

In summation, on the one side, we have the American people and Israel. On the other is Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinians, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Joe Biden. We, as always, are firmly united with Israel. We are at War against our "Own" incompetent, inept, President, as There is no such thing as "Palestinian land". Israel needs to wipe Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the rest of that rat pack off the face of the earth. An attack on Iran could be coming soon too, as they are 3 months from having nuclear weapons.

Well, Joe Biden, who never does anything right, has really f'kd up again. The idiot gave $6 Billion to Iran, and consequently we now are seeing attacks coming from Iran's proxies. Biden also gave hundreds of Million$$$ to the Palestinians.

In summation, We, as always, are firmly united with Israel. We are at war against our "own" president.
Reports say that at least 600 people have been killed in Israel, including Civilians, and Soldiers. And some 2,000 people have been wounded on each side. An Israeli official said that Israel forces have killed 400 militants and captured dozens more.


Well Seasoned Fool said...

Are we at end times?

The Hawk said...

It’s the sad truth and reality. The REALITY is sad but TRUE that in many of the Blogs Iv'e been reading INCLUDING that RAG Progressive Eruptions NOT one word was said about this terrible , Horrific attack by these animals that are not only Murdering JEWS but doing these HORRIBLE things to hem such as parading women in the streets NAKED, Rapping young children, and doing all these VICIOUS things besides destroying the Jewish cities.
And these Liberals, find it more important to write these Stupid things about Donald Trump instead. The other reality is that the death toll is likely to continue climb in the next few days, and weeks until someone wakes up and wipes these PIGS off the earth!
Yesterday marks a new sad day in Jewish history. The world Jewish population is so small and yesterday we lost 705 Jewish lives to blatant acts of terrorism, acts that it seems like large portions of the general public are trying to justify. We have already seen today in Philly, Time Square, and Manchester England rallies to support the terror in Israel. This week there are SEVERAL rallies in support of the terror on Saturday across college campuses in the US. This country has a huge antisemitism problem stemming from college campuses. Creating lies to dehumanize Jewish people to justify crimes, abuse and murder against them is unfortunately been going on for 1000s of year but it’s sad this still continues. And do the ANGRY Progressives who find it more important to spread their Venom about Donald Trump. And not even mention all this but to write about ASININE THINGS SUCH AS "YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN"! OR SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING!'
OH WELL, SUCH IS LIFE IN OUR MORONIC WORLD!

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Israel need show no mercy including the "innocent civilians" who provide sanctuary and aid to these religious fanatics.

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