Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another lovely day and the links!
Student loan payments will restart in October aftere three year pause
Hunter Biden Reaches Plea Deal Over Tax Crimes
Hunter Biden Plea Deal Excludes Alleged Biden $10M ‘Bribery’ Scheme
Congress prepares to unseal testimony, evidence from IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden case
Special Counsel John Durham Set to Testify to Congress
Pentagon Says It Discovered Extra $6.2 Billion For Ukraine Weapons Aid Thanks To Accounting Error
Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Eases Prison Sentences for Some Gun Crimes
Conservative Women Are Prettier Than Liberals, According To AI
Bed Bath & Beyond, Party City store closings this month
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Why can’t the Pentagon ever send me extra money on accident?
“Sorry — you’re on the ‘Take away’ side of the one-way gate. Now pay your taxes or we’ll audit your $600 transactions~”
I transferred from the Regular Army to the Army Reserve early during a RIF. The Regular Army continued to pay me until my original end of contract. I didn’t spend the money because I knew DFAS would come looking for it. Sure enough a few months later I received a letter from DFAS demanding return of the funds.
Happens in the private sector too. One place I worked at had a termination not get processed correctly and continued paying a contractor for about a year after they were let go. The contractor acted surprised when they were asked to return the incorrect pay, and claimed they didn’t notice it.
Is your name ‘Ukraine’?
Keev.
The Other Keev
PRESENT!
Look at Swiss, makin’ it ‘raine!
Oh the DOD once sent me extra money and were judicious and swift in extracting that from me regardless of how painful it would be.
To be fair, Madeline Albright skews the results.
Traditional studies involving humans came to the same conclusions.
There was much debate about which direction the causal link was – ie whether being unattractive made leftist blame shifting a tempting philosophy, or if holding such ideas led to a neglect of personal maintenance.
Yeah — my instinct is to the blame shifting side of things. Those growing up annoyed at life being unfair (because they didn’t win the genetic lottery) and bitter would naturally gravitate to the politics of envy.
The latter. And it’s not neglect, it is self-hate.
Why not the both? One feeds the other.
Kind of just proves how unnatural Hollywood is, don’t it?
Just compare female youtube talking heads.
Or Fox News hotties versus The View.
Bullshit. The female population on every.college.campus. in the country. says otherwise.
You may be setting the filter to “exclude campus activists”.
Mornin’, Banjos!
Problem is — I don’t think there’s anything that can get down there and do anything to help even if they did locate them. At this point, the best hope would be they locate them and that allows the mothership’s half-assed “go here” navigation communication with the sub to get it out of whereever it is and back to the surface in time.
I’m not holding out hope that they can reestablish communications or get it out if it is snared in wreckage. Frankly, I feel worse for those aboard if they’re still functioning to the point of trying to signal… but if the end is carbon dioxide poisoning, I think they’ll just drift off to sleep. So that’s something, I guess.
I’m going to assume that the US Navy has something that could get down to that level. But there is a difference between being able to get there, and to be able to do something. And then there’s the whole “revealing capabilities and methods” thing.
That’s almost as bad as compromising human sources!
+1 Glomar Explorer
I wonder if that thing is still around and operational.
From the Book of Knowledge (Wikipedia): “Transocean announced in April 2015 that the ship would be scrapped.[21] The ship arrived at the ship breakers at Zhoushan, China, on June 5, 2015.”
If the Navy does have something, where is it and how long would it take to get on site, etc.?
It’s on loan to Ukraine for blowing up pipelines.
I’m more concerned with how many tax dollars are being wasted because some really rich people decided to make a really stupid voyage to the bottom of the sea.
Training for a military application. Just like mountain climbing rescues.
I’m with you bro, fuck these people, they’re in international waters, let the UN sort them out.
Selling rides for $250k a piece should bring in enough cash to pay for a tether system on your submersible.
Yup — that was my thought as well, hard line communication (if nothing else, have a hard line to a relay drone or something if you’re worried about getting snagged on the wreck — something to keep a close communication feed should be feasible, I would think).
Two and a half miles of quality cable wasn’t in the budget.
Gold plating doesn’t increase tensile strength.
They need to get a hold of the drunken fisherman that blew up the Nordstream pipeline. Those guys seem pretty adept at underwater technical projects.
Heyooooooo!
Hunter Biden Reaches Plea Deal Over Tax Crimes
Any of us would get the same treatment, particularly with the deferred firearm felony.
Somebody on the Right should compile a list of every black person over the last decade who has faced similar charges, contrast and compare the sentencing, then throw the accusations of systemic racism and white privilege back in there faces…
Of course, I’m sure the tribal drums of politics will drown out any internal conflict for most people but it should still be done.
I think that list already started. Lil’ Wayne is at the top.
OKAAAYYYY!!!
If I can find the list I saw I will link to it. Sadly a super-busy work day. Little time for kibitzing, or watching B movies.
Deja Taylor is happening right fucking now. Mind you she is about as sympathetic a character as Hunter.
I’ve seen some blathering that it’s not unusual to no-bill or defer prosecution for lying on the ATF form. The only problem is those cases are all cases where no gun was delivered. They may not prosecute for “nice try, Bub”, but so far the apologists haven’t really given us an apples to apples on the gun felony. And I seriously doubt Hunter’s level of tax evasion typically gets a misdemeanor and no jail time.
And they all know it. This is more showing us who’s boss.
The House Ways and Means Committee took final steps Tuesday to release to the public as early as this week the testimony and evidence from an IRS whistleblower who alleges the Justice Department gave favorable treatment to Hunter Biden and engaged in political interference in the criminal tax case against the first son.
And nothing else will happen.
On behalf of all native Arizonans, I’d like to thank the Reverend Horton Heat for correcting the record. But for the love of God, it’s pronounced SUH not SWA.
Special Counsel John Durham Set to Testify to Congress
*yawn*
Have some weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAY-ZskKiXA
That was great.
Bed Bath & Beyond told FOX Business in a statement Monday that it anticipates closing all Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy Baby stores across the country by June 30 as it “continues to wind down operations as part of restructuring efforts.”
Hopefully they can maintain the beyond section.
Does it even matter now that the testimony of the whistle blower in the IRS case gets reviewed? Doesn’t copping a plea end all of this? That whistle blower will just end up hanging from a tree, suicided from multiple gunshot wounds.
I don’t see how. It’s not like a free pass for other crimes he/they have not been charged with yet.
We charged what we could prove and got a strong conviction on charges that aren’t even levied in most cases. Everything else was unprovable hearsay.
I think its about going after the alphabet cover up.
Also in today’s “News that we pretty much assumed, but confirmation still boils my blood”: https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/06/20/cdc-email-shows-biden-admin-knew-vaccines-didnt-stop-covid-yet-forced-them-on-the-nation-anyway-n764629
Collins is a particularly reprehensible character. It was the NIH that made it impossible to get therapeutic treatments in hospitals other than ventilators and remdesivir, a 50/50 death sentence. This was an intentional act in order to preserve the EUA for the vaccines.
Flaying would be too good for him. On top of everything else, he had the gall to put this out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftvkgpmgMao
Ep. 5 As in most of the developing world, it’s safer to be the president’s son than his opponent.
Also also in blood boiling… Nah, Supreme Court — just an obvious violation of freedom of religion / conscience and hence the First Amendment. No need to look at it, you Nazgul bastards.
The ruling come from a longstanding docket-clearer that requires evidence of harm to challenge a law. As no enforcement action had yet been taken, the court didn’t want to hear it.
Quite frankly, the existence of an unconstitutional law is a harm in of itself in my book, and any citizen has standing to challenge them. The court disagrees, because there are already a lot of petitions.
The good news is – because it was not a ruling on the merits, the law can be challenged again later.
finding that the college did not have standing to sue in part because the government never attempted to enforce an anti-discrimination complaint against the school.
So you have to be violated before you challenge the potential violation.
Basic aspect of law – no harm, no tort.
“Your Honor, we have to wait for the State to gun down these people before we find the law authorizing it unconstitutional….”
There are some cases where they shouldn’t have to wait to find government overreach, in my non-lawyer opinion.
The problem is you open the door to all kinds of ‘advisory’ opinions, at which point your legislative branch is moot. You’re just letting the judges decide what the law should be, not what it is.
I’d argue the Constitution is what’s telling the Legislature what the law should be. If it violates it on its face, the law should be struck down as soon as possible. But whatever — I’m never going to be in charge of crafting a society, my opinion is irrelevant.
The consequences that would not be unforeseen really should be taken into consideration – unless you want to act just like a progressive.
“at which point your legislative branch is moot”
You don’t say.
As opposed to them mooting themselves by delegating rule-making to the bureaucrats.
I guess we’re screwed one way or the other.
Outrageous but unsurprising. Why aren’t more women fighting this?
Fear – of retaliation, social ostracism, and of losing what they still have.
Just think, kids whining about muh climate change had more standing.
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Well they are whining about something that is popular among those with the correct opinions.
Because this is a federal prerogative and we have money just lying around.
What’s happening: House Democrats frustrated with the GOP majority’s inaction on child care are planning an off-the-books hearing on the issue Wednesday, its organizers tell POLITICO.
“Rather than wait around for Republicans to get with the program, we’re holding our own shadow hearing to shine a light on this issue.” Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) said.
Details: The event will focus on the American Rescue Plan, which spent $39 billion to shore up the industry amid the pandemic. Those funds are on track to evaporate by Sept. 30 — and Democrats and advocates warn that once they do, child care will become much more expensive and harder to find.
Why do you hate children and want them to die, Republicans?
How the hell are we spending magnitudes more that we have in prior years, yet they keep complaining they need more money?
So did the Pentagon discover their accounting error during an audit? As an American tax-payer, I’d love to see the audit results.
[REDACTED]… $[REDACTED] to [REDACTED]
I knew an auditor for the Navy. They never passed an audit, and they never did anything about it.
Although this may be the first time ever that an audit revealed that the military underspent.
They didn’t underspend. They simply changed how they did their accounting, like last time.
I’m well aware. I’m just highlighting the bullshit aspect of their story.
How could you nazi that coming?
Germany has seen its store of artillery shells dwindle to just 20,000 as it attempts to meet the Ukrainian military’s hunger for munitions.
Despite its status as the economic and industrial powerhouse of the European Union, Germany has not been able to ramp up production enough to supply Ukraine with shells while holding on to enough to meet its own defense needs.
Russian forces were lobbing 20,000 shells a day in late November, and Ukrainian forces between 4,000 and 7,000 – figures which have likely risen amid a faltering Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Germany is required to obtain a stockpile of some 230,000 shells, sufficient to support 30 days of intense combat, by 2031, in order to meet its obligations as a NATO member.
But, by all means, lets continue to sink money and weapons into a Slavic civil war in eastern Europe, the outcome of which has no bearing on the well-being of the citizens of the member countries of NATO.
Kind of hard to do when you’ve crippled your industrial base.
Who knew that electricity was needed at factories?
Wild. It’ll take Germany 8 years to stockpile the amount of shells that Russia goes through in 11 days. And they’ll still fail at that.
The Polish Army could reach the Rhine in a week right now.
Most of that time spent stopping to take pictures?
I bought a shotgun for my dad last night. A mossberg 590a1. Never bought a shotgun before, but it has ghost ring sights and seems solid. I’m going to give it to him for his birthday. At this point I realize my dad won’t do any firearm stuff without me so it’s a gift for me, even if it will stay at his house.
I’m excited which is half the fun of a firearm purchase.
I also saw a Beretta semi-auto that looked cool. But it’s a bad choice for my dad who would not take to semi-auto as much as pump-action. The goal of this exercise is for him to have a shotgun he has a reasonable chance of using in a time of need. nothing more.
Re the semi-auto Barretta, If it was the 1301 tactical, at least one Glib owns one and loves it
Me, for one.
I’m curious as to why he would run a pump but not a semi-auto. The latter are easier to shoot. From what I’ve seen anecdotally, semi-auto reliability and durability is equal to that of pumps, and you remove a source of potential issues – the likelihood of a bad pump stroke malfing your weapon.
Semi auto all the way.
Keep pulling the trigger till it doesn’t go bang again.
In his mind the pump is the point. No pump no fun. He’s not exactly a gun guy, but I’ll teach him not to short stroke the action.
🙂
Looks like the Pentagon just forgot to carry the 10E9 when they were balancing the books-happens to me all the time.
Speaking of people that deserve a short drop and sudden stop…
Here, money is routinely seized without anyone being charged or proven guilty of anything.
The sheriff’s office has specialized in and perfected the practice, known as civil asset forfeiture, despite a 2016 law meant to ban it in Nebraska.
One out of every three civil forfeiture cases in Nebraska’s state courts happens in Seward County, according to a Flatwater Free Press analysis of a decade of court records and a data request provided by the Nebraska Judicial Branch.
Nearly all begin when a Seward deputy stops a driver on I-80. Nearly all involve an out-of-state driver. And nearly all the seized money ends up in law enforcement hands, after drivers – faced with a split-second choice between money or jail – sign the form and abandon their cash.
Yup… civil asset forfeiture == Modern Highway Robbery, same as if they were “Tax Collectors” for the Sheriff of Nottingham. Talk about a process that should be banned to the point of civil militias kicking your ass if you try it….
Oh and bonus points for the “We don’t need a warrant or due process.. we have a trained workaround *cough* dog!”:
I’ve mentioned I’m more conservative than most around here, and in general I’m supportive of decent policing — but this shit is by no means decent policing, is just an excuse to search whomever they want and steal whatever they want and has to stop. You want more BLM/Antifa/ACAB? Keep this sort of “war on citizens” shit up. You want more corrupt cops on the take? Keep making it easy for them to steal. Assholes.
Oh it fucking gets worse…
I’m sorry, WHAT?!? How the fucking fuck do you start searching his phone based on your walking “Get out of Warrant Free” card, assholes? Were you actually arresting him? (Obviously not, because it states the money was taken and he wasn’t charged with anything) And even for arrest, I’d argue you don’t get to unlock a phone without a warrant.
Were you just using FBI software to dump the phone regardless? You should lose your job and your department shut down if that’s procedure.
Did you pressure this dummy to just hand it over? That’s a bit on him… but it seems weird since he knew enough to deny the search of the van…
Fuck these overreaching assholes piss me off.
I seem to recall that precedent allows the cops to compel you to provide passwords for devices, but not biometrics.
I’m pretty sure if I’m being asked to unlock my phone, I’m gonna forget my PIN due to the stress, and I’ll probably flub the fingerprint scan enough times to require a full unlock as well.
Yes, there’s always the XKCD solution to phone unlocking… but I don’t have to condone it.
As far as I’m concerned, there’s zero legality for focing anyone to decrypt anything — just like I don’t have to unlock a safe — they want to take the effort to crack it for the warrant, they should have to. Under no circumstances should a defendant have to make law enforcement or the court’s gathering of data / evidence easier.
Decryption especially should be protected speech — if I write something in code, you can’t compel me to tell you what it says. And that’s all encryption is.
But I’m not a tyrant knob-slobbering judge these days either.
Does anyone make an app that will brick the phone?
Well sure.
Oh, you meant as a security feature.
An interesting thought. You aren’t charged yet or really not under investigation for anything, would that be considered destroying evidence? We know what the cops would say…
“Evidence of what? You haven’t even accused me of a crime.”
https://www.estwing.com/product/drilling-hammer/
Samsung has a setting that will wipe the phone after too many incorrect logins
/axe me how I know
You’ll be charged with destruction of state property after they asset forfeiture your phone for being complicit in the commission of a crime. There will be no other charges.
And Tundra:
There are security apps you can install that will brick the phone (to different levels of destruction) depending on various triggers. Some need to ping home every x days/hours, some need you to log in every x days/hours, some just require you to fail to authenticate correctly enough times in a row.
It’s the other way around. They cannot compel you to reveal a password, but can compel you to operate a biometric.
the deputy summoned a drug dog.
So the deputy could signal the dog to signal the deputy.
a roadside search of texts on his phone
A what now? Never unlock your phone. Jeez.
To be fair, persons typically engaging in petty crime are not the brightest.
Highwaymen used to be hanged.
Not your fucking business, brownshirt.
Yeah, they rather lose me at “Go sit in the squad car while I write this up” as well. For a fucking traffic citation? Hell no, asshole — write it up and walk back… there’s no reason to leave my car.
This will, of course, be cited as evidence of criminal suspiciousness because I’m being non-compliant by the type of asswipe doing these stops.
How much do they flip out if you sit behind the wheel?
Don’t Talk to the Police
Wonder if they’ve got a southern drawl to go along with that sense of poe-leesin’ work.
whaddup doh’
whats goody
TPTB, I sent an article submission contact for a short but rambling thing about building custom precision rifles and business…
Thanks. I’ll have a look at that.
I didn’t see a place to email the .doc and pics, so please hit me up so I can send ’em.
I don’t know why this Hunter Biden thing is bothering me so much. Maybe it’s the final indication our system is 100% corrupt and they’re not even bothering to hide it anymore. I do wonder if there are people in the alphabet agencies and in the media who are getting black pilled on this too. They’re no longer fighting the Orange Man or even doing what’s best for their party. Their whole job is to run cover for a corrupt, senile old pervert and his crack and hooker infused son, who are raking in millions in dirty money. And they have to keep defending that. They are the Bidens’ bitches at this point.
I’m expecting a backlash from poor/black people over the gun charges. There are so many people in jail over the same thing, but Hunter gets probation?
I’ve given up on expecting a backlash. It hasn’t come when the D’s block school choice, when they blame guns for cultural violence, when they shut down minority owned businesses for years, when they made it more difficult to hire help, nor when they came for anyone with a side hustle that got more than $600/year. The American people are a broken people, waiting for the next person to fix all their problems (while making things even worse).
You and me both, Neph.
Same. And since the Dems have locked up the suburban vote, they don’t even need those inner city votes anymore.
If they had the votes locked in from real people, they wouldn’t need to keep upping the fraud ante.
Seems they have the faux suburban vote and the dead vote.
People who expect a backlash are the equivalent of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who thought they were going to ignite an insurrection/revolution against the Federal Government. They don’t get that most people don’t share their concerns, or at least don’t share their level of concern about certain things, and balk at extreme measures.
People go along to get a long, until they can’t anymore, and then something happens or it doesn’t. The US populace is nowhere near the level of dissatisfaction that would be necessary to foment truly large scale protest.
God save us if it ever does.
Protest? That option is truly gone after they put the J6 protestors in a gulag.
People are waiting for the shooting and secessions to start.
No, they’re not. People want to live a quiet life as much as possible.
I certainly do. But that option seems to be going away too.
It isn’t so much what the Dem party claims – it’s that fucking people go along with it, vote for them, rah-rah-rah. And that the Repubs are just barely less despicable, and their dedicated voters.
Franklin said we would have tyrannical government when the people were incapable of anything better. It wasn’t a warning, it was prophesy.
Franklin should have got a writing credit for Idiocracy.
COVID should’ve produced a huge backlash, but the majority just shrugged and submitted to humiliation based on phony science. Oh, and ratted on their neighbors.
That’s how I know we’re done… Sure, lots of people thought it was bull, but not nearly enough did anything about it, and way too many gleefully complied.
Ramblin’ man
President Joe Biden called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator on Tuesday when speaking about a spy balloon that the U.S. shot down in February.
“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said in remarks at a campaign event in Kentfield, Calif., according to a White House pool report. “That was the great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened.”
Military reports about an unidentified Chinese surveillance balloon traversing continental U.S. made headlines at the beginning of February, sparking bipartisan outrage and concern about foreign intrusion into American airspace. A few days later, an American fighter jet shot the balloon down off the coast of the Carolinas.
“It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States and he didn’t know about it,” Biden said about the balloon’s path. Biden didn’t specify why he thought was the case.
Joe cannot contain his envy at the thought of dictatorial powers.
Well which is it. Blinkin was down on his knees for Xi and now Biden, who probably thinks it is 1970 spouts off this. This type of governance was gold for the news agencies to run “CHAOS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!” just a couple of years ago.
Good morning!
As a follow up to the poor people in the sub:
Diversity is our strength, bigots.
Truly clown world.
Play stupid game and win a big fucking stupid prize. Not that this is the reason for this tragedy, just absolutely insane.
I shouldn’t be laughing at that, but I am. What an asshole.
*facepalm*
The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”
So being experienced and successful is not inspirational, only skin pigment (and genitalia, I presume, assuming you know the difference between a man and a woman…). You reap what you sow.
Wow, fuck them and anyone dumb enough to go on their cruise.
I am amazed at listening to ‘experts’ claim this is experimental and cutting edge technology that isn’t regulated blah blah blah. This isn’t sending people into the unknown of another planet, it is into the depths of the ocean in which we have a fairly strong grasp of what is required.
From below it but unrelated, https://twitter.com/FenixAmmunition/status/1671276381248843782?s=20
This one of his is even more to the point…either sit and break bread with me or find out.
https://twitter.com/FenixAmmunition/status/1671304866700861445
Steak and firepower?
ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
The game controller comment is especially glaring, since that isn’t actually revolutionary.
Sounds like the CEO doesn’t actually know that much about the sub business, should have found some old experienced guys/gals of any hue to help him.
He had one.
Who got fired.
When does the company get hit with penalties for violating federal age discrimination in hiring laws?
This would be a fun troll even if it never (because it wouldn’t) made it to Biden’s desk.
Since there is a two-tier system of justice and now everyone knows it, with Joe Biden quite convinced he’s going to skate without consequences, maybe Congress could pass a corrective bill about it, reducing all penalties for tax fraud and gun application violations for everyone else to Hunter Biden’s level. They could call it the “Hunter Biden Two-Tier Justice Correction Act.”
The leftist Senate would probably not pass it (just imagine Mitch McConnell, who’s been playing swamp games for years advocating for a bill like that), but in case it did, it could be put in front of Joe Biden’s face for signature … and everyone could watch him veto it.
Well, blow me down. WaPo opinion headline:
“Why Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal is Justified”
No I’m not going to RTFA.
His asshole tastes just like vanilla ice cream.
Characterizing the US Attorney as “Donald Trump’s man” is really misleading. Yes, Trump appointed him, but such appointments are generally done by the President appointing whoever the Senators from the state in question propose. This is a streamlined version of “with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
This is not Trump’s man, and does not in any way imply that he’s a conservative or Republican or whatever that doesn’t see any malfeasance on Hunter’s part.
Weiss was also re-appointed by Biden. Not likely to have occurred if he were a Trump partisan, especially from the President’s home state.
That is very tendentious phrasing. He is currently a Biden appointee.
Laughter is the best medicine
Based.
Truly clown world.
They use an aviation based safety checklist. Did they give everybody parachutes?
No, you just don’t understand.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-legislature-mail-vote-absentee-voting-referendum-election-fa4ddea6?st=pjhjx3r0bgpts0y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Voters: “Can we sue?”
Court: “No, too early”
*election passes with massive fraud*
Voters: “How about now?”
Court: “Nah, it’s moot.”
We realize that you think you have a representative form of government, we just want to put you in your place to remind you of what you really have.
LOL, good one.
Two years ago today:
RIP Johnny
Still a fucking travesty.
Yup.
The 1980’s called, it wants its military pricing schedules back.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can/
Well we know its $6 for the trashcans and the %51,600 per unit left over is for the black projects.
It’s for the UFO hangars and cold storage for the dead pilots
51,600% for the Big Guy.
Heh…worked either way.
Project managers have to eat too.
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MEH.
Blossom Puzzle, June 21
Letters: E I N R P T U
My score: 281 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
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Blossom Puzzle, June 21
Letters: E I N R P T U
My score: 328 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
“UnCivilServant on June 21, 2023 at 6:26 am
Trying to prove the existence of system racism by being the racists?”
That’s been going on since we were kids, it’s just that almost everyone ignored it, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It is, of course, getting worse and more brazen.
One of my earliest TV memories is Archie Bunker complaining about being passed over for a promotion and Meathead patiently explaining, as if to a child, how the other guy “deserved” it.
I was completely unaware of how full of propaganda many of those seventies sitcoms were until much later.
The Norman Lear Foundation still works with writers to insert propaganda into storylines.
I love the solstice because the day/dark balance is headed back to normal. Dark at 6pm or GTFO.
I love you, KK, but your preference for cold over heat, dark over light, perplexes me.
You can always put on more clothes, can only take off so many and we developed the ability to extend our days into nights with artificial light for a reason.
preference for cold over heat, dark over light
I prefer cool/cold, grey winter days, myself.
I get it myself
It’s certainly something to reflect on.
This.
Although my son is currently in Iceland, where they will have 24 hours of daylight today. That’s too much.
I can understand the temperature preference. But I love the light.
Torture the logic enough, and it will tell you what you want to hear
A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions.
U.S. District Judge Jay Moody issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law, which would have prohibited doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18.
Arkansas’ law, which Moody temporarily blocked in 2021, also would have prohibited doctors from referring patients elsewhere for such care.
In his order, Moody ruled that the prohibition violated the due process and equal protection rights of transgender youth and families. He said the law also violated the First Amendment rights of medical providers by prohibiting them from referring patients elsewhere.
“Rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,” Moody wrote in his ruling.
What about the First Amendment rights of doctors and medical experts who disagree with these bizarre and irreversible experiments?
That got a WTF out of me. Of course I shouldn’t be surprised that the judge is stepping way way way the fuck outside of his role, but seriously…
Yeah, especially since there is no such evidence.
My understanding is that the plaintiffs had expert witnesses, the state didn’t advance it’s cause as well as it should have, which makes sense of the judge’s ruling.
Since Hutchinson tried to veto it unsuccessfully, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the AG purposely lost the case.
I see. They could be it.
I couldn’t understand why they defended the law so poorly.
Compare and contrast
https://zerohedge.com/political/wearing-shirt-saying-there-are-only-two-genders-not-protected-speech-rules-obama
You can’t say what you think, but you can get sterilized before your old enough to drink.
TBF, I think the shirt would be better if it said “There are only two sexes.”
The kid would still be canceled but at least it would remove the wiggle-room between “sex” and “gender” that the left has been exploiting and gaslighting us with.
Yup. The left won the language battle – everyone now says gender (which was a very rare term less than 10 years ago) when they mean sex.
And when you’ve lost the language battle, you are a very long way toward losing the war.
George Orwell nods sagely from the beyond.
See also, the judge using the term “medical care.”
When to the internment camps open back up?
struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional
It says right there in the document that you must 1) kill the unborn and/or 2) mutilate the children. I mean, you really have to squint, but it’s there.
The smart play would be to have the Board of Medicine declare that transing children is unprofessional. Get on the right side of that deference to agencies thing. Dare the judge to say he knows more about practicing medicine than doctors do.
If these laws aren’t allowed to stand how will a bunch of people lacking meaning in their lives pretend they’re modern-day abolitionists by running an underground railroad of suffering kids to California for their gender-affirming surgeries?
Dark at 6pm or GTFO.
Invest in a good set of curtains.
That got a WTF out of me. Of course I shouldn’t be surprised that the judge is stepping way way way the fuck outside of his role, but seriously…
When you are forced to construct an argument working backwards from a predetermined conclusion, the foundation has a tendency to be somewhat rickety.
All it says to me that Judge Moody wants to get promoted and he knows the type of decisions he has to deliver.
That’s a young Roberts there!
“This decision sends a clear message. Fear-mongering and misinformation about this health care do not hold up to scrutiny; it hurts trans youth and must end,” said Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas. “Science, medicine, and law are clear: gender-affirming care is necessary to ensure these young Arkansans can thrive and be healthy.”
Kneel before SCIENCE!
gender-affirming care
The only way this statement would be accurate is if applied to giving the kids counseling until they are comfortable in the bodies they were born.
The French used to respect themselves.
Hundreds of entitled illegal aliens have set up an Occupy-style camp at the Palais Royal in Paris, using free tents provided by an NGO to protest the French government’s refusal to provide them with free shelter., Le Parisien reported.
According to Utopia 56, an organization that helps exiled people and people on the street in France, approximately 450 “adolescents in distress” peacefully occupy the Place du Palais Royal, opposite the Council of State, to “break the silence of the State and demand immediate shelter.”
Utopia 56 criticized the French government for allegedly disregarding the pleas of these entitled illegal immigrants.
“For 77 days, more than 700 young people who have come to find refuge in France have been surviving on the ground, without running water or electricity, in a disused school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris,” according to the organization’s press release.
Maybe you should go back to your home country then.
Sounds like that disused school is overdue to be torn down.
Maybe the people working for the NGO’s that encourage this should open up their own homes.
Tangentially related to the submarine thing: The early history of submarine rescue is extremely interesting. Go look up Swede Momsen in Wikipedia and follow the wormhole to all the cool stories on the events, technology, men, etc.
Children’s hospitals around the country have faced harassment and threats of violence for providing such care.
The state has argued that the prohibition is within its authority to regulate the medical profession. People opposed to such treatments for children argue they are too young to make such decisions about their futures. Major medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, oppose the bans and experts say treatments are safe if properly administered.
Safe if properly administered. Okay, then.
As long as your (stated) intentions are good, your efficacy cannot be questioned.
Two organizations that have been thoroughly captured by the radical left. OK, then.
THEY HAVE CREDENSHULS!!1+1!
Did you miss that BMI is racist? (AMA?)
It’s almost like having colleges run by the liberals is starting to have an effect on our health and everything else.
Hundreds of entitled illegal aliens have set up an Occupy-style camp at the Palais Royal in Paris, using free tents provided by an NGO to protest the French government’s refusal to provide them with free shelter., Le Parisien reported.
At this point, strafing them is not something I would strenuously oppose. Especially the offices of all the NGO parasites.
How does this end, I wonder. This is clearly an invasion. What happens when the money runs out?
I saw one of these come up for auction a few years ago. It went for somewhere between $5000-$6000.
“Public school officials cannot censor a 7th grader’s free speech by forcing him to remove a shirt that states a scientific fact,” Langhofer told The Epoch Times via email. “Doing so is a gross violation of the First Amendment and we will be appealing this ruling to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.”
I thought it was established law that students have no free speech rights.
I believe that Clarence said that.
Making the best of bad optics.
No more big stairs for Joe!
They are so afraid of Biden tripping as he boards Air Force One that they are making him take the small stairs into the bottom of the plane.
And they’ve stopped having him do that ridiculous “look how vigorous I am” trotting up the stairs thing.
The only way this statement would be accurate is if applied to giving the kids counseling until they are comfortable in the bodies they were born.
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
They are so afraid of Biden tripping as he boards Air Force One that they are making him take the small stairs into the bottom of the plane.
They should winch him up in a basket.
No way.
This!
No, this!
Can I vote for this one?
https://www.bruno.com/stair-lifts
Medication nation
All young and middle-age adults should be screened regularly for anxiety and depression, even if they don’t have symptoms, an influential public health group said Tuesday.
While the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended doctors assess patients for depression since 2002, it is the first time the group has advocated for routine screening of anxiety in adults. Pregnant women and those who gave birth within the past year were highlighted as people who should be screened.
“This is a call to action,” Dr. Wanda Nicholson, vice chair of the task force and a professor of prevention and community health at the George Washington Milken Institute of Public Health in Washington, D.C., said in an interview.
The guidance comes as emotional stress has skyrocketed in recent years, increasing demands on the limited number of counselors and therapists nationwide.
I prescribe a strict regimen of learned helplessness. And this safe and effective Pfizer product.
You’re getting a lovely tan from all this gaslighting, though.
Asymptomatic screening may be the biggest grift going in health care. “We have absolutely no reason to administer this $5,000 test, but we’re going to because we want $5,000. I mean, because there’s a 1 in 100,000 chance that we’ll catch something that may or may not actually be a problem for you, and if it is, that we may or may not be able to cure.”
Or a false positive with unnecessary treatment or medical mistake during any of the above.
Chivonna Childs, a staff psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said screening is important because anxiety or depression symptoms may not be obvious during regular doctor visits.
“Not everybody’s going to come in your office in a ball of nerves, shaking, having panic attacks,” Childs said. “Most people don’t have any of that.”
The symptoms can be subtle, like childhood sexual dysphoria. The patient might not even know they are suffering if you don’t tell them.
I don’t trust any of them at this point and I view them only as a necessary evil for specific medical issues. You’re dealing with politically motivated loons who think they should be controlling your children’s futures, not you.
Yup… this crap is why I continue to not even bother with regular doctor visits. Last one was either GHWB or Reagan era. Suck it, medical parasites.
Previous surveys have found that mental health issues and stress among pregnant women have tripled in recent years.
Undoubtedly a deeply rooted feeling of guilt for not aborting the baby.
Novel and bizarre legal arguments
Montanans were treated yesterday to the novel sight of state bureaucrats defending their constitutional right to permit fossil fuel projects.
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“We have no right … not to follow the law,” said Chris Dorrington, director of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, adding that his department “does not have the authority to not permit something that fully complies with the law.”
What is this, Nazi Germany?
What new spore of madness is this?
That’s a back-asswards way to frame it. It’s not a right to permit the projects, it’s the lack of power or authority to block them. I mean, it is bizarre to see bureaucrats arguing they don’t have the power to do something (unless they are lobbying the legislature, of course).
That’s a back-asswards way to frame it.
Absolutely. Instead of “Constitutional right” it should be “legal obligation” but that doesn’t tickle the same Pavlovian response.
States’ powers vs states’ “rights”.