How a 7000 acre wild fire started.

A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in Southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said Sunday. More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, which started Saturday morning, Cal Fire said.

California Wildfires
A plume of smoke from the El Dorado Fire is seen from Interstate 10 in Loma Linda, California, on Saturday, September 5, 2020. RINGO H.W. CHIU / AP

Residents of several communities in the area have been ordered to evacuate.

“CAL FIRE Law Enforcement has determined the El Dorado Fire, burning near Oak Glen in San Bernardino County, was caused by a smoke generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party,” Cal Fire said on Twitter.

“Those responsible for starting fires due to negligence or illegal activity can be held financially and criminally responsible,” it warned.

5 Comments

Tucker v Kamala – 2nd Amendment Stuff You Better Know!

Posted by Jack

If Biden wins it’s a give that Kamala Harris will be your next president and she may not have to wait until the next election.

5 Comments

The Results are in – Sturgis v Covids

Posted by Jack

Leave a comment

Imperial Gov. Gavin Nusolini

Posted by Jack

Since March, governors throughout the country have asserted a near limitless authority to control almost every aspect of our lives under broad legislative grants of power; however, they are not implementing the law when they pronounce new rules. Instead, they are trying to make law. For example, in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has invoked a provision of the Emergency Services Act, entitled “Complete Authority of the Governor.” It says that the governor has “the right to exercise … all police power vested in the state” during an emergency. Of course, in conferring such broad powers, the legislature has not established any real policy or principle. This language is simply a grant of power to make law on whatever subject — and in whatever manner — the governor sees fit.

This is problematic. If the legislature has failed to cabin the governor’s discretion, then he is a one-man legislature. We might say, without hyperbole, that he is a regulatory czar. Indeed, an “autocrat” is defined as a person with unlimited rulemaking powers.

But the Founding Fathers unequivocally rejected autocracy in giving us a written Constitution that limits and divides power. They understood the inherent danger in vesting any one man with too great of power. As James Madison pointed out, the concentration of all power in one branch of government is “the very definition of tyranny.”

Posted in Politics and Government | 2 Comments

It Doesn’t Have to be a Crime to Get Headlines

by Jack

RAVENNA, Ohio -  A local man, Darren Cooper, arrived at the office complex 15 minutes early for a training meeting. So, he signed in and went back to his car, drinking tea and talking on his cell phone. When the cops pulled into the parking lot, he said he initially didn’t think anything of it. Summit County has police officers at the building he works in, he said, so he didn’t think anything was wrong until the fourth officer rolled in.  What followed was a near perfect example of how police should handle a “man with gun” call.  It is also a great example of the alleged man with gun to respect the officers and not do anything stupid.  It is ended as just another routine call and yet the media still hyped it!?    

As the news story account goes, that’s also when the police came up to his car, yelling, “Put your hands up!” A woman had called the Ravenna Police Department from a dentist’s office across the street and said a man was sitting in a black Mustang with a gun. Officers initiated a high degree of control for safety that included ordering the suspect out of his vehicle, but guns were not pointed at him. After the suspect was secured a cursory search followed and they did not find any weapons. Officers then quickly left the scene, but not until they apologized to Cooper.  Yeah, they apologized – not that they did anything, but they said it anyway on behalf of the person that reported he had a gun.  

Cooper, was understandably angry after the incident and he felt angry still after watching the videos of the incident released to him by the Police Department. Cooper said, “I am happy to be able to share this story because my wife almost lost a husband, and my kids almost lost their father, over someone who thought I had a gun, but it was my iPhone, and the person did not have the correct color of my car. When someone’s life is on the line, as mine clearly was, attention to detail is of the utmost importance.” This might have been a little bit of an overreaction, but forgivable considering the fear put in black people by the news and BLM.  

911 call:  “I really believe he was holding a pistol,” she said at one point in the call, and later said, “I’m pretty darn sure it’s a pistol.”   

The police officers who responded to the call had at least two guns unholstered. The Chief of Police reviewed the incident and felt his officers acted properly. But, in this highly politicized and racially charged environment this event is headline news.  It fits the prevailing false narrative about racist cops with a double standard towards black males. And it fits with the false narrative about white people being more likely to call the police to investigate a “black man.”  .

In this case the police were naturally obliged to check it out. That’s just way it works, no matter what the race of the suspect or the caller.  It must be investigated.

If these were normal times most of us would not envision this incident as rating national news; right?  It was just cops doing their every day job. They handled it fine and nobody got hurt. Tough luck for BLM.

As for the caller, we hope she was acting prudently and just made a mistake.  People are bound to make mistakes and we can’t say she was being racist, her call to police did not identify Mr. Cooper by race.   She only described the suspect as a “man” with what she thought was a pistol. She gave the location and the general color of vehicle, (it was dark gray and she called it black).   

But if you don’t know the exact color of my vehicle, how do you know I had a gun?” Cooper questioned. She didn’t know, she said she [suspected] he had a gun and in hindsight it most likely was his cell phone. That’s happened many times before because people aren’t perfect. Case in point: In Sacramento, California, that mis-identification during a foot pursuit led to a fatal shooting and a huge police backlash. Hint… police are required to make a split second decision at times and they can make a mistake, not often, but it is inevitable.  

Politicians now talk about reforming the police, but exactly what does that mean? Police are not ever going to assume that the report of a man with a handgun is probably just a cell phone.  Nobody else would either.   Police train for and prepare for the worst case scenario.  And until it’s ascertained not to be a threat, they are going to be extra cautious. Liberals want to reform that???  How???

We know a certain number of accident every year are because people put themselves at risk when they become [uncooperative] with police and don’t follow orders, especially during a high risk situation.  How can that be reformed?  It’s impossible.   

However, it’s safe to [assume] that in the event something goes wrong, the police will always be pronounced [guilty] by BLM and the usual crowd, until proven innocent. And even then, they will not escape blame.  I wish we could legislate that away, but the Constitution says people are allowed to say stupid things.   However, maybe a little peer pressure could help muzzle those knee jerk critics of law enforcement?   

Liberal politicians are prone to exploit a crisis, if it didn’t work for them they wouldn’t do it.  It made me ill to see Biden and Harris pander to Jacob Blake family.  Harris even visited this accused rapist in the hospital and said she was proud of him.  HUH?  She proud of him for what?  He has a long criminal history, he is not supporting his family and he got his dumb ass shot by cops. 

I think politicians are a lot like the liberal news media, they both pander for  ratings. Lately, the best ratings go to those supporting the popular, but not necessarily the right narrative. But, like so many other liberals, Biden and Harris care more about their popularity than supporting what is right.  That makes the job of being a police officer far harder than it should be today and it makes the public a little less safe too.

Right now, the popular narrative is to villanized police. The media can’t wait to run a negative story generated by liberal politicians, race profiteers or large groups like Black Lives Matters and ANTIFA.

This has to end now, before the mob thinks they have the support of the public and they really do us serious and long lasting damage.  It must end now before the police think they are not wanted or appreciated – because they are by every normal person in America.  

Posted in Police, Crime, Security, Politics and Government | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Questions About Civil Unrest

by Jack

Do you think there is at least a possibility that a mob might try to storm the White House if Trump is re-elected?

If a mob broke down the security gate to the White House, do you think security forces should open fire and do you think they would open fire?  Do you think that decision has already been made in Washington?

Do you think democrats (including Biden) should join with republicans to call for an investigation into who is directly supporting ANTIFA and violent BLM mobs?

Jun-2020 “One in three voters believes that the United States is could face another civil war soon, as unrest rages across the country over issues of race, policing, and the upcoming presidential election.

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Monday reveals that 34 percent of likely U.S. voters think the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, but that includes only nine percent who say it is “very likely.” 

“This compares to 31 percent and 11 percent respectively two years ago,” Rasmussen reported.

When divided by party, 40 percent of Republicans said a second civil war was “on the horizon,” while 28 percent of Democrats said the same. Among voters not affiliated with either party, 38 percent see the possibility of a civil war.”

 

 

5 Comments

COVIDS-19 Compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918

by Jack

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world.  Considering lethality COVIDs is not even in the same ball park as the Spanish Flu.  The Spanish Flu hit in four successive waves and then suddenly it was gone.   

In California the death rate is leans to moderate compared to the rest of the USA.  CA has experienced 34 deaths per 100,000.  The national average mortality per state is 57. The state with the highest mortality rate is New York at 282 per 100,000.  Nationally there are now 6,226,879 known cases with a total of 188,051 deaths.

1 Comment

Kyle Rittenhouse: 100% Self Defense

Posted by Pie Guevara

Pie Guevara appears in Post Scripts courtesy of Jack Lee and Tina Grazier. Pie Guevara is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton.  So there!

 

Kyle Rittenhouse clearly acted in self-defense shooting the violent rioting attackers who were intent on killing him or causing severe bodily harm yet Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley charges him with homicide and gives the rioters and the people who assaulted him a pass.

Graveley has a history of prosecuting self-defense cases. Here is one in particular —

“Randall P. Volar was a resident of Kenosha County when he used a website, later confiscated by the FBI, to target and traffic numerous young black women before 2018.   In early 2018, he was arrested, charged, and released on bail for the trafficking of these young black girls (as young as 12).  In June 2018, after meeting one of his victims at his house, he allegedly attempted to rape her at which point Chrystul Kizer shot Volar, lit his house on fire, and fled the scene.

“Kizer was arrested and charged with Volar’s murder and her bail was set at one million dollars.  After nearly two years in jail, Kizer was released on a reduced bail of $400,000 which was raised from various trafficking victims and criminal justice reform organizations from around the country.  While it is noted that Kizer’s trial has not publicly presented the details of the strength of the prosecution’s case, several legal groups from around the country sent letters of condemnation to DA Graveley, calling out his unprofessional and unnecessary actions with the Kizer case.

The National Lawyers Guild Chapter at Harvard sent Graveley a blistering rebuke of his handling of the Kizer case.

“Your actions to date in the Chrystul Kizer case stand in grave breach of these professional responsibilities. Chrystul was a 17-year-old girl when she killed the 34-year-old man who had been raping and physically abusing her. She deserves empathy and support for the horrible abuse she suffered at the hands of a grown man, not criminalization. “Sound discretion” and “justice” in this case would clearly look like dropping the charges so she can move on with her life and recovery. You have a duty to improve and seek reform for the prosecutor’s office, not to go to extreme lengths to prosecute cases that do not belong in the courthouse to begin with. Your insistence on prosecuting the case against the plan language meaning of the safe harbor law is bizarre and negligent. It seems to come from a place of racist fear of Chrystul, a young Black woman, and should have no place in the administration of the prosecutorial power.”

(Above excerpts from The Kenosha County DA Has a History of Prosecuting Self-Defense Cases)

 

Posted in Police, Crime, Security, Politics and Government | 18 Comments

Save a Life

This is one of the reasons we do Post Scripts.  We support vets and we give them a platform to express themselves.

Leave a comment

These People Vote and Some are Elected Officials!

by Jack

Note:  I am recovering from knee surgery done Friday.  Had to repair a torn meniscus.  The doc said stay off of it as much as possible for the next 3 days and elevate it.  So, I’m trying to follow docs orders.  But, I get so ticked watched the news I have to hobble over here and share some of my thoughts and ideas with you.  If I didn’t I would probably be one of the spontaneous combustion cases you read about.  : )

 

 

Posted in Constitution and Law, Politics and Government | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments