• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you RG for your fabulous pictures. Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.
• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
Daily Miscellany
Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.
Enjoy. Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".
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The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
I had, back in August of 2020, been remotely aware of the Kyle Rittenhouse killings. His story is a simple one.
Rittenhouse pictured himself a hero. In fact, he had hopes of becoming a cop.
The country was rioting in lots of places because of the cop shooting of George Floyd, and on the nights of 8/25/20, Wisconsin cops shot another black man and there were riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse got a gun he obtained from a friend and began to roam the streets of Kenosha.
Along the way, he shot and killed two people and injured another.
Various videos obtain show the two killed individuals lunging toward Rittenhouse, appearing to be going after his gun.
In defending himself, as Rittenhouse claims, he shot the individuals appearing to be trying to take his gun and, well what do people do with a gun. ?
From the N Y Times:
The charges
First-degree intentional homicide.
Attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
First-degree reckless homicide.
Reckless endangerment (two counts).
Carrying a firearm illegally as a minor.
The homicide charges, equivalent to what other states call murder charges, carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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The trial this week is an attempt to charge Rittenhouse with murder not for self-defense as Rittenhouse claims from the case.
I have been mesmerized by this trial.
Of course Rittenhouse was extremely emotional. He had killed two people and that, as he alleges, was never his intent. On videos we see protestors hitting Rittenhouse in the head with skateboards, we see one killed man lunging toward Rittenhouse's gun.
Kyle Rittenhouse was defending himself.
And there is no rule that we should allow people to kill us without fighting back.
It is, by the way, legal to carry a weapon openly in Wisconsin, although there's questions about Rittenhouse's age and where he purchased the gun.
The prosecutor is doing the lousiest job ever done by an ADA.
This whole trial is an acquiesce to Black Lives Matter to atone for Floyd's death at the time.
Those rioters had no right to go over Rittenhouse like they did.
And frankly, while I know that Kyle had good intentions, he would have been much better off hiding in his own home and avoid the rioters.
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The joke here is a caption that has this fellow declaring how astute a deer hunter he is and shows his recent "catch".
The only reason I find it funny is because my 17 year old granddaughter, soon toe be 18, is suddenly a deer hunter!
"I love deer meat, Mom-Mom" she said, and all I could think about is how my grandchild is killing and eating Bambi!
It would seem that she and her father, who recently died, used to go hunting together.
Now she has a boyfriend, named Hunter of course, who also is a deer hunter.
Heh.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Review Blue Bloods
CBS Sunday nights 10 pm
Blue Bloods is a drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner, and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief. A source of pride and concern for Frank is his eldest son, Danny, a seasoned detective, family man and Iraq War vet who on occasion uses dubious tactics to solve cases with his partner, Detective Maria Baez.
The Reagan women in the family include Erin, a New York Assistant D.A. who also serves as the legal compass for her siblings and father, as well as a single parent to her teenage daughter, Nicky. Jamie is the youngest Reagan, a Harvard Law graduate and the family's "golden boy." Unable to deny the family tradition, Jamie decided to give up a lucrative future in law and follow in the family footsteps as a cop. He's found a friend and ally in Eddie, his female partner who keeps him on his toes, and has very different reasons than the Reagans for joining the police force.
After several years of working together, Jamie and Eddie finally succumbed to their strong feelings for one another and tied the knot.
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Blue Bloods has been around for a while but the show has a new overall meme of sorts.
While the show once was all about catching the bad guys-criminals- by the good guys-cops- now viewers get weekly doses of the mighty Reagan cop family fighting with such as Mayors and various law enforcement outfits to ensure that cops are not allowed to be killed at random is self-defense is needed.
The show now has a story line of showing what are, in this current era, the bad guys-COPS-and showing the audience that they are good guys.
Love Tom Selleck.
It's a good show and very believable.
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THE FLY ON THE WALL
Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.
The Rittenhouse Trial
The meeting I attended involved a discussion between the DOJ and some Republicans who wanted to discuss the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. It was the spider who told me about the human Kyle Rittenhouse. He allegedly killed two people as he tried to stop rioters from burning buildings and hurting each other in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Instead some of the rioters tried to killed Kyle Rittenhouse and the trial to send him to jail for murder. Rittenhouse was alleging his killings were self-defense.
As this fly is to understand, humans may defend themselves with guns and not go to jail for same.
"The prosecutor is doing an awful job," one of the Republicans said to who I understood was from the Department of Justice.
"He's doing as well as anybody could under the circumstances. Bear in mind, the DOJ only took this case at the behest of both Democrats AND Republicans. At the time you politicos wanted to show America how you will punish anyone who messes with the rioters, who were still roiling over George Floyd," the DOJ Rep responded.
"And now here we are over a year later and Americans now think they should be allowed to shoot another who fully intends to shoot them first," another Republican said.
"And now the whole country thinks Rittenhouse had the right to defend himself and they've forgotten all about George Floyd," the DOJ rep responded.
Valeria came into the room just then. "The prosecutor is trying to get the judge to declare a mistrial with no prejudice. Give us time. We will get your political backsides out of the fire," Valeria said, turning as about to exit.
"Just like we do when you guys need us," Valeria said and slammed to door after leaving the room.
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