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Over on X, I have been seeing TDS sufferers complaining that allegations of Medicare fraud are overblown and are just a small number of bad actors. The scale of bad actors matters.
The owner of a healthcare software company was convicted of massive Medicare fraud on Thursday, the Department of Justice said, ending what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called "one of the most egregious fraud schemes in Florida history." ...
Blackman and his co-conspirators billed Medicare and other federal healthcare benefit programs over $1 billion throughout the course of the scheme, the Department of Justice said. Medicare and the other programs paid out more than $450 million.
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Tennessee Capitol
The Tennessee reform of use of deadly force bill, SB1847/HB1802 is about to be or has been sent to Governor Bill Lee. The case is instructive about the intricacies of a bill becoming a law.
The Tennessee Legislature passed SB1847 on April 23, the last day of the legislative session. SB1847 includes the right to use deadly force to protect property under certain limited circumstances. In this correspondent's reading of the law, the legal ability to use deadly force under the bill is not very wide or broad. In the previous law, residents could use force to protect or recover property, but not deadly force.
The new language allows residents to use deadly force to prevent "the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or aggravated cruelty to animals; "if the resident reasonably believes the property cannot otherwise be protected and the use of lesser force would expose the resident or a third party to "a risk of death, serious bodily injury, or grave sexual abuse."
The initial versions of the law were more radical. They allowed the use of deadly force to prevent trespassing. They prohibited a person from using deadly force if the suspect was facing away from them. Both instances were radical changes in the use of deadly force law in Tennessee. In the final debates leading to the passage of the bill, both the trespass and "facing away" parts of the bill were removed in the last amendment before both houses passed the bill.
In legislatures across the United States, it is common to have a post-vote process to send the bill to the governor to be signed. An administrator or bureau checks the bill to be sure the language is what was voted on. Then the house and senate leadership sign declarations the bill language is correct. These are checks to insure the legitimacy of the bill. After the legislative leadership signs off on the bill, the bill is sent to the governor for signature. States vary significantly in how long a governor has to sign a bill, and what happens if the governor vetoes the bill, or refuses to sign it.
SB1147 passed with significant super-majorities in both houses. The final votes on the amended bill were: 62-24 in the house, 3 present and not voting; 23-5 in the Senate. The bill final votes occurred on April 23, the last day of the session. The bill was not enrolled (checked and made ready for signatures) until April 30, a week later. The Speaker of the Senate signed the enrolled bill on April 30. The Speaker of the House did not sign the enrolled bill until May 7, 2026.
In Tennessee the bill is automatically sent to the Governor after the signatures. In Tennessee, the governor has 10 days, excluding Sundays, to veto or sign the bill. If the governor does not veto or sign the bill during the 10 days, it becomes law. The 10 day clock does not start until the bill is officially received by the governor.
Analysis: The rules for sending the bill to the governor can be used to play legislative games, depending on whether the leaders of the legislature want to see the bill vetoed, want to discredit the governor, or want to insure the bill is made into law. This correspondent has seen legislatures accelerate the process so the governor receives a bill one or two days after the vote. Legislators have been known to delay the process to allow the governor to veto the bill without the concern of a veto override in some states. Sometimes the timing is a matter of convenience, to allow the Governor to arrange a bill signing ceremony, for example.
The two week span to send SB1147 to Governor Bill Lee is a mild cause for concern. It may mean the legislative leaders are not worried about a veto. The Tennessee legislature can override a veto with simple majorities in both houses. It would appear to be an easy thing to do, with the super-majorities which voted for SB1147. Ballotpedia shows of four vetos done in Tennessee from 2010 to 2020, only one was overridden by the legislature.
If Governor Lee officially receives SB1147 on May 8th, he has until May 20 to sign, veto, or allow the bill to become law without his signature.
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Gun Watch
Gist: Two unknown black males confronted third subject. One suspect struck third subject in face and produced gun. Third subject also produced gun and began shooting. During exchange of gunfire, one suspect was struck by gunfire and went to a local hospital via private conveyance
Officials first believed the shooting stemmed from a carjacking incident. Now, sources at the scene say the shooting victim had come to a resident's home with a car jack, and the resident came out and shot the man.
The man was driven to a hospital, then flown to another hospital via Lifeflight. Sources say he is expected to recover.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. What’s the fastest way to reload a CCW revolver? Caleb is bucking long term revolver dogma in this thought-provoking article. He is correct. If you doubt his thesis, fire up the shot timer and […]On May 15, 1896 a tornado — now estimated as a F5 — killed 78 people in and near Sherman, Texas. This was part of a multi-week tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest. Pictured above is the first-ever photograph of a tornado, taken in 1884. — May 15, 1911: The U.S. Supreme Court dissolved Standard Oil and upheld the Sherman Antitrust Act. — And on May 15th, 1942, gasoline rationing began in 17 Eastern states as an attempt to help the American war effort during World War II. The main concern behind the rationing scheme was conserving scarce imported rubber, …
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(Continued from Part 3.) Calving I have been very fortunate that all my cows have calved without assistance until this last one. I’m praying that disaster does not happen again. I could not have saved that calf by myself, and there was only one available Veterinarian on call at the time. She also could not have done it by herself. I am thankful for good friends who would drop everything to come over and assist. While we saved the heifer, we lost the calf. The heifer has recovered beautifully due to our intervention, and she’s doing well. I have three …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today, a map showing the world’s trillion dollar economies. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing News and Links of Interest Spot silver jumped almost 7.09% on Monday (May 11, 2026) to an after-hours high of $86.88 USD per Troy ounce. By Wednesday, it was up to $88.27. Profit-taking took silver down to around $84.27 on Thursday afternoon. But, obviously, this bull is not finished with his quest to trample the residents …
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“We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a mere scholar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a mere book-case, a bundle of letters, a head stuffed with the jargon of languages, a man that understands every body but is understood by no body.” – Daniel Defoe ‘The Complete English Gentleman’ (written in 1728.)
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Via Insty, here's proof of the utter futility of gun control:
A man named Tyler Brown opened fire on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass., this week, turning an ordinary Monday afternoon into a rolling ambush near Harvard and MIT.
Middlesex DA Marian Ryan said Brown, a 46-year-old Boston man (notice no doctor was needed to identify Brown as a man), fired roughly 50 to 60 rounds from a rifle at vehicles on the roadway.
A Mass Statie and Our Hero (legally carrying, natch) shot the dirty perp. So well done! And I hear you ask, what's the tie in to gun control. This:
Brown didn't appear from thin air; his criminal record included a 2020 shootout with Boston police, and he had pleaded guilty to charges tied to armed assault with intent to murder. He was reportedly out on probation when the Cambridge shooting unfolded.
OK, so Massachusetts is run by dumbasses. Dude was out on parole for armed assault with intent to murder, and he shot up a bunch of stuff, including a Massachusetts State Police cruiser.
But here's the punch line:
[The perpetrator] survived with non-life-threatening injuries and faces serious charges, including armed assault with intent to murder. [Emphasis mine - Borepatch]
This time he'll be sorry!
Some Masshole judge will release him in 4 or 5 years. But more gun control is just the thing. Oooooooh kaaaaaay.
It's quite a mystery why all the retarded Massachusetts liberals think they're so much smarter than we are. The evidence is against them.
New from Safariland is the next generation of the INCOG holster, meet the INCOG XS! Developed by Safariland and Haley Strategic, is this the ultimate EDC?
A budget thermal scope that actually works? After months of testing and a lot of feral hogs put down, the Sightmark Wraith Mini has impressed us!
Cheers!
I'm preoccupied. For the next 10 days i will be deep into final stages for the big match I host every year. Ranges are being torn down in preparation for loading into a trailer. Everything I need to make this event a success has to be catalogued, inspected, packed and loaded so that when we ge there we have everything we need.
I'm not ignoring y'all, I'm busier than a cat in a sandbox.
It will be okay. Y'all play nice.
Speaking just ahead of Trump, Xi noted the global attention on the meeting, and said a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” according to an official English translation of his remarks broadcast by CCTV.Trump was probably rolling his eyes and thinking "Only dummies stick their fingers in those little tubes in the first place."
For the last few years, each second quarter on the calendar has become my 1911 pistol season. The reason: in June I have a couple of matches coming up where John Browning’s most popular auto pistol design is particularly suitable. One of those events is a gathering of gun geezers, a match held by my […]
By Dave Workman The nation with the highest total gun deaths—in spite of what you may have read or heard—is not the United States. According to a report at How Stuff Works, basing its findings on data from the past, it’s Brazil, where more than 49,000 gun-related deaths were reported in 2019. And, as […]
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On May 14, 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution of the United States. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns — particularly the Ruger Old Army revolvers and the Pietta and Uberti brand clones of the Remington Model 1858. This provides a great opportunity to acquire un-papered …
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(Continued from Part 2.) Winter housing When I bought this farm, there was an existing small barn and a two car garage sized shed that the door had broken off of. The property was completely fenced, and cross fenced, and there were even a couple of water troughs, which had to be replaced because they leaked. But, all in all, there was some structure to start with. Back then, I had no plans to obtain dairy cows, but I probably would not have gone with large livestock without adequate fencing and buildings. There is no water or electricity to the …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column: Even more Agentic AI risks. An Agentic AI Destroyed a Company’s Database and Backups The Telegraph reports: AI ‘agents of chaos’ run riot inside companies. Could Claude Mythos …
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” – C.S. Lewis, as quoted in in chapter 31 of Cyril Connolly’s ‘The Unquiet Grave’ (1944)
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By Dave Workman The first-of-its-kind “Firearms Advocacy Conference,” organized by Massachusetts gun rights activists and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, will be held Saturday, May 30 at the Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial Dr., Chicopee, Mass. Cost to attend the one-day event is $25.00 and includes a one-year membership […]
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Getting hits at ONE MILE?! With a Barrett .50 BMG, it's a lot more doable than you might expect. From new shooter to 1-Mile Challenge winner.The post Iver Johnson Prototype .25ACP Blow Forward Pocket Pistol first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
And when I say "ontologically evil", I am not being flippant or hyperbolic.
Never used Threads, stopped updating Instagram when the schoolgirl scandal broke, deleted the apps from all my devices... but I more or less have to keep at least a token toehold on FB and it grates me.
The single thing I hate most on the entire internet now is Facebook automatically sending me to my Feed if I leave a browser tab open to a post for too long.
I never use the feed. The feed is ass cancer. It is the throbbing heart of the terrible user experience on FB.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One person died and another was injured in a shooting connected to a reported burglary at a Sacramento business early Friday morning, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Police said officers responded just after 4:30 a.m. to the 8500 block of Thys Court after receiving reports of a burglary at a marijuana dispensary. Dispatchers also received calls reporting sounds of gunfire in the area.
On May 13, 1916 the Lafayette Escadrille, a volunteer American air force unit under French command saw its first combat at the Battle of Verdun. — May 13, 1958: The trade mark “Velcro” was registered. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. This is the final round of the contest. There will not be a “Round 125”! The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value). American Gunsmithing Institute …
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(Continued from Part 1.) Feeding and Condition This year started out in drought, so I will feed hay until such time as the fields are abundant in grass. Last year, I did not have to feed hay year round, but the year before I did. I don’t know how this year will go, but so far the cows have plentiful hay available to them. When I first started with dairy cows, I fed the cows square bales, but soon found that to be a lot of work and not cost efficient with more than one cow to feed. I purchased …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Video: Rep. Chip Roy: Government-Mandated Kill Switch in Cars Violates the Fourth Amendment. o o o For those of you with Smart Phones, I heard about an interesting new inventory control app for preppers: PPantry. o o o I’m not much of a fan of NPR (National Pravda Radio), but they captured …
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“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.” – Hippocrates (c.460-357 B.C.), from ‘Aphorisms’ sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis.
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BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — A 22-year-old Boise man convicted in two separate cases involving sexual abuse and strangulation was sentenced Tuesday morning to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
When we first moved here, I read Idaho Supreme Court decisions to get a feel for the place. I read a decision upholding life + 20 for two counts of child molestation. What? The statute at that time made sexual abuse of a child punishable by 1 year to life
The US has been holding regular negotiations with Denmark to expand its military presence in Greenland, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions, with talks between both sides progressing in recent months.
US officials are seeking to open three new bases in the south of the territory, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, as they work to resolve a diplomatic crisis sparked by President Donald Trump when he threatened to seize Greenland by force.
Trump’s style of negotiation is brusque and ugly. It usually works.
Today I added a shoulder strap to the holster so I can wear it that way. The strap was from a MidwayUSA magazine storage pouch and has spring clips on the ends. To make attachment points on the holster I added a couple of zip ties.
It contains the gun, spare magazine, cleaning rod, and a Ballistol wipe which can be cut down into cleaning patches if needed. The idea behind this is that if this was all I could grab in a hurry or if I'm traveling light I'd still have the bare minimum to maintain the gun for awhile in the field.
I might add a loop or strap to the bottom so I can then secure it to my belt while wearing it like a tanker holster. This would keep it in place while drawing the gun. (I want the shoulder strap because wearing a rig like this on my belt would drag down my pants due to my lack of a butt, unless I wear suspenders.)