Imperium of the WolvesBoard

When a prosecutor tells police officers, "We need to get the message out that if you succumb to the temptation to to shoot, then we will end up penalizing you, maybe even sending you to prison," what does that do to the people in charge of keeping us safe?

New poll is up.

The shooting on the "Rust" movie set is in the news again. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set when the shooting took place is on trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. There seems to be a lot of argument over her being charged as she did not pull the trigger. However, it is now well documented that Gutierrez-Reed had a routine disregard for long established safety standards on movie sets took place. She was very young and very inexperienced to be running the weapons on her own.

Many people believe that Baldwin is equally if not totally responsible for the shooting because he held the weapon, pointed it in an unsafe direction, and pulled the trigger. While Baldwin denies pulling the trigger, the FBI lab testing the weapon, abusing it in many different ways and says that weapon will not fire unless the trigger is pulled.

Now the finger pointing game begins. Who do you think owns the blame? New poll is up.

Elon Musk's comments about population decline led to today's poll. What say you?

This article about Nippon Steel's bid to buy US Steel ot me to thinking about how this came to be.

In this nation, domestic steel production got so expensive that sometime in the 1980's it became cheaper to ship raw materials to the Pacific Rim, have those materials made into steel, and then ship that steel back here.

Let's set the Way-Back to the late 1960's. Japan was in need of more steel than they could produce. Japanese industrialists came to the US to look at US Steel production facilities with an eye toward buying. They toured Bethlehem Steel, among other plants. At that time, Bethlehem steel had a payroll just north of 5000 people.

The Japanese witnessed seven or eight people doing a job that should only take four. They saw processes from mixing to pouring that were done manually rather than automated. They discovered flaws and quality issues due to a lack of electronic and mechanical process controls.

Every inquiry the Japanese made about the above issues and more came down to union rules and requirements.

Those industrialists went back to Japan. They did not place any orders. Three years later the first of several behumouth steel mills opened on Osaka.

That first mill dwarfed Bethlehem by a factor of three. Fully automated with state of the art mixing and process control. That first mill opened with a payroll of 500 people. That was the beginning of the decline of US steel production.

Of course, the unions are screaming bloody murder over Nippon's acquisition of US Steel.

"I feel like they already haven't put America first, by selling out to a foreign entity," USW Local 1557 President Don Furko said.

No, Don, you did this to yourselves over the last 50 years or so.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-says-us-steel-acquisition-wouldnt-cause-layoffs-plant-closures#&_intcmp=fnhpriver_4

Special counsel Robert Hur issued his report on President Biden and his handling of classified documents. In that official report, Hur states that president Biden is suffering from significant memory loss. NBC News reports the following:

Special counsel Robert Hur’s portrait of a man who couldn’t remember when he served as Barack Obama’s vice president, or the year when his beloved son Beau died, dealt a blow to Biden’s argument that he is still sharp and fit enough to serve another four-year term.

In deciding not to charge Biden with any crimes, the special counsel wrote that in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

In civil law there the phrase "judgement proof" refers to someone who has no assets to seize if a civil judgement is levied against them. It is often a disincentive to sue these people because after the investment of time and money, even if the plaintiff prevails, there will be no collection.

Based on Hur's report, one cannot help but wonder if Biden is now "judgement proof" when it comes to any prosecution of his misdeeds regarding those classified documents or anything else he may be accused of. Frankly, it may be impossible to put him on the stand, let alone actually punish him.

How is this man still in office and in charge of the nuclear football?

Now poll is up.

Want to know why Democrats should not be allowed to even suggest nominees for the US Supreme Court? Here's why:

"Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods. The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information."
—Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson addressing plaintiff's attorney during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, 5th Circuit 23A243.

These two articles generated today's poll.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/biden-clean-car-rule-key-facts.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-finalizes-crackdown-gas-cars-forcing-more-than-50-of-car-sales-to-be-electric

What do you think?

I see there are six people with no grasp of reality.

Wonders of the World… hmmm this is a new feature.

Supreme Overlord of the Imperium wrote:

Wonders of the World… hmmm this is a new feature.

No clue.

My cat is demonstrating just a little of the awesome power cats wield by making the sun disappear for some of you today. Keep that in mind going forward.

New poll is up

And we're back. It looks like the last poll didn't survive the restoration process. I'll see if I can remember what it was and resurrect it.

We're alive!!

RP Time

To all members of the Imperium, the ineffective leadership of the Government has resulted in chaos and war. Economic prosperity is over and unemployment is destroying our way of life. We have been loyal subjects for decades and where has that gotten us. It's time for new leadership to rise from the ashes to make the Imperium strong again. The Galaxy is ours for the taking. To the member states of the Imperium, join us in making us all stronger!

The nation of Krieg is herby in rebellion against the corrupt leadership in the government of the Imperial. Für Krieg und Imperium! Sieg Krieg! - Supreme Leader Walther Schöll

Das Reich des neuen Krieg wrote:

The nation of Krieg is herby in rebellion against the corrupt leadership in the government of the Imperial. Für Krieg und Imperium! Sieg Krieg! - Supreme Leader Walther Schöll

Ah, lad. The haggis is in the fire for sure.

RP Time

High Admiral Stugurt von Kempf and his fleet of 30,000 ships surrounded the capital planet under the guise of fleet maneuvers and training.

While another fleet under Mittermyer has blockaded one of the two jump points to access the star system where the Imperial Capital is.

Meanwhile, ground troops within the Reich has captured or killed soldiers of the Imperium within Reich territory.

The 1st Panzergrenader Division has taken Joint Base Rurr for Krieg and the Reich itself has began mobilization of the landwher to protect the territory of the Reich.

"Sieg Krieg! Fur Imperium!"

I was reading between the lines in a Fox News article about the "pro-Palestinian" occupation of the admin building at Columbia University the other day. The story basically says the protestors held a maintenance worker "hostage," then let him go as an act of "good faith."

However the two pictures running with the article tell a far different story. It is my guess, and I cannot overemphasize that word guess, that conversation went something like this:
Protestor: You are our hostage!
Maint. Worker: [Insert really thick New York/Brooklyn accent] Oh yeah? I got your hostage right here.
Protester: **Ow... ** Hey! You're our hostage. You can't do... **OUCH** "Stop it!" **OWWWWWW**
Maint. Worker: I'm walking out that [expletive deleted] door right [expletive deleted] now. You got a [expletive deleted] problem with that?
Protester choking out words through an occluded airway: No problem, man.

I know, I know, small things to amuse small minds. I laughed way too hard while reading that article the second time after seeing those pictures. That leads me to this weeks poll.

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-facilities-worker-speaks-terror-takeover-held-hostage