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Thursday, June 27, 2024
Don’t expect good behavior from Trump.
This is not new criminal behavior for Trump.
This is NOT an emergency. This is corruption.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
The devastation of the continuing Climate Crisis is unknown to people until they witness it for themselves.
This is only part of what occurred in Nebraska June of 2024. There are tornadoes appearing everywhere from parking lots to golf courses. EF 2s are frequent.
I am growing weary of the Age Discrimination in the media.
By Daniel J. Stone
Studies show (click here) that high-functioning seniors like the president compensate for slower reaction time by applying superior knowledge and judgment. The presidency is not a job that requires lightning-quick reflexes. Time-tested judgment offers far more than speed in speech or decision-making....
Ageism (click here) involves stereotyping or discriminating against people based on their age and can occur both in the workplace and in your personal life. Ageism can be directed at older adults and young people alike. However, our culture tends to glorify youth, so older adults are more often the victims of age-based discrimination and negativity.
Ageism can take root early in life. Even as children, we begin to pick up on the idea that aging is an unsatisfying process and older adults are incapable of taking care of themselves. These messages can show up in the media we consume. Just picture commercials that promise to reverse “unsightly” age lines or television shows that depict older adults as clueless and frail. Ageist messaging can also be passed along through jokes and casual comments from family members and friends....
Victoria Lipnic, the EEOC’s acting chair at the time, went so far as to compare it to harassment: “Everyone knows it happens every day to workers in all kinds of jobs, but few speak up. It’s an open secret.”...
By Kristen Weir
Vol. 54 No. 2
Print version: page 36
"Opps" (AKA The Robert's Court Tabloid Media Reports during election years)
The Supreme Court (click here) inadvertently posted on its website briefly Wednesday morning a version of an opinion that one news report suggested would for now prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban in emergency rooms.
Bloomberg News reported that the court briefly posted an opinion in one of the two cases about the state’s abortion law and its interaction with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA.
The court hasn’t announced an opinion, meaning the briefly posted version isn’t necessarily the final ruling. Bloomberg reported that it got the copy that appeared briefly on the court’s website as the justices were issuing two other opinions Wednesday morning, and a reporter later published the document....
Memorandum Summary (click here)
...The court’s three liberals (click here) argued in a concurrence written by Justice Elena Kagan that the court erred when it allowed the state to enforce the law temporarily while the Supreme Court considered the case. The state ban, Kagan wrote, “prevents hospitals from doing” what the federal law commands. The decision “will again give Idaho women access to all the needed medical treatments that EMTALA guarantees.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in a separate concurrence joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, made a slightly different point. Barrett argued that Idaho appears to be able to enforce its ban “in the vast majority of circumstances.”
Barrett’s point is that she doesn’t believe there’s a significant conflict between the Biden administration and Idaho because of changes that were made to the Idaho law as the litigation unfolded.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Gag Order for a former president.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Harbor Freight
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Containing radiation contamination in space.
Look, I think President Biden is a great president.
Friday, June 21, 2024
Second Opinion
It was about a decade ago…
The Plutocrats have no right to turn our democracy on its head.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
I’m so sorry to hear of the loss of Donald Sutherland.
The National Park Service needs to consider closing Glaciet National Park
The USA made China
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The religious right is trying to please God. I don't think it is working.
By Danny Westneat
...“We … oppose legislation (click here) which makes our nation more democratic in nature,” was how they put it in a bracingly blunt resolution at the state GOP convention in Spokane.
Well now it’s our neighbors over in Idaho, who last weekend had their state Republican convention in Coeur d’Alene. They also approved a bunch of anti-democratic stuff, like a proposal to do away with electing U.S. senators. But where they truly contributed to the national understanding of where things are headed was in their adopted plank titled “Defining Human Personhood.”
A person, the Idaho platform now reads, is any life from the moment of conception, or when sperm joins egg. The “intentional taking of human life” after that point is murder. In this spirit, also opposed is “the destruction of human embryos.”
“We support the criminalization of all murders by abortion within the state’s jurisdiction,” the platform says....
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2022 are Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($66,049), Manufacturing ($60,210), and Public Administration ($56,240).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2022 are Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($40,121), Public Administration ($39,652), and Educational Services, & Health Care & Social Assistance ($34,564).
Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson, (click here) the newly elected Republican Speaker of the House, and his wife, Kelly Johnson, have come under scrutiny due to their shared ultra-conservative Christian beliefs, especially those regarding LGBTQ+ issues and the counseling service Kelly Johnson runs.
HuffPost reports that Kelly Johnson operates Onward Christian Counseling Services, a counseling firm that, in its operational documents, equates homosexuality with bestiality and incest.
The couple has been in the public eye since the late 1990s when they championed Louisiana’s marriage covenant law, aiming to make divorces more challenging to obtain. Their collaborative ventures continue to this day; they co-host a podcast titled Truth Be Told, wherein they discuss social and political issues from a conservative Christian standpoint.
I hate to say this boys and girls, but, this is really bad news.
June 19, 2024
It’s been four weeks (click here) since a deadly tornado tore through Greenfield, damaging parts of the Adair Country Memorial Hospital.
The facility didn’t take a direct hit, but signs of destruction are visible all around. Catherine Hillestad, CEO of the Adair County Health System, said the roof was severely impacted. Inside the hospital, Hillestad says the lab and operating room took the brunt of the damage....
Besides this a month or so ago, today the Atlantic Hurricane season began with a bang with Alberto (click here).

















