I generally turn that around as the importance of blood relations is only for medical history. While I do consider most “blood related” as “family”, that is from personalities and shared history, not genetics.
Kin doesn’t mean by blood. For my entire adult life, unless we were visiting my folks there was nobody in the house when I went to bed who was blood kin. We got both our children “2nd hand”. Our son had “a couple of miles on him – he was 9 1/2 – when we adopted him. Our daughter was ” showroom new” – 8 days old – when we took her home from the maternity hospital in downtown Tokyo the day after Christmas 1980. I’ll never forget the day I took our son to get his military dependant ID card after he turned 10. After the adoption was final we sent off for an amended birth cirtificate (you can do that when you adopt) so by then my wife and I were on his birth cirtificate along with his new last name. I was a SSGT (E-5) in the USAF at the time. The guy at the security police desk asked me if I was in the Air Force when my son was born (Actually, I was not. He was born when I was a Junior in High School) I told the guy “No. In fact I didn’t meet his mother till he was 3 years old. (Which was the absolute truth!) The guy had the strangest look on his face. I was rather enjoying being ornery. Finally my son let him off the hook with a very laconic ” I’m adopted.” My service status at the time of my son’s birth was not an issue as to whether the boy was my dependent. When we adopted our daughter the Japanese courts took so long to hear the adoption case and then to finalize it that we were getting worried about her being deported. Her birth mother was an American citizen (a teenager) ethnic Japanese and had been “on holliday” in Japan (the old country) when she allegedly “surprised” everyone by going into labor. I always had trouble buying the “surprise! surprise!” story. I just could not believe (especially seeing how big my daughter got carrying her 2) the surprise bit. I know how the Japanese are about how nothing happened if it didn’t happen “officially”. “No baby thus no pregnancy.” I have a real problem with a guy who would take a late 3rd trimester primi-para on any long over-water flight. But all’s well that ends well, I suppose. My baby turns 41 the week before Christmas. My son turned 54 a couple.of weeks back. Damn! I feel.old!
OT: It’s getting mean, people. The judge in the Rittenhouse trial has gotten THOUSANDS of death threats! Today (Thursday morning) the judge banned anybody from MSNBC from the courthouse for the duration of the trial. Why? Last night (Wednesday) the cops in Kenosha pulled over a driver who was FOLLOWING THE BUS carrying the jurors to their motel after he ran a red light. The driver identified himself as a “producer for MSNBC”. Why would the media be interested in where the jurors are staying? At the risk of having this deleted I will say that I fear Kyle Rittenhouse is going down exactly like Derek Chauvin. It would appear that justice is not blind when a conservative is being tried. Whatever happened to the concept of “equal justice under law”? This scares me!
I just posted a bit on Facebook (don’t very often) in which I admonished people to remember that this case and the Arbery case in Georgia were utterly separate events. Different situations, different actions taken by different people, different state laws. And said that anyone trying to pattern connect them was pursuing a political agenda, not Truth -or- Justice. To my surprise, I got nothing but thumbs ups from the Left and Right.
The most significant difference: In the Arberry case, 3 men chased after and killed one that they thought had committed a crime.
(I can’t tell if they witnessed this alleged crime – and if so, if it was anything more serious than walking in someone else’s yard.)
This was a murder by vigilantes.
In Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse extinguished a dumpster fire that several men were pushing towards a gas station. Do you know what
happens if a gas station fire spreads to the underground tanks? To me, this wasn’t attempted property damage, it was attempted mass murder.
If cops had been there doing their job and carrying military weapons, they’d have been justified in firing on full auto.
Then at least three of them, one with a pistol, chased Kyle. They weren’t vigilantes because they knew Kyle committed no crime –
it was revenge for interrupting their crime. The one unidentified rioter with a gun hung back rather than go up against an AR-15,
but one was so stupid as to rush Kyle and try to grab the gun – and gunpowder residue proves he had a hand on the muzzle when Kyle fired the first shot.
Kyle fired three more rapid shots until the fool went down. This was plainly self-defense. The prosecutor claimed that this was disproportionate
force, but ask Reginald Denny how using only “proportional force” (bare hands) against a mob worked out.
Then another group of thugs also chased Kyle. One jump-kicked Kyle in the head. He later offered to testa-lie for the prosecution, but only for
dropping unrelated charges. In the only bit of integrity the prosecutors showed throughout this case, the prosecutors refused that deal, but
they didn’t release his name to the defense, which might have called him as a witness.
Another tried to brain Kyle with a skateboard (Antifa/BLM thugs have been carrying those as weapons instead of transportation.)
Kyle shot him dead, and that’s clearly self-defense to anyone but a damned fool advocate of making us subjects rather than citizens.
The third came at Kyle with a pistol. Kyle must have been rushed, because he hit this one in the arm instead of center mass. He survived
to testify, in exchange for the prosecution dropping weapons and assault charges – but he testified that Kyle only fired when he pointed
his gun at Kyle. Plain self-defense.
Kyle was never a vigilante here – he ran from the mobs until they caught him, and shot only in direct self-defense. The second mob might
claim they were going after an active shooter, but they attacked a man who was _not_ shooting and was running _towards_ the cops.
Whether or not they saw the first shooting, they weren’t even vigilantes, just murderous thugs.
It might not be over. Remember the Officers in the Rodney King adventure?
Wait for the DOJ to step in and charge Sir Kyle with violating the civil rights of the rioters.
? why is Chira on the ground.???
I would say she is looking under the van for suspicious scents etc. Just my guess.
Yep.
“Family” isn’t always about blood relations and genetics.
I generally turn that around as the importance of blood relations is only for medical history. While I do consider most “blood related” as “family”, that is from personalities and shared history, not genetics.
Kin doesn’t mean by blood. For my entire adult life, unless we were visiting my folks there was nobody in the house when I went to bed who was blood kin. We got both our children “2nd hand”. Our son had “a couple of miles on him – he was 9 1/2 – when we adopted him. Our daughter was ” showroom new” – 8 days old – when we took her home from the maternity hospital in downtown Tokyo the day after Christmas 1980. I’ll never forget the day I took our son to get his military dependant ID card after he turned 10. After the adoption was final we sent off for an amended birth cirtificate (you can do that when you adopt) so by then my wife and I were on his birth cirtificate along with his new last name. I was a SSGT (E-5) in the USAF at the time. The guy at the security police desk asked me if I was in the Air Force when my son was born (Actually, I was not. He was born when I was a Junior in High School) I told the guy “No. In fact I didn’t meet his mother till he was 3 years old. (Which was the absolute truth!) The guy had the strangest look on his face. I was rather enjoying being ornery. Finally my son let him off the hook with a very laconic ” I’m adopted.” My service status at the time of my son’s birth was not an issue as to whether the boy was my dependent. When we adopted our daughter the Japanese courts took so long to hear the adoption case and then to finalize it that we were getting worried about her being deported. Her birth mother was an American citizen (a teenager) ethnic Japanese and had been “on holliday” in Japan (the old country) when she allegedly “surprised” everyone by going into labor. I always had trouble buying the “surprise! surprise!” story. I just could not believe (especially seeing how big my daughter got carrying her 2) the surprise bit. I know how the Japanese are about how nothing happened if it didn’t happen “officially”. “No baby thus no pregnancy.” I have a real problem with a guy who would take a late 3rd trimester primi-para on any long over-water flight. But all’s well that ends well, I suppose. My baby turns 41 the week before Christmas. My son turned 54 a couple.of weeks back. Damn! I feel.old!
Like how Captain Chardis is giving the intruders a chance to be friends.
OT: It’s getting mean, people. The judge in the Rittenhouse trial has gotten THOUSANDS of death threats! Today (Thursday morning) the judge banned anybody from MSNBC from the courthouse for the duration of the trial. Why? Last night (Wednesday) the cops in Kenosha pulled over a driver who was FOLLOWING THE BUS carrying the jurors to their motel after he ran a red light. The driver identified himself as a “producer for MSNBC”. Why would the media be interested in where the jurors are staying? At the risk of having this deleted I will say that I fear Kyle Rittenhouse is going down exactly like Derek Chauvin. It would appear that justice is not blind when a conservative is being tried. Whatever happened to the concept of “equal justice under law”? This scares me!
I just posted a bit on Facebook (don’t very often) in which I admonished people to remember that this case and the Arbery case in Georgia were utterly separate events. Different situations, different actions taken by different people, different state laws. And said that anyone trying to pattern connect them was pursuing a political agenda, not Truth -or- Justice. To my surprise, I got nothing but thumbs ups from the Left and Right.
The most significant difference: In the Arberry case, 3 men chased after and killed one that they thought had committed a crime.
(I can’t tell if they witnessed this alleged crime – and if so, if it was anything more serious than walking in someone else’s yard.)
This was a murder by vigilantes.
In Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse extinguished a dumpster fire that several men were pushing towards a gas station. Do you know what
happens if a gas station fire spreads to the underground tanks? To me, this wasn’t attempted property damage, it was attempted mass murder.
If cops had been there doing their job and carrying military weapons, they’d have been justified in firing on full auto.
Then at least three of them, one with a pistol, chased Kyle. They weren’t vigilantes because they knew Kyle committed no crime –
it was revenge for interrupting their crime. The one unidentified rioter with a gun hung back rather than go up against an AR-15,
but one was so stupid as to rush Kyle and try to grab the gun – and gunpowder residue proves he had a hand on the muzzle when Kyle fired the first shot.
Kyle fired three more rapid shots until the fool went down. This was plainly self-defense. The prosecutor claimed that this was disproportionate
force, but ask Reginald Denny how using only “proportional force” (bare hands) against a mob worked out.
Then another group of thugs also chased Kyle. One jump-kicked Kyle in the head. He later offered to testa-lie for the prosecution, but only for
dropping unrelated charges. In the only bit of integrity the prosecutors showed throughout this case, the prosecutors refused that deal, but
they didn’t release his name to the defense, which might have called him as a witness.
Another tried to brain Kyle with a skateboard (Antifa/BLM thugs have been carrying those as weapons instead of transportation.)
Kyle shot him dead, and that’s clearly self-defense to anyone but a damned fool advocate of making us subjects rather than citizens.
The third came at Kyle with a pistol. Kyle must have been rushed, because he hit this one in the arm instead of center mass. He survived
to testify, in exchange for the prosecution dropping weapons and assault charges – but he testified that Kyle only fired when he pointed
his gun at Kyle. Plain self-defense.
Kyle was never a vigilante here – he ran from the mobs until they caught him, and shot only in direct self-defense. The second mob might
claim they were going after an active shooter, but they attacked a man who was _not_ shooting and was running _towards_ the cops.
Whether or not they saw the first shooting, they weren’t even vigilantes, just murderous thugs.
I wish I knew what the Bad Words were that send my comments to Moderation.
I have no idea, unless Arbery is also another word for an erectile dysfunction drug or something.
OT: It’s official! From Townhall.com:
Maybe things aren’t as bad as I thought. In any case I feel for the folks in Kenosha. I also fear for the jury members’ safety! AND for the judge!
It might not be over. Remember the Officers in the Rodney King adventure?
Wait for the DOJ to step in and charge Sir Kyle with violating the civil rights of the rioters.
Wow… Upon the reading of the last verdict, Sir Kyle collapsed… Lawyer gestures: “Breathe, breathe…”