TreasonousBastard
TreasonousBastard's JournalMTG denies evolution, but accepts plenty of dumb shit...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marjorie-taylor-greene-evolution/
No, I don’t buy it because I don’t believe in evolution. I don’t believe in that type of so-called “science” [uses air quotes]. I don’t believe in evolution, I believe in God and these viruses were not making people sick until they created them and […] weaponize these viruses to be able to attach to our cells and make us sick. This has caused so many people to die all over the world. This is a bio-weapon.
Video at link, if you can stomach her and Bannon at the same time.
Gender Recognition Act passes NY state Legislature
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/new-york-state-legislature-mta-1.50275392
The Gender Recognition Act and another bill raising the minimum age that children can be tried for crimes as juvenile offenders were among bills passed in a last-minute rush Thursday night, as the legislative session closed.
No more at link, but it's probably paywalled anyway.
And, ya also know, the strategy of emphasizing the positive over blind attacks did land...
us the Presidency with the highest number of votes in history. Senate and other downballot votes are a completely different story.
There are vast numbers of ways to interpret all this, but it could probably be argued that we could have gone more for the throat of the asshole in the WH, but everyone is rightfully hesitant to call that asshole an asshole. You just don't admit that the country managed to elect the dumbest, meanest, most inept asshole in the country to that job.
Besides, the dumbest of the believers will be simply reinforced in their idiotic cult beliefs that you are the problem, not their crowned leader.
Now, if I were the despotic leader of all the Democrats, I might lean toward vicious attacks from the ground up. School boards are one place to start, as the R's have discovered, and rephrasing some arguments toward basic human rights most of us agree with, and basic biology and human relationships most of us agree with would be a good start. No quarter for those arguing against basic human decency.
Then, we can start on those clowns in state government that regularly make fools of themselves in public. Really, just asking if it's possible to adjust the Moon's orbit just shows you're a fucking asshole. And suggesting a woman already grieving over a miscarriage should have to prove she didn't have an abortion takes you out of the human race entirely.
And Congress-- after all that practice, we should be able to properly target and annihilate the fools and tools there.
Dengue fever in Florida again...
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=259319&ecd=mnl_day_061021...
Spread by a bite from an infected Aedes mosquito, dengue can cause a high fever, rash and muscle or joint pain. In severe cases, dengue can cause potentially fatal bleeding and shock. Each year, up to 400 million people will become infected with dengue and about 22,000 will die from this disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2019, Florida saw 413 folks diagnosed with dengue, most of whom had recently traveled to Cuba. This outbreak sired 18 locally acquired cases, including one that resulted in the young Miami woman's death. To determine the source of the infection, doctors reviewed the woman's travel history and performed genetic sequencing of the virus, which confirmed that it was locally acquired.
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"Florida is a sort of a quasi-endemic area for dengue now," he said. "We should expect this as a risk moving forward, and doctors in the southern U.S. should know that dengue is on the table as a possible diagnosis."
There is no widely available vaccine to prevent dengue, Morris said. To stave off infection, "use a good bug spray, cover your skin and avoid areas with a lot of standing water," he said. Mosquitoes like to lay eggs near standing water in buckets, bowls, flower pots and vases.
Dinner with Newt? Somehow I got on the Conservative Direct mail list and while...
most of them just go into the trash bin, once in a while something catches my eye.
A lottery with the prize being dinner with Gingrich and Rick Scott was in the email today. I didn't click the link, but I assume some donation is involved.
Times like this, I'm almost tempted to donate a dollar just to see what happens.
An unpopular thought about the filibuster...
So, the filibuster is racist, is it? It certainly was used by Dixiecrats in the 60s to try to derail civil rights law.
But, it was used in the Roman Senate and in the British Parliament. France, too. And some others. Racism there, too?
The tyranny of the majority was one of the things most feared by the founders, and our entire system is set up to mitigate its effect. The three independent branches of government and bicameral legislature were specifically set up to avoid one faction from taking over. The filibuster simply added to the original plan.
Now, politics is an ugly business, and no one seriously believes that the events of Mr. Smith goes to Washington could ever happen. But, just as the Senate is a defense against the House going crazy, the filibuster is one way, perhaps the only way, to stop the Senate from going crazy.
Do we need that one last step before a veto, or years before the courts look at it? I think we just may. Not the craven way it was used for the last 10 years, though. Bring back the days-long yakking on the Senate floor. Bring back the cots. This simply threatening filibuster to force cloture is the cheapest of cheap shots.
Besides Wikipedia and a few Federalist papers, I found this pretty good wrap-up of the whole thing. No doubt more are out there.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/politics/what-is-a-filibuster/index.html
had a silly thought about making coffee-- mix the sugar and powdered milk in the...
basket with the grounds when brewing it.
I plan on trying this sometime soon, but am curious if anyone else has.
I foresee several problems, but will give it a shot unless someone says they did it and spent some time in the hospital, or lost body parts.
Was the 2nd amendment to guard against slave revolts?
Discussion started earlier at:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215489361
with a short article linked.
However, today's Fresh Air (on your local NPR station) interviewed Carol Anderson and the truth of it all is even more disturbing. There had been a slave revolt or two by that time, and the perps were mass hanged. The Supreme court eventually ruled that the amendment gave the right to individually carry, unless you were black. And it got worse.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment
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