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In two days it will be July 4th. The 4th of July holds a special place in my heart.

It is one of 365 days of the year when I give thanks for being privileged to have been born in these United States.

I live in a country where there is more freedom than in any other country. I have the freedom to travel, to speak, to defend myself. I have the freedom to grow, to learn, to sing (badly), to laugh and to love.

The amount of freedom I have is unrivaled.

I do not have the talent to put my love of country into song or verse. I can only say, I am proud to be an American.

Well, we made it another week.

The site still isn’t to where I need it. But it is functional. I have imported all of my posts from GFZ. This is a step forward.

I am in the process of writing a Vine Of Liberty plug-in to handle theming and some other missing features. The one that irks me the most is not having a quick link to the comments section of the page.

We’d like to hear what your thoughts are on the banner and icon. The Icon is likely to change, but Ally did an outstanding job getting the banner done. That was based on the prompt “Modern American patriot guarding a vine in a barren field”.

I’m starting to see the state file F.A.R.P. 28(j) letter, “Citation of Supplemental Authorities”. This is the official way that a party tells a circuit court that something happened that they need to consider before issuing their opinion.

The gist of most of them is, “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited”. Followed by “we are the exception to the rule(s)”.

I am slowly gaining a more in-depth understanding of how ceph works. It is an amazing file system.

It uses replication and I found that it also has “erase coding” capabilities. The erase coding capabilities allow you to reduce the amount of disk space required to achieve full redundancy. The default redundancy is via replication, that is a 3x multiplier. The lowest erase coding is a 2x multiplier and that gets as good as 1.5, when there are enough hosts and OSDs.

We are soliciting articles, you can send your word/LibreOffice articles to awa(at)vineofliberty.com.

Thanks for sticking with us.

There are days…

I accidentally deleted The Vine of Liberty k8s deployment. I’ll have to make some updates, but I’m working on it.

Sorry,
AWA

Ok, Ok, I know it’s not there yet. Thank you so much, everybody, for your support.

Base functionality is here. I’ve done no theming yet. I had all the security plugins up and running before the site opened. I’m working towards getting the rest configured.

• The site is supposed to have an edit option. I think there is an issue with the ingress configuration which is stopping that.
• There is no store yet.  There will be soon, donations will be available there and on the sidebar.
• I’m accepting images for the banner.  I am terrible at that sort of thing.  What I would like is something similar to the current American patriot with mask, tricorn hat, AR-15, defending a vine growing in a desolate location.
• I need to set up some cross blog feeds.  I am not sure how that works.
• I will be pulling the PDFs from GFZ and having a PDF here.  I will add my collection of FMs, and firearm blueprints.
• I will be pulling all of my past postings from GFZ and adding them here.
• Email is mostly working, except for mine.  *Sigh,* nothing is easy.
• There is likely to be some sidebar advertisements.  I get a few gun related ads regularly.  Putting something in the sidebar to help offset costs doesn’t sound horrible.  Please let me know your thoughts.
• I am soliciting articles.  The requirements are simple, you have to have registered on the site.  The article needs to be provided in a word type document (Word, LibreOffice, Google Doc, etc.). It cannot be a sales article. You have to answer, “What is your favorite cartridge?” in the submission.
• The subscriptions will be back as soon as I figure out how.
• The posting schedule is 0630 Eastern Time, USA for me, plus random postings.

Thank you again for being here.

For those of you coming from GunFreeZone.net,  thank you for following us here.

Miguel has kindly allowed us to forward GFZ to The Vine of Liberty.

The story of why GFZ shutdown is below the fold.

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Short of it,

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion of the court.  It seems very narrowly crafted.  It is not a loss for the Second Amendment Community.

Held: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual  may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment

— Rahimi 602 U.S. ____ (2024)

Sotomayor filed a concurring opinion with Kagan.  Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Jackson filed concurring opinions. Thomas filed a dissenting opinion.

It has been a rocky end to the week.  GFZ is closing down.  I will be discussing with Miguel what goes, what stays, how long it is up, what might get archived elsewhere.

Currently, there are two official contributors to this site, Hagar and I. I will be posting under my given name moving forward to help separate the “this is an official blog business post” from “this is a person writing”.

We still have the Illinois PICA cases waiting for cert.  They went back to conference and were heard today.

I apologize for the UGLY site.  Hagar is out doing her reenacting this weekend, I am not the “pretty picture” dude.   We’ll get some pretty pictures up soon enough and the site will look better.

Thank you for coming along for the ride.

Please add a comment if you got this far.  I really need to know that it is worthwhile going forward.