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Posted: May 27, 2023 by navygrade36bureaucrat in cultureTags: datechguy's magnificent seven
State Farm Decides California is a Bad Risk
Posted: May 27, 2023 by datechguy in businessTags: California, incompetent left
Over the last several years hundreds of thousands of residents of California have decided to leave the state deciding that that there was no future for them there.
Now State Farm insurance has decided they’re a bad risk too.
America’s biggest home insurance company has announced it will no longer insure houses in California, saying that the risk from wildfires was too great and the cost of rebuilding too high.
State Farm, the nation’s biggest car and home insurer by premium volume, said existing customers would not be affected.
But from Saturday, no new home insurance policies will be issued. The company will continue offering auto insurance.
The shock to me is that they still consider it safe to offer auto insurance, but it is a pretty big state and there are likely more than a few places outside of Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco and LA where you can insure a car without losing your shirt.
Of course if the state had sane forestry policies as they once did before the left made it their fiefdom this would not be an issue but the voters are bound to get the government they deserve.
Good and hard.
Stacy Reminds me Why I admire him so
Posted: May 26, 2023 by datechguy in crimeTags: crime, robert stacy mccain
At the top of Stacy McCain’s blog is a quote that I think best describes what he does as a reporter:
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
Arthur Koestler
He has a post up titled The Deadly Menace of Feral Youth where he talks about the story from five years ago of a young man named Dawnta Harris about who as the judge in the case where he ran over and killed officer Officer vAmy Caprio said:
In the last six months, no offense, but your client is a one-man crime wave. I’m not certain any juvenile facility is secure enough to hold him.
Harris ended up being sentenced to life in prison and Stacy noted that not punishing youth for small crimes means they will eventually get nailed for large ones.
Leniency is not to be confused with mercy. If the juvenile justice system had kept Dawnta Harris behind bars — and they had multiple opportunities to do so — not only would Officer Caprio still be alive, but Harris’ codefendants wouldn’t have been convicted of felony murder for their role in Officer Caprio’s death. So, yeah, go ahead liberals, and congratulate yourselves for doing your part to advance the cause of “social justice.” All it cost was a dead cop and four boys going to prison.
It’s worth noting that Stacy noted the same thing with Travon Martin:
The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewerly in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.
Remember the words of Scripture in the letter to the Hebrews on the subject
You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.”
Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not (then) submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?
They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness. At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
It is
The Biden Regime used the FBI to spy on hundreds of thousands of Americans
Posted: May 25, 2023 by Jon Fournier in UncategorizedTags: datechguy's magnificent seven, deep state, FBI, FISA, joe biden, jon fournier
A federal judge provided proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Joe Biden spied on hundreds of thousands of Americans. This is an exceedingly egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment. Sadly this is far from an isolated incident, It seems like similar instances have occurred on almost of monthly basis.
No occupant of the White House has proved to be more hostile to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the American people.
This article provides all of the shocking details of this massive abuse of the Fourth Amendment: New Revelations of Spying Just Made the FBI’s Week Even Worse (townhall.com)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is under fire yet again this week after a federal judge revealed the government agency illegally spied on hundreds-of-thousands of Americans without a warrant between 2020 and 2021.
The revelation came just one day after three FBI agents testified before the House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as whistleblowers concerned about the mass surveillance of Americans without proper cause or a warrant. The agents had their security clearances revoked and faced retaliation after bringing the issue to superiors.
This mass spying by the FBI was conducted under the FISA Court process. I have been a very harsh critic of the entire FISA process because It is deeply unconstitutional and ripe for abuse. I never believed the FISA Court would restrict its spying to foreign targets. I have been proved right repeatedly.
The FBI supposedly did implement FISA reforms to prevent abuse. These reforms did absolutely nothing
On Monday the FBI claimed FISA reforms had been implemented to prevent political targeting or abuse of the FISA process. The FBI released a statement after Special Counsel John Durham published a lengthy report showing extensive misconduct at the Bureau during the 2016 presidential election, including rampant FISA abuse and tampering of warrant applications issued against Trump campaign officials.
The FISA Court system violates four provisions ot the Fourth Amendment.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
FISA warrants are issues en mass instead of on specific individuals that are named. No probable cause is given. No oath if affirmation is given. The place being searched on not listed.
