Good morning one and all to another wonderful day!
Trump Issues Another Stern Warning to Iran, Eases Tone on Putin
Marine Le Pen sentenced to four years in jail and banned from entering presidential elections
Coyotes Are Smuggling Migrants Out of the United States
ICE Arrests Another International Student As State Department Revokes 300 Foreign Student Visas
Repeat COVID vaccines provoke two kinds of inferior antibodies, study finds
White House says Trump won’t put Democrats on bipartisan commissions
Trump Admin To Defend Catholic Charities In Key SCOTUS Case While Fighting Org In Lower Courts
Wisconsin Supreme Court refuses to stop Elon Musk’s $1 million payments to voters
Trump: Tree Planted by Andrew Jackson ‘Many Years Ago’ Will Be Removed
Disney and ABC Under FCC Investigation Over DEI Policies
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Unlike most of y’all, I was raised on a diet of “Jackson was the worst President and human being the US ever had.”
Also, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit.
I don’t recall ever having any opinion of him at all.
An unusual (nationally) amount of my teachers were descendants of Trail of Tears walkers.
Oh he did that.
Yeah, my American history is pretty weak.
Yup… there are some things he did that I’m fine with (killed one of the Banks of the United States, if I recall). But like most of the US establishment in the early to mid 1800s, I can’t condone how we treated supposedly sovereign nations we had treaties with… he was one of the most egregious with the 5 Civilized Tribes, obviously.
Growing up in NE GA and spending time in Oklahoma, you can’t help but notice that one.
Is it terribly surprising given human history? No — but given the spirit of the founding, I find it more than a little hypocritical and a huge failure of the founding/near founding generations not to hold themselves to the standards they put forth themselves.
we treated supposedly sovereign nations we had treaties with
Set the tone that we would employ throughout our history of being an unreliable partner.
The tree is innocent. Leave it alone.
Trump is PO because Jackson shut down the Bank that Trump totally loves. Spending non existent money is a necessity today for both parties.
1 in 3 Americans are descended from the Cherokee. They are the fecund people in all of human history.
That one princess absolutely loved the D.
*cue Paul Revere and the Raiders*
My wife (who is a native Georgian unlike her Yankee Transplant husband) says that it stems from a few generations back where children who were (or suspected to be) inter-racial claimed Cherokee heritage. It was socially acceptable (at least in that part of Georgia) and almost a badge of tradition and pride — whereas other races mixing in would have been *cough* less well received by those who wore their laundry on their heads.
I have no reason to disbelieve this, frankly.
Jackson rolled back a lot of FedGov overreach at the time. This was mostly orchestrated by van Buren, though.
https://youtu.be/vhX2XrUGsAU?si=FRqu191LvOIoDxRb
The Van Buren boys…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkpnOTr8k9I
I thought that was Elon Musk.
Elon Van Buren. One of the lesser known Van Burens.
France telling Romania and Germany to hold its beer.
Democracy!
Madame Guillotin, the public awaits your return.
They don’t even care anymore if it is blatant they are just scum trying to keep power against the will of their people, now..
Actually, they do seem to care. If they didn’t, they would just throw LePen, and the dudes in Romania and German, in jail with no legal fiction of the courts. But they need the cover of the law as then they would just be the thugs and dictators they are so afraid of being seen as.
The cover of the law is wearing very thin over there. You can see right through it.
Oh, indeed, RJ. That is how scared they are, of Trump and any other changes to their world.
“Oh, indeed, RJ. That is how scared they are, of Trump and any other changes to their world.”
They have been indoctrinated since birth that the future was a marxist globalist feudal world order, and they all joined politics to be the aristocratic class that would come forth from that effort. Anyone threatening that future vision where government magically delivers utopia on earth (even when this has never happened every time this marxist socialist shit has been tried, and the exact opposite was achieved), to them, is evil.
Trump, to those that have worked so hard to be the new aristocracy in the new marxist global feudal order, is basically the equivalent of the space rock that ended the dinosaurs. They will fight it with all they can. No evil, and believe me they are there because doing evil shit has totally been normalized by these people, will be avoided in their quest to keep that vision of hell on earth they believe will be utopia, viable.
the will of their people
There is no such thing. This was another of Rousseau’s conceits that was enthusiastically embraced by totalitarians of every stripe.
You boys is doin’ some quality commentin’ this morning. Fine work.
“There is no such thing. This was another of Rousseau’s conceits that was enthusiastically embraced by totalitarians of every stripe.”
Let me rephrase then: The perception that will of their people matters…
You know. The people screaming the loudest about muh democracy’s shit..
Personally, I know they don’t give a shit about anything but their own gain, which is precisely why they need to be stomped into the mud.
will of their people
Again, a fiction. All we have is who has the most votes. Which is shitty enough, we don’t need to doll it up with some gaudy nonsense.
“Again, a fiction. All we have is who has the most votes. Which is shitty enough, we don’t need to doll it up with some gaudy nonsense.”
So you are agreeing with me that the whole “muh democracy” shit is a racket then, right?
I agree with Churchill about democracy.
The problem of government is like the problem with women – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.
There is no system of government which avoids the basic problem of government, namely human nature.
And perhaps the first flaw of human nature is believing that we can create anything perfect.
“And perhaps the first flaw of human nature is believing that we can create anything perfect.”
Oh, I suspect we have someone whispering in our ear to keep trying this shit, because seriously, at this point, everyone should know this stuff always produces one result: misery and death.
Can we withdraw from NATO today? Not feeling like defending “European Democracy”.
Withdrawal/dissolution is only 35 years overdue.
Dissolve SEATO style. Withdrawal will allow it to fester even further.
“Le Pen and 24 other officials from the National Rally were accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.”
Funny how these cases always seem to go the way of the left/EU.
I just skimmed the article… but that sounds… awfully like a slap-on-the-wrist SEC violation, not “embezzlement” (yes, I know France — SEC doesn’t apply… just giving scope here). So yeah — very much “We’re going to get you if
you disagree with us politicallywe want to” feeling.And I strongly expect if we look at the finances of the unelected EU elites, there’d be a lot more interesting accounting. But they have the power and it is good to be the self-made Kings and Queens…..
I guarantee you there isn’t a single EU government member that has not committed crimes, especially of the financial type, because their system was designed to encourage that shit. That rep from Cyprus, some young kid, used to make lots of videos of the “encouraged criminality”, before he was also disappeared. And the French government is a true crime syndicate in the same way our dnc friendly/controlled apparatus is.
Everyone is a criminal and can be taken down in Europe, by design.
If they’re not just making shit up.
Used money intended for staff to pay…. staff. Serious crime here!
No, no – not THAT staff, this staff! It’s entirely different, don’t you see?
I’d rather we knew who was here illegally and trying to slip out (so we can put them to the back of the line if they then try the legal path)… but otherwise “Your proposal is acceptable.”
Honestly, I’d go so far as to declare a self-deportation amnesty as long as you’re not a gang member.
I’m guessing the issue is that Mexico won’t let illegals from Central and South America into their country. So they are refused entry into Mexico at the border, then refused entry back into the US, and then sent off to wherever they go awaiting deportation procedures.
Since this is apparently national news that an old tree needs to go… I suppose OMB needs to be wary of feeding a stronger backlash.
No one wants grass roots Tree Party protests all through his term, after all.
In unusual story time, a rat snake broke my garage door by getting tangled in the torsion cable. I was able to free the snake but the cable is off the spool.
From the phrasing I assume the snake survived?
It slithered off into the yard. I haven’t looked for it.
I guess it decided to no longer be such a tension seeker.
It discovered that no matter how attractive the thin tense girl is, once you get involved with her you start feeling trapped.
Dang, go find it and save it for when the jackboots come. You can throw it on a tank tread.
You like constriction do you?
Get these motherf’ing snakes off this motherf’ing garage door chain!
Bravo
In the US, if you find a snake that has absolutely no business being where you find it, it’s probably a rat snake.
I am glad it wasn’t a copperhead. The rat snake let me handle it to get it loose.
So to my eye, ratsnakes and copperheads look nothing alike. But they do get confused for each other quite a bit.
Ratsnakes are generally pretty easy to handle, but I’ve run into a few that were super skittish and would happily give you a chomp if you pick them up wrong. Not that a ratsnake can do much damage – getting bitten by one is about like getting pinched with a binder clip. Copperheads, well that’s a different story.
This was easy to identify.. Black body with white chin and white-black checkered belly.
Copperheads are extremely shy ambush predators. People get bit reaching into a woodpile, or some other place they are hiding. But if you run into one out in the open, they’ll slither away. They won’t try to “stand their ground” like a rattlesnake.
I’ve encountered copperheads in the yard. Their first instinct is to stay still hoping you won’t notice them. Their second is to run. They tend to bite only if you touch them.
I believe there is a Facebook group, Ratsnakes in Predicaments. They seem to get into the weirdest places.
They absolutely do. Ratsnakes in Predicaments was one of my favorite Facebook groups, back when I was still on Facebook.
You know, a man with your avatar/handle is friendlier to snakes than I would have guessed he’d be.
I was feeding the birds in the front yard this morning when I looked over a few feet to my left and lo! there was a rattlesnake dozing on some rocks. This is a couple yards from our front door, BTW. Fortunately, it was pretty cool this morning, and he was quite sluggish. So I got the snake grabber and was easily able to snag him behind the head. Turned out he was bigger than I thought – three feet or so and pretty well fed.
I wound up walking down the road with him in the grabber and tossed him into the wash. Ordinarily I kill them when I find them around the house, but just wasn’t in the mood this morning. He was in a tough spot for the shovel, and turned out to be longer than I like to use the shovel on anyway. He was shotgun (or at least Snake Slayer*) sized, but like I said, I just wasn’t in the mood. Hadn’t had my coffee yet, although my heart rate got a little bump out of it.
* https://www.bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/snake-slayer/
European democracy keeps getting better.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250326-estonian-mps-pass-bill-to-limit-voting-rights-for-russian-minority
So we should be allowing non-citizens to vote in elections now?
While it is factually correct that they are non-citizens, the way in which they became non-citizens is kind of unusual. When the Baltic states broke away from the Soviet Union they refused to grant citizenship in the newly created nation to people of Russian ancestry. So you have a population that lived in the nation when it was founded and suddenly found themselves ‘permanent residents’ without citizenship, in many cases without citizenship anywhere else. I understand why Estonia is doing this, and even agree it is probably best for Estonia, but it would absolutely suck to be one of the people affected.
Now do Ukraine.
Non-citizens of Ukraine shouldn’t be voting in Ukrainian elections.
Ukraine is similar in that there is a large Russian minority and history leading to oppression of that minority by the Ukrainians, but I believe the Russians in Ukraine had citizenship. I’m on the there are no good guys in the Ukraine situation side.
Further complicating things in Estonia is that the Russians there are largely descended from people not there before Soviet occupation. The last pre-war census was something like 90% ethnic Estonian and a bunch of other minority groups. (The ethnic Swedes on the two large islands were able to flee to Sweden, much like a lot of Swedish-speaking Finns did, changing the linguistic makeup of Finland.). The last Soviet census was something like 60% Estonian and 30% Russian.
I was going more with Ukraine as a disjoint collection of ethnicities (thanks to Soviet commissars) and the not always magnanimous ethnic-Ukrainian majority.
As always, the bad kitty has an interesting take.
Interesting take, but what’s with the e e cummings/archy the cockroach capitalization style?
I don’t get it. Cats have two paws.
It’s idiosyncratic, and annoying as hell. Not quite annoying enough to drive me away, but annoying nonetheless.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553521/elon-musk-doge-investigation-wisconsin-congress.html
Who had Elon Musk wearing a giant wedge of cheese on their 2025 bingo card?
Ratsnakes in Predicaments?
I despise the (common) argument about cutting down an old tree because of “safety”. And never ask an arborist or tree service for advice on anything; their answer is always “well it’s eventually going to be a problem so you should just cut it down”. Leave them alone. It’s been there for a long time. Adjust
Disagree. Falling trees can do a lot of damage. I didn’t see a pic of the tree, but magnolia trees can be huge. At some point, it’s better to take it down on your schedule.
And I say this as someone who was a small child in the Panhandle of Texas, where there are very few trees. I love me a good tree, a lot, and am astounded by people by take down healthy trees for the view or similar reasons.
After every big storm, you’ll see tree crews out not just mulching and clearing fallen trees/limbs but cutting down/back trees on properties. Usually a lot more healthy trees are getting cut back/down after those than damaged ones.
I didn’t see a pic of the tree, but magnolia trees can be huge.
Hier, dated 2023. It’s dying.
Another article on the tree, picture dated 2022. Judging by the caption on the picture, it looks like removing and replacing this tree has been planned for a while.
“Judging by the caption on the picture, it looks like removing and replacing this tree has been planned for a while.”
But it’s happening while Trump is in office, so it’s a national outrage.
Eh, there was a tree on the back (north) end of my property, and if a major horizontal branch had decided to let go, it would have blocked access to my neighbors parking, and possibly landed on the guy across the alleys roof.
That had to go.
I wonder what Gov Hotwheels would say about this subject?
Years ago a dead tree on the next property fell, and missed my car by about two feet.
Obligatory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vZonSDUgk
We have thousands of trees on the property and they do a lot of damage. A giant oak took out part of the house before we moved in, and two monster pines (easily 80’+) just barely missed the house after we moved in. They are always falling on the fence and across the property road/hiking trail.
There are three oak trees around the house are going to have to be removed soon. I hate doing it because they are enormous and give excellent shade, but the damage would be catastrophic if they fell. We’re planning on building a new house in a few years and are going to try to bring in a sawmill to keep the lumber from the oaks to use in the new construction.
We had big, old white oaks on our property in Wisconsin. A friend of mine made furniture (as a hobby) and knew a guy with a sawmill, so he took two or three white oaks trunks for lumber. The trees themselves were dead or nearly so. The trunks were huge- probably 12 feet long, and several tons in weight.
We did not take them down ourselves. In one of the trunks, they found a couple old bullets, probably from the 1850s – 70s sometime, when the area was settled.
Unfortunately, he was storing the lumber at his father-in-law’s farm, in the barn. When his marriage broke up, his wife sold all the lumber as an act of spite before the divorce was final and the property split up. He had white oak, a couple kinds of walnut, I believe some apple and maybe cherry, maybe some other kinds as well.
When his marriage broke up, his wife sold all the lumber as an act of spite before the divorce was final and the property split up. He had white oak, a couple kinds of walnut, I believe some apple and maybe cherry, maybe some other kinds as well.
You are trying to get me to re-consider my anti-death penalty stance, aren’t you?
If you want to see some REAL drama, head over to r/treelaw on Reddit.
The existence of tree law is wild enough, but the DRAMA surrounding tree law is unreal.
Trees are the #1 cause of forest fires. I say Mr. Trump, cut down that tree!
Oxygen is the number one cause of fires! And contributes strongly to anthrogenic climate change! And was responsible for one of the largest extinction level events in the history of the planet! We must rid the Earth of this pollution!
Yesterday was the last Winter Steel outing, and it was also the day that the Cowboys had their recruitment event. They left at 2:00, we were there until after 4:00. As I was putting my gear away, what should I find lying out but a Winchester Model 1897. The owner has been located, but this was the first time I’ve handled one and it’s really very nice. I can only surmise that’s because it’s extremely broken in. I should check the serial number to find out how old it actually is.
😲
How do you forget a rifle like that?
I don’t know. That part I haven’t learned yet. And it’s a shotgun. The only pump gun allowed in Cowboy Shooting.
No Colt Lightning?
Ya know, I’ve never actually read the rules. I’ve always been told the rifle must be a lever gun but on page 40, it says:
So the Lightning should fit under that.
People forget guns, not all the time but often enough to remark on, at my club.
Your mind gets focused on one thing, and when you finish that you sometimes mistakenly thing you are done in toto.
Sorry about the misidentification.
The Coywboy association made me forget to check the actual number.
People forget guns, not all the time but often enough to remark on, at my club.
Your mind gets focused on one thing, and when you finish that you sometimes mistakenly thing you are done in toto.
It happens occasionally at my gun club. We’ll get an e-mail blast about a forgotten firearm at a range.
I never forgot a firearm, but one day when I was on a range with moveable target stands, I forgot to put the stand away while I was cleaning and packing up. One of the club officers was there, saw I forgot, and said to me, “Are you going to put that away?” I said sorry and put it away.
That was the first shotgun I ever shot. I was probably about 10, skinny. My dad held the butt, I wrapped my arm around the stock and shot me a tin can off a fence post. That gun battered the side of my face. 2-3 years later, still skinny, but able to hold the gun and pump it. I’ve had shotguns come and go but will never forget the Ol’ 97.
Same. I grew up with that shotgun.
“A Florida influencer and “dog mom” filmed herself having sex with her pet Chihuahua before posting the sickening videos on Instagram, according to police.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/30/us-news/florida-dog-mom-films-herself-having-sex-with-chihuahua-cops/
I’m not sure which is worse.
Was peanut butter involved? She is cute and could get all the dick she wants, but she wanted someone special, and that was the “esse” dog.
I actually read the article because I wanted to see if a jar of JIF was also hauled away in an evidence bag.
Well, she wasn’t a size queen.
That depends on how much of the chihuahua she was inserting.
“Ay caramba! I didn’t order this fish taco!”
Yo quiero puta.
Que cabronaso!
The incest.
If you guys like antigovernment rants, there’s a younger guy with a youtube channel doing quality work.
Here’s his about the Chicken War and why he can’t buy a Hilux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMJsM–jmRA
And since I get two links, the connection between Prohibition and government cheese (content warning: anti-bear bias)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3dtClql9I
“youtube channel,/em>”
I avoid youtube like the fucking plague. Since they discovered I paid for Rumble premium, the amount of trash advertisements they now serve me on top of the recommended trash, has made them unusable.
Thank you Banjos for the links, and since you omitted sports news – how about that March Madness, all four number 1 seeds into the Final Four! In other final four news – the FA Cup semifinals are set (and ‘shitty’ made it in but lost Haaland to injury). Will Forest emulate Newcastle and finally win something? Min Woo Lee with his first PGA win, holding off Scottie Scheffler (and the dissonance of hearing an Aussie accent out of an ethnic Korean).
Wait, there is a Final Four event going on?
Well, whatever…
I didn’t think anyone watched women’s sports…
I will watch the shit out of beach volleyball if they do closeups…
I’ve watched women’s golf because their swing mechanics tend to be better than the male professionals.
I should be rooting for Forest, but for some reason they annoy me. Part of it is I’m a child and their main color scheme should be forest green and not red.
What “diversity” on tv? My wife watches a lot of the game shows and couldn’t help but notice the contestants are heavily overweighted towards POCs, gays, lesbians and trans. “Family Feud” features about 75% Black or mixed races families. “Wheel of Fortune” is nearly always two women and a man, one of which has to be a Black person.
I just assumed they were disproportionally on government benefits and hence had the time to go be on the game shows. Same reason Price Is Right used to have so many retirees.
He alleges the district and school board violated the state constitution and state civil rights and human rights laws when it adopted the Spartans name.
That man deserves a good whuppin’.
“Brentwood Union Free School District changed its teams’ names to the “Spartans” from the “Indians” after New York State banned public schools from using Native American mascots….
However, William King Moss III, the head of the Islip-Smithtown branch of the NAACP, claims in a new lawsuit that the new name is problematic because the Spartans were a group of white people who enslaved others and did not allow women to serve in the military.”
The left hates sports because they hate anything based on merit.
Maybe changing the team name from “Spartans” to “Kangz” would appease Mr. William King Moss III.
Given that it’s Brentwood, Homple, that’d be a little too on the nose.
*checks*
Whoops, looks like it has changed quite a bit from when I grew up:
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ny/brentwood/demographics
Brentwood Quetzalcoatls? Quetzalcoatlus?
Quetzalcoati.
Oh, fuck the fuck right off good sir. Just come out and say “It can’t be anything from Western Civilization” and be honest.
Pharoahs would be a shit-ton more problematic, wouldn’t it?
The NAACP has long outlived its usefulness. They did some great work but probably after the 70’s became an entity where it was skin suited and used to perpetuate poverty in the black community to keep themselves relevant. If they gave a shit about the black community, they would use their resources and goodwill to actually go into the community and help try to change the culture but to do so would put them out of business.
Any non-ferocious animal name is o.k. Brentwood “Bunny Rabbits” would sure make opponents think twice about playing hard against them.
My brother’s college found “warriors” too triggering so now they’re the “hawks”.
🙄
The Toma Hawks?
“A Jackson Hewitt employee was recorded coaching illegal immigrants in New York City on how to obtain up to $14,000 in tax refunds, regardless of whether they were employed, as tax season approaches.
Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez was reporting outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City when she discovered a Jackson Hewitt table distributing flyers to illegal immigrants. The flyers, written in Spanish, read, “Working or not, file your taxes and we can get the maximum refund for your family.” The flyer explained that if a person has three children, they can receive over $14,000.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-jackson-hewitt-employee-caught-coaching-illegal-immigrants-on-how-to-get-tax-refunds-whether-they-are-working-or-not-report
OFFS!
If only there was a federal agency tasked with reviewing tax filings…
A subject I’ve spent the majority of my career discussing.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/investing-david-booth-errol-morris-documentary-4dd7ff80?st=X26ZzY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Interesting they turned to a free YouTube documentary and that it gained traction.
Thanks for this link. I have a couple friends that have asked me questions about my investing and this article and the accompanying YouTube sums up my investment strategy nicely. I’ve since gotten into some other investments other than passive investing, but passive investing is a great way to get started and if you decide to branch out later, now you will have the capital to do it.
I’ve spent the majority of my career trying to make markets efficient.
The amount of time professional managers spend to able to understand markets is staggering. The competition is fierce and the vast majority of them are very smart. The problem is there is always a distribution of winners and losers.
What Tonio said. Outstanding talk. Key reason this place rocks.
I’m sure they will get right on that. After they pass yet another continuing resolution.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-aims-to-advance-trump-tax-agenda-while-postponing-spending-cut-fight-28d1cd64?st=D5gso9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
$2T over a decade – growth the next two years (to make sure we get re-elected), all the cuts in the last two years.
It’s Lucy and the football. Again. And again and again and again . . . .
Meanwhile, Musk is saying there is so much waste and fraud that he could cut $1TT per year starting now without touching services or benefits.
Considering the COVID spending spike – thank you Donald Trump for signing off on that, and how that became the new baseline, yes, it shouldn’t be difficult at all to cut 1 to 2 trillion out.
Of course a lot of NGOs are going to starve, but I don’t really care about that.
juris imprudent:
If an NGO is going to starve because of a lack of government funding, it really wasn’t an NGO, was it?
I care about NGOs starving the same way I care about child rapists dying.
What a load of shit. If they were serious about deficit reduction, those assholes would cut a trillion a year.
Unfortunately few will be cut. Always another election on the horizon. Those voters claiming to be independents are a joke.
congress – “We are going to repeal Obamacare as soon as we get the Senate!”
Trump – “Cool. Do it and send it to me. I will sign it today.”
However, William King Moss III, the head of the Islip-Smithtown branch of the NAACP, claims in a new lawsuit that the new name is problematic because the Spartans were a group of white people who enslaved others and did not allow women to serve in the military.
Moss, a former teacher in the Brentwood school district and a father of two girls who are students in the district, filed the lawsuit in state court earlier this month claiming the team name is a “symbol of White supremacy.”
What in the wide wide world of sports is a-going on around here?
A shakedown. Everything the NAACP does is a shakedown.
This. Race grifters.
I watched The City & The City yesterday. The first episode was good but gave me a vibe of “this series is going to disappoint/piss me off.” It managed to not do that until the last episode.
Weird worldbuilding is great, as long as it’s consistent and make sense at least within itself. This did not happen.
Didn’t know they filmed it.
I find the author objectionable enough to have not looked into the book even though it looks interesting.
“The litigation was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, who argued the law not only denies health care to transgender children and teens, but specifically discriminates against them accessing it.
The appellate court agreed, in a 2-1 majority opinion written by Judge Carly Edelstein, and cited a number of flaws in the lower court’s reasoning.
She said that the Ohio law does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, only when they’re used for gender transitioning, which makes it discriminatory. She also said that a prescription ban is not a reasonable exercise of the state’s police power when it is weighed against the rights of parents to care for their children.”
https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/its-a-big-win-ohios-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-blocked-by-appeals-court
The problem is that there are all these doctors who are insane zealots. The root of that problem is woke universities. And I don’t think there is a good way to solve that problem.
“health care to transgender children and teens”
“Health care” is doing pretty much all the lifting in that sentence.
There are no such thing as transgender children.
Now do ivermectin.
Or hydroxychloroquine.
does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, … which makes it discriminatory
That would seem to have implications for off-label use, one way or another.
Apparently the Equal Protection Clause applies to drugs.
About those woke universities:
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs higher ed bill that eliminates DEI, bans faculty strikes
Pretty sure the lawsuits over it have already been filed.
No bill is going to change who these people are. Identity politics is the core of their identity. Regardless of whatever law is passed, they’ll find a way around it, or just ignore it.
She said that the Ohio law does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, only when they’re used for gender transitioning, which makes it discriminatory.
What a bogus argument. Amputation is a legitimate medical treatment in some cases, but you don’t whack a leg off to treat a stubbed toe.
“you don’t whack a leg off to treat a stubbed toe”
You do if you were born in a body with the wrong number of legs, bigot.
Maybe he offered to hold a door open for her
The chief executive of Primark, one of Europe’s biggest fast fashion retailers, has resigned after an investigation into his behavior toward a woman in a social environment.
Paul Marchant, Primark’s CEO since 2009, has apologized to the individual involved and resigned with immediate effect, the company said Monday. Shares in Primark’s parent, Associated British Foods, fell 4.9% in early trading, compared with a 0.8% drop in Britain’s benchmark stock index.
Marchant “acknowledged his error of judgement and accepts that his actions fell below the standards expected by the company,” Primark said in a statement.
Obviously a lout and a boor.
What was the offense? I want to sit in judgement but need more info
/Curious minds in MN
Hope you are all ok, we had a crazy storm yesterday. It blew through in about 15 minutes but knocked out power to 22,000 people here in Indiana. Our power was out from 3pm to 2am, and Internet is still down. About a mile away there is a box factory, and a semi blew over and killed the driver. I was on my way home from a hockey event in Michigan when we got caught in it. Everyone on the highway behaved, they all slowed to 40 mph, put on their hazard lights, and pulled to the right lanes.
Space laser storms?
I wonder why Trump thinks it necessary to cause a damaging storm in a red state like Indiana?
The storm was a direct result of the cuts to NOAA. Maybe those Red State Rednecks will finally realize they are voting against their own interests.
I was assured by ZeroHedge that a different group controls the weather.
Glad you are OK.
Sorry you got caught on the road in that – we got it later in the evening, and it was probably a little weaker by then but still no joke! Local weather folks were warning “Stay off the roads! If you know someone out on the highway, call them and tell them to pull off!” We got a little hail and high winds, but barely dodged the power outages. Even Baby Groot, The Little Magnolia That Could, barely lost any petals! 😊
So it cost $200 to rehang the garage door. That snake owes me more than its life.
Hi all.
*reads through links and comments*
Worth noting – Florida woman and dog sex: Ever notice how when these stories come out, and they come out surprisingly often, that instead of being appalled and calling for blood the first reactions are always a slew of jokes?
Just sayin’
It’s coming out more often because of the internet. Just like these teachers having sex with kids often get caught with a bunch of incriminating text messages.
Yes. Basic human thinking is that if I cant see them they cant see me. It is amazing how many people record themselves committing crimes, get caught texting what they think is confidential etc.
There is no secrecy or privacy in the digital world. Everything, and I mean everything, you do on your phone, computer, smart dingle-dangle, whatever, can be seen by the world. Your toaster is spying on you for God’s sake.
I was also referring to the fact that a lot of dogs are getting a bit on the side, always have, but now it isn’t a secret anymore. Apparently they are woman’s best friend as well as man’s. It is just a freakin’ sex toy that doesnt take batteries. There is a ‘gravy train’ joke in there somewhere trying to get out. Hmmm…or a story about the most adoptable Fido ever perusing a neighborhood looking for the hottest single woman so he can decide which door to scratch on looking for help…
Ditto female teachers having sex with male students vs. male teachers having sex with a female student.
It’s projection as usual at CNN.
Headline: “Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond”
It’s never occurred to CNN that Team Blue does and has done the exact same thing since the beginning of the republic?
Hell, they could just look at France today.
I think we all anticipated this would be the plan. Everything Trump does is unfairly targeting these poor martyrs did nothing but have an honest disagreement with his obviously illegal activities. Someday there will be statues erected for these brave souls who stood up to tyranny.
Everywhere we look we see exactly what we’re looking for
Despite Americans’ concerns about the economy, they seem to be spending more. Roughly one in five Americans are shopping out of fear of future price hikes, which some experts refer to as doom spending.
Doom spending means making impulsive purchases largely driven out of fear over what the future may bring. In some cases, it’s a kind of retail therapy, but it can also be a strategy to get ahead of economic uncertainty.
“People are worried for a number of reasons,” Wendy De La Rosa, a Wharton professor who studies consumer behavior, told CNBC. “We as humans hate uncertainty and are averse to volatility. And so when there’s whiplash happening at a national level as to what tariffs are happening with which country and how it’s going to affect our domestic industries, that makes people really nervous.”
Consumer spending came in softer than expected in last month, but overall sales continued to grow steadily amid mounting fears of an economic slowdown and inflation.
Rooting for a crash.
Lights the Neph signal (and runs)!
Pocketpair Announces Palworld Dating Sim
https://wccftech.com/pocketpair-announces-palworld-dating-sim/
I don’t think that Neph is a furry (NTTAWWT)…
Both dating sims and Palworld are outside of my wheelhouse.
The No Fun League wants to ban the tush push. Thanks, Green Bay. This is why we can’t have nice things.
It’s a rugby play, not a gridiron play.
Also, because it bears repeating:
A. Momoa is not that hot.
B. Aquaman is the lamest superhero, although Sean puts Green Lantern up for consideration.
Well, for a while Aquaman had the handicap of being written by Dan Abnett. Bastard also wrecks 40k lore.
Wait, you probably aren’t talking about the print version.
In a universe where Cypher and Dazzler exist, there’s plenty of competition for lamest super hero.
Ask an expert
Morning Edition spoke with branding expert Allen Adamson about Tesla’s struggles, which he attributes to several factors: Musk’s lack of focus on the company and innovation, the brand’s shifting public perception and the increasing role of politics in consumer decisions.
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Martínez: But would it be easy if, say, for some reason, he divests in Tesla, sells every bit of stock and ownership stake that he has in Tesla, and then all of a sudden, has nothing to do with the brand?
That would probably be the best thing for the brand. That’s the only easy fix, which is, ‘I’m selling it, I’m going to focus on other things I’m interested in.’ And the new ownership team is going to keep their eye on the ball. Because I think the issue is focus. If you’re building a car that has your life at stake when you drive it, you don’t want a brand perception that the people at a company are moving fast and breaking things. You want somebody you can trust to say, ‘when I get in this car, the wheels aren’t going to fall off or I’m not going to get killed.’ So having this sort of erratic personality is probably a more damaging brand attribute than helping the government try to save money on federal employees.
That’s an easy fix. No down side, no unintended consequences. Piece of cake.
I think I failed to mention that XY had a bit of an apartment lease conundrum. He interviewed for a job in Champaign, Illinois (still Chipotle, but as a facilities manager, which is where his heart lies and has since he could sleep with a ULine catalog). Anyway, so his lease was going to be up, so he didn’t know what to do—sign a new lease and maybe have to break it if he got the job, or not sign a new lease in hopes he got the job and have nowhere to live. So, he started building out his SUV for car living, since he can use the Chipotle parking lot to sleep. I was worried because while I approve of vanlife, he was making an absolute botch of his build. Well, he renewed his lease, but on a short-term basis, which makes me less worried.
Anyway, cute and mildly funny, but apropos of nothing, this.
That is cute and funny.
I don’t get it. 😕
A link would help. https://x.com/alphafox78/status/1906013733412880516?s=61&t=h5BOKTRU9mc6OIfm7REElw
Short term lease, while not as good as month-to-month in that situation, is the best idea.
Company might not look to favorably on van living in the parking lot.
You could be married anywhere. Outer space, even. Why the blazes would you choose Venice?
The No Fun League wants to ban the tush push.
They banned the flying wedge.
Let’s change “false starts” penalty too as long as we are making rule changes. Offense jumps offside, then defense can charge in on a disrupted play. Defense can then choose to accept the results of the play or impose a five yard penalty with loss of down. Also, stop those last second “freeze the field goal kicker” time outs. If defense doesn’t get time out call into ref before the offense is lined up, but the kicker puts it through uprights, then the kick is good even if time out was called at last second.