RBG

With the death of RBG, we'll have a shot at the first Conservative Supreme court since Franklin Roosevelt. That's 80 years, kids. A long time. Maybe time enough to strike down Roe, Lawrence, and a lot of other Lefty impositions on the American character.

Ginsburg, in some ways, was one of the worst of the Lefties, justifying her opinions on European law and tradition when the court is supposed to be checking on Constitutionality. That's how bad it had gotten. I remember being on a cruise a few years ago and heard some Masshole bragging, "Baaston is probably the most European city in America".

That's the Lefty rap these days. We must be more like those "advanced" nations in the British Commonwealth and the EU.

My forebears didn't come here, braving high seas, backbreaking labor, indentured servitude, the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the British Army (twice), starvation, discrimination, the Confederate Army, the Oregon Trail, the California Trail, the California Gold Fields, and assorted sneers from the WASPs to be Euros.

That said, she was one tough bird.

"Mass AG Unilaterally Changes Gun Laws..."

"Redefines Assault Weapon Definition"

Town Hall:  With most of the media attention on the Republican National Convention (Melania Trump’s speech)—the Massachusetts Attorney General seems to have decided to unilaterally rewrite the state’s gun laws. The attorney general is targeting so-called copycat assault weapons (their words not mine) and would force manufacturers to stop making them and gun dealers to stop selling them. The law goes into effect on July 20. Those who have bought the firearms being targeted prior to that date will be allowed to keep them (Mass Live):

Gun manufacturers have manufactured these weapons as legal versions of prohibited guns," Healey said. "These weapons are illegal. They are copies or duplicates of banned weapons, and they cannot be bought or sold in Massachusetts."

"The gun industry doesn't get to decide what's compliant (with state law)," [Attorney General Maura] Healey said. "We do."

Gun owners, however, said they had no notice of Healey's interpretation of the law and were still unsure of what would be included.

[…]

Advocates for the gun industry warn that Healey's ban is likely to face a legal challenge.

"You have a person that's unilaterally changing the laws without actually going through the process, then telling licensed retailers they're not allowed to sell something basically with no notice," said Jim Wallace, executive director of Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts, a gun rights advocacy group. "This is going to be probably a very interesting legal challenge at some point."

[…]

Massachusetts already bans the sale of assault weapons and of copies or duplicates of assault weapons. But, according to Healey, some gun manufacturers made guns that are very similar to assault weapons but with small changes. For example, they do not have a collapsible stock or a flash suppressor. That does not change the lethality of the weapon, but it does let the gun manufacturers claim it is not a copy of an assault weapon, so it is "state compliant."

Healey's directive to gun manufacturers clarifies the definition of "copy." Under Healey's definition, if a gun's operating system is the same as that of a banned weapon or it has components that are interchangeable with those in a banned weapon, the gun will be illegal to sell in Massachusetts.

According to Healey's office, an estimated 10,000 "copycat" assault weapons were sold last year in Massachusetts.

Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton

I was watching American Pickers on t.v. where Mike was negotiating for a small copper still. The owner appeared interested in discussing the still but seemed not so interested in selling. Mike did not buy the still but the owner asked, "Do you know who Popcorn is?" And Mike answered in the affirmative and before they moved on to picking through other items the seller mentioned Popcorn died recently. Mike goes, "Oh," and they move on to picking through other items. It was clear the owner really did not intend to sell the still. So why the fuss about a tiny still?

How would Mike know Popcorn Sutton, I wondered. Curious, I looked. 

All per Wikipedia. Known for always wearing his hat and his bib overalls. Sutton, (perfect name) wrote a self-published book about making moonshine Me and My Likker along with a self-produced home VHS video about related activities, This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make, which quickly became a cult classic and the source material for a documentary by television producers in Boston The Last One, which received a Southeast Emmy Award, and further, later used by Discovery Channel for their show the Moonshiners.  This photograph is titled "the day before Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself" taken by Andy Armstrong.

Wiki   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Sutton

This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make full movie YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp56sT66D1U

You really should see the first photo in Google images. I almost posted it, but this one is better. More respectful. 

Google images [popcorn sutton]  http://tinyurl.com/mqh3ay3

Popcorn Sutton was thirty-two years old.

Kidding. He was sixty-three years old. But why did he off himself? Reading that made me sad. Why, Popcorn, why? What was so impossible that suicide was the rational thing to do? 

He killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning to avoid federal prison term due to begin a few days later. They finally caught up to him. He had scrapes with the law previously, probation and such, and he always insisted he run his last run of moonshine, that he aint gonna do it anymore, that he's getting too old to be doing that stuff.

Hank Williams announced a partnership with his widow Pam Sutton to distill and distribute a brand by his name, Popcorn Sutton's Tennessee White Whiskey marketed as being produced in stills of Sutton's design. They were sued by Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. because their bottles were too closely resembled. They wanted all bottles removed and profits from sales of those bottles turned over to Jack Daniel's. Rough.

Let's look. 

So? Well, yeah. But so? Well, yeah. I'm conflicted. Come on, the guy died. 

Bastards. 

It's business. 

Business is bastardly and so is law sometimes. Jeeze those people are touchy.

I hate this story. It hurts my American heart. Can't a guy just make whiskey? No. He cannot. He must dance around and hide his activities.

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The pig trap

I found this piece interesting reading all the way through. I found it within comments somewhere, a link to a post at taxicabdepressions. The writer brags his piece was picked up by Western Rifle Shooters, at first scan that appears to be exceedingly far right prep group.

The piece begins with a photo a a militarized vehicle with soldiers hanging off it within an urban street scene and the reader reasonably assumes the term pig refers to them, but the photo is a bit superfluous, perhaps descriptive of intent, the term refers to an actual pig trap.

The taxi driver describes meeting two people. The first is a fare with an alarming response to simple discussion. The rider said something incredibly provocative, while demonstrating and maintaining clear thought and astute response to query, and with decisive uncompromising conclusions, the whole thing disquieting. The driver dismissed the rider and his thoughts as conspiracy in nature but over time the man's saying continued to nag. And nag. And nag. The description of posture caught my attention. The driver describes noticing what I would have noticed.

The second person the driver describes he sought out for endorsement and for photos to include in a website, previous to driving a cab. This is the pig trap person, a Ted Nugent type minus the flash, hype and ego. The author describes his live-off the land lifestyle, his non-hunting approach to animal husbandry that the man developed for himself on his own land.

In the cab driver's synthesis, the pig trap is metaphor for what government is doing to the country in stages. He nicely correlates present day political activities with his endorser's method of herding intelligent creatures to slaughter by using their their need, their greed, and their complacency in overriding their intelligence.