Random News and Notes 30 June
Welcome to the final June edition of RNN. July starts tomorrow.
We start with truly tragic story out of Coeur d’Alene Idaho. A gunman ambushed a group of firefighters, killing 2.
. . . two police officers were shot during the attack. Authorities believe the fire was intentionally set to lure first responders to Canfield Mountain in Coeur d’Alene.
The incident started at approximately 1:30 p.m. local after a small but growing brush fire was reported on Canfield Mountain Sunday afternoon. When fire personnel responded to the blaze about half an hour later, they started getting shot at by an unknown person, or persons, in the woods.
Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris held a news conference yesterday. “We now have two deaths. We have an unknown amount of casualties,” Norris said. “We still have civilians that are coming off of that mountain. We might have civilians that are stuck or in shock on that mountain. So this is a very, very fresh situation.”
The shooter’s corpse has been found.
I will keep an eye on this story and update y’all as new intel crosses the transom here at MVAP HQ.
Glastonbury England hosts a fairly big music festival most years. They hosted one this year. I went to one back in the mid 90’s while TDY to Blighty. The Cure and Oasis were headliners that year.
This year a rap/punk duo called Bob Vylan took the stage Saturday afternoon. It went well. . .
The’band’ is (or should I say was) planning a tour here in the US. However, the State department is looking into revoking their visas.
Good.
This is just too good not to share. It randomly popped up in my Twitter feed this morning.
I truly appreciate the outreach, but I have to wonder where the gravitas went.
Dear Mr. Japan.
That is how President Trump intends on beginning the letters he’s sending informing countries of their new tariff rates.
As much as I hate to admit this, Chuck Shumer is the senior Senator from my home state. He’s a real piece of work. His understudy – Kristen Gillibrand is no bargain either. Anyway, Chuck pulled a procedural stunt yesterday and forced a full reading of the Big Beautiful Bill before the Senate could move forward. It took Senate clerks 16 hours to complete the task.
Meanwhile Chuck was home in bed snoozing away. He split as soon as he could. And by as soon as he could I mean before the clerks actually started the reading.
Look, I’m for all bills being read aloud. I mean that, every piece of legislation brought forward should be subject to at least one complete reading. And not of some draft, the final bill, just before the final passage vote. At the very least, if you force a reading you need to stay in the chamber to hear it. I swear to Dog I hate Chucky.
I also think all bills should be single-subject bills and there should be 12 separate appropriations bills every session. And while I am at it I want a pony and a lifetime supply of ammo and a M-240B and an Apache gunship and a Perry class Frigate.
Other than some potential emergency docket cases, we have seen the last of the cases from SCOTUS till fall. I covered the last of the drops here. Since then, I’ve had some time to read through and digest the opinions and, more importantly for this item, the dissents.
After doing so I have come to an inescapable conclusion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the one dumbest Supreme Court Justice of my lifetime. Her – or more correctly her clerks – use (or misuse) of the English language is astonishing.
At another point in the same dissent, she uses the appeal to authority logical fallacy. But not just any appeal, but an appeal to an imaginary martian.
While I am not a bloodsucking leech err lawyer, I do follow the Courts pretty closely and I have never before seen the like. It’s no wonder Amy Coney Barrett and Sam Alito laid into her the way they did. It must be exceedingly tiresome to have to deal with her.
Now, get out there and Carpe the Diem!
