Articles by Herschel Smith

Both of these come from WRSA but in case you haven’t seen them, here they are.  Then there is an anecdote at the end.

British report from Vox Day.

An investigation of official ONS data has revealed that since the Covid-19 vaccine was offered and administered to kids in England and Wales there has been a 89% rise in deaths among male children against the five-year-average, with the most recent week seeing an increase as high as 200%.

The UK’s Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have openly admitted that they suspect myocarditis and pericarditis are potential side effects of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, especially among young males. A suspicion that has been strong enough for the UK Medicine Regulator to officially add warnings about myocarditis and pericarditis to the safety labels of the Covid-19 vaccines.

From a writer at substack.

So, we’re finally getting the “hospital crisis” that so many covidians have been clamoring for. there’s only one eensy weensy pequeño problema: it’s not from covid.

THIS piece from NPR is incredibly telling. they lay out quite a lot of evidence that we have set our own house on fire, but fail to connect the dots. they ascribe iffy explanations devoid of substantiation and fail to explore the etiology of this situation. (which, frankly, looks REALLY interesting) so let’s dig in.

Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich., staff members are struggling to care for patients who are showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.

Tiffani Dusang, the emergency room’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at all the patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital’s hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she says in her warm Texan twang.

But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.

“I always feel very, very bad when I walk down the hallway and see that people are in pain or needing to sleep or needing quiet. But they have to be in the hallway with, as you can see, 10 or 15 people walking by every minute.”

It’s a stark contrast to where this emergency department — and thousands others — were at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Except for initial hot spots like New York City, many ERs across the U.S. were often eerily empty in the spring of 2020. Terrified of contracting COVID-19, people who were sick with other things did their best to stay away from hospitals. Visits to emergency departments dropped to half their normal levels, according to the Epic Health Research Network, and didn’t fully rebound until the summer of 2021.

But now, they’re too full. Even in parts of the country where COVID-19 isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than they were before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care.

I wish I could relay a personal report from a medical provider in the area, but the information cannot be shared at the moment.  Suffice it to say that massive internal hematoma, retroperitoneal hemorrhaging and intraabdominal hematomas are the order of the day, and not with folks who are on blood thinners or who have any other morbidities.

Expect this to increase with time.

Jeff Knox at Ammoland.

But then Clement says this: “The state takes its revisionism so far as to claim there is no example in all Anglo American history of the carry rights petitioners seek. In fact, at least 43 states allow just that, while, as in Heller, only a few jurisdictions follow New York’s lead of presumptively denying a right that the Constitution guarantees to all…”

My complaint is that, if indeed “the Constitution guarantees to all,” this right, (which should be acknowledged to preexist the Constitution), then exercise of the right is not something which any state does, or can, “allow.” Those 43 states do not “allow” the exercise of the right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense. They recognize the right. They honor the right. They have laws that specifically avoid infringing on the right. But they most certainly don’t “allow” the exercise of the right.

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I believe Clement received more credit in that case than was really due him though, as the case was built and brought by the Second Amendment Foundation, and argued by Alan Gura, who was also the lead attorney for Heller. In the eleventh hour, the NRA petitioned for and received permission to join the McDonald case, and the 30 minutes for oral arguments was divided down the middle. With Gura first arguing that the Court should apply the Second Amendment to the states under a proper reading of the 13th Amendment, correcting over a century of bad precedents going back to the post-Civil War Court. Clement, in his turn, argued the more conservative line, calling for the Court to apply the Second Amendment as a fundamental right under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Because the Court chose to go with Clement’s remedy, rather than Gura’s, Clement was the one who got much of the credit, with some claiming that he “rescued” the case from Gura. I think that’s too generous to Clement, and far too dismissive of Gura. McDonald, like Heller, was Gura’s case. He put it together, led it through the courts, and convinced the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and hear the case. His push for the Court to reverse precedents, which virtually all constitutional scholars agree are erroneous and flawed, was worth trying. Gura knew that it was a long shot, so he had always taken a dual-pronged approach, arguing that the Court could either apply the Second Amendment to the states via a correct reading of the Thirteenth Amendment. Or they could take the less drastic route of accomplishing the same thing via the “incorporation doctrine” and the Fourteenth Amendment. Had the NRA and Clement not joined the case, Gura would certainly have argued both options during oral arguments – as he did in his briefs – and the Court would have reached the same conclusion they eventually did, via the “incorporation doctrine.”

Every time I’ve written on the Heller case, I’ve said it was a weak decision.  And I’ve always been right.  Now, this does not exonerate the idiots who wrote it for writing it the way they did (leaving open the question of whether the constitution recognizes the right to bear arms outside the home).  In fact it’s worse than that.  The Heller decision was a tip of the hat to the pampered beltway elitists and chattering class.

Heller offers a Second Amendment cleaned up so that it can safely be brought into the homes of affluent Washington suburbanites who would never dream of resistance-they have too much sunk into the system–but who might own a gun to protect themselves from the private dangers that, they believe, stalk around their doors at night. Scalia commonly touts his own judicial courage, his willingness to read the Constitution as it stands and let the chips fall where they may. But Heller is noteworthy for its cowardice.

So the Supreme Court bears blame, but then so does the lawyer who argued the way he did (Clement).  Rights come from the Almighty.  Any failure to ensconce our duties and rights clearly in His law-word insults the creator of the universe.

Ironically, I was just reading this discussion thread at reddit/Firearms where so-called Fudds are lampooned for their positions, e.g., “You guys with your AR-15s are always pushing things.  You’re going to make us all lose our rights.”  Listen. coward.  Your rights come from God, not man.  You cannot lose what God has granted.

All aspects and manifestations of God’s economy – Family, Church and State – must bend the knee to King Jesus, or they will not survive.  They will perish from the earth, and then suffer in eternity.

Source.  Notice anything interesting?

Perhaps this, yes?

Watch until the end.  Very telling.

The post title is correct.  That’s good shooting by both of them.

Of course, she’s shooting a very nice 223 rifle (SAKO) with a very long barrel (24″) along with a heavy bullet (80.5 grain Berger).  But still, that’s good shooting and a great job of taking the 223 out that far.

Michael Yon on the Pandemic-Famine-War conditions.

China has shut down Magnesium smelters to save electricity during their energy crunch.

Without Magnesium, there is no Aluminum.  We are weeks away from shutting down.

87% of Magnesium comes from China, because it is impossible to build a new smelter in the EU, USA or Canada.

Yea, I know.

This affects everything from AR-15 lowers to automobiles.

Prepare for a time of dearth and scarcity in everything from machinery and repair parts to food.  But you knew that already.

Via Legal Insurrection.

JUST IN – Fauci’s NIH division partly funded a lab to drug dogs and "lock their heads in cages filled with hungry sandflies so that the insects could eat them alive."https://t.co/TuujeCjb3M

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 23, 2021

Funded, of course, by the NIAID.  Nice job, jerk.

Further information.

According to the White Coat Waste Project, the Food and Drug Administration does not require drugs to be tested on dogs, so the group is asking why the need for such testing.

White Coat Waste claims that 44 beagle puppies were used in a Tunisia, North Africa, laboratory, and some of the dogs had their vocal cords removed, allegedly so scientists could work without incessant barking.

Bah, who needs legal requirements for torture when it’s so much fun?

Babylon Bee notes Fauci’s response.

“Puppy torture is science,” said Fauci angrily. “So is grafting baby scalps onto lab mice and engineering viruses that kill millions! I AM SCIENCE! I AM GOD!!!” Fauci then threw back his head and laughed maniacally at the sky.

Fauci insisted that his experiments are “super important”, and “real science.” He also defended some of his other experiments, such as the “Kitten Drowning Experiment”, the “Orphan Punching Experiment”, and the “Piranha Kiddie Pool Experiment.”

Remember boys and girls, Fauci is the one who wants you to wear masks and take the Vax.  He’s even confident that the Vax will be ready for kids aged 5-11 by November.

Josef Mengele would be proud to have known him.

Mike Gover discusses it.  While I like that he mentioned Kyle Lamb, I was under the impression from prior reading that the specops guys had essentially learned that grip from the gaming community, and then passed it down through the ranks.  Someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

Ignorance from Vox Day.

And while I am as skeptical as any atheist about those whose demono-calvinism interprets every unfortunate or unpleasant event as being the result of evil intervention in their lives – you know what I mean, the sort of individual who requests an exorcism because “I feel a little blue today” and believes the Lego brick he stepped on the night before was personally placed there by the Prince of Hell – there is a very strong stench of sulfur about literally everything related to both Covid and the vaxxes.

Good Lord.  This is so messy it’s hard to know where to begin.

First, I don’t know a single Calvinist who has ever requested an exorcism because “I feel a little blue today,” or for any other reason.  And Calvinists are neither Roman Catholics nor Pentecostals.

Second, Calvinists don’t interpret every unfortunate or unpleasant event as a result of evil intervention in our lives.  In fact, quite the contrary.  “Father fortune” and “Lady Luck” are evil notions, and the Holy Scriptures do not countenance notions of causation from unknown sources.

“For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not yet been done, saying, “My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure.” Isaiah 46:9-10.  “We have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,” Ephesians 1:11.

To be sure, God does allow His children to suffer for a period of time when they make poor choices, but always to their benefit.

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose,” Romans 8:28.

While we agree with him that there is something very wrong with the Vax, he sounds like a high school freshman when trying to write about things theological.

He says, ” … you know what I mean.”  No, I don’t know what you mean.  Nothing you said makes any sense at all.  It’s a mish mash of confusion, ignorance and poor writing.  It might be wise for him to steer clear of the more complex issues and focus on things he can understand.

Reader Ned sends this our way.

I’ve sent a note out to Steve Hornady and so far there has been no response to my questions.  I’ll post a new article if I get a response.