Friday Feedback

Apr 18, 2025

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Trump Before The Supreme Court

Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court consolidated three cases on appeal from by the administration and scheduled oral arguments for May 15, 2025, at 10 a.m.

24A884, 24A885, and 24A886 are consolidations of 10 different cases, though some of those are duplicates as they came through the circuit courts.

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of this Court and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. 1651, the Acting Solicitor General—on behalf of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al.— respectfully applies for a partial stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (App., infra, 57a-59a) pending the consideration and disposition of the government’s appeal to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and pending any further review in this Court. The government is simultaneously filing similar applications in cases arising from the Western District of Washington and District of Massachusetts. From the following paragraph onward, all three applications are identical
— 24A884 March 13, 2025, Application for partial stay, submitted to The Chief Justice

In short, this is the vehicle for the Supreme Court to knock down the raft of inferior courts granting nationwide TROs and preliminary injunctions.

I don’t know if this will extend to final judgment, regardless, this is the case to watch.

Fort at #4 — Projects

I will be up at The Fort tomorrow to take some pictures. I just finished two woodworking mallets. Boy, I’m a poor wood turner. They look ok. I’ve polished one of them and put a sealing coat on it. On the other hand, I can see ever mis-cut and catch as I learn how to do this.

I’m hoping to get at least one of the spinning wheels down and into the cabins. This will give me something to do when I don’t want to be in the wood working shop.

Which means I need to finish the clamps for the clamp to hold my wool combs. I like the way wool spins once it has been combed.

I might even try spinning some carded wool. I’ve not tried that yet.

I have a reed in our big floor loom. We got the loom for cheap, but the reeds were rusted nasty things. I’ve not recovered them yet. I need to make a raddle to allow me to warp the loom. And I have to spin some yarn for the weft.

Computer Frustrations

There are two standard ways that power is supplied to computer type devices. One, they take a 110v AC into a power supply, which then generates 12V and 5V from that for the system. Two, they have a “wall wort” which generates 12V DC, which is then converted as required internally.

More and more of the small devices I’m picking up use the 12V wall wort. The issue? Space for the wall worts.

Wed, I went to plug in a new device. Accidentally unplugged the wrong wall wort, dropped my room switch until I got it plugged back in.

Once I had the correct wall wort removed, I found that I had 2 open outlets but the orientation of the outlets and the orientation of the wall wart don’t fit.

Now I’m dealing with another issue, A new switch that won’t come online.

Snope

The SCOTUS Friday Conference was moved to Thursday. Snope was conferenced again.

I really, really, want to see some forward motion on these Second Amendment Cases.

The reason I don’t update you on Ocean State Tactical is that it has been following Snope and I’m too lazy to have another tab open on https://www.supremecourt.gov

Tea!

I used to drink Coke-a-Cola. I stopped years ago, mostly because of the sugar content. I was converted to coffee.

I do drink tea occasionally. It is not my go-to drink.

In 1773, a bunch of rebels dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Approximately 92,000 pounds.

For much of my younger years, I thought they were talking about Lipton tea bags. I.e., loose tea in individual small filter bags. There was no way that you could get that much tea into just 342 chests. Then I found out about real loose tea. This was better.

Then I found that what was actually transported were bricks of black tea from the orient. These bricks were solid.

For use at The Fort, we ordered a brick of black tea. It is formed the same way it would have been formed in 1773. Our brick is 2.5 pounds.

The cool thing? It has a shelf life of 50 years. This is prepper paradise!

Question of the Week

What do you think will happen when Karmelo Anthony is convicted for murder?

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4 responses to “Friday Feedback”

It’s just Boris

2025-04-18

Re the wall warts, I’ve started using mini extension cords like these:
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lighting-and-electrical/extension-cords-and-power-strips/extension-cords/3468840

They look a little wonky but are good at also letting “oversized” warts coexist on the same outlet or power strip.

Your question assumes there will be a conviction. From what I’ve heard there should be; but there might not be. In which case I also wonder what would happen – I get the sense some folks have about had it with the two tier justice system … and the use of the “defense fund” for lifestyle enhancement is pretty in-your-face.

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1. awa
  
  2025-04-18
  
  I will pickup some of those short extension cords. That is an interesting solution.
  
  The solution I went with is a 12v DC 7A power source with a regular cord, not a wall wart. I then add a couple of four way splitters and some extension cables. All in 12V standard.
  
  Since most of my devices pull less than 1A, this is a good choice for reducing the number of cords going everywhere. It also means that I have a single feed and the splitter is fairly short, for devices that are within a foot of each other. Exactly what I have.
  
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Joseph L. Roberts

2025-04-18

What do you think will happen when Karmelo Anthony is convicted for murder?

“Liberalism is a Mental Disease” –
(AND they are getting increasingly violent)
I see the left tryoing more “George Floyd”©, ®, ™, ∞ mostly peaceful riots for “racial justice”©, ®, ™, ∞ – – –
HOWEVER – this IS TEXAS. While the city government may be liberal democrat and will stand by while it happens, the state government will not stand for it and will move in, in force, to stop it; then deny the city’s request for money to rebuild.

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CBMTTek

2025-04-18

“What do you think will happen when Karmelo Anthony is convicted for murder?”

This is another media driven narrative that is based in reality the same was made for TV movies are. And, there are way too many people who believe made for TV movies are actual facts.

So… what will happen. I am not sure. Will a riot ensue, probably, but the longer, more meaningful impact will be a push to return DIE. That, if you ask me, is the long term goal of this. The moment President Trump erased all of those programs, the left found a battlefield.

Putting unqualified individuals into high paying positions because they are members of a victim class is the essence of the left’s control of their base. The more people employed in useless positions solely because of their attributes, the more votes the left gets.

Do not think for a minute this media feeding frenzy is anything other than that. Had this been two white guys, or two black guys, no one not directly involved would have heard of it. But, it is a black teen murdering a white teen, but claiming self defense, so prosecution of the knife wielding murderer is racism, per the narrative.

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