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April 29, 2023
"Bobble" Head Ron. Meatball DeSantis in action.
[link:https://twitter.com/i/status/1650445614486892547|
The guys seems kind of effeminate in ways.. Perhaps he's afraid of the word "Gay" for a secret reason.
April 27, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a strict abortion ban hours after it overwhelmingly passed the Republican-led legislature this month — yet whether the law can take effect hinges on a case before the state Supreme Court.
At issue is a provision in the Florida Constitution intended to protect the right to privacy, added by voters decades ago and long interpreted as a safeguard against abortion restrictions in the third-most-populous state.
But while the state’s high court has been transformed by DeSantis into a conservative stronghold, even the chief justice — whose nomination was cheered by antiabortion activists — has acknowledged that the privacy clause protects abortion.
A paragraph in a little-noticed 2004 article by Carlos Muñiz, then a private attorney and now chief justice, is being cited by abortion rights advocates in the case before the high court that will ultimately decide the fate of abortion access in the state.
“One purpose of the privacy amendment clearly was to give the abortion right a textual foundation in our state constitution,” Muñiz wrote in the article for the Journal of the James Madison Institute.
Olivia Cappello, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a nationwide umbrella group, declined to comment on Muñiz’s article but said the facts of the law are clear.
“Florida’s constitution contains strong protections for the right to medical privacy,” she said in a statement. “Those protections extend to abortion, as many legal scholars — including the author of this law review article — have acknowledged.”
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/florida-supreme-court-privacy-clause-muniz/|
Florida's conservative chief justice once affirmed abortion protections
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a strict abortion ban hours after it overwhelmingly passed the Republican-led legislature this month — yet whether the law can take effect hinges on a case before the state Supreme Court.
At issue is a provision in the Florida Constitution intended to protect the right to privacy, added by voters decades ago and long interpreted as a safeguard against abortion restrictions in the third-most-populous state.
But while the state’s high court has been transformed by DeSantis into a conservative stronghold, even the chief justice — whose nomination was cheered by antiabortion activists — has acknowledged that the privacy clause protects abortion.
A paragraph in a little-noticed 2004 article by Carlos Muñiz, then a private attorney and now chief justice, is being cited by abortion rights advocates in the case before the high court that will ultimately decide the fate of abortion access in the state.
“One purpose of the privacy amendment clearly was to give the abortion right a textual foundation in our state constitution,” Muñiz wrote in the article for the Journal of the James Madison Institute.
Olivia Cappello, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a nationwide umbrella group, declined to comment on Muñiz’s article but said the facts of the law are clear.
“Florida’s constitution contains strong protections for the right to medical privacy,” she said in a statement. “Those protections extend to abortion, as many legal scholars — including the author of this law review article — have acknowledged.”
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/florida-supreme-court-privacy-clause-muniz/|
April 26, 2023
12:20 “You know what’s interesting though?” Stewart replied. “You’re as big a DICK on your show as you are on any show.”
John Stewart on Crossfire with Carlson & Begala 2004
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|12:20 “You know what’s interesting though?” Stewart replied. “You’re as big a DICK on your show as you are on any show.”
April 25, 2023
Nice sound, pretty much a smoother, glossier version of the original.
A little more adventure would've been nice.
The Damned - Alone Again Or (1987) ( Love cover)
[link:
|Nice sound, pretty much a smoother, glossier version of the original.
A little more adventure would've been nice.
April 23, 2023
* Freedom for corporations to bilk you with no legal remedies for you.
* Freedom for corporations to buy up and privatize beach front land - sorry, um, what's a surfboard?
* Freedom for corporations to build enormous hotels in the middle of a high elevation, pristine meadow (say Tuolumne?).
* Freedom for corporations to track your every online movement, it's for the good of business and the economy of course. (see Ebay and Facebook).
* Freedom for corporations to buy up competing businesses and monopolize control of a single market. (Yes, I know, it's already happening with the GOP Congress we've had.)
* Freedom for your crazy neighbor to own as many firearms as he wants - ah, but you get to shoot him with your AR-15 after he's already killed your kids, yay, revenge is so sweet!
* Freedom for doctors not to treat an emergency patient because they don't have the right insurance, or enough, or no cash, no credit card, no house to seize.
* Freedom to sue the person who has no auto insurance and no money who hits your car because your insurance no longer offers "uninsured motorist coverage" because under a libertarian government no one is legally required to buy liability insurance - yay!
* No EPA to slowdown the installation of a furnace to burn all of your garbage when someone elses' house is downwind. This is especially great news for the hazardous waste creators like chemical factories, forges, tire dumps and hospitals.
* No messing with any unions!
* "Stand your ground" will the be the law of the land. But, okay, most of the land will be owned by mega-corporations.
* No maternity leave pay!
* Privatize courts will always let you win as long as you're supplying the payroll.
* Privatized police forces will keep you safe from the other privatized police forces. You need "protection", right?
* Rand Paul looks really good with a Hitler mustache, don;t you think?
"Libertarianism" sounds good, sounds like 'freedom'. And it is sort of:
* Freedom for corporations to bilk you with no legal remedies for you.
* Freedom for corporations to buy up and privatize beach front land - sorry, um, what's a surfboard?
* Freedom for corporations to build enormous hotels in the middle of a high elevation, pristine meadow (say Tuolumne?).
* Freedom for corporations to track your every online movement, it's for the good of business and the economy of course. (see Ebay and Facebook).
* Freedom for corporations to buy up competing businesses and monopolize control of a single market. (Yes, I know, it's already happening with the GOP Congress we've had.)
* Freedom for your crazy neighbor to own as many firearms as he wants - ah, but you get to shoot him with your AR-15 after he's already killed your kids, yay, revenge is so sweet!
* Freedom for doctors not to treat an emergency patient because they don't have the right insurance, or enough, or no cash, no credit card, no house to seize.
* Freedom to sue the person who has no auto insurance and no money who hits your car because your insurance no longer offers "uninsured motorist coverage" because under a libertarian government no one is legally required to buy liability insurance - yay!
* No EPA to slowdown the installation of a furnace to burn all of your garbage when someone elses' house is downwind. This is especially great news for the hazardous waste creators like chemical factories, forges, tire dumps and hospitals.
* No messing with any unions!
* "Stand your ground" will the be the law of the land. But, okay, most of the land will be owned by mega-corporations.
* No maternity leave pay!
* Privatize courts will always let you win as long as you're supplying the payroll.
* Privatized police forces will keep you safe from the other privatized police forces. You need "protection", right?
* Rand Paul looks really good with a Hitler mustache, don;t you think?
April 23, 2023
Circus jet crashed in the Amazon jungle. One cannibal says to the other
'Does this clown taste funny to you?'
April 23, 2023
Jack was a Blacksmith. He wanted to be the best of the best of the best at his profession.
He made a deal with the Devil that made Jack the world's best Blacksmith.
One of St. Peter's angels was buzzing around the aether and saw the sign that Jack had now displayed:
"Master of all Masters of my trade".
The angel reported the oddness to St. Peter and Peter thought it looked like the work of the Devil.
Peter went to Jack and asked him to renounce the devil and Jack's new found skill.
Jack said, 'no thanks' and Peter went on his way but not before granting Jack three wishes.
"May you use these wishes wisely" and then Peter went on his way.
Jack died somehow, accident, heart attack or something, and the Devil came to collect Jack's soul.
"Not so fast" Jack said. Then Jack used one of his wishes to wish the Devil into his coin purse.
The Devil was stuck until Jack negotiated for many more decades of life.
Two more times Jack would die and Devil would comoe to collect Jack's soul, but Jack still had two more wishes.
Jack used the wishes to force the Devil into Jack's chair until Jack got more years, Jack died again, then Jack forced the Devil up Jack's pear tree until Jack, again, got more years.
Jack finally died his last death while eating a turnip. He was immediately beamed up to Heaven's Gates.
St Peter was there to greet him and told Jack "I granted you three wishes, you should have wished for eternal peace in heaven and I cannot let you in".
Jack then ended up at Hell's Gate where the Devil was there to meet the newbees.
Devil yelled "You harassed me on earth, I will not allow you to harrass me in my own domain"! and the Devil slammed the gates closed.
Jack was able to quickly gather one the brimstones with his half-eaten turnip to light his way through eternal purgatory.
I love this story.
Story of the Jack-O-Lantern from Natural History magazine in the 1980's.
(Version I read in a Natural History magazine Halloween issue in the '80s.(reciting by memory)Jack was a Blacksmith. He wanted to be the best of the best of the best at his profession.
He made a deal with the Devil that made Jack the world's best Blacksmith.
One of St. Peter's angels was buzzing around the aether and saw the sign that Jack had now displayed:
"Master of all Masters of my trade".
The angel reported the oddness to St. Peter and Peter thought it looked like the work of the Devil.
Peter went to Jack and asked him to renounce the devil and Jack's new found skill.
Jack said, 'no thanks' and Peter went on his way but not before granting Jack three wishes.
"May you use these wishes wisely" and then Peter went on his way.
Jack died somehow, accident, heart attack or something, and the Devil came to collect Jack's soul.
"Not so fast" Jack said. Then Jack used one of his wishes to wish the Devil into his coin purse.
The Devil was stuck until Jack negotiated for many more decades of life.
Two more times Jack would die and Devil would comoe to collect Jack's soul, but Jack still had two more wishes.
Jack used the wishes to force the Devil into Jack's chair until Jack got more years, Jack died again, then Jack forced the Devil up Jack's pear tree until Jack, again, got more years.
Jack finally died his last death while eating a turnip. He was immediately beamed up to Heaven's Gates.
St Peter was there to greet him and told Jack "I granted you three wishes, you should have wished for eternal peace in heaven and I cannot let you in".
Jack then ended up at Hell's Gate where the Devil was there to meet the newbees.
Devil yelled "You harassed me on earth, I will not allow you to harrass me in my own domain"! and the Devil slammed the gates closed.
Jack was able to quickly gather one the brimstones with his half-eaten turnip to light his way through eternal purgatory.
I love this story.
April 4, 2023
https://www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm
April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months. After Appomattox, however, only the most zealous and desperate could pretend the Union was not already victorious and the Confederacy was destined to end.
As the sun rose on April 9th in Appomattox, General Lee still clung to the belief his war was not over. 8,000 men from Maj. General John B. Gordon’s Second Corps, along with Lee’s nephew Fitzhugh Lee and what remained of the Confederate cavalry, were lined up for battle just west of the village of Appomattox Court House. Robert E. Lee hoped there was only a thin line of Union cavalry ahead of him that he could smash through, find supplies and rations, and then turn south to march to North Carolina to continue the fight. For a week Grant thwarted Lee’s plans to turn south. He actively blocked Lee’s movements and tried to surround his forces. As a result of these efforts, Grant’s forces had finally gotten ahead of Lee at Appomattox. Lee was in the middle of the fight, his headquarters was east of the village near the center of his army. Gordon’s Second Corps and the Cavalry were west of the village readying for a fight, and Longstreet’s command, the First Corps and Third Corps of the ANV, were in the east guarding the rear. Lee knew more Federal troops were approaching from the east and perhaps the south, and he hoped he could move his army before the Federal reinforcements arrived. Lee’s hopes were dashed by the arrival of thousands of Union infantry, including United States Colored Troops, who had marched most of the night to block the way. By 8:00a.m., Gordon’s men retreated toward the village, Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry was fleeing toward the west, and Lee knew his war was over.
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Stupid then, stupid now.
Let's make it a National Holiday: April 9th, 1865, the end of the Civil War for Gen. Robert E. Lee
https://www.nps.gov/apco/learn/historyculture/the-surrender-meeting.htm
April 9th, 1865, was the end of the Civil War for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. For Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant and tens of thousands of Federal and Confederate troops fighting further south, the war stretched out for several more months. After Appomattox, however, only the most zealous and desperate could pretend the Union was not already victorious and the Confederacy was destined to end.
As the sun rose on April 9th in Appomattox, General Lee still clung to the belief his war was not over. 8,000 men from Maj. General John B. Gordon’s Second Corps, along with Lee’s nephew Fitzhugh Lee and what remained of the Confederate cavalry, were lined up for battle just west of the village of Appomattox Court House. Robert E. Lee hoped there was only a thin line of Union cavalry ahead of him that he could smash through, find supplies and rations, and then turn south to march to North Carolina to continue the fight. For a week Grant thwarted Lee’s plans to turn south. He actively blocked Lee’s movements and tried to surround his forces. As a result of these efforts, Grant’s forces had finally gotten ahead of Lee at Appomattox. Lee was in the middle of the fight, his headquarters was east of the village near the center of his army. Gordon’s Second Corps and the Cavalry were west of the village readying for a fight, and Longstreet’s command, the First Corps and Third Corps of the ANV, were in the east guarding the rear. Lee knew more Federal troops were approaching from the east and perhaps the south, and he hoped he could move his army before the Federal reinforcements arrived. Lee’s hopes were dashed by the arrival of thousands of Union infantry, including United States Colored Troops, who had marched most of the night to block the way. By 8:00a.m., Gordon’s men retreated toward the village, Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry was fleeing toward the west, and Lee knew his war was over.
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Stupid then, stupid now.
April 3, 2023
Three Spaniards and a German.
Hearing this in the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood movie reminded me of this song from long ago.
Bring A Little Lovin' - Los Bravos - ROCKIN' !!
[link:
|Three Spaniards and a German.
Hearing this in the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood movie reminded me of this song from long ago.
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